From Nothing To A Little Bit More

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When you stumble upon a formula that works, why change it? For their second album, The Lathums have kept to their sound, albeit with some tweaks. Despite the magnificent production work by James Skelly on all of their material leading up to From Nothing To A Little Bit More, The Lathums decided to mix things up by opting to work with Jim Abiss at his studio in Cambridgeshire. Abiss’ credits include Arctic Monkeys’ Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, and the first two albums from international pop star Adele. For The Lathums, it seemed a natural fit on paper, and this feeling is reaffirmed with the opening anthem, ‘Struggle’, which gets the album off on the front foot. Alex Moore, frontman of the band, first met Scott Concepcion before the band formed. The band began as a music project at college in Pemberton, Greater Manchester. The members consisted of drummer Ryan Durrans, bassist Lewis Halliwell, guitarist Scott Concepcion and singer Alex Moore. The band are named after a venue that they performed at. It's commonly pronounced as "La-thums", rather than "Lay-thums". When asked how it's pronounced, Moore stated, "It's just how we pronounce it. It's just how it was christened." [5] Halliwell later left the band, so another stage school student Johnny Cunliffe was chosen to replace him. AM: “This was a very fun song to record. There’s a lot of melodies, and I know Scott had a whale of a time on it.” THE KILLERS ft. ALEX MOORE (THE LATHUMS) - How Beautiful Life Can Be Wien, Stadthalle, 12.07.2022 , retrieved 1 February 2023

Scott Concepcion: “I did. There’s plenty of little guitar parts and overlapping intricacies that form melodies when listened to together. Jim Abbiss [producer] brought out his Höfner electric thumb piano too, it was incredible.”There’s a lot more people [listening] now, which is very good for us. The reaction has more than doubled,” frontman Alex Moore tells NME over Zoom. “We’re just waiting for the album to come out now, so we can take the next step. We’re excited to be able to play it [live]. This has been our only traditional release: we started when the world was crazy, really.” Drummer Ryan Durrans chips in: “When the world was crazier.” Krol, Charlotte (27 October 2022). "The Lathums announce new album 'From Nothing To A Little Bit More', share single 'Say My Name' ". NME . Retrieved 11 March 2023. Alex: “During a solo, Scott’s gonna ascend: he’s just gonna start flying. We’re gonna spend all of our budget on Scott flying.” You’re also joining the festival circuit this summer. Are you confident The Lathums can become festival headliners in the near future? AM: “It’s like Lathums but in a ’90s hip-hop way. It was fun crafting it in the studio. It excited us, like, ‘What can we do now to make it better or make something strange? Where can we push these songs to?’” This is my happy place,” Alex says. Scott and Ryan have not only been there through Alex’s lowest moments, but the trio have been through things together too. “There were some times during recording sessions where I was not in a good way. These men had to live with me in a small house.” “We had fun,” Scott insists.

Maplethorpe, Dale (2 March 2023). "Album Review: The Lathums - From Nothing To A Little Bit More". Gigwise . Retrieved 10 March 2023. NME caught up with The Lathums to discuss the open-hearted vulnerability of their new record, preparations for their biggest headline show to date and the advice they received from The Killers’ Brandon Flowers. Alex: “Maybe! I think he’ll have some more important things to do. But he’s always welcome with us.” Alex: “I think that’s more of a constant thing, really. We’re together all of the time: 80% of that time we’re in very intense situations that we have to either get sorted there and then, or talk through it and get it sorted before it runs away from us. In November 2022, the band announced their second album, From Nothing to a Little Bit More. Following the announcement, "Say My Name" and "Turmoil" were released.Wolves, Warrington (6 February 2023). "Warrington Wolves - The Lathums to headline Super League season opener". Warrington Wolves . Retrieved 17 April 2023. Alex Moore: “What’s the point in putting so much into something that you’re not genuinely passionate about? I think it’s quite refreshing that people can see that there’s genuine feelings behind these songs, not like a lot of music that’s out nowadays that’s got no emotion or substance behind it. You can tell those people are singing about what they think people want [to hear]. But I don’t give you what you want: I give you what you need.” Are you confident that your fans will connect with the emotional depth of your new material? AM: “There’s a bit of love in this one. There’s a lot of love, really. I wanted to take myself out of my own shoes and see things from somebody else’s perspective. In this scenario, it’s the perspective of a woman, which is hard for a man to do. I’m not saying I’ve learned how to do that but I wanted to give it a go and not think just about me. I think I learned more about myself—ways that I’m selfish but hadn’t really realised, and certain things like that. I think it was owning up to things, things that you could change to better yourself.” Continuing on tothepenultimate song ofTheLathumssecond album ‘From Nothing ToALittle Bit More’, they present usasong shrouded by yearning. ‘Crying Out’ has lead singer Alex Moore literally crying out for somebody,asense of desperation in his voice makes it allthemore emotional.

The record features the likes of “Sad Face Baby,” which captures a yearning to connect with others who feel lost, and “Turmoil,” the recent single that saw the band swap punky squall for tender balladry. Copsey, Rob (1 October 2021). "The Lathums score Number 1 debut album with How Beautiful Life Can Be". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 1 October 2021. Taysom, Joe (3 March 2023). "The Lathums - 'From Nothing To A Little Bit More' ". Far Out . Retrieved 10 March 2023. Not that the pandemic hampered The Lathums’ lofty ambitions too much, mind. After signing to Island Records in early 2020, the band’s debut LP shot straight to the top of the UK Albums Chart in October 2021, toppling Drake of all people from the Number One slot. “We will take on anybody in any big area!” Moore adds now about that memorable chart victory. “You can’t keep this music down.” AM: “I wanted to have a song that brings an old, nostalgic feel but in a modern way. We always want to keep it fresh, we used to talk about that when we were playing in pubs as young lads. We wanted to have a song for everybody, it doesn’t matter who’s listening—there can be a song for everybody.”In April 2022, the band released Sad Face Baby, the last single to feature Johnny Cunliffe on bass before his departure in 2022. The band brought on Matty Murphy as a replacement, but was not officially dubbed as a member until January 2023. During the time of Cunliffe's absence, the band were a support act for The Killers. Moore got the chance to do a cover of How Beautiful Life Can Be with them on stage, with Alex on acoustic guitar and Brandon Flowers on co-lead vocals. [8] As Moore, Scott Concepcion (guitars/piano), and Ryan Durrans (drums) stride into their emboldened early twenties together, artistic support and kinship has come from some unlikely, ‘pinch me’ quarters, including The Killers, with whom Moore sang onstage at shows in Vienna and Amsterdam, plus Tim Burgess, Paul Weller, Arctic Monkeys, and Louis Tomlinson. Aroesti, Rachel (24 September 2021). "The Lathums: How Beautiful Life Can Be – hearty 00s indie revivalism". The Guardian . Retrieved 1 October 2021.