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Homelife's new album is out now!
Homelife
Exotic Interlude (HS302CD)
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Homelife
Exotic Interlude (HS302LP)
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We're incredibly excited to be announcing that Homelife have joined the Humble Soul fold, and we'll be releasing their simply stunning new album "Exotic Interlude" on 5th October, preceded by the single "Circles" on 21st September.
"Your houses, they look like cakes!"
(Japanese visitor to Manchester 1993)
The world of the exotic lives in the imagination, a way of looking at the world. A useful way of coping now we live on Google Earth, mapped and finite, a shrunken head. More than an interlude, Homelife have painted an Exotic English landscape. An urban crust on heathen clay, the village green from tower blocks. The tower blocks seen distant from green hill sides, Pagan pylons bathed in antiseptic sunlight fingers. Bright moulds, vines and blooms on Victorian iron decay. Feel the sandstone turn to limestone, rock of ages, dirty flags, caves of blue john, land of lakes and red brick evening glow. Exotic Interlude is a mature work, slow brewed. I feel I’ve heard it all in a dream, it's familiar but utterly strange. It might be words engaging me, emotions I can empathize with, uncomfortably honest, sweetened by being set amongst gardens of glowing music. The music is both ethereal yet earthy, with heavy use of acoustic timbres, swarms of coloured percussion, bulbous synths and fresh use of languid Hawaiian guitar. A timeless English summer of a record.
Graham Massey, June 2009
Twelve Ways To Count
"heartbreakingly beautiful"
NME 8/10
"The Miserable Rich’s striking, fully fledged debut immediately sets them apart."
Q
"Breathtaking... Easily the best record of 2008"
Americana UK
"...pop music that could soundtrack a nursery rhyme created by Tim Burton"
Bearded
"...a cracking album full of tender, dark, warm, thoughtful and euphoric songs that'll keep you humming along all day long"
Piccadilly Records - Record of the Week
"My band of the year for certain and you can quote me on that"
Nick Deacon
Latest releases
Homelife
Exotic Interlude (HS302CD)
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Homelife
Exotic Interlude (HS302LP)
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Other releases
The Miserable Rich
Twelve Ways To Count (HS208)
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The Miserable Rich
The Time That's Mine (HS210)
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The Miserable Rich
Pisshead / Boat Song (HS205)
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Liz Green
Midnight Blues (HS207)
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Aidan Smith
Allotments (HS202)
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Liz Green
Bad Medicine (HS109)
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denis jones
humdrum virtue (HS107)
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Cortina Deluxx
10" EP (HS106)
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