FRESH: ‘Uptight’ – Home Counties

Home Counties are just “Uptight” about their new release!
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London six-piece band Home Counties, who we featured recently with their single “Wild Guess“, have shared their new single, an ‘anti-clubbing anthem’, “Uptight”.

The track is the latest taster of the band’s highly anticipated debut album “Exactly As It Seems”, out 3rd May, and they are gaining some pretty high-profile press with it already!

“Exactly As It Seems” was produced and recorded in its entirety by the band’s guitarist Conor Kearney and then mixed by Andy Savours. “Uptight” finds the band pondering their own experiences of clubbing in their mid-twenties. Playing out to a backdrop of agitated indie-disco; driven by a dynamic, danceable beat and equipped with the band’s signature angular dual-guitar work of Conor Kearney and Will Harrison, “Uptight” is an apt pace (and tone) setter for the album.

“Uptight” follows the release of expansive, shape-shifting previous single “Wild Guess” and their vibrant, glitchy ode to east London “Bethnal Green”, all of which set to appear on the band’s debut album. Prioritising the beauty in the ordinary and unanimously leaning into a fun, exploratory way of thinking, “Exactly As It Seems” presents a notable sonic shift for Home Counties, embracing a more dance-orientated sensibility and an ambitious inventive attention to detail, all with a focus on melody in its purest form.

With their previous EP “In A Middle English Town” propelling their live set into full-on hedonistic party territory, the addition of new vocalist Lois Kelly in late 2022 completed their transformation, with the band fully embracing the power of a good time. On the Home Counties stereo when it came to finalising their debut album, a list of favourites as varied as they come were given air time: jungle (the genre, not the band), Talking Heads, Britney Spears, The Slits. At the centre of it all is nothing except simple quality.

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