Camp Cope will release their highly anticipated second album on March 2, via Run For Cover. First single ‘The Opener’ is an honest portrayal of the band’s experience as women in music with recently-released title track ‘How To Socialise & Make Friends’ serving as an upbeat anthem of independence, about resilience and being yourself in the face of life's challenges. Highlighting singer/guitarist Georgia Maq's incisive lyricism, the song tells a perfectly observant yet sarcastically blistering tale of expectations abed crunching guitars, clashing drums, and melodic bass hooks. The album was recorded over two days at Holes and Corners in South Melbourne with Sam Johnson in October 2017.

The forthcoming album celebrates the joys of being an independent unit and knowing who you are without any influence from external factors. ‘How To Socialise & Make Friends’ anchors on the cycles of life, loss, and growth through resilience, and those moments of finding and being yourself. ‘Anna’ and ‘Sagan-Indiana’ speak to the love you feel towards friends - the women who shape you and work together to find strength in numbers. ‘The Face of God’ is a raw account of sexual assault and the feelings of isolation that follow, and album closer ‘I've Got You’ showcases vocalist and guitarist Georgia Maq solo, singing of her late father's battle with cancer and their close friendship that prevails, even in death. Throughout the nine songs that comprise How To Socialise & Make Friends, it becomes clear that, if their 2016 self-titled debut was the spark, this is Camp Cope on full-fledged fire, stronger and more focused than ever.

Camp Cope have become a force in music since forming in 2015. Their Australian Music Prize-shortlisted self-titled debut saw critical acclaim from all corners. They sold out two shows at Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid LIVE 2017, headlined Melbourne's Weekender Fest 2017, and toured the US for the first time in summer 2017, playing through 13 states with Worriers.

Singer-songwriter and Bastille live member Charlie Barnes has shared a new single from his upcoming album, Oceanography with ‘Will & Testament’ featuring backing vocals from Bastille’s Dan Smith. The follow up to 2015’s post-pop monster, More Stately Mansions, Oceanography finds Barnes in a different place in his life. The past two years have seen huge change for the musician, he has spent the majority of his time on the road as a touring member of Bastille, performing on some of the biggest stages in the world and travelling all over the globe as well as getting married and relocating from Leeds to the Midlands.

The new single sees Barnes exploring his poppiest urges with excellent results explaining “Will & Testament’ has been through a lot of different iterations in its lifetime.  The main guitar hook that starts the song is from the very first demo recording I did before the last album was even finished, and I originally built the demo up to be this big, wall of sound moody post rock thing with really nasty sounding guitars in the middle eight.  Funnily enough, it was the former Oceansize member who suggested we take a slightly different approach, so we have Steve to thank for how this song eventually turned out.  It's sorted of ended up sounding like Discoceansize.  Yep.  I went there.” The new single also features vocals from Bastille’s Dan Smith with Barnes adding “He made it all sound much better, so thanks Dan.”

In contrast to his previous LP – largely recorded in one place with producer and Oceansize guitarist Steve Durose – Oceanography is a story of snatched moments after tour rehearsals, late nights spent in far flung studios from Wales to Virginia, ideas sent back and forth over email and put down in fits and starts while on the road. At points it seemed like it would never come together, so it’s some achievement that it not only matches the attention-grabbing maximalist prog pop of More Stately Mansions, but builds and expands on that record’s foundations.

Tour dates are listed below:

·       March 7th - Leeds, Oporto (with The Society Pages)

·       March 13th - Glasgow, Bloc

·       March 14th - Leicester, The Cookie (with The Society Pages)

·       March 15th - London, Islington Academy 2

·       March 22nd - Sheffield, West Street Live