Charlotte pop-punk 5-piece Never Home recently released their debut self-titled EP (listen below). The Carolina outfit puts an emphasis on storytelling: emotive, angst-laden pop-punk, with urgency and melody in equal measure. Check out the track by track provided by the band below.
TRACK BY TRACK
Dulin Road is written from my mother’s perspective and is based on conversations we had. Sometimes mental illness rears its head for no apparent reason, even when your circumstances seem great and you’ve checked off all the boxes. This can be hard for the people you love to comprehend when seeing it from the outside.
State Line is a recollection of memories I share with my closest friend, and a lament of the way that time changes those childhood bonds. There is a part of you that becomes inaccessible as you grow older, and this song is about wanting to recapture that. My best friend lived in North Carolina, and I lived in South Carolina. We were in a very rural area, and there wasn’t much else to do but walk the roads. We would often end up walking all the way to the state line, even though his mom told us not to go past the driveway.
Faking My Own Life is about feeling directionless. It was frustrating to see all my peers set off for success, yet even after finishing college I didn’t know where or what I was meant to be. It’s a pretty angry song. I’m thankful not to be in that headspace anymore, but I still feel like these emotions were worth expressing.
Trust Fall describes how depression causes you to withdraw from people and let them down as a result.
Consider It Done is basically me saying “I can do this.” One night, I decided to stop making excuses and to start writing music so that I could do what I loved again. Even if I failed, at least I made an attempt. This was actually one of the first songs I wrote for the EP, and it gave me the push I needed to follow through.
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