The Hidden Cameras
Pioneers of the not-so-swiftly-evolving ‘gay church folk music’ scene, The Hidden Cameras are pioneered by the somewhat immensely complex and deep-natured guidance of Joel Gibb – a man with a mission to open minds. And open, quite possibly, more literal orifices…
For the ‘Cameras’ tales are that of the obscure, the peculiar and the beautiful, interspersed with homosexual overtones last seen on Rough Trade Records via Morrissey’s consistent myriad of lyrical double-meanings. Backed up with a band of grandiose and large-scale proportions, the Canadian ensemble currently number an extravagant hotchpotch of dancers and musicians, that collectively help form the basis of their memorable, lauded live-shows, and the startling, melodious beauty of debut-LP, ‘The Smell Of Our Own’.
The tones may be bright, but the subject-natures still pierce through, instilling a new spin on a previously-unaddressed issue in alt-music. It’s a masterful-sounding introduction to an otherwise untapped-into horizon, all the more enticing due to an upcoming summer-schedule of busy touring well worth being a part of.
