VICE Exclusive: Listen to France Camp's All-American Garage Rock

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VICE Exclusive: Listen to France Camp's All-American Garage Rock

France Camp follows in the footsteps of Black Lips and Thee Oh Sees—they know they don't need to reinvent the garage rock wheel, and instead play with established genre tropes in clever ways.

Garage rock can be excruciatingly boring. It's always the same chords, the same swung beats, and the same skinny dude in Vans running through a reverb pedal. That said, there are sparks of genius in the garage rock genre—Black Lips and Thee Oh Sees both maintain Americana wild west spirit alive in the garage rock genre, which is otherwise basically just bad pop music with body odor and tattoos. France Camp follows in the lineage of Black Lips. They don't need to reinvent the wheel, but they're good at playing with established tropes in smart ways. This track, "Midnight," is from their new album Purge, which comes out May 19 on Forged Artifacts.

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