Indie Rock from Camens

Coming from Stoke-On-Trent, Camens is an indie rock outfit making their mark on the UK music scene and beyond with their infectiously catchy take on the genre. As a band, they’ve seen it all and have the stories to back it up.

From sneaking into Latitude inside the food van of a friend, surviving a car crash en route to the festival, they smuggled themselves and their gear inside and dragged it across miles of fields to play popup gigs wherever they could. Delighting impromptu crowds in a breakfast tent and on top of a cocktail-serving horse box, instead of facing another two weeks of camping, they purchased a caravan from some travellers and towed it down to Newquay to do it all again at Boardmasters and then at Green Man.

With their studio music, they’ve shown just as much passion and charisma ever since their debut single with 2017’s “Boys Will Stray”. Followed up with a string of sensational tracks over the years, in 2022 they returned with the singles “Poltergeist” and “Illustrator” which racked up tens of thousands of streams and secured extensive radio support around the world.

Now, following their own tour of the UK in October, they bring us their latest work with their brand new single titled “I Concede to Worrying”. Building on the momentum that’s seen them go from strength-to-strength throughout the year, their latest track showcases their instantly memorable, dazzling indie rock sound.

Laying down a driving energy, bright guitar-based instrumentation and soaring vocal leads carrying stunning melodic writing, with “I Concede to Worrying” Camens take aim at the current political climate in the UK. Commenting on the new release, they share, “We’ve never been a political band. I’m not an on the nose political songwriter. That said, many artists I love have been – Dylan, Lennon, Strummer etc. It just doesn’t feel right or genuine when I adopt that voice. That doesn’t mean to say I can’t write about the human experience though; about how this farcical system that we’ve allowed to leach, and fester is affecting the people we know and love.”

Adding, “That’s where Worrying came from. So many people live in perpetual worry now. Working full time for a wage that just about covers bills, leaving them with no real life or time to grow, relax, or invest in themselves or their families. As a result, I’ve watched good people I love trying their best to start families and maintain what were happy relationships, only to be pushed to the brink and eventually split… because all they do is work, sleep, pay bills, repeat. It’s bad and it’s getting worse. “I concede to worrying”. It’s exactly that. People are losing to the worry of providing. Losing the best years of their life to these struggles despite working full time and paying their way. It’s horrible. I don’t think I need to be rhyming the name of the latest PM with something abhorrent to be political. I’ll just write about what they’re doing to people.”

Listen to I Concede To Worrying below