Home Counties turn up the heat with new track ‘Spain’ 

Home Counties have returned with their first new music since the release of their debut album ‘Exactly As It Seems’ this time last year, and latest cut ‘Spain’ points to an exciting new direction for the London six-piece. 

Produced by Al Doyle (of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem), the single is a tightly-coiled cut that marries insistent instrumentation with darker, more complex lyricism inspired by the motif of a British expat living on the continent. 

“It’s about growing older and fearing the person you might become, or are already becoming,” vocalist Will Harrison has explained. “It’s about figuring out if you can grow up without losing sight of your values or if it’s just a worthless endeavour.”

Continuing, he shares: “The song uses the idea of a British expat living in Spain as the ultimate embodiment of everything you fear of becoming, losing all self-awareness and care about society as you slip further into individualism with age (basically worrying about growing more right-wing). But at the end, it imagines waking up as someone retired in Spain, and realising it might not be so bad after all. There’s a sentiment of ‘if this is what moral decline feels like, sign me up!’”

‘Spain’ arrives as the first single to be shared from Home Counties upcoming second album, the exact details of which are still yet to be announced. What we do know, though, is that the whole record was produced by Doyle and that ‘Spain’, according to the band, “encapsulates the next era of Home Counties.” Watch this space…