Sea Girls just dropped another “slice from the forthcoming new album” Homesick. The new track, “Again Again’ is available to stream on all the music platforms here. You can listen to it below.
The new song is the second release since the album has been announced. In August the band shared the single “Sick” which frontman Henry Camamile described as “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“.
The new release “Again Again” “is about trying to personify the intensity and rush of life’s excesses. Accepting the inevitability of it and the hatred in being boring. It’s one of the last songs I wrote for the new album, ruminating on my teenage years” explains Camamile.
Homesick is due on 14th January and can be pre-ordered here. It’s the band’ long-awaited release after their latest debut album from 2020, Open Your Head. It tackled some heavyweight themes like mental health and drugs and it received great critical praise.
The Guardian in their review said about the album: “by using old tools and well-worn paths they’ve managed, rather impressively, to capture something of the strange, stultifying state of contemporary youth“. The Edge in their four-star review said: “Open Up Your Head showcases all of the bands potential and overall it is an exciting and engaging project“. NME added: “it is an accomplished debut that takes Sea Girls’ brand of indie-rock on countless new adventures, and leaves plenty of doors ajar for further exploration for a genre in dire need of a kick up the backside.“
The new album has been recorded during the pandemic therefore similar themes are expected. “I thought a lot about mortality and dying – what it means to be alive and how lucky we are. All the songs came after the pandemic started, so thematically it intensified things” Camamile told NME.
He added “We’re moving on and we’re bringing something different. We could have made the first album again but we didn’t. We were really ruthless, we skimmed out any excess. It’s better than the first record and we feel so proud of it.”
Sea Girls are in the middle of their tour and will be playing tonight (15th October) at the O2 Academy Brixton in London.
Sat here writing this ahead of playing our biggest UK headline show at @O2academybrix tonight is an incredible feeling. Been an amazing few weeks reconnecting with so many of you at these gigs
— SEA GIRLS ≅ (@SeaGirls) October 15, 2021
See the rest of the tour dates below, tickets are available to purchase here.
15/10/21 – O2 Academy Brixton – London
16/10 – O2 Academy Liverpool – Liverpool
19/10 – O2 Academy Oxford – Oxford
20/10 – O2 Academy Leeds – Leeds
21/10 – Manchester Academy – Manchester
