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Alex Cameron - Forced Witness (2017)

Posted By: delpotro
Alex Cameron - Forced Witness (2017)

Alex Cameron - Forced Witness (2017)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:41:15 | 270 Mb
Indie, Electronic, Singer-Songwriter | Label: Secretly Canadian

Bearing witness to the baroque clusterfuckery of the world is no longer voluntary. We are all forced to watch. Every possible catastrophe vibrates in our pockets, demanding to be witnessed. So what better soundtrack than something new from Alex Cameron?

In his second album, Forced Witness, out September 8th on Secretly Canadian, Alex Cameron’s solution to the difficulties we face is a danceable and dangerous earnestness, a sense of honesty that heals and relieves even as it cleaves us or makes us laugh in self-defense. He’s offering us vivid portraits of misfits who look at the world without illusion.

Recorded in Berlin, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas and produced by Cameron along with Foxygen‘s Jonathan Rado, these tracks at first seem shamelessly entertaining, the driving rhythms and rousing melodies embellished at every turn by Roy Molloy’s warm hornwork. But the love songs and anthems of personal resilience contain as much raw humanity as they do a savvy grasp of the impossible loneliness of the times, especially apparent in the song, “Stranger’s Kiss” – Cameron’s affecting duet with Angel Olsen (who also sings backup on lead single, “Candy May“).

If there is darkness in these songs, it’s not because taboos can titillate but because Cameron knows that confession has a redeeming power and that people are often at their most startlingly beautiful when their skies have fallen. These songs are alive with the rich detail of life lived and the radical distinctiveness of the stories they tell feel universal. In these chaotic times when we aren’t able to look away, Cameron is offering us a pure account of the world as he’s seen it.
Tracklist:
01. Candy May
02. Country Figs
03. Runnin' Outta Luck
04. Stranger's Kiss (duet with Angel Olsen)
05. True Lies
06. Studmuffin96
07. The Chihuahua
08. The Hacienda
09. Marlon Brando
10. Politics Of Love

X Lossless Decoder version 20170729 (150.3)

XLD extraction logfile from 2017-08-30 17:59:58 -0400

Alex Cameron / Forced Witness

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