I have a promo copy. I don't think it comes out for several more weeks, but I hope people get really excited about it. It's scaled back a bit from their last couple albums, but the songs are just wonderful
― Evan R, Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
There doesn't seem to be a lot of hype so far but I'm really looking forward to it. It's out on June 3rd so there is still time for people to get excited.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
Loved the last one, but yeah, kinda forgot this was coming out.
― monotony, Friday, 10 May 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't know there's a new one. Obv based on up thread I really liked mmc, hope this is as good. I came here to see if anything new was in the works.
― live drums and dead hearts (Hunt3r), Friday, 24 May 2013 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
New album is out there now. Sounds beautiful so far, a bit more understated than the last album.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 27 May 2013 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
Think they've finally made an album as good as Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 27 May 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
strange that they are touring with she and him because they are essentially the same band now. will they all play at once? it's a tad adult contemporary but then, they are old. a bit dull and overly polished. on first listen my least favorite record of theirs.
― keythhtyek, Monday, 27 May 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
I really like the new record and I've never liked them or this kind of "music"
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
Camera Obscura news, and if you have some spare cash you might like to donate.https://www.justgiving.com/Carey-Lander
― Madchen, Friday, 21 August 2015 10:02 (nine years ago) link
Also, cancer is a basic bitch.
― Madchen, Friday, 21 August 2015 10:59 (nine years ago) link
^ this.
― ailsa, Friday, 21 August 2015 12:36 (nine years ago) link
Very sad news just announced
https://twitter.com/camera_obscura_/status/653254426677919748
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 October 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
Christ, so young.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Sunday, 11 October 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
Really sad news. RIP Carey.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 11 October 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
:( RIP.
― carly bae jepsen (monotony), Sunday, 11 October 2015 20:44 (eight years ago) link
She was a good friend to many current and erstwhile ILXors. We'll miss her dreadfully.
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 October 2015 23:32 (eight years ago) link
great band. terrible news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulnzKT1yrm4
― Treeship, Sunday, 11 October 2015 23:33 (eight years ago) link
Very sad. I've been listening to Camera Obscura all afternoon. Such a great band! We should do a singles poll!
― daavid, Monday, 12 October 2015 02:15 (eight years ago) link
sad. she did in fact write (i assume; sing, at least) something of value.
― it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 06:40 (eight years ago) link
extremely sad, they were a wonderful band. RIP.
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
yeah this is awful
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T8ukGIqTwc
lovely as always, album is out in may
― devvvine, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
<3
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
Nice song. I loved seeing Edwyn Collins pop up in the teaser video they posted.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
I was just wondering about this band. I didn't know about the horrible news with Lander's passing until just now. So sad. I'm guessing they dropped the Camera Obscura name.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:15 (six years ago) link
Wonderful song. It's good to see Tracyanne back in a new capacity.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 08:23 (six years ago) link
xp just a side project
― devvvine, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 10:05 (six years ago) link
New albums out
― just sayin, Saturday, 26 May 2018 08:08 (six years ago) link
Tracyanne Campbell has such a wonderful voice - mournful, expressive and hopeful all at once. I dont understand why she isn't the only voice on this. Even her barely-whispered backing vocals on "Jacqueline" overshadow Danny Coughlan's attempts to hold the spotlight.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 14 June 2018 10:16 (six years ago) link
Was just reading about Traceyanne & Danny ( on tour now). I need to investigate
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 June 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
I do like this album, but I would like it more the less Danny was present. The songs are really good and his voice isn't *awful* but it's just not the same.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 15 June 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
so glad to hear about traceyanne and danny project, wish they'd visit CO, appears no, tho.
wow i missed carey's passing somehow even to now, that's horrible.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 15 June 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
Her voice is definitely better than his. I like the twee cuts better than the folky roots ones.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 June 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
So I gather that John Henderson’s departure from Camera Obscura was acrimonious. There is an interview with Traceyanne Campbell where she tells the interviewer not to even ask why Henderson is no longer in the band.
But as someone who has never been to a Camera Obscura concert: what happened post-2003 to the early songs which Henderson sang? Do they still get played, or did the band decide to abandon them completely?
― Melomane, Friday, 3 April 2020 00:34 (four years ago) link
Camera Obscura Announces First New Album In Over Ten Years Look to the East, Look to the West Out May 3rd on MergeWatch the Video for Lead Single “Big Love”
Watch the Video for Lead Single “Big Love”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raC2EfuOi5Q
Today, the legendary Scottish indie-pop band Camera Obscura announces Look to the East, Look to the West, their first new album in over ten years, out May 3rd on Merge Records. The group, led by guitarist & vocalist Tracyanne Campbell, have reunited with Jari Haapalainen, who produced the band’s 2006 album Let’s Get Out of This Country and 2009’s My Maudlin Career, and have crafted an album that simultaneously recalls why longtime fans have ferociously loved them for decades while also being their most sophisticated effort to date. Lead single “Big Love” relishes in the space between country rock and prog, a pining break-up anthem featuring the soaring pedal steel of Tim Davidson. It’s a Nashville Sound heartbreaker, tackling the complexity of wanting to rekindle a bad relationship with Campbell’s uncanny ability to render the past: “It was a big love, she said / That’s why it took ten years to get her out of her head,” she begins. “‘Big Love’ is our tribute to Waylon Jennings, with a nod to Sandy Denny and prog rock band Scope,” says Campbell. “It’s a song about not looking back, having faith in the present and future.” Look to the East, Look to the West was the most hard-fought album of Camera Obscura’s career. Following the 2015 passing of founding keyboardist and friend Carey Lander, the band went into an extended hiatus. They remained in contact, but their status was uncertain until they announced their return, having been invited to perform as part of Belle & Sebastian’s 2019 Boaty Weekender cruise festival, along with a pair of sold-out warm-up shows in Glasgow. Donna Maciocia (keys and vocals) joined founding members Kenny McKeeve (guitar and vocals), Gavin Dunbar (bass), and Lee Thomson (drums and percussion) for those shows and has since become a regular songwriting partner of Campbell’s. Recorded in the same room where Queen wrote “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Look to the East, Look to the West feels big, a widescreen reframing of Camera Obscura’s sound that, paradoxically, saw the band go back to basics—there are no string or brass arrangements, with more emphasis placed on piano, synthesizers, Hammond organ, and drum machines, and, perhaps most strikingly, the group have dropped the veil of reverb that characterized their previous albums. The tinges of country and soul that give Camera Obscura’s baroque take on pop music its bittersweet edge have never been more apparent—guitars shimmer into the distance, keys haunt, and Campbell’s voice searches for the heart, reflecting on love, loss, and the passage of time. Look to the East, Look to the West is the sound of a band that has grown more confident in its sound and purpose than ever. It is Camera Obscura at their best and most evocative, an album that completely rearranges the listener’s emotional core, leaving them sad and exhilarated at the same time. Camera Obscura’s catalog is replete with songs people point to as life-changing, songs that will stick with them all their lives. Look to the East, Look to the West has 11 of them; take your pick. Pre-order Look to the East, Look to the West
Look to the East, Look to the West Tracklist:1. Liberty Print2. We're Going to Make It in a Man's World3. Big Love4. Only a Dream5. The Light Nights6. Sleepwalking7. Baby Huey (Hard Times)8. Denon9. Pop Goes Pop10. Sugar Almond11. Look to the East, Look to the West Camera Obscura Tour Dates(New Dates in Bold)Thu. May 2 - Hebden Bridge, UK @ The Trades ClubSat. May 4 - Leeds, UK @ StylusMon. May 6 - Manchester, UK @ Academy 2Tue. May 7 - London, UK @ KokoThu. May 9 - Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2Fri. May 10 - Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy 2Sat. May 11 - Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland BallroomWed. May 29 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union TransferThu. May 30 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock ClubFri. May 31 - Montreal, QC @ Theatre FairmontSat. Jun. 1 - Toronto, ON @ The Concert HallMon. Jun. 3 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia HallTue. Jun. 4 - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine LineFri. Jun. 7 - Seattle, WA @ The CrocodileSat. Jun. 8 - Portland, OR @ Revolution HallMon. Jun. 10 - San Francisco, CA @ The FillmoreTue. Jun. 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent TheaterWed. Jun. 12 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent BallroomFri. Jun. 14 - Dallas, TX @ Studio at the FactorySat. Jun. 15 - Austin, TX @ Scoot InnMon. Jun. 17 - Atlanta, GA @ VarietyTue. Jun. 18 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s CradleWed. Jun. 19 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 ClubThu. Jun. 20 - New York, NY @ Webster HallSat. Jun. 22 - Mon. Jun. 24 - Mexico City, MX @ Foro Indie Rocks!For more information, contact:Patrick Tilley | Pitch Perfect PR - patrick at pitchperfectpr.com
― dow, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:32 (seven months ago) link
This is just the best news. I've missed these guys.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:35 (seven months ago) link
Baby Huey (Hard Times)wait what
― nashwan, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:42 (seven months ago) link
For some reason in the last couple of weeks I've decided never to support this band again, oh well.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:45 (seven months ago) link
What, were you sending them cheques
― dow, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:49 (seven months ago) link
not directly
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:50 (seven months ago) link
I think My Maudlin Career is still my favorite.
I like the sound of Big Love, the odd country touch, the held back chorus, the very nice bridge and bass work in the instrumental part. Brilliant. It takes me back.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:08 (seven months ago) link
why be coy abt it, CaAL? tracyanne campbell has the transphobia brainworms. shit sucks.
― what followed the axes was just the beginning (cat), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 01:15 (seven months ago) link
I guess this is a good time to finally listen to Desire Lines? it came out right around the time I was getting into Let's Get Out of This Country and My Maudlin Career, but something (Pitchfork review? Keith's post upthread?) convinced me that Desire Lines was a huge dropoff in quality and an unfortunate lapse into adult contemporary mush. I think I've finally come to the terms with the fact that former p4k darlings are no longer young or cool. new song is nice
― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 01:45 (seven months ago) link
― what followed the axes was just the beginning (cat)
Fuck! Gutted about this.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 01:48 (seven months ago) link
Desire Lines is great, as is this new one!
― Davey D, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 02:11 (seven months ago) link
a small update on this as I’m aware some people have felt unnecessarily attacked: a lot of people don’t know about tracyanne campbell’s (now deleted) history of online transphobia (vocal support for maya forstater, e.g.) and I realise it’s not fair to tar the band’s fans … https://t.co/LlBX0UrPc1— Robert Dallas Gray (@rdg_music) January 12, 2024
well, shit.
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 02:52 (seven months ago) link
by the way, if you’re looking for receipts, here are some. tracyanne deleted a load of tweets in the last year or so; you’ll have to use your imagination, but it’s fairly obvious what’s going on
if Traceyanne's comments were really so alarming, then why didn't LWoB dude take the time to archive (or at least mention) the offending tweets 4+ years ago while he still had the chance? he's a legendary guitarist but his cancellation game is weak
― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 03:34 (seven months ago) link
If she's 'phobic, she sucks, but if the evidence is deleted, as RDG says it is, how can we (the we who never followed her) know? Anybody got screen shots where we don't have to use our imagination? Only other thing about I've found is an accusation on Reddit.
― dow, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 03:36 (seven months ago) link
"only other thing about *it* I've found," that is.
― dow, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 03:39 (seven months ago) link