Homework Announce Debut Album Bang Here If Stuck: Hear “Made”

I would love to understand the rationale for picking "Homework" as a band name. That's what a young Glasgow indie band did, and I just want to know what it means. Did they intentionally pick a name that you can't really Google and that generally has negative connotations among basically all the people who ever had to go to school? Did they just name themselves after the Daft Punk album, despite their music offering no indication that they've ever even heard the Daft Punk album? Also, do people even use the word "homework" in Scotland, or do they call it "revising" or something? So many questions! I'm just a curious guy!

Anyway, Homework did elect to call themselves Homework, so let's just accept that and keep it moving. The band's sound is a drawly, ornate take on early-'90s indie rock. There's a lot of Pavement in there, as well as the early twee music that came out of Scotland, probably before the members of Homework were born. Did they call themselves "Homework" because they spent so much time studying the early K Records catalogue? Nevermind. I said I'm not speculating about their band name anymore, and I'm sticking to it.

Homework released their self-titled debut EP in 2023, and they followed it with another one called Easy Money a year later. This fall, they'll release their full-length debut Bang Here If Stuck . Lead single "Made" is loose and lush at the same time, and you can hear it below.

TRACKLIST: 01 "Heroes Welcome" 02 "ASAP" 03 "Hedge Your Bets" 04 "Some Kind of Magic" 05 "Made" 06 "Velcro" 07 "Trivial" 08 "Thread & Thistle" 09 "Roadhouse" 10 "Salt" 11 "GVB" 12 "Ending Song"

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