New Noise // Summer Camp
I get myself into this situation often. I’ll try to claim that I’m just making attempts at achieving some sort of perfect-seasonal alignment for the tone of the band name, but the truth probably lies nearer to my being quite busy most of the time. So I feel stuck between feeling like I should have posted about Summer Camp a few months back, and being “too late” and just bandwagon jumping. But the whole one-upmanship of trying to post about bands before everybody else is blatantly ridiculous. So it’s late. But it’s here.
The unpretentiously shining pop music that Summer Camp are making sounds like all of those teenage summer months condensed into three minute rays of burning nostalgia, fleshed out with a sense of purpose, not-giving-a-fuck and bursting raw drums that all pull them back from the wrong side of twee and excessively sentimental. That said, if you’re looking to exercise your macho-ears then you’re better off slobbering over the knuckle dragging legacy of Britpop; Summer Camp are unapologetically fey at times, but their bravery to attempt something completely different is far bolder than aping 1995, and as a result they are only something to be admired. And if they’re anything like as good live as we have been hearing, then it won’t be long before every crevice on the internet will be declaring their keyboard based love. Bleeding bandwagon jumpers.
RSS
Newsletter
Twitter
NetworkedBlogs
July 2nd, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Ha I know what you mean about the missing the boat / bandwagon jumping. The way I see it is that someone will always get there before you (be it a promoter, a manager, the bands friend…) and that 99.9% of the world still don’t know about the bands you’re writing about, (ok 99.9% of the world doesn’t read the blog either, but hey-ho) so it’s worth pursuing…..
Right I’m off to write about a couple of new bands I’ve just heard about. One’s called Radiohead and the other is U2. I reckon they’ll be big one day……
July 3rd, 2010 at 12:33 am
Never heard of them. Must be some “gay” indie shit.
Indeed, though, that’s exactly the way I feel – if i introduce one person to Summer Camp then I have succeeded. If not, then I’ve still succeeded because i quite enjoyed writing this. Win win for me, win-lose for the readers. That’s how I like to run shit.