Home Counties - Humdrum Format:CD Marvin Gaye continues to hold

Marvin Gaye continues to hold his place as one of the greatest singers

‘Olympia’ is an eclectic and euphoric mix of past and present

Lesser-known group originals such as the achingly lovely "Whispering Pines" and the cryptic "Unfaithful Servant"

frontman James Cox says: “The majority of the themes on the album came from what was going on in the world around Summer 2019 when we started writing the album

Home Counties - Humdrum Format:CD Marvin Gaye continues to holdReleased 24th October 2025 Humdrum is the new album by East London sextet, Home Counties. Written in the Summer of 2024, and recorded with Al Doyle of LCD Soundsystem last Autumn, the bands second album explores themes of fractious communication, quiet resentment, and the spiral of overthinking. Told through the dual voices and perspectives of lead vocalists Will Harrison and Lois Kelly, 'Humdrum' trades in wiry grooves, synths that lurch between