“…best quality of excellent material assured most attractive Interest design well finished matchlessly beautiful sweetness of tunes unique more carefully inspected minutely tested & easiest of all the musical instruments to learn to play upon Peerlessly harmonious specially suitable for Cinema tunes English Indian Modern Oriental Ballads Lyrics and all types of melodies can be enjoyed…”
Homelife aren’t interested in conforming to perceived norms, to genre, to standard recording techniques, to even having a proper line-up. A loose group of 8 or so members with countless other projects and commitments, they come together to make pop music for all those people who thought that somehow pop music was over.
Homelife’s talents are marshalled by reluctant foreman Paddy Steer (bass and much more) plus core members Tony Burnside (vocal, guitar, young grandad). They wrote and produced most of the songs but other key individuals contribute to an organic composition process.
These include, in Paddy’s own words:
Faron Brooks ‘other worldly hermit weird fucker living in Canada’…
Seaming To ‘found flying around the sky, she floats over this crazy shit’…
Maanila Santos ‘Levenshulme via Rio, poem by Vincius de Moraes’…
Graham Massey ‘never yet punched for playing the saxophone’
Semay Wu ‘THE boss,when dancing in her steel toe capped riggers boots’
Unconventional in every sense, Homelife’s extra vocal contributions come from the astonishing Seaming, are phoned in from Canada (Faron), or are spoken word (Maanila). And in any case, they are just the elaborate icing on a very strange, exceedingly juicy cake.
Paddy comes as close to summing up Homelife as you’re likely to get: ‘The beauty of Homelife lies is in the appreciation and incorporation of rich human elements’. Which is another way of saying that if you pour real human interest, love and enthusiasm from real people onto your hard drive, you come out with something unique.
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‘stupendously, joyfully, irresistably good’
Sunday Times
‘mad, sometimes maddening but a must’
Time Out
‘the disparate elements come together in moments of bizarre beauty’
Q
‘totally unique. utterly loveable’
Mixmag
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