Camera Obscura
My Maudlin Career

Beautfully put together, My Maudlin Career is the fourth album from the Glaswegian outfit. Heavy on relaxed emotion, Camera Obscura tell tales of lov...

My Maudlin Career begins in a decidedly non-maudlin fashion. 'French Navy's upbeat Phil Spector-esque echoey snares and strings accompany Tracyanne Ca...

While Glasgow’s Camera Obscura have changed labels for each of their four full-lengths (now currently on 4AD), their brighter alt-country ensemble sou...

There?s a theory from Nobel Prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman called the ?peak-end? rule. We tend to remember our experiences, whether with s...

"The thing to remember about love affairs is that they are like having raccoons in your chimney." So says Simone, a character in Lorrie Moore's story,...

I once made tea for Tracyanne Campbell, which is exactly the sort of thing one might expect to do in the presence of Camera Obscura’s lead singer, if ...

too much music in fact. Seeing as albums are currently released at a rate roughly equivalent to three a day, it’s impossible to listen to and digest t...

Glasgow’s reigning kings and queens of indie pop have returned with a new album that stands to rank amongst the year’s best. Spring is a unique season...

At the beginning of their career, Camera Obscura garnered numerous comparisons to fellow Scots Belle and Sebastian. The comparison was well-warranted ...

Rarely has an album title been as fitting as the Glasgow, Scotland,sextet Camera Obscura's "My Maudlin Career." The group's fourthalbum (but first for...