Camera Shy

Description

Before they came to be known as Camera Shy, Nick Bassett and Alexandra Morte had been working on crafting warm weather indie pop indebted with influence to the Smiths, the Sundays and Sarah Records catalogs while the pair made loud, shoegazing punk together in Bassetts band, Whirr. While the Bay Area act has moved onto a darker terrain since Mortes departure, she and Bassett have remained a creative unit that serves as a brighter outlet to contrast the caustic dreariness Whirr indulges.

On Colors Radiate and New Something Mortes vocals swirl clandestinely in the sun around Bassetts clean-cut strumming with upbeat romantic optimism. Glowing and Seemingly Ill alternatively tug slowly at dreams of longing into a starlit sky. The duality of Camera Shy ultimately rests its lens between slumbering look-backs and forward momentum. Balancing todays white noise with something less complex can render equally stunning results, and for Bassett and Morte, Camera Shy is that desire.