AFTER seizing attention with their ‘Redevelopment’ EP in 2020, Home Counties are back with the fun and infectious ‘White Shirt / Clean Shirt’
Using the last year to experiment and hone in on their sound, the results for the five-piece have been nothing short of intoxicating and they continue to blur genre boundaries on this new art-pop wriggler.
Exploring the emptiness of commuter life and “unfulfilling white collar work”, the band deliver their message through a fast-paced mover and shaker that blends post-punk rhythms with groovy funk. Embellished with vibrant synth spasms and delirious dancefloor climax, it’s another fun and inventive outing from the hotly-tipped outfit.
He says: “It voices that feeling of losing your sense of self and place as you go into work, dressed uniformly in a Next suit, in an indistinguishable space, staring at another spreadsheet. It’s also got a bit of a ‘how did I get here?’ sentiment, being at work thinking about what more aspirational (or more expensively educated) people might be doing. Ultimately, it voices a feeling of having ‘learnt to fall’, rather than taught to succeed – sinking into the safety net of unfulfilling white collar work.”
Listen below.
