Watch Yorkshire band Grass House walk through abandoned lots and derelict buildings in their video for “I Was A Streetlight”, taken from their impressive debut LP, A Sun Full and Drowning.
Grass House call their music “outsider pop”, which perhaps is purposely vague, but a closer listen of their debut LP might help you understand what they mean. On A Sun Full and Drowning, Grass House meld together poetic lyrics and earthly vocals with pulsating rhythms and trickling, bluesy guitars. In a recent interview, they state that they “want to create atmospheric almost cinematic soundscapes which act as a bed for the vocal to sit on and so as a whole they both complement each other.”
So not quite standard pop tunes, but not quite unorthodox song structures either. They certainly offer a certain substance and it runs through the whole album. There’s a darkness and bleakness in their songs, beautifully visualized in the video above. But, just like on “regular” pop music, I find that most of their songs – especially “I Was A Streetlight” – linger on in your head long after you heard them.
Debut LP A Sun Full and Drowning is out now through Marshall Teller Records. Follow Grass House on Facebook and Twitter.