DESCRIPTION:
Homelife is not a definite entity. It's hard to pin down their sound, how many people are in the band or even which band they are in! Nearly every Homelife track has a different line up. Less of a collective, Homelife is more of a pool of musicians whose talents are marshalled by reluctant foreman Paddy Steer. Homelife are a stripped down duo playing and recording all the laid back and off kilter parts. This is a true DIY home-recording crafted over three years with such loving expertise you would never know it. Mixing English alt-folk with Afro, Caribbean and Hawaiian instrumentation may sound like madness but somehow it makes perfect sense.

Often downbeat and sentimental in lyrical content and with lulling music, Richard Hawley is a clear influence: especially with lap steel, acoustic and various other warm hearted and utterly strange stringed instruments laid down to add a balmy, almost kitsch, summer holiday feel (just listen to the Peter Green slide guitar work on the title track). Not all songs are of equal interest but that's the beauty of this dreamy brew, which allows your mind to wander before dragging your attention back with countless sublime interludes. Anton Burnside's intricate portrait of hope and regret, a recurring theme through the album, remains unresolved on the penultimate 'Atlas', which sums up the eternal struggle of those too lazy to achieve immortality today but always promising next time: ("Yesterday dream, Tomorrow new world, I will never be lost").