Sassyhiya want to take you somewhere. Their upcoming debut album transports you without pretending the real world doesn’t exist: it doesn’t get all mystical on you (Take You Somewhere is as unlike Enya as anything you’ve 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. Take You Somewhere is out November 8 via Skep Wax Records.

The album opens with their single, ‘Boat Called Predator’: an appropriate start, inviting you to embark: insistent, almost ominous, but with a siren call of a chorus that means you can’t go back.

About the new single, Kathy from Sassyhiya says: “This song was written while travelling through Scotland, near Skye. In the car we were passed by someone towing a boat with the name ‘Predator’. A lot of the woodland there is dominated by rhododendrons, an invasive species. It was weirdly jarring to see something so ornamental and domestic running rampant in the wild. I was thinking about living away from civilisation, living an itinerant life, and how that can be very freeing in a way because it makes you anonymous.”

Take You Somewhere:

1. Boat Called Predator
2. I Had A though
3. Kristen Stewart
4. Thank You And Goodbye
5. Puppet Museum
6. Crayon Potato
7. Take You Somewhere
8. Perennial
9. Let’s See What We Can Find
10. On Our Way
11. Try Try Try
12. You Can Give It (But You Can’t Take It)