My New Band Believe (the new band from former black midi bassist and sometime frontman Cameron Picton) today share their boundary pushing debut studio album, and live video from new non-album track ‘Kick Me’ as they take the same daring approach to live performance.
‘Kick Me’, a new live recording stitched together from the multitracks of 7 different performances, starting in London then flying to New York City and back in the space of 6 minutes. It ties together the best bits of each performance; some Wurlitzer by Seth Evans, a guitar line by Luke Mark, double drums from King David Ike-Elechi and Steve Noble as well as its standout moment: a transatlantic guitar solo shared between Ryley Walker and Tara Cunningham.
As the bassist and sometime frontman of black midi, Picton and his bandmates practiced an explosive form of musical world-building, weaving complex story-telling through thrilling passages of controlled chaos. When the group called it quits in 2023, the artist didn’t immediately feel like making a solo record or jumping back into another band. It was from this position of a not-quite team player, not-quite bandleader that Picton entered the studio and the seeds of My New Band Believe gradually began to emerge.
The group’s debut is a massive and hallucinatory record. It is a collection of music that swerves through wildly different emotional and thematic registers, all the while unraveling an endlessly compelling thread of dream logic. Picton is an unreliable but charismatic narrator. and together with a cast of all-star players including Kiran Leonard, Caius Williams, Steve Noble, Andrew Cheetham, he guides the listener through a rapidly unfolding multi-verse of the band’s making. With My New Band Believe, he not only comes into his own as a bandleader but arranges conflicting, fragmentary, and hysterical ideas until they form a brilliant new kind of sense.
My New Band Believe will be heading out on their debut headline tour across the UK in April / May 2026 followed by European tour dates in Oct/Nov.
Purchase / stream My New Band Believe here.
