Cam Muncey & The Delusions of Grandeur

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You may think that you know what a solo record by a member of the multi-million-selling Australian rock’n’roll band Jet is going to sound like, but you do not. That’s because you are yet to press play on Cam Muncey & the Delusions of Grandeur the brilliant new album by Jet guitarist and co-founder Cam Muncey. Muncey’s debut album is a daring and adventurous trip into the wild, one that explores a sonic landscape he has left untouched in his work with the band he formed with brothers Nic and Chris Cester in 2001. After three records, over four million album sales and a bona fide era-defining smash hit in Are You Gonna Be My Girl, Jet called it quits in 2012. But there was unfinished business where music was concerned. The odd soaring ballad aside, Jet’s music is predominantly rooted in snarling 70s rock riffs that get you in a headlock but the music Muncey makes as a solo artist inhabits an entirely different spectrum. This is a zero aggro zone, these songs taking in the 44-year-old’s love of dreamy shoegazing, melodic guitar-pop, 80s indie, swaying soul, atmospheric art-rock, pulling from artists such as The Smiths, Talk Talk, Curtis Mayfield, R.E.M., Mazzy Star, The War On Drugs, Roxy Music and more. “I wanted it to be grand and pretty and beautiful and big,” he says. By the end, the 12 songs that make up Cam Muncey & the Delusions of Grandeur were laid down over 30 days. Cam Muncey &the Delusions of Grandeur is a record to treasure.

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