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Home Counties

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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 provide on their debut album, Exactly As It Seems. A newly-purchased synthesiser, a fresh outlook, and a steady diet of early 2000s pop kicked open a world of melodic possibility for the band, resulting in an album that’s upbeat from start to finish: swapping wry social commentary for personal experience and big tunes.

Produced in its entirety by the band’s guitarist Conor Kearney, and mixed by the renowned Andy Savours (Black Country New Road, Róisín Murphy, The Kills) – the album dutifully captures the band’s rapturous live performances; a fizzing display of eclecticism all with a focus on melody in its purest form.

Thematically, the album traverses the ups and downs of London life in your late twenties; laments on renting and how rubbish landlords are on the Gang of Four/Devo-indebted “You Break It, You Bought It”, turning 25 and not wanting to go clubbing anymore on the agitated indie-disco of “Uptight”, and fear of social isolation in old-age on the shapeshifting art-rock of “Wild Guess”. 

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.

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Tour Dates

Jul 04 2025
Weekend Rumble 2025
Usk, United Kingdom
Jul 05 2025
Smoke & Fire Festival Ascot 2025
Ascot, United Kingdom
Jul 24 2025
Truck Festival 2025
Steventon, United Kingdom
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Jul 31 2025
Y Not Festival 2025
Ripley, United Kingdom
Aug 03 2025
Pikehall
Ripley, United Kingdom
Aug 22 2025
Future Yard CIC
Birkenhead, United Kingdom
Oct 04 2025
Wedgewood Rooms
Southsea, United Kingdom
Oct 16 2025
Multiple Venues
Norwich, United Kingdom
Nov 22 2025
Rough Trade Records
Bristol, United Kingdom
Nov 23 2025
Clwb Ifor Bach
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Nov 24 2025
Green Door Store
Brighton, United Kingdom
Nov 27 2025
Bodega Social
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Nov 28 2025
The Flying Duck
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Nov 29 2025
Hyde Park Book Club
Leeds, United Kingdom
Nov 30 2025
Yes
Manchester, United Kingdom
Dec 02 2025
Scala
London, United Kingdom