B.C. Camplight
So my friend Alex is at a show tonight(of which the headliners will remain nameless for her own protection) and I get a text from her saying, "RIGHT NOW! Go do a blog post on B.C. Camplight." How could I not be curious after a message like that?
So to google I went, and boy am I glad I did. B.C. Camplight is the perfect pop artist. With influences like George Gershwin, Burt Bacharach and Todd Rundgren how could you go wrong? B.C. is essentially the solo pop project of 25 year old Brian Christinzio, a very gifted songwriter with an obvious knack for meshing both the "frighteningly beautiful and humorously twisted" into something very listenable.
On his debut album Hide, Run Away Brian played piano as well as almost every other instrument, except drums, but he joked that he would've played those too, if he knew how. It's that humor and honesty that makes him so enjoyable. Song's like "Couldn't You Tell" and "Blood and Peanut Butter" really show off his influences and his desire to make no-nonsense catchy pop music. "Couldn't You Tell" relies on a swirl of piano and electronic keyboards layered over each other while "Blood and Peanut Butter" comes right at you with pulsing sythns and acosutic guitar with some female guest vocals in the chorus.
[MP3]: From Hide, Run Away
Couldn't You Tell
Blood and Peanut Butter
Hide, Run Away
Buy Hide, Run Away from Amazon and be Brian's friend.
P.S. To all you kids from the UK, B.C. Camplight will be touring with The Boy Least Likely To in February:
Thu 16 - Brighton, Hanbury Ballroom
Fri 17 - Bristol, Louisiana
Sat 18 - Southampton, Joiners
Sun 19 - Oxford, Zodiac
Mon 20 - Birmingham, Bar Academy
Wed 22 - Sheffield, Leadmill
Thu 23 - Manchester, Night & Day
Fri 24 - Glasgow, King Tuts
Sat 25 - York, Fibbers
Sun 26 - Nottingham, Social
Tue 28 - London, Bush Hall
P.P.S. I'm having a little struggle writing today, don't know why, but anyway sorry for the not-so-great write up.
Stumble It!
So to google I went, and boy am I glad I did. B.C. Camplight is the perfect pop artist. With influences like George Gershwin, Burt Bacharach and Todd Rundgren how could you go wrong? B.C. is essentially the solo pop project of 25 year old Brian Christinzio, a very gifted songwriter with an obvious knack for meshing both the "frighteningly beautiful and humorously twisted" into something very listenable.
On his debut album Hide, Run Away Brian played piano as well as almost every other instrument, except drums, but he joked that he would've played those too, if he knew how. It's that humor and honesty that makes him so enjoyable. Song's like "Couldn't You Tell" and "Blood and Peanut Butter" really show off his influences and his desire to make no-nonsense catchy pop music. "Couldn't You Tell" relies on a swirl of piano and electronic keyboards layered over each other while "Blood and Peanut Butter" comes right at you with pulsing sythns and acosutic guitar with some female guest vocals in the chorus.
[MP3]: From Hide, Run Away
Couldn't You Tell
Blood and Peanut Butter
Hide, Run Away
Buy Hide, Run Away from Amazon and be Brian's friend.
P.S. To all you kids from the UK, B.C. Camplight will be touring with The Boy Least Likely To in February:
Thu 16 - Brighton, Hanbury Ballroom
Fri 17 - Bristol, Louisiana
Sat 18 - Southampton, Joiners
Sun 19 - Oxford, Zodiac
Mon 20 - Birmingham, Bar Academy
Wed 22 - Sheffield, Leadmill
Thu 23 - Manchester, Night & Day
Fri 24 - Glasgow, King Tuts
Sat 25 - York, Fibbers
Sun 26 - Nottingham, Social
Tue 28 - London, Bush Hall
P.P.S. I'm having a little struggle writing today, don't know why, but anyway sorry for the not-so-great write up.
Stumble It!
posted by Matt at 10:28 PM
1 Comments:
Yeah, I found "Blood and Peanut Butter" while wending my way through 2005's SXSW mega-sampler. It was one of the first to rise to the top out of the hundreds contained in the pack. I had to put it on my best-of-2005, influence-your-friends-with-your-excellent-tastes mix disc.
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