Ex-black midi musician Cameron Picton has unveiled his new project, My New Band Believe.

The much-loved London outfit called time last year, after some scintillating albums and a cavalcade of ferocious live shows. Geordie Greep was first out the traps – technically announcing the break during an IG Live, he then released a surreal, caustic, groundbreaking album under his own name.

Now the band’s Cameron Picton has poked his head about the parapet. New project My New Band Believe has been whispered about for some time, and the first single has been released.

‘Lecture 25’ was initially meant to be a demo, but emboldened by the results a band was conceived, the song arranged, then recorded, mixed and mastered, and a video made… all in a breathless eight-day streak.

Out now, ‘Lecture 25’ nods towards Dennis Hopper’s ‘Lecture 70’, and the breathless stampede of words is Kerouacian in its sweep.

Jack Shep directs the video, an after-hours jaunt through South London which descended into surrealist sensory overload.

My New Band Believe, on this recording, are: Cameron Picton (Guitar, Vocals), Josh Finerty (Bass), King David Ike-Elechi (Drums), Seth Evans (Piano).

Cameron Picton comments…

Recently, I had a couple days off from the main thing I’ve been working on and spent them doing various writing exercises. I hadn’t written a proper song since before Christmas so thought it’d be a good way to get the ball rolling again. Of quite a large batch I ended up with three songs that had something about them. At first I thought about putting them out as is, recorded with my laptop mic and Zoom H6, unmixed, unmastered – exactly as bounced when I first finished them, flaws and all. I later sent them to Seth and when he offered to mix, I thought: why not just record one properly? We tracked it at RAK on the 11th of Feb with mixing taking place the next day. I also asked Jack (Shep) to make a video for it, which he then filmed concurrently, in time for a Valentine’s Day release.

The idea for ‘Lecture 25’ was to set someone else’s words to my own music, I used Dennis Cooper’s Lecture 1970, which I adapted into about half the song’s lyrics.

I’ve also made a third Camera Picture mixtape: ’24m56s’ – it’ll be available exclusively at my solo US shows end of February. Half songless beats, half beatless songs.

Check out ‘Lecture 25’ below.

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