Former Black Midi member Cameron Picton has announced the debut album from his new band, My New Band Believe, with the exhilarating debut single ‘Numerology’. Check it out below.
- READ MORE: Black Midi – ‘Hellfire’ review: intense first-person narratives fuel a genre-gnarling thrill ride
Picton first launched My New Band Believe back in February 2025 with the track ‘Lecture 25’. Now, he’s revealed that their self-titled debut album will be released on April 10 via Rough Trade Records (available to pre-order here).
Ahead of its release, they’ve shared ‘Numerology’, a non-album single that will feature on a bonus 10″ version, as well as on a limited-edition Deluxe CD.
Over a frenetic acoustic guitar, Picton ponders the chance and possibility that exists within “one night”
The track swirls from dance to psychedelic as he embraces the thrill of fun and danger. Check it out, and the lo-fi music video, below.
The new album came to Picton as a fever dream while he was “delirious in a Chinese hotel room” and “battling through the worst of a sudden illness”, per a press release. While suffering, he was overcome with flashes of “weird imagery” and text, which he would later form into the songs that made up the LP.
Picton takes on the role of bandleader as well as the “unreliable but charismatic narrator”, with musicians Kiran Leonard, Caius Williams, Steve Noble and Andrew Cheetham among those playing on the album.
It’s almost entirely acoustic and uses “the barest amount of reverb and electronic effects possible”, as well as a full string section.
The tracklist for My New Band Believe’s debut album is:
1. ‘Target Practice’
2. ‘In the Blink of an Eye’
3. ‘Heart of Darkness’
4. ‘Love Story’
5. ‘Pearls’
6. ‘Opposite Teacher’
7. ‘Actress’
8. ‘One Night’
The band will also head on their first headline tour later this year. They’ll kick things off in Glasgow on April 28 before heading to Leeds, Manchester, London, Bristol and Cambridge. The tour will wrap up in Oxford on May 5. See all the dates below, and get tickets here.
APRIL
11 – The Hague, Netherlands – Rewire Festival
28 – Glasgow, Flying F***
29 – Leeds, Brudenell
30 – Manchester, White Hotel
MAY
2 – London, EartH
3 – Bristol, Rough Trade
4 – Cambridge, Unitarian Church
5 – Oxford, Common Ground
Picton’s new project comes after Geordie Greep and Picton confirmed the “indefinite” end to Black Midi on social media last summer.
The band formed in 2017 and were quickly met with acclaim for their brand of experimental art rock. In 2018, Shame declared the trio, comprised of Greep, Picton and Morgan Simpson the “best band in London”.
Since then, they released three studio albums. Their 2019 debut ‘Schlagenheim’ was given four stars from NME, in a review that said they were “making music like no other band in the world.” It was followed by 2021’s ‘Cavalcade’ and ‘Hellfire’ in 2022.
Elsewhere, in 2020, they released the jam and spoken word album ‘The Black Midi Anthology Vol. 1: Tales of Suspense and Revenge’, on Bandcamp.
Black Midi’s last LP, 2022’s ‘Hellfire’, was given a four-star review by NME, which claimed that the project delivered “more musical thrills and about-turns per minute than few other records we’ve heard this year”.
It added: “Sounding more assured of their creative agility than ever before, ‘Hellfire’ is the work of a very special group of alchemists.”
The post Former Black Midi member Cameron Picton launches new band My New Band Believe with thrilling single ‘Numerology’ appeared first on NME.
