The music of Cameo Blush resides in the inquisitive, genre-melding spaces in between. It’s electronic music made by someone who can play an entire live band’s worth of instruments; dance music by an author who spends just as much time listening to The Beatles as writing for the club. Melding electronic music with live instruments, Cameo Blush’s music moves freely between genres across a string of EPs, refining a style that prioritises punchy production, chopped-up vocals and “drums that are interesting enough to tell a story by themselves”. Now the London musician presents ‘Just Concentrate’: a giant leap forward both in scope and concept.
Structured to mirror the experience of flicking through radio stations on a late-night drive, across the EP’s dusky transmissions, you’ll find hip hop-leaning beats (‘All In Good Time’) and straight-up bangers (‘4me’); trip-hop nods (‘Whatever Happens’), happy hardcore (‘Just Concentrate’), and forays into ambient territory (‘Still In Time’), all held together by Cameo Blush’s production lens. Throughout, crackles and snippets of radio voice-over tie the whole piece together, with the presenter introducing ‘All In Good Time’ with “Your listening to Just Concentrate Radio, the only radio specializing in Existential Dread, direct to your ears”.
The result is a project that’s highly stylized but also loose and free-sounding; that embraces a world of possibility much like its author, leaving the door wide open for where he could go next.