Alex Cameron with Josh Da Costa

These are songs of protest against life itself. This is the world our fathers feared. And here is its soundtrack.

In January 2025, Alex Cameron exploded his life in a controlled detonation largely ignored by the universe. No one was safe. And nobody noticed. The charred remains of Cameron’s life fragmented and reassembled into 9 synthetic rock songs detailing his world’s deep confusion and regret.

He continues to find pieces of his own reflection in the shattered characters he creates and embodies. Their yearnings and their humiliations. The promised Messiah. Agamemnon’s appetite for war. Mel Gibson’s ransom note. Humanity’s Pro-War destiny. A cold war breakup. This is the sound of a man walking out on somebody else’s family. Into a new world, afraid to remember what it used to be.

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Josh da Costa is a Los Angeles-based musician and multi-instrumentalist whose solo debut, New Wave Graveyard (Stones Throw), is a surreal collection of “greatest hits from a parallel universe.” A longtime fixture of the NYC and LA undergrounds, da Costa fronted post punk / “mystery rock” trio Regal Degal (RVNG Intl.) as well as its more electronic offshoot CMON (Mexican Summer) and has played drums with Drugdealer, Chris Cohen, Jessica Pratt, and MGMT. As a DJ, he hosts the monthly NTS Radio show Confusing Mix, devoted to showcasing obscure, off-kilter, and infectious music from a seemingly alternate reality. His own music is an extension of that obsession: a Frankenstein’s monster of forgotten sounds, drawing freely from glam rock, shoegaze, disco, house, and outsider pop to create the kind of strange, irresistible songs you hope to discover buried in a record bin.

Website: https://www.stonesthrow.com/store/new-wave-graveyard/