Hometown film to Homesick, Sea Girls got a lot on their plate
Coming in fresh off the back of a rapturous sold-out UK headline tour, Sea Girls waste no time in today dropping their brilliant new single ‘Hometown’ - taken from their highly-anticipated new album Homesick - out January 14th on Island Records.
Fully encapsulating the spirit of the record, ‘Hometown’ is an album opener to be proud of. Written on frontman Henry Camamile’s first day home during the pandemic, it’s an epic statement of intent, with Killers-sized hooks – but one that’s also real, grounded, and focused on teenage high times in the flatlands of Lincolnshire.
“‘Hometown’ is one of the most important songs I've written. It defines my philosophy.” says Henry. “While writing songs for the new album, I had this intense love for life. Hometown is about people I knew growing up that aren't around anymore. I'm saying ‘I see you - it’s a nod to them. I'm grateful for life and I am not going to jeopardize it in any way.”
The band has also unveiled their special mini-documentary ‘Homesick At Night For Brixton’ that lands today. Directed by band friend and long-term collaborator Thomas Davis, the mini-documentary features fan interviews and live performance clips from the band's recent sold-out hometown Brixton Academy headline show. Watch here.
Sea Girls - Henry Camomile, Rory Young, Andrew Dawson, and Oli Khan, deliver thirteen measures of guitar-driven pop brilliance including 2 bonus Deluxe tracks. A deeply personal record, lead singer Henry Camamile returned to his childhood home in Lincolnshire in the wake of the pandemic, finding himself having to address and reflect on events from his past, both good and bad. A cathartic process, Henry leaves nothing to the imagination with his astute storytelling and candid lyrics. Delving into some of his darkest moments, the uplifting album comes as a sense of relief, gratefulness for survival. Lyrically raw and packed to the brim with hooks, the band steps into new realms with an added sense of maturity and a bigger ambitious sounding record.
Teaming long-term producer Larry Hibbitt with Grammy Award-winning Producers Jackknife Lee, Jonny Coffer, and Cass Lowe to co-produce the record, Henry reflects on the process: “Imagine us locked down in the studio in rainy Brixton working with the producers remotely on the album in California’s Topanga Canyon. That clashing of worlds is the sound of this record, the DNA. Making an album this way, remotely and 5000 miles apart, was a crazy idea and shouldn’t have worked, but it did.”
Sea Girls, one of the most exciting guitar bands to have emerged in recent times, are the torchbearers for the next wave. Delivering sing-along anthems for the masses, the band’s journey is well and truly on its way.
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