Album Review: Sea Girls - ‘Open Up Your Head’
Open Up Your Head has landed; and it’s the explosion of joyous indie rock we’ve all been waiting for.
Produced by Larry Hibbitt in London, the album features fourteen tracks of jagged guitar-pop brilliance and adrenaline-filled guitar anthems. Since the release of “Call Me Out” three years ago, the band has become one of the most enthralling indie bands in recent years, having secured their position as torch bearers for a whole new wave of UK guitar bands.
Open Up Your Head is a body of work that’s stunningly uplifting, ferociously reflective, delicately vulnerable, and brutally honest. The album features a handful of popular favourites, such as ‘All I Want To Hear You Say’ and ‘Damage Done’, as well as a host of new tunes that you’ll catch yourself playing on repeat. Notable standouts are the stunning “Weight In Gold”, and “Transplant”; both encapsulating every aspect of the real essence of who Sea Girls have become.
When singer Henry Camamile suffered an unfortunate and traumatic head injury after hitting his head on a pub cellar door, the anxiety he encountered as a result became an inspiration for his lyricism when working on the album. That, coupled with the fact that his and Rory’s writing fundamentally comes from the heart, is what made Open Up Your Head the hotly tipped indie album that it became; “I don’t buy all the love and flowers stuff. Real relationships fall apart, you get hurt and you have to deal with it so you do what you have to do to get over it. I think what has saved me is music.”
Fit-to-burst with colourful melodies, guitars and synth hooks, Open Up Your Head is merely the beginning of a very exciting future for today’s hottest indie band.
Words by Kelly Scanlon