Home Counties return with Al Doyle (Hot Chip) produced track, "Spain"

Marking the first music to be heard since the band's 2024 debut album, Exactly As It Seems, new single "Spain" was written about confronting your own moral decay through the metaphor of a British expat.

"‘Spain’ is essentially an argument with yourself,” explains frontman Will Harrison. “It's about growing older and fearing the person you might become, or are already becoming. Taking the form of a conversation between a starry-eyed idealist and life-weathered realist, it imagines watching an argument between a younger and older version of yourself. It’s about figuring out if you can grow up without losing sight of your values or if it’s just a worthless endeavour."

“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). It paints a picture of your future self being numb, hollow and weathered, ‘burnt’ and ‘dying in pain’ – ‘all the bad things [you] used to hate’. 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!’”

The band has also announced a full UK headline tour for November and December, culminating in their biggest headline show to date at Scala, London.