How Beautiful Life Can Be

The band's producer, the Coral's James Skelly, helped create the album, which featured some of the band's singles from 2019 and 2021. He also helped produce new songs that would appear on their debut album.

Alex Moore mentioned in an interview on Radio X that during the lockdown, where they were able to socially distance from one another, they started playing the song "Circles of Faith", which they decided would be the opening track for their debut album. It was the first song recorded for How Beautiful Life Can Be.[2]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	72/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Guardian	[4]
NME	[5]

NME gave the album four out of five stars stating, "It's been quite a year for them during the pandemic."[5] The Guardian gave the three out of five stars stating that "Its retro sensibility and guileless tone means How Beautiful Life Can Be is the guitar music equivalent of comfort food: undemanding, slightly stupefying, but immensely cheering all the same".[4] On Metacritic, it received an average score of 72, with four positive reviews and two mixed reviews.[3]

Notes

• "Numa Numa Yey" is a cover of the song "Dragostea Din Tei" by the Moldavian pop group, O-Zone. (The track is only available on the extended edition on Apple Music.)

The Lathums

• Alex Moore – lead vocals, guitar
• Scott Concepcion – guitar, backing vocals, piano ⁽¹²⁾
• Johnny Cunliffe – bass guitar
• Ryan Durrans – drums

Production

• John Davis - Mastering ^{(All tracks except 8)}
• Robin Schmidt - Mastering ⁽⁸⁾
• Caesar Edmunds - Mixing
• James Skelly - Production