Camera Obscura MY MAUDLIN CAREER

Camera Obscura MY MAUDLIN CAREERAs the title suggests, their new album shares with the listener an affectionate wit and a melancholy tendency towards life's daily routines and relationships. Yet it also boasts and expands on the affected pop elements explored on their breakout album, "Let's Get Out Of This Country". It's no wonder Camera Obscura are often mentioned in the same sentences as fellow Scots Belle & Sebastian, indie rock faves The Lucksmiths, and music legends The Smiths.

~ Tim Sendra Released: 12/23/2016

MASK is the group's second album

Gordon’s voice wavering like watercolor: “If I could cry and shake for you / I’d lay awake for you / I got sand in my heart for you

Lamp Lit Prose speaks of hope and second chances in the more optimistic tone of the music

More importantly

STARS AND TOPSOIL provides a concise overview of this fascinating ensemble's peak years

Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl like Me (2006)

Released: 09/17/2021

This CD retains the rather original album's rather daring cover art (a nude male figure) but adds eight tracks from early singles (though not "Bela

Metallica: James Hetfield (vocals

Songs like "Boys Keep Swinging" (later covered by ex-Bangle Susanna Hoffs) and "DJ" have the structure of traditional rock songs

They've hit another career peak with Gore