CAMERA THIEF IS AN ORIGINAL BAND OUT OF PHILADELPHIA PA. WE RELEASED OUR DEBUT ALBUM, THE WAR PARADE, IN 2020. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ALL THE INFO ABOUT THE ALBUM, AS WELL AS WHERE YOU CAN STREAM AND DOWNLOAD IT. BE SURE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR MAILING LIST OR FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK TO STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE BAND.
THE WAR PARADE
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All SONGS WRITTEN BY CAMERA THIEF; JOE DUFFEY (VOCALS, GUITAR), BRENDAN DUFFEY (KEYBOARDS, PIANO), PASQUALE DEFAZIO (GUITAR), ROB DEFAZIO (DRUMS), AND JOE HARTNETT (BASS, TROMBONE).
PRODUCED BY JOE DUFFEY IN THE GARAGE
MIXED BY DEREK CHAFIN AT BARNSOUND STUDIO
MASTERED BY DAVID DOWNHAM AT GRADWELL HOUSE RECORDING
COVER ART BY AXELLE KIEFFER
@2020 BLUE ORPHANAGE MUSIC (ASCAP)
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So much thanks... Thank you to everyone that made it out to our Record Release Revival! It was a long road to finally properly launch The War Parade and it means everything to us that you could be there to help us celebrate. Thank you to our friends Bitchfork & Dan Gober Music, with whom we were lucky enough to have shared the stage. Please check them out on Spotify. Of course, thank you to Broken Goblet Brewing! If you have not yet visited this place you have to get there soon. It's an incredible venue and we hope to perform there again soon. Thank you to Stephen Tolton for taking these amazing pics. Steve has been lending his talents to Camera Thief since day one. Thank you to Jay from Broken Goblet who engineered our sound to perfection and was also kind enough to record our entire set. Thank you to the crew at FRANK @frank_prodco for filming our set. Check out the video below of Camera Thief covering Kansas City. We will be releasing a full film of the show soon. Stay tuned!
RECORD RELEASE REVIVAL! 3/19/2022
PARTNERS IN CRIME IN THE 19046 PODCAST “Their music is earnest and heartfelt. It’s emotional, but not cheesy. It’s complex, yet catchy. It’s layered like a delicious aural cake with poetic lyrics and a tremendous instrumental virtuosity.” LISTEN HERE
THE KEY "Modern rock five piece Camera Thief has been making a name for itself around the Philadelphia region with earnest, cathartic songs that incorporate booming production, bright piano, and blazing guitars into reflections on our journey through this thing called life." READ MORE
OHESTEE "Camera Thief and their new album single Modern Fiction, off their forthcoming debut album, “The War Parade”, swells with striking urgency and barely lets up. Raw yet atmospheric, gang vocals build on the urgency as they howl, “You are only here right now to remind me that I’m alive,” like one final endless storm." READ MORE
INDIE MUSIC CENTER "We haven't heard such a masterpiece since X&Y from Coldplay in 2005. Not a single song to throw away. Chills from the first to the last second. A wonder like wonders we can't find anymore. Camera Thief is clearly a band to watch closely!" READ MORE
THE REVUE "If Camera Thief were from Edinburgh or Manchester, BBC Radio would be espousing the potential greatness of the quintet. Instead, the band percolates under the radar in the massive Philadelphia music scene, waiting to be discovered. Their breakthrough moment is nigh because their latest single, “Starting Fires”, is an eye-opening, cinematic, anthemic number." READ MORE
INDIE OBSESSIVE "There is an immediate warmth and sense of belonging when listening to the songs on “The War Parade”. It’s not mere déjà vu, since there is also the excitement that accompanies discovering new territory. Instead, the comfort is similar to first meeting someone and somehow instantly feeling a welcoming draw and a resolve to remain connected. After repeatedly listening to the album, the resolve has strengthened." READ MORE
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1 Modern Fiction
We are waiting for the bitter end
We're coming down, we are strangers in our own town
We will wake up in a different light
A different place, a modern version of the same cause..
We all are comin down, a jagged edge, a shattered stone, a broken piece of a broken home
I've had enough, I came too close, I've lost a lot but you've lost the most.
You have lost the most.
And we’ll end up where we are
And nothing will be good enough
nothing will be good enough now
Cannot open up my eyes
And nothing will be good enough
nothing will be good enough now
And I wait for your waiting eyes
And I wait for someone to tell me I'm alive
I'll stay awake for just as long as I can handle
Don't wake me up until this endless storm is gone
With all my weakness and your constant aggravations
Don’t waste your time when you know there’s nothing wrong
There’s nothing wrong… with you
Hold on tight, don't drop your guard, carry your knife, be ready to use it to stop a heart
It could be now, a simple thought, a change of scene, the words on the cover of a magazine
This crushing weight, your empty lungs, this sad disguise is your only hope now, it's your only hope
A tone of voice, an open wound, you’re only here right now to remind me that I’m alive
You are only here right now to remind me that I’m alive
Hold on tight, don't drop your guard carry your knife be ready to use it to start a fight
3 Running Out of Road
We are night time thinkers at heart
Taking shots in the dark
Rewriting history now to suit our fears
I was spilling my guts
Just crushing my lungs
And listening to sounds that hurt my ears
You're writing out a warning and it don't look good
You're offering your best and that's the best you can do
You waited way too long and now you're stuck with it
I don't need it I don't want it now
You are already there
You sail into the wind and you're not getting anywhere
We are already there
And we're running out of road
*You’re breaking down
*You’re faltering
*You’re caving in, you’re stalling out
*You’re braking down
*You're calling
*You’re stalling out you’re falling down
And now you cannot grow
And now you cannot grow
I don't think we’re getting any younger
Getting any younger at all
I don’t think we’re getting any younger
Getting any younger
Getting any younger now
I don’t think we’re getting any younger
Getting any younger
We’re not getting any younger at all
2 Starting Fires
I was looking back
It never hides and never fades away
Time will take you for a ride
You will hold your breath and avert your eyes
And the wind will tear the wings right off your back
You had to take the long way home
And the sky will fade and the mountains fall
And it all will wash away into the sea
And you breath... and it flows right through you
And you chose to reason with yourself another day
And it feels.... and it feels like fiction
We bought the lies and started fires every day
You never see it till it crushes you
Forgetting everything you thought you knew
It's all of my time and it never stops
It's all of my time and it never stops
I was looking back
It never hides, it never hides and it never fades away
It's all of my time and it never stops
Time will take you for a ride
You will hold your breath and avert your eyes
And the wind will tear the wings right off your back
And you breath... and it flows right to through you
And you chose to reason with yourself anther day
You never see it till it crushes you
Forgetting everything you thought you knew
It's all of my time and it never stops
It's all of my time and it never stops
4 The Empty Weight
It's not the world you're hating
The disdain is disappearing
You made it out, you made that clear
There was an innocence and sense of pride
When you broke your gaze with a fleeting sigh
And I barely saw it, I barely saw it there
And one more time, we hang our heads
And one more time, we were misled
And we will breathe in all the sacred air
And we cough as if we were never there
While the world is waking up to the alarm
When we are all sedated
We are uncoordinated
The taste was thick and unrefined
We will fill this room with the empty weight
of the promises that I could not keep
And we will dance upon this filthy floor tonight
And one more time, we lift our heads
And one more time, we're on the edge
And we will hang our hearts like the red debris
Of a horror show that was meant to be
In a tired senseless act of disregard
Now we’ve been melting for a long time
*The sky is aching for the ground
We feel the rumbling underneath the floor
*I guess it might as well be me for now
It isn’t midnight till the bullets fly
*I feel your heartbeat slowing down
5 Sunset Satellite
There’s always been a reason for the lines that grew across your face
They were born out of a broken mind
You were worn to the bone by a withering embrace
You can try to be an animal, but it doesn’t make sense at all
It was a meaningless debate that never will be settled
Ripped from both side with nothing in the middle
It will always come down to this
Where you gonna be when the thunder hits
We built this city out of gold
You’re gonna see the sky unfold
When the sunset satellite flies by, the sunset satellite flies by
We built roads for miles, connecting all of our lies to the waiting sky
When the sunset satellite flies by, the sunset satellite flies by
You can take away the sedative, it won’t be long before the sun goes down
Life is so repetitive, we travel to the grave to save us from the unknown
It was the wrong time, in the wrong universe
It’s been a long time waiting for the worst
You can let it be incredible, but it’ll never make sense at all
You’re gonna want to arm yourself and maybe even harm yourself
And now you are lost in the art of the darkest energy
and now the worlds gonna fall apart
We built these churches out of stone
You’re gonna see the sky explode
When the sunset satellite flies by, the sunset satellite flies by
We built roads for miles
Connecting all of our lies to the waiting sky
When the sunset satellite flies by, the sunset satellite flies by
Listen people
This here is a gathering of the tragically hopeful
Don’t let this deceptively simple world get you down
We are manipulators of time and space
We live in a stacked reality but we are undeterred
There is only an illusion of purity
Access that instinct, do not be shaken
The sunset satellite is fast approaching
Pack your bags, prepare for boarding
Because seeing is believing
We built these people out of fear
You’re gonna see the sky on fire
When the sunset satellite flies by, the sunset satellite flies by
We built roads for miles
Connecting all of our lies to the waiting sky
When the sunset satellite flies by, the sunset satellite flies by
6 Left Behind
All I lost and all I had, I should have left behind
All the words you said and looks you gave, will never leave my mind
It was all a distant blur, I was barely there at all
*Take and take and take and take and take and take it all from you
You were born to leave the world and I won't break your fall
*Take and take and take and take and take and take it all from you
Gone beyond but not forgotten, I should have left instead
Don't bother listing all the reasons
All the twists and turns that kept you satisfied are mangled in my head
And there's nothing after that
You will waste the day and melt away like snow
*Take and take and take and take and take and take it all from you
You should be hiding from the sun
*Take and take and take and take and take and take it all from you
There's a cold inside my heart that you don't want to know
*Take and take and take and take and take and take it all from you
And you know that I can't hide it
*Take and take and take and take and take and take it all from you
Broken ribs and a pair of glass eyelids
Pouring out the contents of your mouth into it
Slowly taking in this sad exchange
7 Sold On It
It was a rare and awkward thing
To catch your eye like a silver ring
I didn't know that you let it go, don't let it go
I was a wreck when you left your cage
I could think of nothing but the blinding rage
You left behind don't let it go, don't let it go
It's better to be sold on it
You need to take ahold of it
I didn't know that you let it go, don't let it go
Is it better to be wrong
I'll ride a wave into a black hole
Disappear forever, a flash of light hiding from the sun
You take as long as you need to be wrong
You're wrong you're wrong
And you will always be wrong
It's better to be sold on it
You need to take ahold of it
I didn't know that you let it go you let it go you let it go
Is it better to be wrong
I'll ride a wave into a black hole
Disappear forever, a flash of light hiding from the sun
You take as long as you need to be wrong
You're wrong you're wrong
And you will always be wrong
You were always wrong
I didn’t know that you let it, know that you let it, no you don’t get it at all
8 Medicine For Aching Hearts
When we were young
We took all the chances that there were to take
When it was done
There were many parts that made up this mistake
When we were tired
There was medicine to cure our aching hearts
Hope is hard to find when it's tearing you apart
When it was gone
We could not undo the things that we had done
I know I said it, I regret it
This sordid mess has always been my fault
So forget all of the things you saw
You were always there