SEA GIRLS

Homesick (Polydor)

Hailed as ‘ones to watch’ by the UK music establishment for the last couple of years, Sea Girls release their second studio album, Homesick, full of anthemic indie-pop. Most of the lyrics, though, are inescapably adolescent, and it’s not clear whether this is intended to satisfy a certain audience or is simply the result of mediocre writing.

While this may get tiresome rather quickly for most listeners over the age of 21, Homesick should nonetheless make for an enjoyable soundtrack for driving in the sunshine and imagining you’re in a 2010s mainstream indie music video, or, inevitably, background music for some youthful BBC drama. Lavish production takes some of the tracks to Killers territory, and themes of exhaustion at consumer culture (Sick) and alienation (Lonely) wrapped up in hometown nostalgia will undoubtedly make for popular singles. 

words ISABEL THOMAS