The Homeward Stretch

Wellington-based, indie-folk ensemble, Rosy Tin Teacaddy, are proud to announce a cure for homesickness with the release of their album 'The Homeward Stretch'.

The CD is a collection of loosely interwoven vignettes featuring temptresses and miscreants. There are flights of fancy, dedications to loss, rants from the confessional booth and the occasional cannibalistic dinner. These are memories glimpsed through rose-tinted glasses - or an empty bottle of absinthe.

Songbirds Billy Earl (aka Andy Hummel of The Woolshed Sessions) and Betty Grey (Holly Jane Ewens) sing their sea shanties to the light at the end of the tunnel, with knowing smiles, desperate prayers and always a yearning for home.

In recording 'The Homeward Stretch', the group aimed to capture a sound indicative of their live shows. This was achieved during five days of revelry at Lee Prebble's studio, The Surgery. The result is a dynamic album enriched by cello, violin, spatial electric guitar, chug-along bass and lush vocal harmonies.

A sing-along distraction from crisis, Rosy Tin Teacaddy's 'The Homeward Stretch' is an invitation to the card table, two fingers of whiskey and endless cups of tea.