Releasing Friday, May 12th via Bella Union, Brian ‘BC Camplight’ Christinzio’s new album, The Last Rotation Of Earth, follows his break-up amid long-term struggles with addiction and declining mental health. The outcome is an extraordinary record, with Christinzio describing it as “more cinematic, sophisticated and nuanced than anything I’ve done before.”

Christinzio bettering his previous album is an achievement, given that Shortly After Takeoff received the best reviews of his life. “A masterpiece,” said The Guardian's 5-star review, “a half hour or so that roils with anxiety, stuns with beauty and, occasionally, provokes laughter.” Even then, fate intervened when the album was released in April 2020, just as Covid and lockdown kicked in, so he could not tour the record until late 2021. The Philadelphian then joked, “I can’t wait to make an album that isn’t surrounded by some awful tragedy.”

Talk about tempting fate. But it’s true to say that Christinzio has made his best music under immense duress, and The Last Rotation Of Earth is an inimitable work; a heady, heavy slice of lustrous hooks, moods bursting with classical sophistication and fractured paranoia. Christinzio’s signature dizzying progressions and U-turns are executed with a masterful hand. A notable feature of the album are periodic conversational voices as if a cast of people were delivering their lines – which was exactly part of Christinzio’s thinking. “I wanted to make the songs resemble little films, with lots of ideas,” he says.

There is no better entry to the Camplight school of sound and vision than the opening title track and lead single which he discusses:

“For the first time since I arrived in Manchester,” he says, “I thought, why am I here? I came to find my music and to find her and she’s gone. I do everything in my power not to be dramatic, but I didn’t want to be alive anymore. So, I imagined what your last day on earth would be like. Though the lyrics are often quite sweet, like appreciating the looks that strangers give each other, from the perspective of a guy soaking up every last bit of life.”

You can pre-order The Last Rotation Of Earth here.
To accompany the announcement, BC Camplight has shared the first single, which is the LP’s title track – listen HERE

Read more about the album on Bella Union HERE

"BC Camplight is so brilliantly insightful and completely unique in the current landscape...absolutely love that"
Lauren Laverne - BBC Radio 6

A 2023 November UK tour has also been announced including performances at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire and Manchester’s Albert Hall, the dates of which can be found below.

Wednesday 8th November – Glasgow – The Garage
Thursday 9th November – Newcastle – Boiler Shop
Friday 10th November – Leeds – Stylus
Wednesday 15th November – Bristol – SWX
Thursday 16th November – Birmingham – The Mill
Friday 17th November – Manchester – The Albert Hall
Tuesday 21st November - Exeter – Phoenix
Wednesday 22nd November – Brighton – Chalk
Thursday 23rd November – London – O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
Friday 24th November – Nottingham – Rock City
Wednesday 29th November – Dublin – Whelan’s
Thursday 30th November – Belfast – Empire Music Hall