Brass Camel Announce New Album With 'What Are You Going to Do' Video
(Glass Onyon) Vancouver-based progressive rock band Brass Camel announce that they will release their third album Brass Camel on April 15th, 2026. The new single from the upcoming album, "What Are You Going to Do", has been released.
The album was recorded primarily at Chalet Studios in Uxbridge and co-produced by Kevin Comeau (Crown Lands). The mix of this new album gets a decidedly more old-school treatment this time as the band had the honour of getting Terry Brown of Rush production fame on board. Says Terry, "Some classic influences here on the new Brass Camel album, so couple that with cool tunes, great arrangements, excellent lyric writing and superb execution by a group of talented musicians - you get great results! Thanks for having me mix this epic."
This upcoming self-titled record represents both a consolidation of the band's previous strengths, and an evolution in other ways. Brass Camel is the first album of material entirely written during the tenure of the current lineup. Even the previous album Camel, recorded with the full five-piece, still contained much material conceived during more primordial stages of the Brass Camel project. The band sees this as a culmination of a loose three-album cycle that firmly establishes what they're about, as evidenced by the cheeky progression of titles Brass, Camel, and finally Brass Camel.
Says guitarist Daniel Sveinson, "Brass Camel is, appropriately, the first Brass Camel record that I feel sounds like a Brass Camel record. We've spent god knows how many hours in a bus together, in studio together and onstage together and I'd like to believe that is reflected in this collection of songs and recordings. We were focused, driven and motivated throughout the process and can't wait to play these songs live all over the country and, later this year, in Europe (and hopefully the UK)."
One goal the band had for this new album was for the lyrical content to be more central to the creative process. Says keyboardist Aubrey Ellefson, "Each track here explores a specific concept or story; from the legend of the Jersey Devil, to a dramatic narration of the Titan submersible disaster, to tackling the can of worms that is AI vs. the creative process, and many more."
Says Daniel, "This album is more lyrically dense - there's a higher word count here than our first two LPs put together - and more musically ambitious, weirder and yet somehow more accessible than our previous efforts. There are a lot of subtleties and easter eggs hidden in the arrangements which I hope will make each listen more entertaining than the last! When it's funk, it's funkier. When it's proggy, it's proggier. When it's loud, it's louder. When it's quiet, it's quieter. There's a lot more of a lot more but it's all Brass Camel. Hope you enjoy it."
Track list:
Side A:
1. You've Got Time
2. What Are you Going to Do
3. Why Bother
4. Can't Say We Didn't Try
5. Ice Cold
6. Careful What You Wish For
Side B:
7. Everybody Loves a Scandal
8. Catch Us If You Can
9. Last Call
10. This is Goodbye
Produced by Brass Camel and Kevin Comeau
Mixed by Terry Brown at Moron Heights
Engineered by Kevin Comeau and Dylan Lammie
Mastered by Joao Carvalho
Recorded at:
Chalet Studios*
Hipposonic Studio**
Blue Light Studio**
Camelot Studio**
*Uxbridge **Vancouver
Drum technician: Graham Shaw
Cover art by Red Baron
Sleeve Photography by Heather Horncastle
Performed by:
Daniel Sveinson - electric guitar/vocals
Curtis Arsenault - bass/vocals
Aubrey Ellefson - keyboards/vocals
Wyatt Gilson - drums and percussion
Additional musicians:
Dylan Lammie - electric guitar on "Why Bother" and "Careful What You Wish For"
Cat Madden - vocals on "What Are You Going to Do"
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