Sea Girls wrote in the caption of a promotional video on Instagram, “This has been the craziest journey of our lives and whilst it hasn’t always been a smooth ride all of our experiences have led us to this moment and it’s an honour to share this album with you. This band has taken us to so many amazing times.”

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Well here we are! Our debut album ‘Open Up Your Head’ is finally out. We’ve played music together since we first started learning instruments (however badly) in our teens and its so humbling that it’s lead to this. This has been the craziest journey of our lives and whilst it hasn’t always been a smooth ride all of our experiences have led us to this moment and it’s an honour to share this album with you. This band has taken us to so many amazing places and given us the chance to pursue what has felt like a fevered pipe dream at times. Ultimately we’re just four guys who love music and it’s every one of you that makes this band what it is, thank you for being with us every step of the way. We’re privileged to have a community that supports us and each other and the connection we feel with you guys is truly special. So let’s turn the music up fucking loud and enter the Open Up Your Head era together.

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Of the songs on the album, five were released as singles, beginning in 2019 with lead single ‘Violet’, which now has 3.5 million streams on Spotify. This was followed by ‘Ready For More’, an upbeat song about changing negative mindsets which premiered as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record on her BBC Radio 1 show. Next came ‘Do You Really Wanna Know?‘, ‘All I Want To Hear You Say’, and ‘Forever’; all the singles were shared as part of an EP prior to the album on 6th August.

Surprisingly, Sea Girls had put out a single entitled with the same name as the album, also in 2019. However, lead singer and songwriter of the band Henry Camamile said to NME that the song sparked his inspiration for the album after his mental health suffered from a band to head. He said, “I was partying too much, and I was relying on the wrong things. I was a sad post-teen.”

He went on to explain, “After that, my perspective just changed. With my writing, I was like: ‘Shit, I feel like I’m in fucking trouble’. Things had just got worse and I felt miserable. I started writing a lot more bluntly, a lot more truthfully.”

The band have also revealed that they will be embarking on an album launch UK tour at the end of the year and into 2021, assuming shows can be held safely, given the unpredictable Covid-19 pandemic. Just this week, new additional dates were added in January, and the date at Manchester’s recently rescued Gorilla venue sold out, as have gigs in Birmingham and Cardiff. Check out the full dates below and find tickets here.

12/11/2020 – Action Records – Preston Blitz Club
13/11 – Crash Records – Leeds Wardrobe (Sold Out)
14/11 – Bear Tree Records – Sheffield Foundary
17/11 – Assai Records – Dundee Fat Sams
18/11 – Assai Records – Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
20/11 – Sound Knowledge – Marlborough
24/11 – Vinilo – Southampton Engine Rooms
25/11 – Resident – Brighton Chalk
26/11 – Banquet – Kingston (Banquet Pryzm)
25/01/2021 – The Bodega – Nottingham
26/01 – The Fleece – Bristol
28/01 – Hare and Hounds – Birmingham (Sold Out) Matinee Added
29/01 – Riverside – Newcastle
30/01 – Clwb Ifor Bach – Cardiff (Sold Out) Matinee Added
31/01 – Gorilla – Manchester