Tracklist: 1. Boat Called Predator 2. I Had A Thought 3. Kristen Stewart 4. Thank You And Goodbye 5. Puppet Museum 6. Crayon Potato 7. Take You Somewhere 8. Perennial 9. Lets See What We Can Find 10. On Our Way 11. Try Try Try 12. You Can Give It (But You Cant Take It) Debut Album From Sassyhiya, Londons Finest New Indiepop Band. Sassyhiya want to take you somewhere. The journey starts in Kathy and Helens flat in South London. Sit down, close your eyes, and immerse yourself… You are on your way to a musical rainforest a long way from Camberwell. Explore your new surroundings, and you will find beautiful pop blooms like Lets See What We Can Find, as bright and vibrant as The Sundays, thrusting their colourful faces up from the forest floor. Youll find tangles of sharp-edged guitar, as if Swiss she-punks Kleenex had been left to evolve here in the rich fertile soil (I Had A Thought). Youll find dark pools full of lyrical complexity, deceptively deep and immersive, with shimmering reflections of The Go-Betweens (Perennial). And youll come across delicate love songs, creeping up the trunks and branches of the bass and drums, displaying their fragile beauty (Thank You And Goodbye). And whats that exotic striped animal prowling through the undergrowth? Actually, its Crayon Potato, Sassyhiyas pet cat, the other resident of their flat in South London, taking up her role as the feline star of a lilting, singalong anthem written in her honour. Thats what is so great about this album. You are somehow, simultaneously, exploring the most exotic forest in the world while also sitting in a flat in an ordinary, familiar English street with Sassyhiya and their cat. This album transports you without pretending the real world doesnt exist: it doesnt get all mystical on you (Take You Somewhere is as unlike Enya as anything youve heard). Sometimes you might be reminded of Girls At Our Best, and then Delta 5. You might even, on occasion, think of Echo and the Bunnymen. Sassyhiya (pronounced Sassy Hiya) were formed when Helen and Kathy, real-life partners and co-songwriters, joined up with Pablo and Neil (drums and guitar). Helen had previously been in Boys Forever and Basic Plumbing, collaborating with much-missed Veronica Falls musician Patrick Doyle. She and Kathy then formed Barry, a stripped-down queercore outfit, with Bart McDonagh (The Male Gays) and Mark Amura (My Executive Dysfunction). Sassyhiya feels like a culmination of all these elements, hitting the sweet spot between post-punk and indie pop. They know their way around a melody but still keep it wonky, with influences ranging from the Breeders and Broadcast to Dolly Parton.