One of Tracyanne Campbell’s great gifts as a singer is her ability to inject a very real sadness into the bright indie-pop of Camera Obscura. My Maudlin Career has many such moments. The video for the new single “The Sweetest Thing”, which premiered on Pitchfork recently, is a perfect example. The video features wigs, fake moustaches, Simon & Garfunkel look-alikes, and a sepia-toned costume
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The drumbeat on "The Sweetest Thing", from My Maudlin Career and not a U2 cover, is that one poppy rhythm that activates some latent dopamine receptors in 80% of people and is highly conducive to hand clapping. The video strikes a nice balance between saccharine and wistful. Watch for the guy in the Lemmy costume.
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Camera Obscura’s show at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. on June 21 should have been phenomenal: a series of tight, precise readings drawing largely from the band’s last two – and strongest – albums.But sometimes, great songs just aren’t enough. There’s something to be said about what stage presence can mean to a show. Someone needs to tell Camera Obscura. The sextet’s lack of ener
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Here’s the video for Camera Obscura latest single, The Sweetest Thing, directed by Blaire Young … the clip totally embraces the movement of girls sporting mustaches.download : Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing
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Camera Obscura are back with an adorable video for "The Sweetest Thing" off their flawless and delightful My Maudlin Career.
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Camera Obscura newest 2009 release 'My Maudlin Career' was release back in April on 4AD and is still riding high off of it's acclaim six months after its release. A little boost for the band in these early Autumn evenings comes in the form of the newly created, Blair Young-directed video for early Maudlin track The Sweetest Thing.
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Glasgow’s Camera Obscura previous UK tour was followed by a six-week stretch in North America and Mexico then a summer full of festival appearances. In between these, they recorded radio sessions for the likes of Jonathan Ross, Dermot O’Leary and Janice Long in the UK and also made their US TV debut on The Craig [...]
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RAP: She rocks a mustache in the video? Who does that? But the name is Camera Obscura. One cannot deny her sweet, foreign, sultry voice though
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Check out the music video for the second track from Scottish indie pop act Camera Obscura’s fantastic fourth album, My Maudlin Career. Not to be confused with the U2 song by the same name, here’s The Sweetest Thing…Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing
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Glasgow indie-popsters Camera Obscura didn't invite us to yet another costume party of theirs. We don't know what we ever did to them, but we're sorry. ANYWAY, here is the video for "The Sweetest Thing" which comes off of Camera Obscura's latest album My Maudlin Career which is available now on 4AD.
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