NME100 tipped The Short Causeway return with 'On My Way Home'
Top of the class, NME100-tipped The Short Causeway return from classroom exile to release new single…
On My Way Home
“Set to follow in the steps of The Lounge Society,
Priestgate and Working Men’s Club”
- NME -
“A jazzy indie-pop debut, full of twangy guitars, and a lightness of vocal”
- God Is In The TV -
The Short Causeway – On My Way Home
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The equal weightlessness and restless days of youth jangle, clatter and whirr through the long-awaited return single from Hebden Bridge’s prodigious loose-pop three-piece, The Short Causeway, releasing On My Way Home just over a year after being tipped as one of the world’s most promising bands by NME.
A fidgety, complex soundtrack to watching raindrops run down windows and chin-on-folded-arms hours wasted away in wait, the return of the band both to the studio and stage comes after a year of exile, immersed in the necessities of A-Level textbooks, revision and exams.
Catching ears for their nervously energetic debut single, Tripping Down The Stairs, in late 2022, the band gratefully took the NME100 accolade and shock airtime before returning to their studies. The year passed with the trio – Claudie Nicholson (guitar/vocals), Rufus Stott-Leach (drums) and Hayden Davey (bass/vocals) - continuing to daydream their trademark, rainy-day prose, later to be coupled in the rehearsal room with an increasingly and pleasingly disjointed formula for indie pop.
Drawn equally and, occasionally, unintentionally from the same well of trebly guitars and romantic humdrum lyricism of the 80’s Postcard Records, the C86 scene and modern peers including fellow Calderdale envoys, English Teacher, Lounge Society and Orielles, the band finds On My Way Home coming at a time of increasing confidence in their songcraft.
The band says of the single: “’On My Way Home’ is one of the songs we are most proud of and really connect with - we all teared up when we first heard the mix of it. It touches on mundanity in a melancholic way, telling a story that is filled with boredom, waiting while on a journey and longing to be anywhere else. But it’s really just a fun track, mimicking the journey itself. It’s better describing being at a loss in the past than being at a loss in the present.”
Initially renowned as a reliable house band at the renowned Trades Club in Hebden Bridge, staying up late on school nights to pick up regular support slots and masterclasses from touring bands including Katy J. Pearson and Peaness, The Short Causeway’s return to touring in 2024 has begun. Following warm-up alongside Bamily and Fehlt at YES Manchester on the first weekend of January, the band looks ahead to more shows around the UK to coincide with more new music this summer.
For up-to-date information on The Short Causeway including upcoming live dates and future releases, connect with the band online at:
www.facebook.com/theshortcausewayband
www.twitter.com/theshortcausew1
