When UK immigration left Brian Christinzio ‘playing Pac Man in his parents’ basement in New Jersey’ just days after the release of the 2015 BC Camplight album How To Die In The North, the direction of his next record was well in motion.
“I didn’t feel any better, I had so much anger, I felt destroyed,” he remembers after he had returned to the UK thanks to newly acquired Italian citizenship only to face up to the results of the Brexit referendum.
“The demons were back and had lost me friends, I’d drunk too much, and I felt nothing but dread and disease. I thought, I can’t wait to hear what this next album is going to sound like.”
“The thoughts and sounds that began to flow out of me were pretty scary. I’m pretty sure the engineer started carrying a shiv in his pocket after about the second day. Nothing playful sounding came out. If the last album had elements of whimsy, the thought of any on this album made me want to vomit.”
Recorded at Liverpool’s Whitewood studios, Deportation Blues is due for release on August 24th. Check out its brand new track Fire In England right here: