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  We are very proud to have worked with Lush Fresh Handmade Sound and Mark Constantine for their ‘Life’s What You Make It’ album, following from the acclaimed compilation albums ‘Self Preservation Society’ and ‘Instant Replay’. This stunning vinyl triple album was once again personally curated by Mark Constantine, co-founder of Lush and passionate music fan. It features 30 brand new versions of songs originally recorded between 1981 to 1991, including some of the finest pop, folk, rock and ballads of the time.

You’ll find the familiar and the unfamiliar, unexpected collisions of styles, radical re-workings and faithful renditions, all in celebration of a musical golden era. Many of these tracks will have specific associations for each of us, but collectively they formed the soundtrack to Mark’s decade during Cosmetics to Go and the pre-Lush Cosmetics years: “What I remember from that time is working every hour God sent,” he says. “We’d be waking up at 4am, switching on the boilers and mixing up product as fast as we could. And there’d always be music playing.” 

Compositions by artists as diverse as The Cure, Phil Collins, Tina Turner, Kate Bush and Nirvana have been reinterpreted by a galaxy of established and rising stars including Teddy Thompson, Eliza + Martin Carthy, Jackie Oates, Lisa Knapp, Marry Waterson, Stealing Sheep and Honeyfeet, many of which you’ll found on Lush’s bespoke Spa Treatment soundtracks.  The result is a magnificently diverse, six-sided jewel of a record.

This record was 2 years in the making and did not only start off as a continuation of the compilation album series, but also out of Mark’s desire to support the artists Lush has been collaborating with for a long time through the difficulties during the height of the Covid pandemic.