When disenchantment runs high, when city life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be – when you’re forking out seven quid for a pint, shivering in a queue for a club night you don’t really care about, getting ripped off by landlords over blu tac stains, and squeezing in studio sessions around a relentless 9-5 schedule, there is only one logical response: fun.

That’s exactly what Home Counties provides with their music. Synthesiser sounds, a fresh outlook, and a steady diet of early 2000s pop kicked open a world of melodic possibility for the band, resulting in music that’s upbeat throughout every note, swapping wry social commentary for personal experience and big tunes.

The band’s rapturous live performance is a fizzing display of eclecticism all with a focus on melody in its purest form. Home Counties always manage to balance the duality of lyrical frankness and musical buoyancy with gusto. With an eye for the day-to-day, all-too-relatable details of crap modern living, yet – coupled with an ear for hook-filled, grin-inducing melodies – the pay-off is one riddled in joy rather than despair.

"Sardonic swipes with a yet more precise rhythmic punch."

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"Some of today’s brightest musical minds."

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