Easy Life have announced they’ve officially changed their name to After Touch ahead of the release of their new single “Use Me” today, lifted from the band’s next EP, You Wish This Was About You, set for release on September 7 via UNFD.

Alongside the name change comes a sonic shift for the band out of Shellharbour, NSW. You Wish This Was About You sees the aggression and energy that Easy Life built their name on appropriated into a modern take on heavy emotional music, with electronic flourishes and an exploration of string arrangements to create a sense of atmosphere and darkness under the banner of After Touch. The first single “Use Me” is a tragic yet triumphant look at rebuilding after a bad relationship and carries strong Bring Me The Horizon vibes.

To further explain “Use Me”, frontman Max Pasalic says: “Use Me is about gravitating toward painful, toxic relationships. I had to realise that I was seeking them out in some sort of masochistic sense – and the only way to overcome this was to accept it. Instead of feeling sorry for myself I started to revel in it, and I used these experiences to become someone new, someone stronger.”

You Wish This Was About You bears this theme across five brand new tracks. Following on from their previous EP There Can’t Be This Much Water In The Sky (2017), thematically the central motif of the EP is about the perils of placing your entire self-worth within another person when ultimately only you can make yourself happy. Instead of focusing on wrongdoings, the title You Wish This Was About You is an empowering statement about backing yourself when it all falls apart.

The creation of You Wish This Was About You, marks a new beginning for After Touch. Listening back to what they had crafted across this collection of songs made them realise they were an entirely different band to Easy Life, so much so that the recurrence of the themes feel and touch inspired the name change to carry them through the next phase of their career.

 

Before After Touch abandon their former moniker all together, they will play their final show as Easy Life on July 26 at the Rad Bar.
 
After Touch – You Wish This Was About You is out September 7 via UNFD. “Use Me” is available now on all streaming services.

After Touch – You Wish This Was About You is out on September 7 via UNFD.