Camera Obscura’s Let’s Get Out of this Country
Posted by Andrea Benvenuto
in Blog, Music 9:03 pm Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Are you ready to be heartbroken? Cause even the most flinty of souls should get a little teary over the sheer pop beauty of Camera Obscura’s latest. The opener (“Lloyd, I’m Ready …”) is a bouncy, fully orchestrated stunner, while “Country Mile” deserves prominent placement on your 2006 breakup mix. And every other track is just as affecting.
This time around, all singing duties are left to the lovely Tracyanne Campbell. Nothing against former member John Henderson and his Leonard Cohen impersonation, but it’s one major improvement over the band’s previous record, Underachievers Please Try Harder. Guess the Glaswegians took their own advice—not that they were so bad in the first place.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
[…] “Hi there … twee fan?” About a year ago, a band called The Hermit Crabs sent me a message on MySpace that opened with this question. The answer was (and is) yes. I was shocked—contact from a band whose music actually matched my taste? But I absolutely adore Camera Obscura, so it’s no surprise that another Glasgow pop band with pretty melodies, warm strings and dreamy female vocals would be my cup of tea. […]