Home Counties – Exactly As It Seems
Exactly As It Seems is a buoyant call to order to join Home Counties on their quest to find light among the gloom and traverse the ups and downs of being in your late twenties with gusto
What’s the best response you can have to the disenchantment of modern life? For Home Counties, it’s fun. Their new album Exactly As It Seems is a buoyant call to order to join them on their quest to find light among the gloom and traverse the ups and downs of being in your late 20s with gusto.
Produced entirely by guitarist Conor Kearney, the album fizzes with an eclectic, electroclash pulse reminiscent of LCD Soundsystem, Confidence Man and Devo. Each song is a goldmine of sound; opening track Uptight sets the unrelenting tone with its dancy beats and catchy lyrics, Funk U Up harnesses rhythmic guitars with quirky synth lines while You Break It, You Bought It laments on rubbish landlords with plenty of tongue-in-cheek humour.
It's no surprise that the band are a hoot performing live – the energy is palpable from start to finish. But even more impressive are the melodies that stand out above all of the intricacy, making for an album that’s not only fun, but acutely detailed and instantly memorable. Exactly As It Seems is a beautifully peculiar, joy-inducing triumph.
Listen to: Uptight, You Break It, You Bought It, Wild Guess