cameo culture – burning bright lp

“For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”

So said Vincent Van Gogh in the 19th century, and on Burning Bright, new Wolf + Lamb artist Cameo Culture nurtures the crucible of those dreams to stir up nine beautiful songs for his much anticipated debut album. Burning Bright flies too close to the sun, and encourages you to do the same. It swirls and warbles across dusty electronic planes, blowing through the town of secrets and pluralisms; singing of sass and fragility, love and loss, jazz and drum machines. Close your eyes and dance. Let your soul shake it loose. The percussion was grown in a garden. The vocals fell off a distant star and landed in a grainy polaroid.

The trumpets are bitching. The sound effects ride your goosebumps like miniature moguls. The best things take time and love, and even though it’s time for Burning Bright to set sail; remember that love is the ultimate outlaw, it doesn’t follow the rules. Cameo Culture is the work of Dave Robertson; who devotes his life to crafting grainy soulful house music, washed out indie, and slow jams that make your heart sing and your soul’s mouth water. Blending all of these strengths on one full length LP, Robertson manages to bring together a warm and varied rush of emotion from start to finish. He has always been a deep house head, which on some level permeates all music he writes. His music tells a story of love, fear, warm baths, and mud wrestling. His music speaks to the shapes we create on a dance floor at 5am. His music will remind you of that time you took mushrooms and became a trapeze artist. It sways and wobbles like a restless tide. Warm synths, strings and effects swirl around vocals and beats that bask in a sunbleached bliss. A self-confessed gear junkie, he effortlessly balances his technical skill as an audio engineer with his passion for real music with depth and soul – a constant commingling of the acoustic with the electronic – that makes his music stand apart.

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Cameo Culture // Wolf + Lamb