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  LOCASH - Hometown Home - Galaxy Label Group

Since announcing the launch of their Galaxy Label Group during the Country Radio Seminar in February, LOCASH has been buzzing in the talks of fans and music industry reps alike, all eagerly awaiting the next move from the platinum selling duo.

With a keen knack for delivering simple life lyrics (“I Love This Life,” “Feels Like A Party”) and an irresistible fusion that has seen their addictively catchy aura flow into a small-town love song (“I Know Somebody”), the duo opens their next chapter with a perfect combination of both sides of who they are.

Co-written by LOCASH’s Preston Brust and Chris Lucas, Zach Abend, and Andy Albert, “Hometown Home” moves its way through a breezy, laid-back vibe as Lucas commands the leads in a map dotted vision of where life with his better half could be best lived to its fullest, trailing through the ideas of catching an outer banks sunrise in the Carolina’s, living within the decorated Tex-Mex feel of Arizona, etc.

However, in a small-town swerve that leads straight into the chorus, he presents an another, better idea, shifting the dynamic of the lyric when he smiles through the simple fact that their hometown is where their heart is, it’s where their memories reside, and it’s where what matters most to who they are together can always be found:

“We could make this Hometown Home

Keep our roots where they’ve always grown

Find a fixer upper down that road

From the Church of Christ

Where ya got baptized

We could raise a couple kids up good

In the same red dirt little neck of the woods

Yeah, Girl I’m down to go, anywhere you wanna go

But if you wanna stay

I was thinkin' we could make this hometown Home”

Further holding to the idea of what matters most by staying put within their hometown roots, through a warm, nostalgic lens with a foot firmly planted on their tomorrow memories, he endearingly paints the black and white photo album with thoughts of grandma’s house for five-star suppers every Sunday, date nights together at the very field where they had their first date, etc.

Keeping their signature sound well intact, LOCASH begins their next chapter with a vibe that absolutely secures common themes of who they are and have always been, engaging through an instant familiarity. However, “Hometown Home” also skillfully continues to shift away from the party goer anthems of their past into the maturity of where they’re at in life today, moving them another step forward into their next while lighting the intrigue of things that are still to come.  

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

 

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