Thursday 14th January 2010
SUMMER CAMP – WAS IT WORTH IT?
Summer feels like a dream right now, and camping a fucking nightmare. London has skies the colour of German cars and Facebook is full of S.A.D. depressives asking “where’s your global warming now, dickhead?” like the sun aint going to shine anymore.
But it will and it’s going to turn our skin vermillion and make the pallid more desirable than Queen Victoria. So enjoy the subzero while it lasts, for the oceans are soon to turn to Roman baths and the air a stillborn hairdryer.
Summer Camp know this, their name alone a middle finger in the face of winter, their music a sauna in the snow that may or may not be a clue to just who they are and where they’re from. “Was It Worth It?” is a little more ice-y than past efforts, but they still sweat desire and longing like a brokenhearted volcano.
Here, they’re a Wonder Years Debbie Harry with lust-hot loins and not a little sweet love desperation. That’s the best kind of Debbie Harry. It’s going to be a long, hot summer. Keep saying it. Keep believing it.
Summer Camp – “Was It Worth It”
(Photo: Gordon Armstrong)
