Summer Camp - Outside

Premiere from Always EP

Summer Camp are an unstoppable force.  On the heels of their first full length, a month later they’re already working on a respectable 20minish EP, five tracks full of music heading in a very different direction.

The first two tracks to surface from the EP sounded more or less like the Summer Camp I’ve come to love, including Always (with the awesome hostage n cake eating music video) and Life, maybe the home run single.  

Outside is the last track on Always, and it seems like its the culmination of a building momentum across this little EP, gettin to a frantic pop dance beat.  This one sounds like such a departure from the slow scratchy tracks of three years past, and I don’t say that with any negative connotations. 

It reminds me of old Of Montreal at their best circa Satanic Panic in the Attic or The Sunlandic Twins.

Honestly I think this EP is an excellent mixture of the new and old sound, and as long as they don’t lose their roots completely, I’m down for speeding up the rhythm.

Summer Camp - Always EP 12” on Ltd colored vinyl and signed is sold out.  You had your fair warning, but you can still grab it on plain Jane un-autographed vinyl here.

Set to be on constant rotation soon as the vinyl arrives here.

Summer Camp - Always

Brilliantly disturbing new video from Summer Camp, featuring a new track from the upcoming Always EP out early July.  A day in the sun, following Elizabeth & Jeremy road tripping the VW bus, at the arcade, eating cake, and murdering their ransom hostage before burying the body.  Simply adorable.

Their other released single conveniently is Always, which they recorded in french as well.  Super rad check it on SnDcLd here

Summer Camp - Always EP 12” on Ltd colored vinyl and signed is up for pre-order here

Summer Camp - Life

Total double song post on the new Summer Camp 12” on the way, but as I have been obsessed with these two forever rescind my apology.  This second single sent courtesy of Moshi Moshi is track one from their Always EP, to be released on Ltd colored 12” vinyl on July 9th.  I was searching futilely for a pre-order link to this supposed colored vinyl, and had just about given up when I saw the email from Moshi Moshi, complete with a link to pre-order signed copies of the 12”.  I should’ve know Apricot Recording Company, who released the vinyl version of Welcome to Condale would be handling this as well.  Can’t imagine signed Ltd copies of the 12” will last long once word hits the street post holiday weekend they’re for sales. 

Summer Camp - Always EP 12” on signed, Ltd colored vinyl is for pre-order here

Summer Camp - Always

The title track from Summer Camp’s forthcoming new EP “Always” released on limited edition coloured 12” vinyl, CD and download on 9th July.

Yes yes yes yes yes.

Summer Camp - Losing My Mind

Ugly xmas sweaters, fancy cats, goth girls, and bad hs photos for all!

(p.s.kind bugs me they uploaded this to some wannabe vimeo service, that has ads and isn’t as smooth.  meh.)

Summer Camp - Losing My Mind (Dawn Golden & Rosy Cross Remix)

Not usually a big fan of remixes, but this one offers an interesting take.  Check it.

FaDeR sayz:

Dawn Golden and Rosy Cross offers a downcast remix for Summer Camp’s oddly ebullient breakup song, “Losing My Mind,” skewing the tone more appropriate to the refrain: This house isn’t big enough for the both of us. The remix will appear on the band’s “Losing My Mind” EP, out March 19th (US) on Moshi Moshi.

Summer Camp - Bloody Nose demo

Caught them live at Glasslands last night in BK, one of only four US shows, and their second time in the states. Amazing live show.  They are fucking brilliant and I’m a sucker for them.

Summer Camp are best.

Summer Camp - All I Wonderful Is You

New Summer Camp xmas treat to followup last year’s festive cover of The Waitresses.

Enjoy, spread the Summer Camp infused cheer!

p.s. the title is not a typo, you’ll figure it out.

Unreleased:

Summer Camp -  Memories (Minor Version)

Totally forgot the Summer Camp Demos was coming out.  I think there are some real gems on here that were mistakenly left off the album.  So good.

Summer Camp - Nobody Knows You

I’d say this is the darkest tune from the new record.  A good one for this pre-Halloween hour. 

I simply love Elizabeth’s voice, and after some heavy listening of the new record, I’ve come to a decision.  The album as a whole is delivering.  Yes yes, hands down.  But just the couple of tracks where Jeremy takes the lead singing…I hate to say I could just do without that.  Her voice is just too perfect and I simply identify Summer Camp as Elizabeth singing.  Srsly pick up your own copy of Welcome To Condale on vinyl from Amazon.uk here.

P.S. There’s currently only 5 copies left.  I’d say the demand for this on vinyl is way higher than they anticipated…

Summer Camp - Summer Camp

I can be a real serious bitch…if I don’t get what I want.

This one I had a bootleg of sometime last year maybe? Sounds so much better when its legit.  I absolutely love the sample voice over at the start.  With every listen the new album gets better.  Can’t wait for my vinyl, too bad I can’t bust it out at my Halloween shindig this weekend :( Guess I can’t always get what I want.

Also its snowing outside. Fucking real snowing, not bs fake flurry nonsense.  I live in NY not Iceland.  In my opinion snow is useless unless there’s enough for me to ride.  Guess we’ve having a white Halloween.  Hope your costume is warm.

Summer Camp - Down

“Made from more than 50 infinitely looping” Halloween-themed .gifs by director Chris Boyle.

This video.  Effin amazing.  <3<3<3 Summer Camp

Summer Camp - 1988

Brand newSummer Camp for yall!  Hot off the leaked what presses here’s a new unreleased one from their debut Welcome to Condale.  Now I like to pride myself as one of their biggest fans, entranced since I first heard I Only Have Eyes For You just two years ago as of the 16th. 

P.S. iTunes is helpful for keeping track of those things with the date added tab.

So then came their 7”s, Ghost Train followed by super epic Round Moon.  Both are OOP so maybe a couple lucky fans will snatch up those last remaining amazon copies…I had high hopes for their debut full length and all I say right now is that most of the new tracks we haven’t heard are good but they’re not as immediately as captivating as these first singles.  Don’t get me wrong, this is a strong debut release, but its hard for bands to sometimes live up to their inter-tube hype after completing such perfect singles. 

But when they get it right, like the voice over samples at the start of either I Want You, or Summer Camp, Summer Camp can tailor these pop gems to be perfect.  This is the the best pop music you’ve ever heard.  Overall I’m very pleased with the result, and even just now on my second listen I’m getting into the new tracks more and more. 

I’ll probably go Summer Camp crazy the next couple days and keep posting new unreleased ones, so keep an eye out.  Seeing as they’ve run out of vinyl copies through their own pledge music deally, they were nice enough to post external distro links that now have their vinyl available for pre-order via amazonuk.  I kept demanding and pestering them about releasing on vinyl, and oh look now its on vinyl.  Thanks SC for listening to your fans.

Summer Camp - Welcome to Condale is available for pre-order on beautiful vinyl here.  Ships Halloween.

Summer Camp - Better Off Without You (Live Session)

Great new live video of Summer Camp singing for The Line Of Best Fit.  Love these kids majorly, but still not a single word of response on getting the new album on anything other than an obsolete compact disc :( 

Fingers Crossed.

Summer Camp - Better Off Without You

If only their new album was being released on vinyl, instead of the obsolete compact disc. Make some noise and maybe since they’re 200% past their goal it could happen.

Frustrating as the above is, still love me some Summer Camp.  They are some good kids.