Sea Girls share their latest single ‘Sick’, frontman Henry Camamile told NME about how their “incredibly direct” song proved a turning point for their anticipated new album ‘Homesick’.
This will be the band’s first new music since their 2020 debut album ‘Open Your Head’ which hit Number Three in the charts, ‘Sick’ acts as Camamile said to NME an “example of their ambition for the record.”
He continued “It was written in one of the periods of lockdown just after the first time it opened back up, I went home for lockdown, I just felt like something big was going to happen.”
When talking about the inspiration behind his lyrics “It’s just basically me listing everything I’m pissed off with at the time. It’s anything from shit that isn’t good for me through to things I used to love, like being sick of The Beatles. It was like a ‘Fuck, I’m at the end of my tether’ kind of thing.”
He further expands that “While writing it, the last line of the song was ‘I’m sick that I never ask how you really feel.’ I was like, ‘Fuck man, I’m so self-absorbed, why don’t I think about other people like my family or my band?’ It made me think, ‘I always whine about how I’m doing. I’m sick of myself, let’s change the fucking record’.”
Sick is the first single to be taken from our forthcoming new album `Homesick’ coming out in January 2022! https://t.co/i61qINTJPT pic.twitter.com/MIHWHaxC8O
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Camamile revealed that this acted as a moment to begin again and wipe everything clean to start the next chapter for the band in the creation of a “wider-looking, more open and thoughtful” collection of songs.
“I think that was a big thing for this album and the writing, this song opened my mind. There’s a lot of gratitude on the album and there’s a lot of attitude as well. I started thinking about other people and it expanded our writing. It sets the tone for a lot of the songs on the album and the stories.”
The band’s breakthrough debut album ‘Open Your Head’ discussed impotent issues such as mental health, drug use and regret. The follow-up ‘Homesick’, set for release in January 2022, addresses similarly important themes and ideas. “I thought a lot about mortality and dying – what it means to be alive and how lucky we are,” said the frontman. “All the songs came after the pandemic started, so thematically it intensified things.”
The band faced difficulty recording through a pandemic and had a number of challenges, especially with their production team including Jacknife Lee [U2, R.E.M., The Killers, Modest Mouse] based in LA. “It kept us on our toes, you’d get a call at 2am in the morning to talk about the tracks. That kind of thing was just crazy, the hours just don’t work. You really feel that tension and there’s a certain harshness in places production-wise.”
