MY NEW BAND BELIEVE (VINYL)

My New Band Believe''''s debut album began as a fever dream. Delirious in a Chinese hotel room,
Cameron'1/4'Picton'1/4'was battling through the worst of a sudden illness when he was overcome by flashes
of weird imagery and loose ribbons of scrambled text. The musician would later salvage and shape
some of these fragments into songs, but the one that lodged most clearly in his mind was the odd
phrase, 'My New Band Believe." When it came time to christen his solo project there was no decision
to be made; this unwieldy assemblage of words had to be his signature. '1/4'
As the bassist and sometime'1/4'frontman'1/4'of black midi,'1/4'Picton'1/4'and his bandmates practiced an explosive
form of musical world-building, weaving complex'1/4'story-telling'1/4'through thrilling passages of
controlled chaos. When the group called it quits in 2023, the artist'1/4'didn''''t'1/4'immediately'1/4'feel like
making'1/4'a solo record or jumping back into another band. Loose plans to be a rotating collaborator
with various London groups a la Jim O''''Rourke, including'1/4'caroline'1/4'were discussed, even rehearsed,
but never fully materialised. It was from this position of a not-quite team player, not-quite bandleader
that'1/4'Picton'1/4'entered the studio and the seeds of My New Band Believe gradually began to'1/4'emerge.