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Today S.C.A.B. shares their new single, "LOVE" along with a music video directed by Sampson Dahl. It's the final single from their forthcoming third album, Somebody In New York Loves You!, which will be out November 21 on the Grind Select label.
"LOVE" is the most direct song on the new S.C.A.B. record — just pure, unfiltered gratitude for the people, places, and moments that make life worth living. It’s a love song to New York, to family, to loss, to starting over. Sampson Dahl’s video brings that feeling to life perfectly — filmed in his laundromat space on beta film, it’s this scrappy, one-shot collage that feels like Pee-wee’s Playhouse meets Britpop daydream. There’s something nostalgic and handmade about it, like finding an old VHS of joy and chaos spliced together.
"This song is a reminder to myself to get clearer on what I would like to see. The roles we play. The illusion of truth. I had a tiny blue bird when I was young. You had a love, it hurt, now it’s done. Blood is your teacher now. Let go of duality." -Sean Carmago / S.C.A.B.
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S.C.A.B. is the sound of a city cracked open and buzzing with late-night possibility. Formed in Ridgewood, Queens, the band channels the lived-in tension of New York life into something both urgent and reflective. Frontman Sean Camargo writes like someone pulling moments out of thin air: soft subway collisions, the weight of a partner’s silence, the slow grief of change. The band’s name, once just an acronym, now feels more like a symbol of regeneration, a hardened edge formed by years of personal and collective growing pains.
On their new album, Somebody In New York Loves You!, S.C.A.B. turns inward and stretches wide. The songs lean into vulnerability without retreating into abstraction, drawing inspiration from Camargo’s psychedelic-fueled realizations, intimate journal entries, and moments of raw emotional rupture. From the blissed-out confessions of “Strawberry Jam” to the anthemic ache of “Red Chair,” the record explores love in all its forms: romantic, familial, and self-directed, with a clarity that’s both wide-eyed and world-weary. “The only truth I could really feel was love,” Camargo says, “and everything I did was either trying to run away from it or get closer.”
Much of the album was written in a creative surge following a psychic reading that left Camargo feeling oddly affirmed, and fantastical. That sense of magical realism runs through the record’s DNA: a cassette player, worn book of matches and Coney Island ride card on a messy desk, dreams of lost parents returning, and sonic callbacks to early-2000s stadium rock filtered through New York’s post-punk alleys. At times, the band sounds huge, like they’re aiming to fill a field - and at others, eerily close, like a voice memo you weren’t meant to hear.
With Somebody In New York Loves You!, S.C.A.B. makes space for that contradiction: songs that are personal but big, naive but knowing, imaginative but grounded. After a long stretch of false starts, rain-soaked gigs, and artistic doubt, they emerge sounding clear-headed and ready. The result is an album that doesn't just reflect New York; it breathes with it, holds your gaze, and says, without flinching, somebody here loves you.
TOUR DATES
11/21 - Brooklyn, NY @ 94 Bogart - Record Release Show
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