{"id":951372,"date":"2026-05-10T22:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/951372\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:57:13","slug":"my-new-band-believe-my-new-band-believe-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/951372\/","title":{"rendered":"My New Band Believe &#8211; My New Band Believe Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This album is bonkers and completely committed to it. Cameron Picton\u2019s first outing post\u2013black midi doesn\u2019t ease you in or explain itself; it barrels forward on theatricality and demands you keep up.<\/p>\n<p>Revenge fantasy opener \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/readdork.com\/track\/my-new-band-believe-target-practice\" class=\"font-bold text-neutral-900 dark:text-white underline decoration-1 underline-offset-2 hover:text-neutral-600 dark:hover:text-neutral-300 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Target Practice<\/a>\u2019 is phenomenal, pairing pristine, almost stately instrumentation with entirely unsettling lyrics. \u201cDon\u2019t cry, you deserve this\u201d has a chill that cuts straight through the jaunty delivery, setting up a record that delights in that contrast: beautiful presentation, deeply dark ideas. It\u2019s dramatic in a way that fully buys into its own heightened reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/readdork.com\/track\/my-new-band-believe-in-the-blink-of-an-eye\" class=\"font-bold text-neutral-900 dark:text-white underline decoration-1 underline-offset-2 hover:text-neutral-600 dark:hover:text-neutral-300 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In the Blink of an Eye<\/a>\u2019 embraces a twitchy, paranoid energy; it\u2019s gripping, even when you\u2019re not entirely sure what\u2019s going on. The arrangements across the record are consistently stunning, with strings and acoustic instrumentation swelling and collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/readdork.com\/track\/my-new-band-believe-love-story\" class=\"font-bold text-neutral-900 dark:text-white underline decoration-1 underline-offset-2 hover:text-neutral-600 dark:hover:text-neutral-300 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love Story<\/a>\u2019 cuts through with a different kind of intensity. It\u2019s tender and emotionally direct, but still grounded in those strange, hyper-specific details (\u201cI\u2019m soaking beans on the side\u201d, \u201cI\u2019m feeling sexy tonight\u201d) that make it  both sincere and faintly ridiculous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/readdork.com\/track\/my-new-band-believe-actress\" class=\"font-bold text-neutral-900 dark:text-white underline decoration-1 underline-offset-2 hover:text-neutral-600 dark:hover:text-neutral-300 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Actress<\/a>\u2019 &#8211; over eight minutes, usually a red flag &#8211; gets away with it here, carried by lines like \u201cYou\u2019re breathing oxygen, but it doesn\u2019t make it to your brain\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That balance is a real achievement. It\u2019s maximal and baffling, but never half-hearted. Picton throws everything at it and commits fully, and that conviction carries the whole thing. Whether it gets full marks or not probably depends on how far you\u2019re willing to follow him &#8211; but if you do, it\u2019s a wild ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This album is bonkers and completely committed to it. 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