My Heart Is A Room With No Cameras In It by Victoryland
Release date: January 23, 2026Label: Good English Records
Bedroom pop and lo-fi (not the same thing?) have gone through a process of changes since the terms were coined by those who want their music to fit perfectly into neat little files. Well, in the meantime, while R. Stevie Moore is, luckily, still around, the artists that some would categorise as bedroom pop or lo-fi (or both) have gone beyond any bounding restrictions either of the terms might entail. Neither are they restricting themself to pop, nor are they doing it all by themselves in tiny, dinky home studios.
The whole idea was and still is to stretch the realms of pop, rock or whatever, while having your songs a sense of melody and a head and a tail of its own, whatever else you throw in there, and Brooklyn’s Julian McCamman, aka Victoryland, seems to loosely abide by the latter principles on My Heart Is A Room With No Cameras In It, his latest album.
And yes, McCamman did record parts of the album in his home basement studio, but also added parts he developed in a full-blown studio, creating 10 songs that stretch the concept of a pop/rock song as far as it goes without losing either the shape of a melody or a song as such, experimenting, but without going into excess, as if he wanted his music to sound basic and rich at the same time. And he made it with seemingly some ease at that.
