MY NEW BAND BELIEVE - s/t LP

Highly recommended.

By the time Black Midi’s breakup was announced in 2024, bassist Cameron Picton had already been working on solo projects. Between 2024 and 2025, he released three CD exclusives on Bandcamp and played a string of shows opening for Black Country, New Road under the alias Camera Picture.

In March, Picton announced his new, more collaborative project My New Band Believe and released the single “Lecture 25,” a chaotic and sprawling guitar track with lyrics pulled from Dennis Cooper’s poem “Lecture, 1970.”

Now he has emerged as a baroque folk singer-songwriter on a record with intimately emotional storytelling, gorgeous orchestral arrangements and stakes higher than ever.

Maybe because of the motherband of this guy, but it seems like the darkness lurks behind those happy little stories. Goddamn it feels grim and mysterious. Like one of the episodes of True Detective, about some psycho serial killer who skins his prey and wears it - the background music to such scenes. Brrr.