Cameron McGill & What Army w/ Anniversaire & Brad Hoshaw

Now a resident of Chicago, Cameron McGill grew up in Champaign-Urbana, IL, where he first started writing and recording songs. Having fronted Chicago’s power-pop trio Morris Minors for three years, McGill decided in favor of a more orchestral approach to his new group of songs. On his solo debut, Stories of The Knife and The Back, McGill takes pop music to the dark libraries of your old house. With lush strings, vintage keys, and introspective lyrics, these songs inhabit the new era of intelligent pop song. In the vein of The Webb Brothers and Brendan Benson, these songs range from scarce heartfelt piano ballads to everything-but-the-kitchen-sink pop tunes that playfully abduct Elvis Costello and take him to the Midwest. All the while they weave literate and elegant tales of the jigsaw puzzles of ordinary life and tasteless/tasteful heartbreaks.