{"id":25297,"date":"2017-05-04T17:15:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=25297"},"modified":"2017-05-27T19:55:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T23:55:24","slug":"the-last-dinosaur-announce-the-nothing-out-july-7th-on-naim-records-stream-atoms-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=25297","title":{"rendered":"The Last Dinosaur announce &#8216;The Nothing&#8217; + stream new track &#8216;Atoms&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25299\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NAIMDD3501.jpg?resize=900%2C900\" alt=\"The Last Dinosaur 'The Nothing' cover\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NAIMDD3501.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NAIMDD3501.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NAIMDD3501.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NAIMDD3501.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NAIMDD3501.jpg?resize=144%2C144&amp;ssl=1 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>Poignant, dreamlike, beautiful: The Last Dinosaur\u2019s &#8216;The Nothing&#8217; is a record to swim in. The brainchild of Londoner Jamie Cameron, it\u2019s an album that addresses a tragic event from his teenage years, and transmutes that experience into a cathartic work of art. The Nothing will be out on July 7th<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>via Naim Records.\u00a0Watch the video for the lead single, <em>Atoms<\/em> below via YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zt5qShcPlFQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At 16, Jamie had met kindred spirit James Macdonald at music college and recorded the 2004 album &#8216;Good Morning Sunshine\u2026 and Goodnight&#8217;\u00a0with him under the name When I Was a Little Girl, a well-received debut through the independent label Where It\u2019s At Is Where You Are. But a year later, Jamie was in a car crash that tragically claimed the life of his best friend. Out for the day with one of Jamie\u2019s sisters and another friend, the car aquaplaned and hit another car at a junction. James\u2019 injuries were the worst among the passengers, and when he passed away, Jamie was in a state of shock.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019d had a pretty idyllic life until then, nothing particularly bad had happened,\u201d<\/em> Jamie says. <em>\u201cThat was a difficult experience to comprehend. Despite how harrowing it was, I thought came out of it relatively mentally unscathed, although in hindsight that\u2019s a trick you tell yourself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Instead, he began recording with another music college friend, Luke Hayden, as The Last Dinosaur. Jamie\u2019s parents split up, he broke up with his girlfriend, and The Last Dinosaur\u2019s debut album &#8216;Hooray! For Happiness,&#8217; covered glowingly by the likes of Uncut, The Line Of Best Fit and more, attempted to come to terms with these experiences, while avoiding the real elephant in the room.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI was doing everything to avoid confronting this really big thing that happened at an age when you don\u2019t generally experience death and loss,\u201d<\/em> Jamie says.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, depression took hold of him, but over the course of years, he began writing, recording and amassing songs that addressed his grief and own fear of dying. The powerful &#8216;The Nothing&#8217; began to take shape.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t an intention of mine to write an album about dying or anything like that, but I realised after I\u2019d written a few songs that they all were about it in some way. It got to a point where I couldn\u2019t really avoid it. I\u2019d done the divorce album and it was all I was left with, trying to make sense of this thing that happened. Halfway through I realised it was profoundly cathartic, it made me felt less scared of dying.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Nothing&#8217;\u00a0is uplifting, life-affirming. Its lyrics may tackle the subject of mortality, but the gorgeous, overlapping, interlacing melodies are like drifting in a blissful reverie. \u2018We\u2019ll Greet Death\u2019, with its strings, piano, saxophone and acoustic guitar is defiant, possessed of an emotional complexity. On \u2018Grow\u2019, Jamie\u2019s lovely acoustic plucking forms the basis for a song about the fragility of life, while \u2018The Sea\u2019 is a meditative post-rock movement that begins in a hushed place and concludes over five minutes later in a gorgeous string-laden denouement. Although Jamie professes to a childhood love for R.E.M, Tortoise and most of all, Talk Talk, the music here is very much his own, self-penned and performed with close friend Rachel Lanskey providing viola on most of the songs. \u201cI\u2019ve had a very strong sense of never wanting to copy anyone else\u2019s music, I just want to sound like me,\u201d Jamie says.<\/p>\n<p>Created between 2009 and 2016, &#8216;The Nothing&#8217; is a stunning, affecting album that is also a touching tribute to Jamie\u2019s late friend. <em>\u201cSomeone called it\u00a0elegiac,\u201d<\/em> Jamie says. <em>\u201cI quite liked that notion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Poignant, dreamlike, beautiful: The Last Dinosaur\u2019s &#8216;The Nothing&#8217; is a record to swim in. 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