| A Sober Conversation | ||||
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| Released | June 27, 2025 | |||
| Genre | Pop [1] | |||
| Length | 35:20 | |||
| Label | Bella Union | |||
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| Singles from A Sober Conversation | ||||
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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]
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]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Guardian | [4] |
| Mojo | [5] |
| MusicOMH |  [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]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
Credits for A Sober Conversation adapted from AllMusic. [1]
| Chart (2025) | Peak position |
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| Scottish Albums (OCC) [7] | 5 |
| UK Albums (OCC) [8] | 61 |
| UK Independent Albums (OCC) [9] | 3 |