Lunch Money Life ft: Lady Lykez + Suku Ward - Mother (Single)

Photo Credit: Joe Hart

Lunch Money Life are back with their exuberant new single ‘Mother’, enlisting the help of two venomous MC’s from opposite sides of the Atlantic. London’s Lady Lykez, who recently released her critically acclaimed ‘Woza’ EP on Hyperdub, joins Suku Ward, Jamaican dancehall royalty and one third of the legendary trio Ward 21.

‘Mother’ arrives alongside news of their hotly-anticipated sophomore album ‘The God Phone’ which is released on 9 June via Wolf Tone. ‘The God Phone’ is the soundtrack to a canned studio film script. The feature-length theological thriller is set on Earth twenty five years after science proves the existence of God, a global council consolidates its power with technology that allows them to communicate directly with the heavens.

On their new single, Lunch Money Life largely trade in their usual unhinged live instrumentation for brash rave stabs, sparse and distorted programmed drums and a one tonne synth bass, allowing Lady Lykez and Suku Ward to rain hell over a bone-crushing and anxiety-inducing instrumental, in turn humiliating their enemies and chastising the tyrannical powers that be.

Lunch Money Life on ‘Mother’: “The instrumental for 'Mother' was beamed into our brains during a late night jam and we knew it was tailor-made for the film’s most violent scene. Poisonous vocals were a necessity and by the time the morning rolled in, the truth had been revealed: Lady Lykez & Suku Ward. The music of Ward 21 has shaped our lives, so having Suku on board is nothing short of a dream come true (shoutout Time Cow for the intro); and we knew that Lady Lykez alone had the lyrical and technical prowess to complete the track. Both acts fully understood the brief and delivered the goods accordingly.”