Home Counties
Track: Home Counties – ‘White Shirt / Clean Shirt’: another punk-funk capitalist critique from brilliant Bristolians
FRESHLY pressed and starched, collars buttoned just so, Home Counties are back pursuing an ever more addictive, spasming line in capitalist critique encapsulated in wiry, fractured punk-funk. It’s like The Fire Engines were back among us, and hell we needed this. “White Shirt / Clean Shirt” continues their Beckettian lyrical railing against the rat race, …
Home Counties – ‘Modern Yuppies’: angular punk-funk takes on the consumerist dream
HOME COUNTIES who, despite the name, are a five-piece happy to gaze askance at all the weird doings of modernity from the safety of Bristol, release their third, three-minute dose of angular commentary, “Modern Yuppies”, today. Us humble folks at Backseat Mafia feel embracing their particular wonky vision of the truth is a necessary step. …
TRACK: Home Counties’ ‘Dad Bod’ – fantastically Peel show awkward squad
IT WOULD seem the Bristol underground scene is in rude health. Last week we had a new download-only only round-up from Dorset boys moved uptown with a whole clutch of stoner psych goodness, Leeches. And now we have a second missive from Brizzle-based guitar shamblers Home Counties: and it’s a cracking, snotty-cuffed slice of John …