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Photo by Nick Mckk

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Praise for RUNNING WITH THE HURRICANE

#1 ARIA Aus Vinyl Chart
#11 ARIA Albums Chart

“Camp Cope have always been loud, fearless, and sincere
but on their tender third album, they’re more confessional than confrontational” – triple j (Album Spotlight)

“As receptive and unflinching as ever” – The New York Times

“Fearless, minimalist punk… But beyond the bombast, in the band’s quieter moments, singer Georgia Maq’s honest introspection feels just as powerful” – NPR

“Shifting away from the gnawing, emo-inflected power-pop of their first two albums. Camp Cope ask: Can softness be as invigorating as fury?” – Pitchfork (7.8/10)

“Maq’s singing, always powerful, is more beautiful than it has ever been before… a wonderful return, and well worth the four year wait” – NARC (5/5)

“It’s heart and soul that shines through… They’ve never been better” – Upset (5/5)

“Distinct, crooning and softly beautiful” – DIY Mag (4/5)

“In spite of its softness, this is music that knows its own power
yet wields it graciously, both sonically and lyrically” – Kerrang! (4/5)

“An intimate collection of tender-hearted indie rock” – Rolling Stone (3.5/5)

“Running With the Hurricane is golden and soulful, tender and huge-hearted” – The Guardian

“If there’s a Morrissey-esque lilt in Maq’s vocals, there’s also an echo of his famous plea, that it “takes guts to be gentle and kind”, in the album’s spirit” – Sydney Morning Herald

“Running With the Hurricane offers enticing glimpses of a more settled band, one teeming with soft hope and resolute joy” – Under The Radar

“An early contender for album of the year” – STACK Magazine

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Camp Cope today announce their latest stream of tour dates, taking to Aotearoa / New Zealand this January 2023. Tickets are on sale now,

BUY HERE

In the wake of their recent US tour, including support slots with Lucy Dacus, Running With The Hurricane, Camp Cope’s third LP will see the group return to Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland and Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington in late January with support acts to be announced. As one of so-called Australia’s most embraced performers, Camp Cope’s live show was reshaped earlier this year, joined by award-winning multi-instrumentalist Jennifer Aslett (Julia Jacklin, Stella Donnelly, San Cisco) to deliver a new string of instrumentation, praised as “honest, brave and dedicated.”

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Most recently captured in the music video for ‘Sing Your Heart Out‘, Georgia Maq, Sarah Thompson and Kelly-Dawn Helmrich continue to leave audiences captivated and impressed, with live show reviews of their shows across Meanjin / Brisbane’s Tivoli, Eora / Sydney’s Enmore Theatre, Naarm / Melbourne’s Forum over May and later in lutruwita / Tasmania at the Royal Oak in kanamaluka / Launceston and Repuclic Bar in nipaluna / Hobart; boasting “a masterful set” and “The fact that Camp Cope have remained the same at their core means their fans have stayed loyal”;“It’s hard to believe Camp Cope have only been together for little over half a decade.”

Arriving in March to a steady stream of global acclaim, tastemakers locally and abroad have each revelled in Running With The Hurricane’s empowering embrace of new sonic and lyrical ground, including Upset Magazine’s #12 Album of the Year: “Secure in where they stand, it’s heart and soul that shine through – Camp Cope comfortable in their own sonic skin, pushing outwards while looking inwards.”

Camp Cope have also been nominated for Best Group at the upcoming Music VIC Awards and long-listed for the Australian Music Prize, who lauded their latest LP as “Camp Cope’s most complex and accomplished record yet. It’s somehow both raw and polished, with layered vocals and a fuller sound than their previous offerings. Lyrically, still as powerful as ever.”

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Throughout Running With The Hurricane’s ten tracks, Camp Cope trade searing vocals and fierce riffs for pianos, multi-instruments, harmonies and more breathing new growth for the trio personally and professionally – older, wiser, and more at peace with the world. Following their critically acclaimed album How to Socialise & Make Friends (2018), Running With The Hurricane reflects faltered romances and secret crushes, vibrating with assured confidence. If Camp Cope’s self-titled debut (2016) was the spark, and How to Socialise & Make Friends was the fire, Running With The Hurricane is Camp Cope in the calm after the storm.

Running With The Hurricane LP is out now, buy/stream it here.

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RUNNING WITH THE HURRICANE
Tracklist

Caroline
Running with the Hurricane
One Wink at a Time
Blue
The Screaming Planet
Love Like You Do
Jealous
The Mountain
Say the Line
Sing Your Heart Out

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TOUR DATES

Fri 27 Jan – The Tuning Fork – Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland

Sat 28 Jan – Meow – Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington

Fri 3 Mar – Hindley Street Music Hall @ Adelaide Festival – Adelaide / tarntanya

Tickets available here

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Follow CAMP COPE
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About CAMP COPE

Founded in Melbourne over home job tattoos, Camp Cope – Georgia Maq (songwriter, vocals, piano, acoustic & electric guitar), Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich (lead bass guitar) and Sarah Thompson (drums & percussion) – have been a force since the release of their self-titled debut album Camp Cope (2016). Their critically-acclaimed follow-up How to Socialise & Make Friends (2018) debuted at #6 on the ARIA Charts with incredible international acclaim including NPR (“Every unpolished moment stuns with turn-of-age earnestness”), The New Yorker (“The words, as raw as the band’s nervy energy, spill out as though she’s been holding them in forever”) and The Guardian (“In 20 years, young women especially will approach her and thank Camp Cope for encouraging them to pick up a guitar and tell their own stories”). Widely loved both in Australia and abroad and the album’s galvanising lead single, ‘The Opener’, shook up the Australian music industry.

Both global and personal circumstances prompted Camp Cope’s change of perspective when work on Running With The Hurricane began in late 2019 – but when the pandemic struck a few months later, it forced a hiatus. The world had stopped and suddenly, there was no rush to get an album out and head back on the road. The trio got to just create art for art’s sake, without worrying about how it would perform. But it wasn’t just time Camp Cope had on their side.

Running With The Hurricane finds the trio more confident and more skilled than ever before. Making the album the band knew their instruments like the backs of their hands; they were assured enough to ask for what they wanted in the studio. After years of fierce friendship and often relentless tour schedules, they had become innately comfortable as collaborators. Together they levelled up their skills, approach and sound. The resulting sound is still recognisably Camp Cope, just a little softer, a bit more relaxed and much more refined. Running With The Hurricane is an album concerned more with creating beauty than noise and, undoubtedly, is their strongest work yet.

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AMNPLIFY – ML