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Camera Obscura is a dull Scottish seven-unit rendition of
Belle And Sebastian's folk-pop, with the only
attraction of Tracyanne Campbell's warm vocals.
Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi (2001 - Merge, 2004),
produced by Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch,
was a collection of melancholy cliches
that made Field Mice and the likes sound like Beethoven.
The even blander Underachievers Please Try Harder (Merge, 2004)
unfolds the sweet and sad
Teenager, Suspended From Class,
Number One Son and
Your Picture (that borrows the melody from Leonard Cohen).
Camera Obscura's gentle lullabies occasionally hark back to the romantic 1950s (A Sister's Social Agony) and to the naive Tamla soul (Let Me Go Home). Alas, their songs never rise above dejavu.
Having exhausted the patience of even their most faithful fans, Camera Obscura reinvented themselves on
Let's Get Out Of This Country (Merge, 2006).
Leaving behind the Belle & Sebastian role model,
and relying on the lush chamber arrangements of Jari Haapalainen
they ventured into a new territory of
melancholy and touching elegies:
Country Mile, Tears for Affairs,
Lloyd I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken,
and the two singles,
Let's Get Out Of This Country and
If Looks Could Kill.
While nothing here is revolutionary,
the combination of Tracyanne Campbell's sad songs and
Jari Haapalainen's exuberant sound is indeed infectious.
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