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In September 2019, he released his third studio album \"Miami Memory\".\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"live-in-san-francisco","title":"Live in San Francisco","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe final entry in Castle Face's \u003ci\u003eLive In San Francisco\u003c\/i\u003e series: an intimate evening with Alex Cameron and his indispensable sax man, Roy Molloy performing at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco, a very classy and lovingly maintained venue originally built in 1907 on Market Street, just a pube or two into the Castro District. Roy’s sax slinks sultrily, Al is in fine form, adding the occasional barb on the stem, sounding well oiled and comfortably bantering between tunes, and Justin Nijssen hangs back and window-dresses the whole thing with some well placed guitar and a few backups. They've added some dancing sweat on all the hits from \u003ci\u003eJumping The Shark\u003c\/i\u003e as well as\u003ci\u003e Candy May\u003c\/i\u003e from \u003ci\u003eForced Witness\u003c\/i\u003e, which at the time wasn’t yet out. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Castle Face","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50464999178571,"sku":"1061279","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/bb052876-5be7-4ead-88ed-4f13bc277b0a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727280692"},{"product_id":"oxy-music","title":"Oxy Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlex Cameron has always been a great storyteller, finding his ways into the depths of the places where not many others are looking, and \u003ci\u003eOxy Music\u003c\/i\u003e continues on that trajectory. It’s filled with stories of people who fall outside the system and exist in the grey areas of life. And much like 2017’s \u003ci\u003eForced Witness, Oxy Music\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of fiction. In its design - its music, lyrics and tracklist - lies the journey a person can take, if the circumstances present themselves - down the road of heavy drug and alcohol abuse. Initially inspired by Nico Walker’s Cherry, Cameron was spurred into yet another commentary on American Life, this time about the opioid crisis that has taken over the country. Alex says about\u003ci\u003e Oxy Music\u003c\/i\u003e: “The album is a story, a work of fiction, mostly from the perspective of a man. Starved of meaningful purpose, confused about the state of the world, and in dire need of a reason to live - a person can, and according to the latest statistics, increasingly will, turn to opioids. This is one of those people.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile \u003ci\u003eOxy Music\u003c\/i\u003e could be dark, it’s instead brighter and more buoyant than much of Cameron’s previous work, a shift in mood first seen across 2019’s \u003ci\u003eMiami Memory\u003c\/i\u003e. It’s told from a place of optimism and through the lens of Cameron, in the way that only he can tell it. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50465745862987,"sku":"1143087","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":50465746256203,"sku":"1143088","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50465746223435,"sku":"1143086","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/63f77412-9753-4852-9e7b-430a030859ea_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727295785"},{"product_id":"forced-witness","title":"Forced Witness","description":"\u003cp\u003eBearing 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. In his second album, \u003ci\u003eForced Witness\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eStranger’s Kiss\u003c\/i\u003e - Cameron’s affecting duet with Angel Olsen (who also sings backup on lead single, \u003ci\u003eCandy May\u003c\/i\u003e). The defiantly bloody knuckles in \u003ci\u003eRunnin’ Outta Luck\u003c\/i\u003e co-written by and featuring Brandon Flowers and the grime of wet dreams in \u003ci\u003eCountry Figs \u003c\/i\u003eoccupy the same space as the great sadness of the internet in the catchy and contemplative song \u003ci\u003eTrue Lies\u003c\/i\u003e, in which Cameron sings about that buzzing hive of randomized sexuality where we can either submit to the stirrings in our own laps or let our fragile hopes catfish us. Penultimate track \u003ci\u003eMarlon Brando\u003c\/i\u003e, is, as Cameron describes it, “a study of a man in the hopeless pursuit of a woman. He is a familiar character in the world, a self-assured jock, a dullard, a low grade human who uses a specific kind of language when he finds a situation outside of his control. The song's lyrics present a damning indictment of homophobia and misogyny and their genesis in toxic masculinity.” If there is darkness in these songs, it is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Limited White Vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"LP.","offer_id":50482911084875,"sku":"1013724","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50482912035147,"sku":"1013723","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50482912624971,"sku":"1013722","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/09a640b0-d0b3-4909-99dc-e6f2d79f9485_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727557940"},{"product_id":"jumping-the-shark","title":"Jumping the Shark","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn from anxiety and fuelled by a crippling need for validation and success, Secretly Canadian re-release: 'Jumping the Shark' by Alex Cameron. This collection of short tales documents the bankrupt and morally vacant world of contemporary showbiz. Voiced by a forgotten variety show host, Ken DuPont, 'Jumping the Shark' explores issues such as guilt and humiliation in a world where everyone is to blame for an entire industry's failure - everyone except themself. 'Jumping the Shark' is as confronting as it is uplifting.  A revelation of an album not to be taken sitting down. If you like Flash and The Pan, The Reels, Angelo Badalamenti, John Maus, Robert Palmer, Lou Reed or Ryuichi Sakamoto then this is a strong recommendation for you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"Tape","offer_id":50494178197835,"sku":"403191","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50494177444171,"sku":"403190","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50494180852043,"sku":"403189","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/23bd0a26-1978-4554-a1e7-0ca44fe23f4f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727704015"},{"product_id":"miami-memory","title":"Miami Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlex Cameron’s newest and most musically expansive LP, the glistening \u003ci\u003eMiami Memory,\u003c\/i\u003e takes a surprising turn. Cameron’s flair for narrative and character are still on full display; yet Miami Memory’s most frequent narrator is, for the first time, Cameron himself—singing with stunning candor of his three-year relationship with his girlfriend. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“When you listen to these songs, and you’re 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,” says Cameron. “These are true stories, of actual events. Specific but never esoteric. And graphic but never offensive. \u003ci\u003eMiami Memory\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a couple balancing sex with contemporary family values...It’s my gift to my girlfriend, a symbol to hoist on the totem of love.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough remnants of his synth-driven earlier work sneak in to unsettle the tone, the bulk of \u003ci\u003eMiami Memory,\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCameron’s 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 “stepdad” 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, Cameron 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 “family life,” 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50498443280715,"sku":"1067786","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":51308984271179,"sku":"R7144-4840","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9dac0803-aa66-4fee-972c-063ff9c43265_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727748309"},{"product_id":"late-to-set","title":"Late to Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn January 2025 Alex Cameron exploded his life in a controlled detonation largely ignored by the universe. 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This is the world our fathers feared and here is its soundtrack.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diggers Factory","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57783542907211,"sku":"R0431-8975","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3760434487699.jpg?v=1783423343"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_3bce4984_thumbnail_4096_4b36f06b-f1de-4dbb-a9e9-c3c8b0f675e3.jpg?v=1727280671","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/alex-cameron.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}