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Cameron McGill has never quite fit in. You can hear in his songs that he sees it as both a blessing and a curse. That being said, his is a career that has certainly followed its own path. Scores of tours and five independent releases later, McGill has arrived at a confident place in his songwriting; a place where it’s perfectly okay to be an outsider. Much of the new album Is A Beast was written on a dead man’s guitar in borrowed bedrooms and basements across Chicago; it probably inhabits McGill’s restless spirit as much as the man who owned it before him.

Cameron McGill & What Army’s fifth full-length studio album finds the band in exciting new territory after two years of solid touring and their most experimental lineup to date: Daniel McMahon (guitar), Rodrigo Palma (bass), and Darren Garvey (drums). The album was recorded this past winter in Milwaukee, WI with engineer Justin Perkins (Jaill, Cory Chisel). It follows their Deserters EP (2010), Daytrotter session (2010); Sad Ambassador 7? single (2010), Two Hits and A Miss EP (2009) and Warm Songs For Cold Shoulders (2009), all released on Parasol; Hold On Beauty (2008), Street Ballads & Murderesques (2006), and Stories of The Knife and The Back (2004).

2009 saw McGill joining the band Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, for which he plays keyboards. The year prior McGill was featured on Margot’s Animal! and Rachael Yamagata’s Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into Heart. The band’s track “Low Ways” from Warm Songs…recently made an appearance in the feature film Multiple Sarcasms (2010) as well as the movie’s main trailer, alongside Wilco.