Blackburn, UK four-piece The Illicits are back with their blazing new single, Modern Life. Fresh off the back of a packed out hometown show earlier this month, and hot on the heels of sensational earlier release, Feel It, their amped-up new single blisters with live ready, rollicking rock energy that nods to the genre’s pioneering past masters. With fractious, looping guitar lines, relentless drum smashes and twangy, Britpop-tinted vocals, Modern Life tells a timely tale of a dilapidated and defective society. Written in the summer of 2022 in the band’s rehearsal room, the raw punky track was recorded live at Prism Studios and produced by Shaun Lowe. Blending scorching social observations with infectious riffs and mordant melodies, the new track sees the band hone in on their p...