Indie/electronic dance six-piece party bring all-too-relatable quips about modern city life in new number, You Break It, You Bought it. It Comes ahead of their scheduled debut later this year in May.
It’s a relief to know that the oddity of new wave emerging out of punk back in the late ’70s was not lost to our future generations of musicians. Featuring a bizarre arrangement of weird and wonderful noises, Home Counties certainly know no bounds to the industrial genre. Now, spruced up with a name of its own – crank wave – the band join a whole plethora of modern individualists broadening the scope of punk.
Drawing zesty imaginings from the likes of Gang of Four and awkward dance-pop inflections from Devo, the set of six are on the precipice to becoming one of the hottest new indie electronic/dance acts this year.
Having released their EP debut of In a Middle English Town at the start of 2022, their music started to ignite with Back to The 70s – a sharp-witted outlook on the collapse of a faulty economy wrapped with guitar zingers and madcap synth racket.
Now, the group have upped the ante with You Break It, You Bought It. A spacious, funky art-bop taking catchy stylings from Australian pop-duo Confidence Man, it keens into high-margin rent figures and dodgy landlords that seeps into the mundanity of life, all the while pointing out a much larger societal issue at play. Financial greed. Kelly and Harrison dart back and forth in a petty fashion: “as I’m standing here, and I’ve realised i’ve been cleaning the skirting boards for over an hour now. But I won’t have it, I simply won’t take it. You bought it and I’ll break it. I’ll burn it, I’ll leave the oven on, I’ll burn it all down.”
This single follows Wild Guess, a waiting room art-rock offload to social isolation, and Uptight, a shifted indie-disco dance-floor norm which ironically, plays into not having the urge to go clubbing anymore. The theme of a topsy-turvy London life to the dissatisfied youth runs riot throughout the debut; gleaming playfully in one corner and writhing uncontrollably in the next.
Drawing a whole host of nuances from age-old to the contemporary, Exactly As It Seems is a fun, breezy outlook on an otherwise desperate state of affairs for a down-trodden country. Heaped with lyrical sardonicism and fizzy synth beep-boops, it can be shoehorned into the berserk dance-punk genre but can be sandwiched into any bracket going.
“Hey look! Everything sucks but we’re having fun”
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