Camera Obscura - "My Maudlin Career"
Their new album (also called My Maudlin Career) is due out April 21(US), on their new label 4AD.
Normally I don't get too excited for indie pop these days. That I didn't even bother to check out the Belle & Sebastien BBC Sessions disc from this fall, speaks to my overall boredom with imported twee melodies and overcast-covered lovelorn lyricism. But, this Scottish sextet has me revisiting "Electric Renaissance" and some Shop Assistants shyte, laddie. "My Maudlin Career" is lush and congruent with the Phil Spector/Jesus & Mary Chain sonic assaults of the 60s/80s, but remarkably, the vocals are never buried too deep in the mix to hide the Scottish accent of Tracyanne Campbell's earnest voice. Har voice ayse foackin' gre-ate! (I haven't read Irvine Welsh...is this how he writes??) This is the perfect winter song for those shitty grey, dark-by-five-o'clock days.
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