Warning: Bandcamp is a new/obscure music rabbit hole. The new music feed introduces new bands every day, then each artist has a ‘supported by’ section where you can see people who have already bought the album, and in turn explore their collections to find more artists with further fans with collections to nose around, ad infinitum. As a result, I often have acts on my ‘to listen to/write about’ list with no clear idea to how I came across them.
So when David Roderick Cameron, AKA Chips Calipso, emailed us to tell us about his new album, it was pretty strange to tell him (a man from Melbourne, Australia, who currently has 78 ‘likes’ on Facebook) that we were already listening to the album.
I Walked Outside and Felt the Sun is a lovely slice of psychedelic dream pop, complete with a superbly lo-fi veneer. Imagine what MGMT would sound like if they wanted to be garage rock band rather than The Beatles. ‘Tibetan Clouds’ brings to mind the hallucinogenic strangeness of Evangelicals, ‘I Get Back’ is a punkier affair that channels the attitude of Wavves, whereas ‘Pines 2009’ is more laid back, that laconic sort of rock music that sounds good on holidays. Overall, it’s a perfect antidote to these last few summer evenings where the night draws in a little too early.
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You can get the album on a pay-what-you-can basis from Bandcamp.