A Sober Conversation is the seventh studio album by American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist BC Camplight. It was released on June 27, 2025, via Bella Union in vinyl, CD and digital formats.
Background Consisting of tracks ranging between two and four minutes, with a total runtime of approximately thirty-five minutes, the album was noted as a pop album.
Succeeding Camplight's 2023 project, The Last Rotation of Earth, the album features the lead single, "Two Legged Dog", a collaboration with British rock band The Last Dinner Party's lead vocalist Abigail Morris, which was released on April 4, 2025.
Reception The album received a four and a half-star rating from British online magazine MusicOMH's reviewer Ben Hogwood, who remarked that Camplight reflected on past abuse he experienced in his early years more "directly" on A Sober Conversation than on his previous albums.
AllMusic noted the album as relating to "youthful trauma", noting it as "a top-shelf pop album that also has something important to tell us."
The Guardian assigned it a rating of four stars and described it as "an eccentric rock opera about repression, depression and anger told with the meta-theatrical, tragicomic style that has won Christinzio a cult following."
Tom Doyle of Mojo rated the album four stars and remarked, "Ultimately, A Sober Conversation amounts to a brilliant and bold record that is all the more powerful for its deployment of life-affirming grooves and melodies."
Track listing
Personnel Credits for A Sober Conversation adapted from AllMusic.
Daniel Woodward – engineer, producer Robert Whiteley – engineer James Bragg – mastering Brian Christinzio – arranger, bass, composer, guitars, organ, piano, producer, synthesizer, vocals Abigail Morris – vocals Thom Bellini – electric guitar, background vocals Jolan Lewis – clavinet, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, organ, synthesizer, synthesizer bass, background vocals Jess Branney – effects, percussion, vibraslap, vocals Adam Dawson – drums Alexander Huxley – trumpet Callum McMorran – flute Evelyn Halls – cello Luke Jarvis – design Matt Lawton – upright bass Rachel Nicholas – viola Sidonie Hand-Halford – drums, percussion Tom Spencer – trombone Marieke Macklon – cover photo
Charts +Chart performance for A Sober ConversationChart (2025)Peakposition
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