“A song as assured as it is emotive, simmering with brooding longing as it contemplates complex ideas of identity and history with a straightforward confidence.” So we wrote of Steph Cameron‘s ‘Today’ back in October, the Saskatoon songwriter’s first new music in a number of years. The track, it turns out, was taken from a brand new full-length album Blood Moon, pencilled for release this spring via Neon Moon Records.
Drawing on a combination of sixties British folk and seventies country rock to explore the intersection of humanity and the natural world, the album is Cameron’s first full-band offering and a fitting follow-up to the Polaris Music Prize nominated Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady and Daybreak Over Jackson Street. “These songs share my curiosity about the mystical world, drawing on my attachment to the forests and the plains,” Cameron explains. “This record explores the sounds of those places while telling stories revealing what makes us human.”
New single ‘Rain’ gives listeners a further glimpse at what Blood Moon has to offer. A clear indication of Steph Cameron’s newly rich arrangements, using the stripped back folk of Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady as the foundation to build a style of which Stevie Nicks would be proud. Most importantly, this transition loses none of the heart or depth of feeling, but instead uses such features as the fuel to drive a freshly propulsive sound.
Blood Moon is out on the 25th April via Neon Moon Records.