Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura started in 1996 and after many years together and with the subtraction and addition of band members, today they comprises Tracy-Anne Campbell, Gavin Dunbar, Lee Thomson, Kenny McKeeve, Nigel Baillie and Carey Lander.
Distinctly '50s/early '60s pop, Camera Obscura sound just like a record you would steal out of your grandmother's attic, though perhaps cooler. With a beautifully nostalgic sound, there's nothing to really separate this band from one heard in a bygone era and perhaps the only bad thing that could be said about Camera Obscura is this lack of originality.
Yet despite this, the sweet vocals, pretty instrumental backup and dreamy choruses make this very pleasant music to slow dance to.
Distinctly '50s/early '60s pop, Camera Obscura sound just like a record you would steal out of your grandmother's attic, though perhaps cooler. With a beautifully nostalgic sound, there's nothing to really separate this band from one heard in a bygone era and perhaps the only bad thing that could be said about Camera Obscura is this lack of originality.
Yet despite this, the sweet vocals, pretty instrumental backup and dreamy choruses make this very pleasant music to slow dance to.
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Tom Jeffreys
Wednesday, 08 April
SINGLES OF THE WEEK 13th April 2009
Camera Obscura – French Navy
4AD
The national dish of Scotland is not the haggis or the thistle. It's the chip. A bag of chips please pal, and one on ma shoulder. How else could a country love all three of fighting, frying and fey indie music? It's the chippy Celt underdogs' secret love of losing, that's what.
Anyway, I like this song. It's as upbeat as the Scots get: like Madness' 'Embarrassment' varnished with a bookish sense of regret. What for? Flodden Field? No, lost love or something. In short: chipper. 4/5
Camera Obscura – French Navy
4AD
The national dish of Scotland is not the haggis or the thistle. It's the chip. A bag of chips please pal, and one on ma shoulder. How else could a country love all three of fighting, frying and fey indie music? It's the chippy Celt underdogs' secret love of losing, that's what.
Anyway, I like this song. It's as upbeat as the Scots get: like Madness' 'Embarrassment' varnished with a bookish sense of regret. What for? Flodden Field? No, lost love or something. In short: chipper. 4/5
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