After the hearth-warm country-folk of 2022’s Lavender Days, Caamp sound like a band reborn on their fifth album, Copper Changes Color. From the ragged edges of Taylor Meier’s swaggering vocals on opening track “Millions”, you can hear that this is a looser affair than what you might expect from this Ohio-hailing band—strongly recalling Youth and Young Manhood-era Kings of Leon, with less guitar squall and more easy-going jangle. The sonic shift was partially influenced by Meier spending more of his time in NYC’s Lower East Side neighbourhood, a locale that bears sonic fruit on songs like the strummy, last-call rocker “Mistakes”. But despite the metropolitan trappings, Caamp are still as reflective and intimate as ever on zoomed-in ballads like “Fairview Feeling”, accompanied by luscious co-production from indie-folk production wizards Beatriz Artola (Fleet Foxes) and Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, My Morning Jacket). Far from completely changing their stripes, Caamp have evolved into a new version of themselves that’s shaggier and more confident, without forgetting what led to their incredible rise in the first place.