SEA GIRLS turn the intensity up on ‘Midnight Butterflies’ - a swaggering ode to the freedom of youth and living unrestrained. Find out more with our latest Dork Mixtape cover feature.

Words: Steven Loftin.
Photos: Blacksocks.

Ready to embrace life with the explosive certainty of a cheeky late-night firework, Sea Girls are soaring higher than ever before. “With this album, we want to be seen - I want to be seen,” vocalist and guitarist Henry Camamile enthuses. “That’s why I’m in a band. That’s why I’m the frontman.” This swaggering acknowledgement comes hot on the announcement of their third outing, ‘Midnight Butterflies’, and a belting 2022 set at London’s Alexandra Palace. It’s safe to say Sea Girls aren’t doing things by halves. “I’ve always felt like I’ve got something to prove, which is why I make music. I want to get out of feeling normal,” he continues. “I want to write about escaping every day and worrying about the future.”

The London quartet have, since their debut 2017 single ‘Call Me Out’, written the kind of songs that swoop you up into an embrace that dares you to live: “I think that’s why fans connect to us, they’re not special stories. They’re typical stories that everyone experiences, the highs and the lows,” Henry says.

Suitably, this third chapter of Sea Girls is them fully leaning into being Sea Girls. Confessing that, “This is the most I’ve ever embraced the feeling of being in a band,” Henry, alongside his bandmates Rory Young (guitar), Andrew Dawson (bass), and Oli Khan (drums), is roaring ready to get this new chapter underway. “I’m enjoying life more than I ever have, and I feel like we’re enjoying being in a band,” Henry beams. “We’ve never not really enjoyed it, but it just feels great. We’ve got fans, we’ve built this up, we’ve got this confidence that we can just fucking lean into - the energy, that buzz inside us and push it.”