Wellington-based, indie-folk ensemble, Rosy Tin Teacaddy, are proud to announce a cure for homesickness in the release of their new album, The Homeward Stretch.
Following their 2007 debut ‘Blind Leading the Blind’, The Homeward Stretch is a collection of loosely interwoven vignettes featuring temptresses and miscreants. Some are flights of fancy, dedications to loss, or rants from the confessional booth. Others are memories glimpsed through rose-tinted glasses - or an empty bottle of absinthe. There is the occasional cannibalistic dinner and inappropriate suggestion.
Songbirds Billy Earl (aka Andy Hummel of The Woolshed Sessions) and Betty Grey (Holly Jane Ewens) sing their sea shanties to the light at the end of the tunnel, with knowing smiles, desperate prayers and always a yearning for home.
In recording The Homeward Stretch the group aimed to capture a sound indicative of their live shows. This was achieved during five days of revelry at Lee Prebble’s studio, The Surgery. The result is a dynamic album enriched by cello, violin, spatial electric guitar, chug-along bass and lush vocal harmonies.
A sing-along distraction from crisis, Rosy Tin Teacaddy’s The Homeward Stretch is an invitation to the card table, two fingers of whiskey and endless cups of tea.
