Album artwork for Shortly After Takeoff by BC Camplight

Fired by his ongoing battle with mental illness, Shortly After Takeoff is the final, and finest, chapter of what Christinzio calls his “Manchester Trilogy”, following 2015’s How To Die In The North and 2018’s Deportation Blues. All three albums were created after the native Philadelphian had moved to Manchester. Like Deportation Blues, Shortly After Takeoff spans singer-songwriter classicism, gnarly synth-pop and ‘50s rock’n’roll, with Christinzio’s similarly distinctive, flexible vocal carrying a fearless approach to lyrical introspection, but the new album is a major leap forward in songwriting sophistication and lyrical communication.

BC Camplight

Shortly After Takeoff

Bella Union
Album artwork for Shortly After Takeoff by BC Camplight
CD

$14.99

Released 06/19/2020Catalog Number

BURD1019.2

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Album artwork for Shortly After Takeoff by BC Camplight
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Released 06/19/2020Catalog Number

BURD1019.1

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BC Camplight

Shortly After Takeoff

Bella Union
Album artwork for Shortly After Takeoff by BC Camplight
CD

$14.99

Released 06/19/2020Catalog Number

BURD1019.2

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Album artwork for Shortly After Takeoff by BC Camplight
LP

$20.99

Black
Released 06/19/2020Catalog Number

BURD1019.1

Learn more

Fired by his ongoing battle with mental illness, Shortly After Takeoff is the final, and finest, chapter of what Christinzio calls his “Manchester Trilogy”, following 2015’s How To Die In The North and 2018’s Deportation Blues. All three albums were created after the native Philadelphian had moved to Manchester. Like Deportation Blues, Shortly After Takeoff spans singer-songwriter classicism, gnarly synth-pop and ‘50s rock’n’roll, with Christinzio’s similarly distinctive, flexible vocal carrying a fearless approach to lyrical introspection, but the new album is a major leap forward in songwriting sophistication and lyrical communication.