How appropriate that Tropic of Cancer’s debut album is dropping the first week of fall, what with Camella Lobo’s preeminent position as Southern California’s cellar-dwelling princess of smog-choked pop music. What do we mean by that? How about songs that are as shadowy as L.A. itself, a city that—as Lobo detailed in a gloomy travel guide last year—”holds far too many dreams, both dead and alive.” Not to mention a noir-ish underbelly of unsolved mysteries, night drives, and hills that seem to scrape the horizon line for miles.
With Restless Idylls less than a week away from its digital Blackest Ever Black release (pre-order the limited double LP pressing here), we’re psyched to share the record’s first official single: the steam-pressed, downward spiral-tracing “Court of Devotion.” If you dig its stranglehold of gossamer hooks, the 7” edit of another full-length cut is also available to stream below, right alongside details about Tropic of Cancer’s fall tour…
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