Release feature ·

LIFE OF THE PARTY Kicks the Door In With ‘Go West’

The London collective shows up with a recurring warning and a whole lot of bravado.

LIFE OF THE PARTY release artwork
Artist-supplied release image via Groover.

LIFE OF THE PARTY uses ‘Go West’ as a straight-up introduction to who they are. The writing is flirty and explicit, with a repeated warning about heading west at the center of a story built on attraction and competitive bravado.

The verses stack references and boasts around that refrain, and the title keeps the premise easy to follow. This is a record about projecting confidence and making an entrance, and that recurring phrase does a lot of the identity work.

Their press materials describe LIFE OF THE PARTY as a five-member London collective and introduce Hendrikz and Kobain as masked characters inside the project. That gives listeners a visual world to dig into alongside the music.

‘Go West’ gives the collective a clean opening statement. The next chapter is how the individual personalities grow past the group intro.

Listen to Go West ↗
Suggest an edit