A Sober Conversation

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A Sober Conversation
BC Camplight - A Sober Conversation.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 27, 2025 (2025-06-27)
Genre Pop [1]
Length35:20
Label Bella Union
BC Camplight chronology
The Last Rotation of Earth
(2023)
A Sober Conversation
(2025)
Singles from A Sober Conversation
  1. "Two Legged Dog"
    Released: April 4, 2025

A Sober Conversation is the seventh studio album by American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist BC Camplight. It was released on June 27, 2025, via Bella Union in vinyl, CD and digital formats. [2]

Contents

Background

Consisting of tracks ranging between two and four minutes, with a total runtime of approximately thirty-five minutes, the album was noted as a pop album.

Succeeding Camplight's 2023 project, The Last Rotation of Earth, the album features the lead single, "Two Legged Dog", a collaboration with British rock band The Last Dinner Party's lead vocalist Abigail Morris, which was released on April 4, 2025. [3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [6]

The album received a four and a half-star rating from British online magazine MusicOMH 's reviewer Ben Hogwood, who remarked that Camplight reflected on past abuse he experienced in his early years more "directly" on A Sober Conversation than on his previous albums. [6]

AllMusic noted the album as relating to "youthful trauma", noting it as "a top-shelf pop album that also has something important to tell us." [1]

The Guardian assigned it a rating of four stars and described it as "an eccentric rock opera about repression, depression and anger told with the meta-theatrical, tragicomic style that has won Christinzio a cult following." [4]

Tom Doyle of Mojo rated the album four stars and remarked, "Ultimately, A Sober Conversation amounts to a brilliant and bold record that is all the more powerful for its deployment of life-affirming grooves and melodies." [5]

Track listing

A Sober Conversation track listing
No.TitleLength
1."The Tent"4:49
2."Two-Legged Dog"4:26
3."A Sober Conversation"4:04
4."When I Make My First Million"3:51
5."Where You Taking My Baby?"4:33
6."Bubbles in the Gasoline"3:44
7."Rock Gently in Disorder"3:41
8."Drunk Talk"3:57
9."Leaving Camp Four Oaks"2:15
Total length:35:20

Personnel

Credits for A Sober Conversation adapted from AllMusic. [1]

Charts

Chart performance for A Sober Conversation
Chart (2025)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [7] 5
UK Albums (OCC) [8] 61
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [9] 3

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Deming, Mark. "A Sober Conversation – BC Camplight". AllMusic . Retrieved July 5, 2025.
  2. Murray, Robin (April 8, 2025). "BC Camplight Announces New Album A Sober Conversation". Clash . Retrieved July 5, 2025.
  3. Boyle, Emily. "BC Camplight announces upcoming album A Sober Conversation, drops lead single". Hot Press . Retrieved July 5, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Hawthorne, Katie (June 27, 2025). "BC Camplight: A Sober Conversation review – an eccentric rock opera confronting childhood abuse". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved July 5, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Doyle, Tom (August 2025). "A Sober Conversation". Mojo . No. 381. p. 78. ISSN   1351-0193.
  6. 1 2 Hogwood, Ben (June 27, 2025). "BC Camplight – A Sober Conversation". MusicOMH . Retrieved July 5, 2025.
  7. "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 5, 2025.
  8. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 5, 2025.
  9. "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 5, 2025.