Take You Somewhwere Sassyhiya SKU: SKEPWAX025LP Barcode: 5055869550772 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Skep Wax Records Released Date: 8th November 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Forthcoming Pre Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Debut Album From Sassyhiya, London’s Finest New Indiepop Band. Sassyhiya want to take you somewhere. The journey starts in Kathy and Helen’s flat in South London. Sit down, close your eyes, and immerse yourself… You are on your way to a musical rainforest a long way from Camberwell. Explore your new surroundings, and you will find beautiful pop blooms like Let’s See What We Can Find, as bright and vibrant as The Sundays, thrusting their colourful faces up from the forest floor. You’ll find tangles of sharp-edged guitar, as if Swiss she-punks Kleenex had been left to evolve here in the rich fertile soil (I Had A Thought). You’ll find dark pools full of lyrical complexity, deceptively deep and immersive, with shimmering reflections of The Go-Betweens (Perennial). And you’ll come across delicate love songs, creeping up the trunks and branches of the bass and drums, displaying their fragile beauty (Thank You And Goodbye). And what’s that exotic striped animal prowling through the undergrowth? Actually, it’s Crayon Potato, Sassyhiya’s pet cat, the other resident of their flat in South London, taking up her role as the feline star of a lilting, singalong anthem written in her honour. That’s what is so great about this album. You are somehow, simultaneously, exploring the most exotic forest in the world while also sitting in a flat in an ordinary, familiar English street with Sassyhiya and their cat. This album transports you without pretending the real world doesn’t exist: it doesn’t get all mystical on you (Take You Somewhere is as unlike Enya as anything you’ve heard). Sometimes you might be reminded of Girls At Our Best, and then Delta 5. You might even, on occasion, think of Echo and the Bunnymen. The album opens with their single, Boat Called Predator: an appropriate start, inviting you to embark: insistent, almost ominous, but with a siren call of a chorus that means you can’t go back. The first single, Kristen Stewart, is here too: a bold love song to a queer icon, affirming Sassyhiya’s status as the queens (and kings) of a thriving indiepop scene. It’s joyous and it’s life-affirming. There are other love songs here too, like the jokey, wonkily flirtatious Puppet Museum. The album ends with You Can Give It (But You Can’t Take It) – a proper anthem of defiance, gently but insistently taking down the bullies and reactionaries who trample over beauty and diversity: the kind of people you might, unfortunately, bump into as you make your way back onto the streets of South London. Sassyhiya (pronounced “Sassy Hiya”) were formed when Helen and Kathy, real-life partners and co-songwriters, joined up with Pablo and Neil (drums and guitar). Helen had previously been in Boys Forever and Basic Plumbing, collaborating with much-missed Veronica Falls musician Patrick Doyle. She and Kathy then formed Barry, a stripped-down queercore outfit, with Bart McDonagh (The Male Gays) and Mark Amura (My Executive Dysfunction). Sassyhiya feels like a culmination of all these elements, hitting the sweet spot between post-punk and indie pop. They know their way around a melody but still keep it wonky, with influences ranging from the Breeders and Broadcast to Dolly Parton. Sassyhiya will be in session for John Kennedy’s X-Posure show (Radio X) on 2 November. Artist Sassyhiya Genre Rock And Pop Label Skep Wax Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Boat Called Predator I Had A Thought Kristen Stewart Thank You And Goodbye Puppet Museum Crayon Potato Take You Somewhere Perennial Let’s See What We Can Find On Our Way Try Try Try You Can Give It (But You Can’t Take It) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Ian Dury and the Blockheads Laughter Rock And Pop | Demon Records | 180g, 1LP Released 5th July 2019 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ian Dury and the Blockheads Laughter £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon Records SKU: DEMREC57 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 5th July 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Enya Shepherd Moons Rock And Pop | Rhino | 1LP Released 11th October 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Enya Shepherd Moons £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rhino SKU: 0090317557212 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th October 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Shakin' Stevens Merry Christmas Everyone – Black Friday 2021 Rock And Pop | BMG | 12", Single Released 26th November 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shakin' Stevens Merry Christmas Everyone – Black Friday 2021 £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG SKU: 4050538718096 Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 26th November 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cher Dancing Queen Rock And Pop | Warner Bros | 1LP Released 26th November 2018 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cher Dancing Queen £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Bros SKU: 0093624904342 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th November 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wishbone Ash Illuminations Rock And Pop | Talking Elephant | 2LP Released 22nd April 2017 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wishbone Ash Illuminations £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Talking Elephant SKU: RSD17108 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 22nd April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Josephine Foster Domestic Sphere Rock And Pop | Fire Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 7th April 2023 £21.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Josephine Foster Domestic Sphere £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRELP684 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th April 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Kiss Monster Rock And Pop | UMC | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 4th October 2012 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kiss Monster £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 3717836 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 4th October 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Twilight Singers Dynamite Steps Rock And Pop | Sub Pop | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 9th February 2011 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Twilight Singers Dynamite Steps £13.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP844 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 9th February 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View RY X Unfurl Rock And Pop | BMG Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 13th February 2019 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders RY X Unfurl £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG Records SKU: 4050538446890 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 13th February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alvvays Blue Rev Rock And Pop | Transgressive | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 7th October 2022 £22.00 Select options Alvvays Blue Rev £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Transgressive Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 7th October 2022 Read More Select options See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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