I really haven't followed them since their first album. Are they still getting more popular? I was wondering if the move to 4ad from elefant made any difference. I bought their first single when that came out, think it was their first, has some girl in the snow on it.
― svend, Friday, 14 August 2009 03:47 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that's the first one, park and ride
― badpowderfinger (electricsound), Friday, 14 August 2009 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
welp they almost certainly have a bigger marketing budget on 4ad, but i have no idea to what extent that has translated into sales
― badpowderfinger (electricsound), Friday, 14 August 2009 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I sort of forgot about the when Tompaulin put their lp out. Gonna grab the new one from emusic.
― svend, Friday, 14 August 2009 04:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Just bought that. The California Snow Story cd is only one pound ninty nine too now :).
― svend, Friday, 14 August 2009 04:12 (fourteen years ago) link
last comment for now is
i'd like to celebrate you dear,all and all, it's beena pretty good year
is a hard fucking knife in my heart.
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Friday, 14 August 2009 06:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i really like this cd
― tickle me imo (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 August 2009 07:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Listening to this reminds me how much fun mopey music can be. I haven't listened to any new Morrissey in years, but this reminds me of what I used to enjoy about his music.
― o. nate, Friday, 14 August 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I like this album very much. It's pleasant in a not-boring way.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 14 August 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Heard "French Navy" in a Los Angeles 99 cent store recently. This incident to be paired with the time I heard "Hey Lloyd" at a gas station in a bad part of the Valley.
Did either of these get radio play? Is French Navy a hit on Spanish radio?
― Cunga, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link
"French Navy" was sandwiched between Billy Joel and Fleetwood Mac fwiw.
Do we have a thread about lyrics that hit a bit too close to home and you just have to <3 them for it? "when you're lucid, you're the sweetest thing. i would trade in my mother to hear you sing" oh my god i may have to listen to this song like a million times in a row.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
<3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IhygBvzCX8
― no hongro (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
if traceyanne campbell ever looked happy while performing hell would freeze over
― get up and use(rna)me (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
That's so damn true! I saw them twice a couple of years ago and she looked like she'd rather be doing just about anything else.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
this is my album of the year, everyone else can go suck it.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
being from glasgow will do that to you, or so i'm told.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I think that's just her face, nothing to do with her emotional state, although I'm sure the problem is aggravated hearing "cheer up, hen" a dozen times a day.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
what else sounds like this? and not just lol b&s and other co albums. and is this good?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
The Concretes In Colour, perhaps? Or do they count as lol other co?
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
co = camera obscura
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
will try it. loved the first record and then totally forgot they existed.
the school aren't that far removed, though they are perhaps less melancholy and more upbeat/girl group
― get up and use(rna)me (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
These guys are usually pretty good live, but "French Navy" is just not the same song without the strings :(
― one boob is free with one (daavid), Friday, 16 October 2009 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
The new one is outstanding. Maybe their best.
― Evan R, Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
New year's resolution to write something of valuuuuuuuuue...."
Love it.
Is it out there now or do you have a promo copy? Can't believe it's been four years already since the last album.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link
has the new album leaked? "do it again" doesn't do much for me. I'll still buy it the day it comes out.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Loved the last one, but yeah, kinda forgot this was coming out.
― monotony, Friday, 10 May 2013 00:19 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (eight years ago) link
Also, cancer is a basic bitch.
― Madchen, Friday, 21 August 2015 10:59 (eight years ago) link
^ this.
― ailsa, Friday, 21 August 2015 12:36 (eight 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
idk what TC did, said, or posted, but I vehemently disagree with framing this as a dispute over "trans rights," unless you think the right to "be alive" or receive appropriate medical care is best understood as a civil right
― rob, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:45 (three months ago) link
^^^
― dead precedents (sleeve), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:47 (three months ago) link
i listened to the new album by the smile yesterday, made by a known israel sympathizer and a guy who is at least married to a transphobe, but i guess i rationalize that bc radiohead's music has been a part of my life for so long that i'm always going to want to hear what they're up to and i just gotta hope they fix their hearts in the background of my mind while i'm listening
it is also incredibly easy to be a human being who does not follow graham linehan or like his tweets, because he has been advocating for my annihilation for like almost ten years at this point, maybe longer?
― ivy., Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:51 (three months ago) link
otm, and frankly, liking a tweet is not "guilt by association," it is a public endorsement of someone's speech / viewpoint. you can argue that shouldn't matter either, but it can't be dismissed as mere association
― rob, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:58 (three months ago) link
when an artist reveals views like that, it just makes me question their entire public-facing persona, and the sincerity of their art. as if they're trying to con people into believing they're something more than basic bigots with a talent for melody. w/Roisin Murphy, it was probably even worse because her entire career was built upon this supposed embracing of the LGBTQ community, when she actually harbored these deeply ignorant ideas.
― omar little, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 16:57 (three months ago) link
― rob, Wednesday, January 31, 2024 4:45 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't really know either so this was a shortcut, although you have me puzzled here. Right to life is a civil right. Health care is a social right.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 18:38 (three months ago) link
Maybe this is a cultural difference, but the right to life is not a civil right in my world; it's usually framed as a natural or human right, when it's included in a rights-based analysis. Health care may get framed as a social right (though that's not a term I'm familiar with tbh), but given its direct connection to the right to life, to me it's closer to a human right.
But my point was more that this isn't a political debate over, for example, the right to not be discriminated against at work for being trans, it's a struggle against a deliberate campaign of extermination with the goal of eliminating (annihilating as ivy said) trans people entirely. IMO talking about that as "trans rights" is way overly generous to the fascists who welcome any fig leaf of respectability for their genocidal project.
― rob, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 18:57 (three months ago) link
Civil and political VS economic, social and cultural are the two main categories of human rights for historical reasons, since there were two blocks at the time the Covenants elaborated on the Declaration. You're right that we don't really speak like that any more and just say human rights.
The special attention granted to LGBTQ people is under the angle of discrimination because the rest (protection from threats, hate speech etc) is presumably already covered unless you live in criminalizing countries... except of course that some states have proven to fail / be complicit and then it becomes a judicial battle to enforce. But speaking of rights is still correct imo.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:13 (three months ago) link