''Forced Witness'' is the second studio album by Australian musician
Alex Cameron. It was released by record label
Secretly Canadian
Secretly Canadian is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana, part of the Secretly Group. The Secretly Group includes record labels Dead Oceans and Jagjaguwar as well as a music publisher known as Secretly Publis ...
on 8 September 2017, and includes songs featuring
Brandon Flowers
Brandon Richard Flowers (born June 21, 1981) is an American musician. He serves as the co-founder, lead vocalist, primary songwriter, keyboardist, and occasional bassist of the Las Vegas-based rock band the Killers, which he formed with Dave Ke ...
and
Angel Olsen
Angel Olsen (born Angelina Marie Carroll; January 22, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter from St. Louis, Missouri who lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
To date, Olsen has released six studio albums: ''Half Way Home'' (2012), ''Burn Your F ...
.
The album is defined by Cameron's characteristic 1980s instrumentation and first-person storytelling.
It received moderately positive reviews from critics.
Track listing
Personnel
Performance
* Alex Cameron - primary vocals, drums and percussion (1, 2, 3, 10), Korg M1 (9).
* Roy Molloy -
saxophone
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Angel Olsen
Angel Olsen (born Angelina Marie Carroll; January 22, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter from St. Louis, Missouri who lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
To date, Olsen has released six studio albums: ''Half Way Home'' (2012), ''Burn Your F ...
- featured artist
Production
*
Jonathan Rado
Jonathan Rado is an American musician, record producer and engineer, best known as a multi-instrumentalist in the indie rock duo Foxygen. Rado is a native of Westlake Village, California, where he formed Foxygen with his classmate Sam France in 20 ...
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producer,
engineering
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Brandon Flowers
Brandon Richard Flowers (born June 21, 1981) is an American musician. He serves as the co-founder, lead vocalist, primary songwriter, keyboardist, and occasional bassist of the Las Vegas-based rock band the Killers, which he formed with Dave Ke ...
- engineering, featured artist
* Joel Ford - additional production, engineering
*
Jacknife Lee
Garret "Jacknife" Lee is an Irish music producer and mixer. He has worked with a variety of artists, including the Cars, U2, R.E.M., the Killers, Robbie Williams, Snow Patrol, Bloc Party, Two Door Cinema Club, AFI, the Hives, Weezer, One Direc ...
- additional production, engineering
* Robert Root - engineering
*
Marta Salogni
Marta Salogni is an Italian record producer, mixer and recording engineer.
Background
Salogni's musical background was cultivated in her native Italy between the small town of Capriolo and Brescia, where she spent her formative years, collabo ...
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mixing
*
Richard Swift - mixing
*
Jacob Portrait - mixing
* Christian Bader - mixing
Design
* Bryan McLeod - design
*
Nathaniel David Utesch - design
* Britt McCamey - photography
References
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2017 albums
Alex Cameron (musician) albums
Secretly Canadian albums
Albums produced by Jonathan Rado