A Camp at the Bluebird this Saturday

June 4, 2:19 PMIndie Rock ExaminerAlli Sands

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Seven and a half years after releasing their self-titled, debut album, A Camp’s Colonia is receiving rave reviews from the likes of Rolling Stone and Spin, and rightfully so. Made up of various elements from other bands, such as Nina Persson from The Cardigans, Nathan Larson from Hot One, and Niclas Frisk from Atomic Swing, Sweet Chariots, Vanessa and the O’s, and Perssons Pack, A Camp struggled to find time to focus on a new project.

Even though it took quite some time for them to come together to produce a second album, Frisk notes that, “We were all subconsciously thinking about new A Camp material.” While Persson worked on stuff with The Cardigans, Larson composed music for films, and Frisk wrote and produced records of his own, A Camp went into hibernation. “We wanted to hang out and do stuff,” says Frisk, “So when we realized we had a gap in our schedules, we decided to make a record.”

When chatting about the new album with Frisk, he talks about how Colonia is, “Music with sort of larger emotions, it’s soft and elegant on the surface but violent and selfish in the core.” He goes on to comment that, “You tend to do what you weren’t allowed to the first time around.”

Recently embarking on their first US tour, A Camp will be hitting the Bluebird this Saturday night. Frisk, who has never visited the Mile High City, describes himself as a “kid in the backseat, sitting and pointing” as he and the band venture across the country, “I’m really looking forward to L.A. because to every Scandinavian, sunshine is fantastic.”

Even though Frisk insists that he tries to live a “domestic life”, he comments that, “I like the intensity of it [touring]. I think the whole reason to write and play music is to communicate. After a tour, I miss seeing people’s reaction to the music.