WU LYF is apparently no more. Last night, the band uploaded a new song to YouTube, titled "T R I U M P H" (listen above), beneath which members of the band described how this was the end. Frontman Ellery James Roberts wrote:
"By the time I wrote this I was all ready gone. You know you aint got nothing but time, but time isn't an infinite currency I want to see wasted. If this is our last month living, apocalypse looming, I am not going to spend my final hours waiting in purgatory. I am done. There is nothing here that inspires/ interests me beyond the emptiness for dreams. and I don't want to spend my life asleep; dreaming of a....
"Wake up! We stay safe/ everything is golden/ in this place.
"WU LYF is dead to me. The sincerity of "Go tell fire" was lost in the bull shit of maintaining face in the world we live. Clap your hands chimp everybody's watching. A year spent losing faith; Innocence lost wide eyes see clear the dark. There's blood running down streets of every city in the world, what's a song to do, pretend it mean everything/nothing to you. Another distraction from the world we live. I and I struggle for a based positivity; Get free or die trying; J C Hung him self up for the easy way out. so Broken Mama Cita be kind to me."
Another sign-off (it's unclear as to which member of the band wrote it) described how witnessing Dirty Three's cathedral performance in Manchester, the band's hometown, last Wednesday "concreted my decision that a change had to come." To read the rest of that comment and lyrics for "T R I U M P H", head here.
WU LYF released one album, 2011's Go Tell Fire to the Mountain. Watch the Sam Pilling-directed video for that record's "We Bros" below: