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UPC: 725806169064 You may think that you know what a solo record by a member of the multi-million-selling Australian rock'n'roll band Jet is going to sound like, but you do not. That's because you are yet to press play on Cam Muncey & the Delusions of Grandeur the brilliant new album by Jet guitarist and co-founder Cam Muncey. A world removed from the up and at 'em crunching guitar anthems of his day job, Muncey's debut album is a daring and adventurous trip into the wild, one that explores a sonic landscape he has left untouched in his work with the band he formed with brothers Nic and Chris Cester in 2001. And yet it was the reformation of the group back in 2017 that convinced him to do it. It was then that Jet embarked on a support tour with Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band that took in some of Australia's biggest stadiums. Up until that point, the 2010s had been a creatively subdued time for the guitarist and vocalist, a time where Muncey slowly tried to make sense of the heady, intoxicating success of the 2000s, a decade in which Jet experienced meteoric, global success and gave the world a new attitude-heavy rock'n'roll group chocka with sizzling, singalong anthems to fall in love with. By the time Covid rolled around, Muncey had a fire in his belly. Some artists couldn't get in the groove during the pandemic, happy to deal with the doom and gloom by bingeing box sets like the rest of us, but he got to grips with first GarageBand and then Logic and a vision for something wholly his own slowly came into view. "I got really bloody-minded about it," he remembers. "I'd shut myself in the room for many hours, very late at night through to three or four in the morning. It was fantastic." With a clear idea of the sounds he was after, the songs soon followed. Muncey went into the studio with award-winning Australian producer Jan Skubiszewski with the intent of recording two tracks, the driving, widescreen rocker Already Gone a...