Summer Camp finish new record, discuss 'difficult second album'

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Summer Camp have confirmed they’ve completed their second full-length and follow-up to 2011′s Welcome To Condale.

“It’s official. Our album is finished. The masters have been signed off, the B-sides have been mixed. It’s on”, singer Elizabeth Sankey wrote on her personal blog. “There is always a waiting period of a couple of months after you finish an album,” she continues. “And that means we have ample opportunity to think back over the past year of writing and think about everything.”

Sankey proceeds to run through all the complications that arise from having a whole year to make album #2 when, with most debut LPs that borrow from previous tracks released on EPs, there’s not that prolonged period of writing and recording that comes next.

A summer playing festivals and then trying to record, she says, made the group make up short songs consisting of the “best bits” of music, rather than whole cohesive tracks. Going through different phases of music tastes, like listening to Toots & The Maytals, also seems to warp judgement also, making the group want to “put steel drums on a song” or insert “searing guitar solos”.

But despite the stress of “sobbing in a corner for ten minutes”, making “moodboards” or having nobody like the song you think is “not even the best song we’d ever written, the best song anyone, ever, in the entire world, had written”, it seems like it all manages to come together in the end.

Three of the “best” songs on the album, Sankey writes, were spawned from the “inevitable last month” when the bad had “officially ‘stopped writing’.”

There’s no set due date for the upcoming release, but it’s expected to be within the summer months. Until then, check out our Best Fit session with the group below: