Back in the Before Times, we used to do a hefty amount of dirty rock and roll business with Sean Camargo, a Berklee standout who either led or helped augment a series of Boston bands like Radclyffe Hall, The Colonnade, Plastic Waves, and others. The past few years have found Camargo down in the underrated New York City borough of Queens, fronting S.C.A.B., a colorful post-punk and jangle-pop project that on Friday (October 25) released a new EP called Rose Colored Glasses.
The EP, the band’s first since 2022, is a varied and atmospheric twirl through a distorted lens, with five songs that reportedly explore themes of love, the shaky nature of reality, depression, songwriting, and being severely and acutely alive all while on a never-ending quest for truth. “Like an iPhone memory carousel,” says Camargo of Rose Colored Glasses. “A cheesy nostalgic recollection you can seem to look away from. Heartwarming because it has something to say but nothing to prove.”
S.C.A.B. are currently showing off the EP on a short regional tour around the Northeast and D.C., and Camargo returns to haunt old stomping grounds with a show this Sunday (November 3) at Warehouse XI in Somerville. We would party like it’s ’15, but depending on our current form of eyewear, we’re not sure any of us want to return to that.