LRdR Cam Cole en découverte Chasing Dreams
From busking on the streets of Camden to selling out shows around the world, Cam Cole has built his career by following his own path. Now, the uncompromising blues-rock force channels that philosophy into his latest single, ‘Chasing Dreams’, an uplifting, hard-driving reminder that sometimes changing the world starts with focusing on the life directly in front of you. Taken from Cole’s forthcoming album ‘Lost In Creation’ (Out 30th October 26), ‘Chasing Dreams’ combines his trademark blues grit with a driving four-on-the-floor rhythm and vintage guitar tones, while offering another glimpse into the expanded sonic world of his most ambitious record yet. “The song is about a time when I was trying to solve all the problems of the world and taking them on and getting swallowed up by it,” Cole explains. “It’s about realising that the best thing we can actually do instead is be the best version of ourselves and through that we make the world a better place. So you chase your own dreams and I chase mine.” That hopeful perspective sits at the heart of ‘Lost In Creation’. Recorded at Dean Street Studios in London and mastered at Abbey Road, the album sees Cole pushing beyond the raw one-man-band sound that first made his name. His Farmer Footdrums and main guitar were still recorded simultaneously live in the studio, but those performances became the foundations for further experimentation with guest vocalists, unusual instrumentation and an increasingly expansive palette of sounds. “This whole album has a different feel to my previous ones,” says Cole. “We started experimenting and painting around it with different vibes and sounds, guest vocalists and odd instruments, and then the tracks really came alive. That’s where the album title ‘Lost In Creation’ comes from, we really got lost in it in a good way.” ‘Chasing Dreams’ became one of the unexpected standouts of those sessions. What Cole initially considered simply a strong demo gradually developed into one of his favourite moments on the album, balancing its direct rhythmic pulse with blues foundations and vintage rock character. The release continues an extraordinary independent journey for the artist known as “probably the heaviest one-man band in the world.” Beginning his career busking on the streets of Camden, Cole has since amassed millions of streams, sold out shows across Europe, North America and Australia, appeared in the Emmy Award-winning series Ted Lasso, and featured in an Amazon Prime documentary following his first American tour. Most recently, his music has also been added to the soundtrack of EA’s UFC 6. For all the experimentation surrounding ‘Lost In Creation’, its central purpose remains refreshingly simple: music as somewhere to disappear for a while. “I guess if there is a main theme on ‘Lost In Creation’ that connects all the tunes,” Cole says, “it’s about escaping into music and having a breather for a moment.” With ‘Chasing Dreams’, Cam Cole turns that philosophy into an energising reminder to stop carrying everything at once, embrace what makes life meaningful and keep moving towards something of your own.