Victoryland

Victoryland at Zebulon

VICTORYLAND

Victoryland is the project of songwriter Julian McCamman in partnership with producer Dan Howard. Their 2026 album, My Heart Is A Room With No Cameras In It, is a triumphant, despondent, and ultimately fun experimental pop-rock album. The sound of the album, recorded between Julian’s Bed-Stuy basement and Dan’s Williamsburg studio, is that of a bright and beaming collaboration. Blending lo-fi and hi-fi production, the songs have the glossiness of a radio-friendly hit mixed with the distortion and rough edges of a home demo.

My Heart wrangles with heavy subject matter – love, disconnection, sexual frustration, emptiness – but the final statement of the record is about the cleansing nature of pop music. That, if a song can force you to bliss out over a hook or a loop, or even make you dance, it can be the spoonful of sugar to swallow the hard pill with. This is what Victoryland strives to do: package the most exhausting realities of life, love, and the search for connection in a world starved of it into a fun 2-5 minutes. And for the runtime of Victoryland’s first major statement, you might even feel like you’re not alone.

Much to their surprise, My Heart’s release ushered Victoryland into a whirlwind of a year. Pitchfork praised the album’s “bright, madcap approach reminiscent of the New Pornographers’Twin Cinema or Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s Some Loud Thunder.” Stereogum named it their Album of the Week and proclaimed it “a surprisingly cohesive scrapbook of sounds from seemingly every corner of the indie pop umbrella.” The album also received support from Steve Lamacq at BBC 6 Music and Sian Eleri at Radio 1. After a string of sold-out shows in NYC, Victoryland later joined LCD Soundsystem on their North American tour and performed at Pitchfork London, Pitchfork Paris, among other festivals across Europe.