Autocamper: What Do You Do All Day?
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Launched eleventh July
Autocamper, the hotly tipped Indie 4 piece ship their debut album, What Do You Do All Day? after a sequence of self-released singles and several other celebrated gigs.
Method again in February 2023 I noticed, what could have been, Autocamper’s first gig as they supported The Orchids and GNAC at The Talleyrand in Levenshulme. My notes that night time learn, ‘Autocamper are good to get issues going, their jangly (dare I say) C86 model with barely sullen vocals uplifted by melodic chiming guitars remind me of The Sea Urchins’. They performed a brief, six music set, which was wonderful, nevertheless none seem on this album, though most have been launched since throughout singles.
Listening to What D0 You Do All Day? it’s clear that the quartet, consisting of Jack on guitar and vocals, Niamh on keyboards and vocals, Harry on bass and Arthur on drums and vocals have been honing their sound. They ship, ‘a Northern kitchen sink rendering of The Vaselines name and response motif’, with the vocals shared by Jack and Niamh. The pair’s world-weary reflections on bed room tiffs and hungover misdemeanours capturing the jangle pop spirit of the ‘80s.
Jack, previously the principle booker for The Talleyrand confirming, “A few of us hadn’t been in bands earlier than Autocamper, and once you hearken to recordings we took from practices early on you possibly can hear that in how we’re taking part in”, they share. “All of the songs on the album have been written as soon as we’d turn out to be mates and gotten actually snug taking part in collectively and in addition performed a number of gigs. I believe there’s a pleasant sense of development from the primary stuff we put out on Bandcamp to the songs on the brand new file.”
Autocamper are like a breath of recent air, and one in all a number of bands who’ve picked up the proverbial gauntlet to maintain the jangling finish of indie music alive. During the last couple of years, labels equivalent to Skep Wax, Treasured Recordings of London, and Spinout Nuggets, who had initially been releasing new materials or reissuing classes by bands and artists who as soon as supplied the soundtrack to many a post-Smiths, Sarah Information sound-tracked bedsit social gathering, have turn out to be key in now releasing new music by new artists who they impressed.
The album opens with Once more, which was additionally the primary single to be launched from it. The band explaining, “Once more felt like the very best monitor to launch to sign our foray out of ‘cassette pop’. Lyrically, it rides the contradiction between feeling insufficient and discovering happiness in the fantastic thing about different folks and the way that may make you are feeling terrible and nice on the identical time. It comes from a really honest place,” including, “Musically, I believe we’ve cemented our particular person sound as a band right here, leaning far much less on our influences.”
One other single, Crimson Flowers, that includes Niamh on vocals, follows, mixing parts of ‘60s people and sunshine-pop. Autocamper have expressed a love for Curt Boettcher’s music, and within the model of The Millennium or Sagittarius, they incorporate flute so as to add a contact of lightness to the melancholic tune. The third single launched is Correct, one of many final songs to be written. It’s presumably my favorite too, with a easy guitar main into thunderous drums earlier than an organ kicks wherein then drives the pressing vocals, reassuring us that, “every thing is gonna be alright, cos you’re correct”. Again within the day this might have been a 7” that you just’d be taking part in repeatedly, simply lifting the needle and dropping it again initially…
It could be lazy to reel off the band many influences, and would do them a disservice, you simply must hearken to What Do You Do All Day? to understand they clearly have a formidable collective information of what’s gone earlier than but additionally with an eye fixed on the longer term. That mentioned on Map Like A Leaf, they’re joined by Tom Crossley from The Pastels who added flute to the monitor and Foxes has the very best Wedding ceremony Current guitar line Dave Gedge by no means wrote, channelling their internal Go Out And Get Em Boy.
What Do You Do All Day? is steeped within the sound of ‘traditional indie’, with You, for instance, sounding so acquainted that you just’ll ensure you’ve heard it earlier than, however not sure the place. It’s like having a fever dream and understanding there’s something you’ve forgotten however undecided what.
Dogsitting provides a little bit of quirkiness to proceedings each lyrically (‘now i’m dogsitting for the vicar’s spouse’) and in sound. A rousing quantity, the shortest on the album at simply over 2 minutes with the organ echoing Martin Duffy’s throughout mid-period Felt.
The longest monitor, the epic In some way follows. At practically six minutes it’s much less frantic than a lot of the album, nearly shoegazing at occasions with keyboards swirling because it builds, to an nearly hypnotic middle-eight. The penultimate monitor Linnean leans into the early Weddoes rush nevertheless the closing Road View is the right antidote and leaves you wanting extra. The ultimate bittersweet mid-tempo quantity with Niamh on vocals is the right strategy to end, shut your eyes and also you’re bathed in daylight… while the singer is unfortunately, alone in ‘Whalley Vary at 3am’.
What Do You Do All Day? closes with the road ‘Don’t rely your chickens earlier than they’re birds’… sound recommendation.
A assured debut you’ll be taking part in for years to return.
Catch Autocamper this summer season…
4/fifth July – Manchester Pop Competition
eleventh July – Manchester, Star & Garter (Album Launch)
thirteenth July – Glasgow, Glad Cafe
twenty first July – London, Shacklewell Arms*
twenty second July – Coventry, Simply Dropped In*
twenty third July – Leeds, Lending Room*
twenty fourth July – Newcastle, Widespread Room*
ninth Aug – Preston Pop Competition
14/fifteenth Nov – Malaga Pop Competition
* with Chime Faculty
For extra on the band go to their LinkTree
Picture equipped by Liv Willars at One Beat PR
All phrases by Iain Key. See his creator profile right here or discover him on Bluesky
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