Life Without Buildings’ Final Song, “Love Trinity,” Unearthed After 24 Years: Listen

Life Without Buildings, the beloved Glaswegian art-rock band, broke up in 2002 after the release of their sole, classic album, Any Other City. But not before recording a final song, “Love Trinity.” The rarity received a small Australian release, but the studio recording never became widely available; most fans have heard the song only via bootlegs and a live version, from the post-split record Live at the Annandale Hotel. Now, the studio recording is getting its first wide release. Unearthed by Glasgow label Errol’s Hot Wax, the song is out now—you can hear it below—and gets a vinyl release on November 21. Find it on the label’s Bandcamp.

Guitarist Robert Dallas Gray explains in press materials how “Love Trinity” has “taken on more importance over time, because it feels like a swansong.” He writes:

It’s nice to mark ‘Love Trinity,’ as a song—it’s always felt like it slipped through the cracks a bit. It was the last song we recorded, one of the last we wrote. We recorded it as a one-off single for Trifekta Records in Australia, to promote the tour we were going to do there. I think it felt quite different from the other stuff; it came out of Chris’s bassline (which a lot of things did), and it had the delay effect on the guitar, and the sort of big guitar solo. There’s even a part where Sue’s vocals are multi-tracked—so whereas all the previous stuff had deliberately been very dry and live sounding, it was more of a sort of atmospheric thing. I don’t think it was anyone’s favourite at the time, but a lot of people we knew loved it and said it was the best thing we’d done. For me it’s taken on more importance over time, because it feels like a swansong, I guess.