Household Dogs drop new single ‘One Last Look Around’ from ‘Come Stay With Me’ fundraising compilation

Credit: Fran Hinchliffe

Words: Ellie Ward

Leeds quintet Household Dogs have shared new single ‘One Last Look Around’, taken from ‘Come Stay With Me’, a fundraising compilation album by and for Leeds-based artists, out today.

Containing 13 new songs from bands and artists across Leeds including Talkboy, Dialect, Team Picture, Van Houten, Dead Naked Hippies and more, all profits from 'Come Stay With Me' will be shared between the contributing artists.

Following BBC 6 Music airplay, appearances at festivals including Live at Leeds and support slots with artists including The Blinders and Fizzy Blood, Household Dogd have had to shelve much of their plans for now but immediately set about the task of recording new music in lockdown, resulting in this new single and their contribution to the ‘Come Stay With Me’ compilation.

“The song was written, recorded and mixed under this ‘lockdown’," says the band's Declan Newcombe. "The situation meant working remotely, perhaps not the most artistically organic method, but it worked. It gave us the time and space to work out where we stood and where we wanted to steer the song. As with all of our songs everything was done independently. We all write and our bassist Matthew, produces and mixes. This kind of control let us push ourselves somewhere we felt we hadn’t been. ‘One Last Look Around’ still sounds like us but feels wholly different.

"Lyrically, the song gravitates around moments. Those moments in which you see beauty, happiness and for some, God. It can be heart breaking to realise you will never experience those moments the same way again and like drug addicts we pursue these highs. Repeated mantras try to anchor the song in what is an un-anchorable, fleeting moment. I pushed myself into an uncomfortable place with the story. Writing about what I see as shared human flaw. For me, it took time to get used to the tension the lyrics created.

"Throughout our work we are attempting to transform soundscapes to landscapes, creating images, something more three dimensional than just a story or a song. I feel ‘One Last Look Around’ works on that level. The pursuit of a sonic image.”

The ‘Come Stay With Me’ album can be ordered here