The Hidden Cameras - Year of the Spawn

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The second single from our new Album 'AGE. Out January 21th/24th.
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The Canadian singer is playing with his band The Hidden Cameras since 2001,'. Its started with using costumes, roleplays, exploring and questioning archetypal structures like gender, classes and labels. Meanwhile Joel Gibb is living in Berlin. Now Joel Gibb needs no more questioning. He has found his place -- as an artist, as a songwriter. So on his upcoming album 'Age' he doesn't want to know who he has become, but HOW he became the person he now is.

'Age' is a deconstruction of my musical roots. It's the little references in the songs, the almost inaudible miniatures -- but they exist. Indeed, to understand "Age" you have to put your ears on the ground, try to hear the roots grow, close your eyes, ignore the sound of one's own heartbeat to distill the different noises.

"Year of the spawn", it's trumpets, trombones, a bugle and behind the thicket of the forest, inbetween the fen fires, twinkles the icecold drumbeat of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" from Bauhaus during the second verse. Chilly Gonzales is playing the Piano. Joel Gibbs works like a visual artist. He constructs pedantic soundsculptures and collages, whose fidelity initially stays hidden behind the esthetics of extremely harmonious but also dreary pop music. 

"Gay Goth Scene" for example was originally thought of as a joke, an ironic finger exercise. Now it sounds like a requiem. The song is already more than ten years old. Gibb wrote the song when he was still living at his mother's. In Toronto he used to arrange Gay Goth Scene Shows. Again, underneath the layers of violins and Gibb's dark bariton, a meta-level with hints to his youth is to be found. Mary Margaret O'Hara's voice is also to be heard on Gay Goth Scene. The same Mary Margaret O'Hara who then just came in from the offside on Morrisseys "November Spawned A Monster". Morrissey was another milestone on Gibb's road to adulthood.

In some sort of way "Age" is Gibb's 'Coming-Of-Age-Album'. Retrospectively he investigates into the various shades of "Age". "Age" mustn't be translated as seniority alone. There are multiple meanings to the album title. "Age" can be anything. In the first place "Age" expresses the pertinence to take over one's moral duties. So it is not a coincidence, that Bradley Mannings' outlines illustrate the inlay of the record. We already live in the Bradley-Manning-Age. For Gibbs Manning is the last person on earth with decency, who does his human charge justice. Gibbs stages Manning as an icon, an obstreperous fighter for freedom.

To Gibbs being a songwriter means to show integrity, to take responsibility for your actions. Honesty is the prime dictum. "If you can't be honest with yourself, what kind of an artist does that make you?" "Age" is a manifest of truthfulness, mostly written in F minor. And F minor, we all know that, is the key of complaint, the key of melancholia, but also the key of desire und dark, helpless dejection. Just as in the work of Wilde and Baudelaire, behind all the bloomy esthetics Gibb's pieces also bear some doubts with a glance out of the window.

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