It’s here! After announcing it on a recent episode of Jimmy Fallon, Jamie Campbell Bower has just unveiled his latest solo single, I Am.
And it’s hugely different from the work he did in his previous punk band COUNTERFEIT., taking on a brilliantly sinister Western vibe to perfectly match his dark vocals and lyrics: ‘I’m an angel I’m the devil and I’m coming inside.’
Speaking to Vulture, Jamie shares of what he’s working on musically at the moment, following of course the massive success of Stranger Things 4.
“I have two different things going on right now – both in the world of Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio,” he shares. “One of them is in this more country world, because I can be instinctual and create an immediate sonic vibration. I’ve always written country and western music. For me, it offers the opportunity to be very instinctual. With this song, the guitar was the first thing that I came up with. The vocal was all done in one take, and the video was shot a week after. I came up with the track, sent it to my team, and I was like, ‘I love this. Can we get a video together?’ We managed to find this incredible director, we pulled a video together, and now we’re releasing it. That’s what this style of music is really offering me – instant creative process.
“The other side is not necessarily going to be an album that would be toured; it’s more of an experience. I’m working on those two things in conjunction, but they’re both discussing the same themes.”
Watch the video for I Am below: