My New Band Believe 发行同名首张专辑

My New Band Believe - 英国实验摇滚乐队 Black Midi 前成员 Cameron Picton 组建的新乐队 - 在 Rough Trade Records 发行了他们的同名首张录音室专辑. 新闻稿摘录如下:

(April 10, 2026) - My New Band Believe (the new band from former black midi bassist and sometime frontman Cameron Picton) have released their debut album My New Band Believe which has been released through Rough Trade Records.

My New Band Believe’s debut album began as a fever dream. Delirious in a Chinese hotel room, Cameron Picton was battling through the worst of a sudden illness when he was overcome by flashes of weird imagery and loose ribbons of scrambled text. The musician would later salvage and shape some of these fragments into songs, but the one that lodged most clearly in his mind was the odd phrase, “My New Band Believe.”

As the bassist and sometime frontman of black midi, Picton and his bandmates practiced an explosive form of musical world-building, weaving complex story-telling through thrilling passages of controlled chaos. When the group called it quits in 2023, the artist didn’t immediately feel like making a solo record or jumping back into another band. It was from this position of a not-quite team player, not-quite bandleader that Picton entered the studio and the seeds of My New Band Believe gradually began to emerge.

My New Band Believe is as epic and ritzy as Picton’s previous work in black midi but its sound is fleet-footed rather than scorching. The record is almost entirely acoustic, using the barest amount of reverb and electronic effects possible. It would be a mistake however to assume these light touches mean that their music is any less maximal. The crispness of the sound only helps to emphasize its dynamism. Taking flight off the back of a full string section, Picton leads his band so that each track forms, scatters and re-groups, so that the uplift of one song crashes head-long into the rush of another.

Stand-alone single ‘Numerology’ has its dancing shoes on. Over barrelling, instrumental dance music, Picton embraces chance and risk, weighing the potential for disaster, while leaning into the thrill of fun and danger. Watch the video for ‘Numerology’ here: http://t.cn/AXMSqRwj

‘Love Story’ is one of the album’s stand-out tracks. The song is, literally, a love story, a couple in their banal element: staying in, going out, cooking, cleaning, dreaming, scheming, until it falls apart in the blink of an eye. The song’s uncomplicated sweetness is suddenly thrown into relief by the spectre of loss.

Drawing on and sometimes directly quoting any love song Picton could think of, ‘Love Story’ was written in just as fleeting a moment in early 2024. “With this whole record, I was trying to make another case for how the modern singer-songwriter album could sound, both in terms of its production and the writing of the songs themselves. I felt some more popular examples of the genre released between 2019-2023 would make the big feel inconsequential and the small nothing at all, so with this I’ve tried to give consequence to the small to make the big feel real”.

The video, directed by Parker Corey (Injury Reserve/By Storm), includes an unused snippet of strings arranged by Kiran Leonard as its coda. Watch here: http://t.cn/AXMSqRwT

Earlier this week My New Band Believe shared ‘Kick Me’, a new live recording stitched together from the multitracks of 7 different performances, starting in London then flying to New York City and back in the space of 6 minutes. It ties together the best bits of each performance; some Wurlitzer by Seth Evans, a guitar line by Luke Mark, double drums from King David Ike-Elechi and Steve Noble as well as its standout moment: a transatlantic guitar solo shared between Ryley Walker and Tara Cunningham. Watch the video for ‘Kick Me’ here: : http://t.cn/AXMSqRwR

The group’s debut is a massive and hallucinatory record. It is a collection of music that swerves through wildly different emotional and thematic registers, all the while unraveling an endlessly compelling thread of dream logic. Picton is an unreliable but charismatic narrator. and together with a cast of all-star players including Kiran Leonard, Caius Williams, Steve Noble, Andrew Cheetham, he guides the listener through a rapidly unfolding multiverse of the band’s making. With My New Band Believe, he not only comes into his own as a bandleader but arranges conflicting, fragmentary, and hysterical ideas until they form a brilliant new kind of sense.

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