By Jonathan Dockney

Sea Girls’ latest single, ‘Young Strangers’, will give you goosebumps, rip right through your chest cavity and into your soul.

The track has been released ahead of the band’s third studio album and follows from their single, ‘Weekends and Workdays’. ‘Young Strangers’ is going to fill stadiums and rasp the vocal cords of thousands of fans singing some of the fantastic lines like, “you should see the car crash of my mind,” and “two young strangers trying to survive” that perfectly capture the zeitgeist of the times we’re living in — aren’t we all just a bunch of strangers with messy minds trying to survive?

Co-written by Henry Camamile (vocals and guitar) and renowned producer Kid Harpoon, Camamile says that the song is about two strangers who meet and share their dreams and ambitions with each other to escape the tedious mundanity of their lives. Yet, the more they get to know one another the more they realise the similarity of their lives.

‘Young Strangers’ opens with a moody synth and fast beat, giving the single a new-wave-pop sound emphasising the characters’ glum reality. When the pre-chorus kicks in, Camamile’s voice and lush gnarly guitars suddenly leap out at you. The pre-chorus is superbly crafted and will make your skin tingle with desire and inspiration. Camamile’s voice settles into mellow refrain for the chorus and the fuller instrumentation and addition of backing vocals make it infectious and irresistible to sing along to.  

‘Young Strangers’ is a fine indie-rock song that is tightly written and will make you want to tell reality and its dull prescriptions to shove it.