Paul Mardles 

Summer Camp: Welcome to Condale – review

Boy-girl duo Summer Camp mix 80s nostalgia and hazy chillwave to tremendous effect on their debut album, writes Paul Mardles
  
  


Had they formed in the 80s, London boy‑girl duo Summer Camp would have been a fixture on brat pack film soundtracks. Their dreamy debut is shot through with regard for the years when synth-pop ruled the charts and Molly Ringwald was a national sweetheart. Typical is the hazy "Summer Camp", which samples Kelly LeBrock in John Hughes's Weird Science, while the euphoric "1988" is Toni Basil by way of indie-pop. But Welcome to Condale doesn't fetishise the past, its love-gone-wrong lyrics and snatches of chillwave lending Summer Camp a sound that is theirs alone.

 

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