The Hidden Cameras
With a mix of queer politics, explicit sexuality, symphonic indie pop, and theatrical spectacle that borders on the religious, Toronto's the Hidden Cameras are the brainchild of singer/songwriter/guitarist Joel Gibb. The 2001 debut album Ecce Homo -- a collection of four-track demos released on Gibb's own Evil Evil imprint -- introduced a stripped-down version of the Hidden Cameras' witty, acoustic-based songwriting, which drew comparisons to the Magnetic Fields and Belle & Sebastian. Ecce Homo also caught the ear of Rough Trade, whose signing of Gibb made the Hidden Cameras the first Canadian artist on the label in its 25-year history. Meanwhile, the Cameras' elaborate live performances, which include up to 30 go-go dancers, strippers, and musicians, as well as videos, projected lyrics, and heavy audience participation, won the group a widespread and devoted following in Canada. The Hidden Cameras' 2003 Rough Trade debut, The Smell of Our Own, reflected some of their more elaborate sound more so than Ecce Homo did and spread the group's subversively catchy music further afield. In 2004, the band released its long-awaited follow-up, Mississauga Goddam, named for the Toronto suburb of Gibb's youth. Awoo, which presented a slightly tamer version of the Cameras' "gay church folk music," arrived in 2006. Released in 2009, Origin:Orphan introduced electronic elements to the group's sound, a shift in tone that escalated even further on 2013's expansive AGE. Arriving in 2016, Home on Native Land saw the group celebrating its Canadian homeland via a bucolic set of country-folk songs.
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The Smell Of Our Own
Alternative & Indie - Released by Rough Trade on 7 Apr 2003
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I Believe in the Good of Life
Alternative & Indie - Released by Rough Trade on 25 Oct 2004
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A Miracle
Alternative & Indie - Released by Rough Trade on 2 Jun 2003
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Play 'Ban Marriage'
Alternative & Indie - Released by Rough Trade on 24 Feb 2003
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The Smell of Our Own (20th Anniversary Edition)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Rough Trade on 14 Apr 2023
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Awoo
Alternative & Indie - Released by Rough Trade on 25 Sep 2006
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Origin:Orphan
Alternative & Indie - Released by Arts & Crafts Productions, Inc. on 22 Sep 2009
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Mississauga Goddam
Alternative & Indie - Released by Rough Trade on 12 Jul 2004
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Home On Native Land
Country - Released by outside music on 28 Oct 2016
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Awoo
Alternative & Indie - Released by Rough Trade on 14 Aug 2006
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Gay Goth Scene
The Hidden Cameras, Mary Margaret O'Hara
Alternative & Indie - Released by RAR marketed by Motor Entertainment on 4 Oct 2013
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Day I Left Home
Alternative & Indie - Released by outside music on 26 Aug 2016
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Ecce Homo
Alternative & Indie - Released by Rough Trade on 10 Jan 2002
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In The NA
Alternative & Indie - Released by Arts & Crafts Productions, Inc. on 21 Jul 2009
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AGE
Alternative & Indie - Released by RAR marketed by Motor Entertainment on 21 Jan 2014
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Carpe Jugular
Alternative & Indie - Released by TCBYML on 4 May 2015
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The Arms of His "ill" (4-Track Demo)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Rough Trade on 14 Sep 2004
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Year of the Spawn
The Hidden Cameras, Chilly Gonzales
House - Released by Motor Music on 1 Jan 2013
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Death of a Tune
Alternative & Indie - Released by Rough Trade on 22 May 2006
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Play The CBC Sessions (CBC Session)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Rough Trade on 5 Apr 2004
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Learning the Lie
Alternative & Indie - Released by Rough Trade on 5 Jul 2005
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