BONES UK bring a rowdy London homecoming to new single Hits Like Home
BONES UK have released Hits Like Home, their first new music in two years and a blunt, affectionate tribute to the city where Rosie Oddie and Carmen Vandenberg first forged their partnership.
Produced by Queens Of The Stone Age bassist Michael Shuman, the single channels the duo’s jagged riffs and industrial-tinged electronics into a track built around the dishevelled, restless pull of London. It arrives via Sumerian Records.
“This song is about coming home,” says Rosie. “It’s a love letter to London, scraped into a traffic cone, worn on a policeman’s head, raving all night in the back of a van.
“It’s about when you need to reset and go back to the city that you came from to re-root and regroup. When the adventures that were sun kissed, turn dark and you just need a hug from your mum.”
London streets become the stage
The accompanying video takes that unruly affection out onto the capital’s streets. Filmed by Jason Denton and Tobias Ross Southall, it finds the pair performing from the back of a 7.5-tonne truck, with royal guards and police officers joining the chaos as London’s familiar imagery is given a distinctly less formal treatment.
Rosie says: “The video is a little play on seeing the guardians of our fair city cutting loose. Letting their hair down and feeling that London vibe. Royal guards and police men and women raving in the back of a van. To show even the law gets down and dirty to that London feeling. Infectious.”
The clip reflects the song’s sense of return, placing BONES UK back amid the Camden streets and late-night energy that informed their early sound before their move to Los Angeles.
Watch the video for Hits Like Home here.
A new chapter on familiar ground
Hits Like Home follows the duo’s second album SOFT and reconnects them with the city that remains central to their musical identity. While the track’s subject is personal, its treatment is characteristically loud: a love letter delivered with distorted guitars, electronic grime and a truckload of London mischief.
