Music News Monthly issue 1

Photo credit: Blackksocks
Following the huge success of their top
3 debut album in 2020, one of the UK’s
finest bands, Sea Girls, have announced
their enthralling, highly-anticipated new
album
Homesick - out 14th January 2022 on
Polydor.
A band well and truly into their stride,
Homesick sees Sea Girls, Henry
Camamile, Rory Young, Andrew Dawson
and Oli Khan, deliver thirteen measures
of guitar driven pop brilliance including
2 bonus Deluxe tracks. A deeply
personal record, lead singer Henry
Camamile returned to his childhood
home in Lincolnshire at the wake of the
pandemic, finding himself having to
address and reflect on events from his
past, both good and bad. A cathartic
process, Henry leaves nothing to the
imagination with his astute storytelling
and candid lyrics. Delving into some of
his darkest moments, the uplifting
album comes as a sense of relief, a
gratefulness for survival. Lyrically raw
and packed to the brim with hooks, the
band step into new realms with an
added sense of maturity and a bigger
ambitious sounding record.
Teaming long-term producer Larry
Hibbitt with Grammy Award winning
Producers Jacknife Lee, Jonny Coffer and
Cass Lowe to co-produce the record,
Henry reflects on the process: “Imagine
us locked down in the studio in rainy
Brixton working with the producers
remotely on the album in California’s
Topanga Canyon. That clashing of worlds
is the sound of this record, the DNA.
Making an album this way, remotely and
5000 miles apart, was a crazy idea and
shouldn’t have worked, but it did”
Premiered by Arlo Parks as the ‘Hottest
Record’ on BBC Radio 1 and debuted live
on the band’s frenetic mainstage slot at
Latitude Festival, the band drop the
album’s first taste with the infectiously
honest ‘Sick’.
“Sick is me listing things I’m pissed off
with and feeling sorry for myself, it’s a
growing up song where I realise I’m no
longer a young child. It’s me in my
bedroom at home ranting with my
thoughts and going down the hole of
being pissed” Henry said of the track. “I