Daily electricity to load your batteries
13 May 2025
Photo by Luca Bailey
Band: HOME COUNTIES
Who: Synth-guitar pop collective from London who released their
lauded debut album, titled Exactly As It Seems. Stream it below.
New single: SPAIN
First taster of their upcoming 2nd full length. Details TBA.
Will Harrison: “It’s about growing older and fearing the person you might become,
or are already becoming. It’s about figuring out if you can grow up without losing sight
of your values or if it’s just a worthless endeavour.
The song uses the idea of a British expat living in Spain as the ultimate embodiment of everything you fear of becoming, losing all self-awareness and care about society as you slip further into individualism with age (basically worrying about growing more right-wing). But at the end, it imagines waking up as someone retired in Spain, and realising it might not be so bad after all. There’s a sentiment of ‘if this is what moral decline feels like, sign me up!’”
TUTV: We need more party bands like this who make you get up and dance, even when your and their mind are plagued by pessimism about the present and future in these screwed-up times. Why not having both fun and staying aware of the BS we need to go through every single day.
Spain make my eager ears think of Arcade Fire‘s most recent disco-infused records and former New York nightclub-filling misfits The Rapture. Wake up/go to sleep, love/hate, say hello/goodbye, sing/moan, cry/smile. Accept your mixed emotions and fight for your right to feel real. Home Counties do.
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