Iconic Manchester band James who formed more than 40 years ago have released a new single, “Life’s A Fucking Miracle“. The song is the third single to be released from their forthcoming album ‘Yummy’. I listened to it a few times when reviewing the album and it really is shaping up to be a classic James song. This is the ideal festival sing-along song! In the album review, I said “The way that “Life Is A Fucking Miracle” evokes the work that Brian Eno did with David Byrne, with added bird noises is rather wonderful. The melody and beat have a Talking Heads feel about it too. But what raises this song above so many is the way the melody plays tag with the beat and Booth’s voice. He is right, life is indeed a fucking miracle. I love the injection of a pronoun refrain towards the end too“. I stand by everything I said then, yeah lazy reviewing, right? This will be one of my go-to songs for the foreseeable future and is highly likely to feature on the Mayhem Chart soon. I had wondered if this would be released as a single, given that radio stations won’t play songs with fuck or any variants of it in their lyrics or title. Then I thought, could you blank it, bleep it, or change it to fluffing? The band has gone for the option of changing the title and lyric to “Life’s A Shocking Miracle”, if it gets this great tune on the radio then I am behind it all the way. Check out “Life’s A Fucking Miracle” which is a Fucking (or perhaps Shocking) Order!
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