EXCLUSIVE: Lanterns On The Lake Premiere New Single "Real Life"

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With their highly anticipated fifth album, Versions Of Us, arriving early next month, Newcastle rock band Lanterns On The Lake have one more single up their sleeves. “Real Life,” which follows “The Likes of Us” and “String Theory,” is a fuzzy, anthemic benchmark for the group, as vocalist Hazel Wilde’s singing soars to unfathomable heights. Bringing Radiohead drummer Philip Selway into the fold was a genius transition for Lanterns On The Lake, who continue to live up to their Mercury Prize nomination and high critical favor with ease and grace.

Versions Of Us is not just the band’s best offering to-date, but it’s also shaping up to be one of the most-memorable rock ‘n’ roll projects of 2023. Under the productional tutelage of their guitarist Paul Gregory, who mixed the album in his bedroom at home in North Shields, Lanterns On The Lake have assembled a beautiful nine-song document of five musicians pondering whether or not they can change their fates and continue becoming better people as they grow older, have children and tumble through a world closing in on itself.

Wilde says of “Real Life”: “This song is about living your imaginary fully realized life. It’s about the promise that you make to yourself and others of something better rather than living in the moment and accepting who and where you are. It’s essentially one for the daydreamers.”

Check out the lyric visualizer for “Real Life” below.

EXCLUSIVE: Lanterns On The Lake Premiere New Single “Real Life”

The Mercury Prize-nominated group's new album, Versions Of Us, is out June 2 via Bella Union