Blog: Consequence Of Sound

When it comes to reviewing debuts of up-and-coming acts, the standard approach is to draw parallels to similar bands. For Elizabeth Sankey and Jeremy Warmsley, aka Summer Camp , that comparison will inevitably be towards not another band or sub-genre, but filmmaker John Hughes. Produced by Pulp’s Steve Mackey, the London duo’s debut album, Welcome to Condale, is the musical equivalent of a long-lost Hughes film from the 80s. Rather than Hughes’ nonexistent Chicago suburb of Shermer, the tale of Summer Camp takes place in fictional Condale, California, a fitting locale [...]