This is the among the strongest albums I have heard in a long time. I’ve listened to it probably 10 times in the past few days and I can not get enough of it. The lyrics are powerful and the instrumentation strong. I hope people around the world will start to listen to this Australian band another from the incredible city of Melbourne, Camp Cope, and I hope I will one day get to see them tour the UK, and specifically come to my city.
It’s no surprise that Melbourne’s Camp Cope are resonating with people all over the world. The trio of Georgia Maq, Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich and Sarah ‘Thomo’ Thompson have only been together for 14 months but have accomplished some incredible feats in that time. None of those feats have been more important than leading conversations surrounding safety and representation within music. Listen to Maq’s formidable vocals, set to the thundering backbone of their music and you too will be convinced – Camp Cope are a band with important things to say.
Camp Cope’s songs are notably very personal in nature with Maq, the band’s lyricist, emphasising the importance of being vulnerable within songwriting and sharing your experiences with an audience. “It’s like yoga. When you touch your toes and want to retract you instead leave it and relax into the pain, so the more you tell people these personal things the easier it is. That way your vulnerabilities become your strengths because they’re out there.”
The future for Camp Cope is certainly shaping up to be mammoth as the band talk allusively about their plans for the next six months. “We’ve got some stuff coming up that’s a different audience to what we’re used to in different settings. There’s heaps of cool stuff coming up that we can’t announce yet,” says Hellmrich.
“We’ll only be a band for a year and a half next year and we’ve got such big things planned,” adds Maq. “I’m so proud of us.”
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