Home Counties share latest single White Shirt / Clean Shirt
Home Counties share latest single White Shirt / Clean Shirt
It’s more from Home Counties after their 2020 debut EP Redevelopment.
Home Counties’ latest single White Shirt / Clean Shirt, ‘began life as a guitar-orientated number that was a staple at their first shows’, remembers singer Will Harrison.
“But then we had sort of fell out of love with it. Through lockdown, as we started experimenting more heavily with synthesisers and drum machines; we reworked the song with these new influences and it found a new lease of life,” he continues.
The single more immediately follows January’s Modern Yuppies, and Harrison has added that both look at, ‘working life under contemporary capitalism’.
Home Counties have shared their new single Modern Yuppies .
While the band s Redevelopment EP may have shown off their indie punk leanings, this new song delivers some fizzing funk-pop thrills.
Embracing elasticity on a gleaming yet acerbic takedown of modern life, Home Counties push their sound in a fresh direction.
Out now, it finds Home Counties digging out their analogue synths and crackly drum machines during the endless free time of 2020.
A playful return - yet one that offers plenty of bite - it s packed with colour, verve, and a potent sense of purpose.
Singer Will Harrison comments. Synths and drum machines were already something we were very keen to explore and 2020 provided us with an unexpected amount of free time to experiment. We dialled the disco influences up to the max and totally embraced that 70âs-cop-drama vibe for this pair of stand-alone singles. It feels like a bold declaration of who we are and it definitely gives a clearer taste of where weâ�