A Sober Conversation

A Sober Conversation is an outstanding album—ambitious, honest, and unpredictable. Christinzio’s ability to blend humour with heartbreak and tragedy with absurdity is unparalleled.

It’s theatrical, chaotic and cathartic, and while that’s sort of what you’d expect from a BC Camplight album at this point, he might well have honed it to a point of near perfection on A Sober Conversation.

Brian Christinzio’s album about the source of his ongoing issues with addiction and depression combines real pain, jokes and incisive observations.

A Sober Conversation is that rarity, a top-shelf pop album that also has something important to tell us.

The US singer’s seventh album takes his meta-theatrical style almost into showtune territory, with songs about repression, depression and anger.

Bold and breathtaking.

Ultimately, A Sober Conversation amounts to a brilliant and bold record that is all the more powerful for its deployment of life-affirming groves and melodies.

This is an album that won’t just be musically rewarding but will help many victims of abuse open the repressed memory door and figure out the best way to mentally cope with their suffering.

‘A Sober Conversation’ is the most meticulously melodic, outwardly most immediate BC Camplight album to date.

Gripping stuff from US singer-songwriter.