Exactly As It Seems (Milky Clear Vinyl)
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Today, London six-piece Home Counties have announced details of their much anticipated debut album 'Exactly As It Seems', which is set for release on 3rd May 2024 via Submarine Cat Records. The news is accompanied by the release of expansive, shape-shifting new single 'Wild Guess' and the announcement of a UK headline tour in May 2024. Following the band's two acclaimed EPs 'Redevelopment' and 'In A Middle English Town', the new album arrives on the heels of two sold-out 'secret' London shows and the album's vibrant first taste 'Bethnal Green'. Home Counties have consistently retained an distinct element of unpredictability across their releases, and whilst new single 'Wild Guess' opens with one of the band's most 'traditional' introductions, the song quickly escalates into familiar unbridled, joyous bedlam. Produced and recorded by the band's guitarist Conor Kearney and mixed by Andy Savours (Black Country New Road, Rina Sawayama, Sorry), speaking more on 'Wild Guess', the band's Will Harrison said: 'Wild Guess is the oldest song but latest addition to the new album. It voices a variety of concerns: day-to-day financial worries, fear of social isolation in old age, even a looming future of ecological collapse. It was written as part of an experimental side project which saw never the light of day - and in its original form was like a deranged version of the Wii Sports loading screen, hosting a detuned Ed Miliband speech in
Tracks
1~1~Uptight1~2~Bethnal Green
1~3~Funk U Up
1~4~Dividing Lines
1~5~Push Comes To Shove
2~1~Wild Guess
2~2~You Break It, You Bought It
2~3~Cradle, Coffin
2~4~Exactly As It Seems
2~5~Posthumous Spreadsheets
Details
Catalogue Number: 12SUBC128Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Home Counties
Release Date: 03 May 2024
Genre: Alternative
Label: SUBMARINE CAT
Distributor: Rocket Group
