{"id":18854,"date":"2016-03-09T13:18:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=18854"},"modified":"2016-03-09T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:18:20","slug":"watching-clouds-in-my-head-pat-campo-new-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/03\/watching-clouds-in-my-head-pat-campo-new-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the ‘Clouds In My Head’ With Pat Campo’s New EP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pat Campo, from Los Angeles, is a rock, power pop and electronic artist. Releasing his debut, self-titled album way back in 2008, he makes his return with ‘Clouds In My Head’, set for release on March 11.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Eleven songs long, ‘Clouds In My Head’ is upbeat, catchy and poppy. Campo sings, plays all instruments, and produced the album – no mean feat – but when you consider too that he’s made the videos to go with the songs – you realise he’s the complete\u00a0package, a true artist.<\/p>\n

Campo believes in the idea of art over image, and feels that image shouldn’t be necessary to make great art. With this in mind he created a puppet persona, allowing it to represent him in his videos. He says of this decision:<\/p>\n

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“sure, people can find my picture online, and there’s no harm in that. That’s just not what I’m selling.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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