Camp Cope Announce Running with the Hurricane, Share Title Track

Melbourne rock trio Camp Cope—Georgia Maq (songwriter, vocals, piano, guitar), Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich (bass) and Sarah Thompson (drums and percussion)—have announced their first new album in four years, the follow-up to 2018’s acclaimed How To Socialise and Make Friends. Running with the Hurricane is out March 25 on Run For Cover Records, but you can hear its title track right now.

“Running with the Hurricane” is our second preview of Camp Cope’s third outing, following the release of “Blue” last fall. The track is named after a song of the same name by Australian political folk group Redgum, of which Maq’s late father was a member, and centers on the idea of embracing upheaval—viewing pushback from the universe as an opportunity to grow. “And if this is the bottom, I can show you what to do / There’s no other way to go, there’s no other way to go / The only way out is up,” Maq sings over thrumming bass, cymbal crashes and backing “ah”s, proclaiming at the song’s peak, “I push through the pain, running with the hurricane.”

Press materials describe Running with the Hurricane as that exact sort of act of growth: “If Camp Cope’s self-titled debut (2016) was the spark, and How To Socialise & Make Friends (2018) was the fire, Running with the Hurricane is Camp Cope in the calm after the storm.”

Maq explains, “The first record was us diving into whatever Camp Cope created, the second album was us when we were in the thick of it, and then this album is about how we’ve come out the other side. And we’ve come out stronger, more loving, more peaceful and better friends.”