Change comes to those who were expecting it the least and the fresh sound of an emotionally and artistically open Caamp, the Ohio alt-folk band that broke into large-scale UK venues following their 2022 breakthrough album, Lavender Days, is laid out in the open on their newest release, Mistakes / Fairview Feeling – OUT NOW. A generous AA-Side offer to listeners looking forward with the band to the release of their fifth album, Copper Changes Color, on Fri 6 June 2025, the band’s wave ebbs from buoyant and breezy indie to intimate, low-lit introspection across the two tracks.
Announcing their return last month with the evocative, sparse beauty of Drive, front man and primary songwriter, Taylor Meier described Caamp’s return as the start of “a new era”. Success and its thirst for forcing adjustments in those it blesses fell hard on the artist’s shoulders, coming at the same time as he suffered from personal grief and loss. With those pressures combined, he took time to adapt in a period of reflection, reevaluation and relocation.
Spending more time in Manhattan, a new sense of necessary space and seclusion found Meier falling in love with the rattle and rush noughties indie, not least The Strokes, and brought the depth of the kinship shared with his Caamp bandmates into vivid relief. Copper Changes Color is, as a result, a new Caamp album of courageous genre crossover and detectable camaraderie.
“I remember walking around when I first moved to New York and having all this dialogue in my head,” he explains, “but the streets were even more chaotic, which slowed things down and allowed me to open up to the possibility of writing something really vulnerable. I found that the city scratches a different itch for me, and I spent a lot of time there just walking around, writing and rewriting verses and trying to go deeper than I ever have on this record.”
Mistakes is reflective of the relaxed, unhurried state of Meier’s songwriting on Copper Changes Color, coupled with the band’s approach to bringing that imagery to life, drawing the most vulnerable, open-hearted lines (“Can I get to know you, honey / And all of your lovely mistakes / I've got more than a few to show you”) onto a canvas of sunny garage pop. With purposeful and deeply affecting contrast, Fairview Feeling’s dimmed light unites Meier’s voice with deft, sparing instrumentation, his words dealing in the process of making peace with imperfection.
Written, performed and produced by the band over two years, with recording and co-production shared with Grammy-winning collaborators, Beatriz Artola (Fleet Foxes, Adele, Sharon Van Etten) and Tucker Martine (Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, R.E.M.), Copper Changes Color’s scene is set around the inevitability that nothing can remain static. The 11-tracks infuse Caamp’s renowned, infectious brand of modern folk music with an electrifying dose of indie rock energy.
Caamp’s last appearances in Europe included nights at landmark venues including O2 Shepherds Bush Empire and Manchester Academy, working upwards into theatre venues from humble debut tours on the intense, eyeball-to-eyeball, sweat-dripping club circuit. Recently announced US tour dates, including multiple sold-out nights at iconic venues like New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, Chicago’s Salt Shed and Boston’s MGM Music Hall, fuel expectations of a return the UK and Ireland to pick up where they left off.
Released on multiple formats, including vinyl, CD and digital, the full track listing for Caamp’s Copper Changes Color, has been confirmed by the band as follows:
1. Millions
2. One True Way ft. Madi Diaz
3. Brush
4. Porchswing
5. Fairview Feeling
6. Shade
7. Waiting Up (For You)
8. Mistakes
9. Ohio’s Ugly
10. Living & Dying & In Between
11. Drive
Having first emerged in 2016 with the release of their first, self-titled album, the band – made up of Meier alongside multi-instrumentalist co-founder, Evan Westfall, Matt Vinson (bass), Joseph Kavalec (keys) and Nicholas Falk (drums) – Caamp quickly established their status amongst a new elite of bands pushing at the possibilities of US alt-folk and finding a global audience. Following up with a further three albums, Boys (2018), By & By (2019) and Lavender Days (2022), critical and audience acclaim for the band’s progressive songcraft has come hand-in-hand with their popularity as a live phenomenon. Furthermore, the band has amassed more than 2.5 billion streams worldwide to date.