Product Overview
Alex Cameron - Miami Memory (Vinyl) Alex CameronÙs newest and most musically expansive album, the glistening ØMiami MemoryÙ, takes a surprising turn. CameronÙs flair for narrative and character is still on full display; yet ØMiami MemoryÙs most frequent narrator is, for the first time, Cameron himself - singing with stunning candour of his three-year relationship with his girlfriend. ÜWhen you listen to these songs, and youÙre waiting for the twist, or the joke, or any kind of discomfort, I can assure you none of those things were there when I wrote them,Ý says Cameron. ÜThese are true stories, of actual events. Specific but never esoteric. And graphic but never offensive. ØMiami MemoryÙ is the story of a couple balancing sex with contemporary family values... ItÙs my gift to my girlfriend, a symbol to hoist on the totem of love.Ý Though remnants of his synth-driven earlier work sneak in to unsettle the tone, the bulk of ØMiami MemoryÙ - produced by Jonathan Rado (Weyes Blood, Father John Misty) and recorded and mixed by Marta Salogni (Björk, Kelela) - revels in the emotional overdrive of classic dad rock, its warm, anthemic songs driven by bass, guitar, sax and layers of Vegas wedding chapel-ish organ. CameronÙs dad rock funhouse of an album ultimately twists and subverts the genre: it recalls classics the white male ego has historically visited for its regular adrenaline injection and morphs them into a singular ØstepdadÙ rock that largely turns its lens away from the dads, celebrating the demise of old norms of gender and power. In his depiction of his relationship, ØCameronÙ reveals a striking honesty about love and sex in a time where a palpable fleetingness hangs over everything from relationships to human life on this planet - but also where constricting mores have deteriorated enough to let Øfamily lifeÙ, in all its morphing forms, exist outside of social obligation. With arresting straightforwardness, Cameron now sings as himself, paying tribute to sex, female empowerment, family and responsibility and to his love. TRACKLIST: 1.Stepdad 2.Miami Memory 3.Far From Born Again 4.Gaslight 5.Bad For The Boys 6.End is Nigh 7.PC With Me 8.Divorce 9.Other Ladies 10.Too Far
