My New BandBelieve (the new band from former black midi bassist and sometime frontmanCameron Picton) are happy to announce their debut album ‘My New Band Believe’which will be released through Rough Trade Records on April 10th 2026. Thelaunch track ‘Numerology’ is an exclusive non-album single and will feature ona bonus 10”, with a special edition of the LP and on limited edition Deluxe CD.
My New BandBelieve’s debut album began as a fever dream. Delirious in a Chinese hotelroom, Cameron Picton was battling through the worst of a sudden illness when hewas overcome by flashes of weird imagery and loose ribbons of scrambled text.The musician would later salvage and shape some of these fragments into songs,but the one that lodged most clearly in his mind was the odd phrase, “My NewBand Believe.”
As thebassist and sometime frontman of black midi, Picton and his bandmates practicedan explosive form of musical world-building, weaving complex story-tellingthrough thrilling passages of controlled chaos. When the group called it quitsin 2023, the artist didn’t immediately feel like making a solo record orjumping back into another band. It was from this position of a not-quite teamplayer, not-quite bandleader that Picton entered the studio and the seeds of MyNew Band Believe gradually began to emerge.
My New BandBelieve is as epic and ritzy as Picton’s previous work in black midi but itssound is fleet-footed rather than scorching. The record is almost entirelyacoustic, using the barest amount of reverb and electronic effects possible. Itwould be a mistake however to assume these light touches mean that their musicis any less maximal. The crispness of the sound only helps to emphasize itsdynamism. Taking flight off the back of a full string section, Picton leads hisband so that each track forms, scatters and re-groups, so that the uplift ofone song crashes head-long into the rush of another.
Stand-alonesingle “Numerology” has its dancing shoes on. Over barrelling, instrumentaldance music, Picton embraces chance and risk, weighing the potential fordisaster, while leaning into the thrill of fun and danger.
The group’sdebut is a massive and hallucinatory record. It is a collection of music thatswerves through wildly different emotional and thematic registers, all thewhile unraveling an endlessly compelling thread of dream logic. Picton is anunreliable but charismatic narrator. and together with a cast of all-starplayers including Kiran Leonard, Caius Williams, Steve Noble, Andrew Cheetham,he guides the listener through a rapidly unfolding multi-verse of the band’smaking. With My New Band Believe, he not only comes into his own as abandleader but arranges conflicting, fragmentary, and hysterical ideas untilthey form a brilliant new kind of sense.
