Home Counties share latest single White Shirt / Clean Shirt


Home Counties by Naz Stone

Home Counties by Naz Stone




It’s more from Home Counties after their 2020 debut EP Redevelopment.

Home Counties’ latest single White Shirt / Clean Shirt, ‘began life as a guitar-orientated number that was a staple at their first shows’, remembers singer Will Harrison.

“But then we had sort of fell out of love with it. Through lockdown, as we started experimenting more heavily with synthesisers and drum machines; we reworked the song with these new influences and it found a new lease of life,” he continues.

The single more immediately follows January’s Modern Yuppies, and Harrison has added that both look at, ‘working life under contemporary capitalism’.

“Yuppies was written about the destructive mentality of middle-class professionals – constantly wanting more success, more money and more consumer goods,” he explains.

“White Shirt / Clean Shirt looks at the less aspirational, and more universal reality of office work. It voices that feeling of losing your sense of self and place as you go into work, dressed uniformly in a Next suit, in an indistinguishable space, staring at another spreadsheet.”

“It’s also got a bit of a ‘how did I get here?’ sentiment, being at work thinking about what more aspirational (or more expensively educated) people might be doing.”

“Ultimately, it voices a feeling of having ‘learnt to fall’, rather than taught to succeed – sinking into the safety net of unfulfilling white collar work.”


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