BC Camplight - A Sober Conversation

The masterful New Jersey-raised, Manchester-based songwriter BC Camplight releases his seventh album. It comes nearly twenty years to the day on from his debut album and two years on from his most widely praised release, The Last Rotation of Earth, regarded as a masterpiece. So expectations are high with this one and thankfully he's not let the pressure get on top of him and has delivered a more cinematic, sophisticated and nuanced record than he's ever managed before. A great place to start wit it 'Fear Life In A Dozen Years', which instrumentally sounds akin to some Japanese AOR and has a sultry swagger. Oddly it takes a proggy left turn into heavy metal, but his fearlessness to blend different styles and the tasteful nature of his arrangements make him one of indie music's true greats.