SUFFER FOR TWO - OUT 19th NOVEMBER
“Suffer For 2” is the second single to be taken from BC Camplight’s critically acclaimed record “Blink Of A Nihilist”. Showcasing his expansive song writing in its finest light, the single is blessed with a pop-savvy intuition that only the likes of Brian, his namesake Wilson, and a handful of others can currently lay claim to. Criminally underrated, this is yet another bolt from the dark that proves that, while the summer and coming months have been a washout, BC is eternally rooted in a ray of abstract sunshine.
Brian Christinzio, the man behind BC Camplight, wrote “Suffer For 2” after a period of mental illness that inspired him to visit prisons and asylums across America. Speaking to inmates and collecting stories and anecdotes from their lives, “Blink Of A Nihilist” is dripping with dark humour, fractured melody and bittersweet lyrics. Creative success and intuition has paid dividends - in its completist simplicity; “Suffer For 2” is truly a joy to behold.
LORD I'VE BEEN ON FIRE
The new single is out the 16th of July!“Lord, I’ve Been On Fire” is the first single to be taken from BC Camplight’s stunning second record “Blink Of A Nihilist”. Arguably the highlight on an album full of highlights, the song has already been showered with praise and singled out in album reviews across the press. Simply put, “Lord, I’ve Been On Fire” is one of the best pop songs you will hear this year or any year.
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BC is a songwriting force with the fire still burning and a leading figure in a genre that doesn’t really exist; euphoric and awash with hooks “Lord, I’ve Been On Fire” is truly a joy to behold.
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BLINK OF A NIHILIST
An absolute gem of a CD, which will have you humming the title song for months to come. Indie Launchpad
In fact it’s about time that oft-used singer-songwriter genre had a spanner thrown in the works and B.C Camplight could be just the wrench it needs. Penny Black Music/p>
BC Camplight lives in the mind of twenty something Brian Christinzio, a mind unique to the modern songwriting world and gifted enough to follow his 2005 breakthrough, the frighteningly beautiful and humorously twisted debut 'Hide, Run Away’, with a record that sets a new standard, ‘Blink Of A Nihilist’. Christinzio's inflective vocals and the beguiling backing of Stephanie Vernacchio, carry the record through euphoric, leftfield pop (Suffer For Two, Scare Me Sweetly) to the awkwardly personal (I’ve Got A Bad Cold, Say Tonto!) through to what can only be described as something uniquely special (Lord, I’ve Been On Fire, The Hip And The Homeless).
Brian is quick to point out that “Much of my music on the last record was reviewed so highly because there were these undertones of murder, incest, and stuff like that veiled behind these summer time pop songs. With this album I took a step further. Aside from struggling with my own mental illness, I decided to seek out people that were in horrific psychological pain. I spent a lot of time in a New Jersey jail collecting stories and did the same at friends’ mental hospitals (where I was posing as a volunteer). I didn't want to just exploit these peoples stories but I was interested in building off of them.”
“I’ve always drawn from things in life that weren’t so pretty and then put them together musically in a pretty way. The album isn't supposed to be serious, funny, goofy, dark, light... it's supposed to be somewhere in-between I’m hoping to make the listener awkward enough to recognise it is different and yet comfortable enough to want to keep listening.” It’s this decided direction and an admiration for composers such as Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach and Todd Rundgren that create the foundations of his music - and the template for a record that sticks out like a sore, and oddly welcome, thumb in the current musical climate.
Through most of Christianzo’s life, he has been a walking dichotomy. Captain of his High School football team and tenor in the travelling choir, softly spoken and an amateur boxer, shy but commanding on stage, it was a spell of mental illness that would change his outlook on life completely. Dedicating himself to his craft - and never one to set modest goals - Christinzio set himself the task of creating the 'perfect pop record'. "I realised that I didn't care if I or the music fit in, so I wanted to make a record that didn't take itself too seriously and was free of all the silly pretension that's so hard to avoid in music today. I wanted to change the way people felt, not the way they dressed".
Blink Of A Nihilist is an album that should do just that. In 2007, it stands tall as a record that proves the relevance of pop music to all of us, and acts out a statement of deeply personal intent for ours, and Brian’s, troubled times. Its eccentricities include both heart-tugging compositions and boisterously upbeat, synth-driven tunes and complicated musical arrangements which still manage to retain their humour and modesty. The record is not a simplistic one, Brian would never have wanted it to be, but like most things worth your time and effort, the end result is something worth truly holding on to and with “Blink Of A Nihilist”, you will not want to let go.
Press for the last album “Hide, Run Away”:
“Rich in honeyed harmonies, lush arrangements & a self-contained spirit” - Q
“A blissfully happy whirly gig feel to it, but it’s not just lovely pleasant-ness: his lyrics reveal the songs to have a darker and more twisted side than an initial listen would belie!” Word
“A delicate blend of quirky lyrics, inspired melodies and instrumental touches that should appeal to anyone.” Sunday Times Album Of The Week.
