Camp Cope by Camp Cope

Camp Cope's self-titled debut came out on Melbourne's Poison City Records on 22 April 2016, barely a year after the trio got together, and it sounds like a band with too much to say to waste time polishing. Georgia Maq sings, writes and plays guitar, her voice cracking open right where the songs need it, while Kelso's bass and the drums of Sarah "Thomo" Thompson, who also works at the label, give her plenty of room and keep everything lurching forward. Maq called what they do "power emo"; others heard a bit of Courtney Barnett and a bit of Juliana Hatfield in it.

It's melodic and aching at once, a record that wears its bruises in plain sight. The album made the ARIA chart and was nominated for both the Australian Music Prize and the J Award for Australian Album of the Year.

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