Been listening to Camera Obscura’s “Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken,” the Glasgow, Scotland art-pop band’s lilting answer song to “Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken?” - the yearning ballad by folk-rock singer-songwriter Lloyd Cole. The Camera Obscura number is a beauty. I almost like the response better than the tune that inspired it.The answer song isn’t a new thing. It’s been go
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Camera Obscura are an indie pop band from Glasgow, Scotland.The first thing that came to my mind - this has a Phil Spector retro vibe to the vocal. It pulled me in and I was not disappointed.From Amazon:'My Maudlin Career' is the fourth studio album from Scottish outfit Camera Obscura. Enlisting the help of producer JariHaapalainen (The Concretes, Ed Harcourt) who produced 2006's 'Let's Get Out...
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Camera Obscura have revealed plan to release a Christmas single titled 'The Blizzard'. The single will be released on December 8. The band is currently on their US tour. 'The Blizzard' will be available on 7" and digital formats. The b-side for the single will be the album...Click the link to read more
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Here's the title track off the upcoming Camera Obscura album, due out April 1. Dreamy.
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Every year around this time, every person with any sort of blog, website, radio station, sandwich board, or big mouth on the bus releases their top 10 list. Now the torch has made it's way to me. So here you go, but this isn't my list of best albums released in 2007, but a collection of bands that moved and grooved and rocked and rolled my little isolated world this past year. This was a yea...
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I am definitely not a morning person. Although once I'm awake I'm awake, until coffee has been consumed I'm rather useless. Post wake-up, pre-coffee, this morning this song sounded like heaven.
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The title of Camera Obscura’s third album My Maudlin Career hints at the lyrical themes and melancholic subject matter that have helped this Scottish band garner fans in their native Scotland and abroad. Ahead of their Dublin gig in Andrew’s Lane Theatre on the 30th of April and the Stiff Kitten…
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Scottish twee-popsters Camera Obscura are giving us all a little early holiday treat. The band will be releasing a Christmas single, "The Blizzard" on December 8th.But why wait? You can listen to the single here and now:Camera Obscura play the Phoenix in Toronto on November 26th.Camera Obscura's websiteCamera Obscura's Myspace
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Its seems like an eon since I posted last. Oddly I decide to post on one of my most mentally cloudy day. You know the ones, rise up and no matter how many ounces of coffee you ingest your still not awake. Your hurry so much you forget just about everything. That would include my head were it not attatched. And of course, my favorite, staring out into space. Not really much at all out there o...
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Well... it took 22 years for Lloyd's question to be answered. ...and it took the brilliant, fellow Glasgow band, Camera Obscura to do it properly...(NOTE: I spent about an hour getting the post ready... finding my old Lloyd Cole cd. Finding appropriate art... and then, on a whim, I checked who had already posted Camera Obscura... what the hell was I thinking? Mike The Knife, of course, was ALL OV
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Don't jump on me, but I was just thinking about how much I like the song "Country Mile" off Camera Obscura's latest Let's Get Out of this Country -- and how I could totally take or leave the rest of the album. Anybody else got a song they really like...but they could toss the whole rest of the record?
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The fourth annual Under the Radar SXSW party will be held Friday March 20 at Flamingo Cantina (515 E. 6th St). The party is free and open to the public (badges are not required).This year's party begins with Mumford & Sons at Noon, followed by12:45 Frances1:35 Viva Voce2:25 Loney Dear3:15 Charilift4:05 Jason Lytle (formerly of Grandaddy)5:00 Camera ObscuraThe party is sponsored by JanSport, Big...
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Scottish band Camera Obscura are best known for their whimsical, sentimental ballads of youthful heartbreak and longing. Their latest album, My Maudlin Career lives up to this reputation, but falls just short of expectations. Being all too similar to their previous album, Let's Get Out of This Country, it leaves fans craving the satisfaction of knowing the lyrics and being able to sing and groo...
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Going to see a band live can be a surprise and delight at the best of times. It’s what music fans live for. For Camera Obscura tonight, the biggest surprise was that the 800 or so capacity venue in Dublin was JAMMED for their show. Fully booked. State could only imagine what the view was…
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Zero 7 - "I Have Seen" Classic Zero 7 (check the drum loops) provides the coolest soundtrack to...well, whatever you're doing at the time. The Zutons - "Valerie" A snazzy little bluesy groove thing--think Elvis Costello plus a swingin' horn section. Camera Obscura - "Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken" Scot-poppers take a Phil Spector-guided tour of Motown, and everyone go-go dan...
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