Home Counties’ flirtation with provincial-pivoting alt anthems alongside lyrics mapping tongue-in-cheek suburban excursions – by way of socially-charged takes on contemporary life – found feet on last year’s funk-flecked debut LP Exactly As It Seems. Tracking from rural to urban since their formation five years ago, the East London-via-Buckinghamshire six-piece intersect space and time in equal sonic measure. Their first two EPs came leaning on the skewiff yet nimble post-punk footwork of acts such as Yard Act and Squid to evermore synth scored dabbling that has seen the band flaunt twitchy electronic segues adjacent to straight-up indie-pop panache.
Finding voice through dual vocalists Will Harrison and Lois Kelly, Humdrum pins its focus…