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4AD News: Unveil video to their new single, 'The Sweetest Thing'
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super hooked on Camera Obscura http://bit.ly/10icn3 20 days ago |
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rt @DPTheTruth Camera Obscura *finally* release the best song from My Maudlin Career http://bit.ly/10icn3 29 days ago |
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Camera Obscura!! they will come to Japan next January!!!! http://bit.ly/10icn3 10/29/2009 |
Unveil video to their new single, 'The Sweetest Thing'
4AD News —
Following the previous news that Camera Obscura will release 'The Sweetest Thing' on November 2, Pitchfork this morning premiered the video to the forthcoming single here. Taken from the Glaswegians' My Maudlin Career (available here), the single will also feature a version of Bruce Springsteen's Tougher Than The Rest on the reverse of the 7".
The band sent out the following message to their mailing list regarding the video and their upcoming dates:
"Hello,
This is your unmissable Camera Obscura news update for ...
Camera Oscura – The Sweetest Thing
BUZZGRINDER —
You know, I can respect any woman who can pull off a fake mustache. But what I respect even more is a woman who can pull off a real mustache. Sorry, Camera Obscura girl. ...
New Camera Obscura video: ‘The Sweetest Thing’
ZME Music —
Halloween came a bit early for Camera Obscura this year or should I say in a year back in the ’60s? Vintage film, weird hairdos and mustached women. Can you think of a sweeter thing?
Off Camera Obscura’s latest album “My Maudlin Career” out now on 4AD. ...
Camera Obscura Continue To Be Quietly Awesome
Idolator —
Camera Obscura is one of those bands that I feel gets kind of jobbed by the headline-grasping nature of the curious beast that is “overly indie-skewing music journalism” these days. The Glaswegians keep pumping out chiming, beautiful pop, choosing to just release insanely catchy music (and adorable videos) instead of grasping for headlines or engaging in egregious myth-making or babbling about how they’ve taken so many drugs, you guys. And it’s hard not to wonder if their profile suffers for it—after all, in this increasingly distracted age, artists can vault to ...
Camera Obscura - "The Sweetest Thing" (video) (Mixed Media)
PopMatters —
The drumbeat on “The Sweetest Thing”, from My Maudlin Career and not a U2 cover, is that one poppy rhythm that activates some latent dopamine receptors in 80% of people and is highly conducive to hand clapping. The video strikes a nice balance between saccharine and wistful. Watch for the guy in the Lemmy costume.— Tyler Gould
Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing
5 Acts —
The Weekly Sweep
Sweeping The Nation —
4 Or 5 Magicians - Nice Little Earner [YouTube] Acres, Acres - Diamonds From Coal [mp3] Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing [YouTube] Copy Haho - Wrong Direction [Myspace] The Decemberists - The Rake's Song [YouTube] Fanfarlo - The Walls Are Coming Down [YouTube] Grammatics - Double Negative [live YouTube] Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others [YouTube] I Concur - Sobotka [YouTube] I Was A King - Norman Bleik [Myspace] (So work this one out. A Norwegian band write a song with more than shades of ...
Camera Obscura: The Sweetest Thing
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Camera Obscura
BIGSTEREO —
The very cute and romantic Camera Obscura is rocking the mustache in this video for “The Sweetest Thing”, off their very intelligent and swoon inducing release “My Maudlin Career”. They bring a smile to my face and help me remember the days when all that mattered was a beer and joint on a summer day.
The Weekly Sweep
Sweeping The Nation —
Acres, Acres - Diamonds From Coal [mp3] Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing [YouTube] Cant - Ghosts [mp3 from Stereogum] (Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear (and Dirty Projectors production)'s solo debut. Thus, unmissable) Cats & Cats & Cats - A Boy Called Haunts [Myspace] The Chapman Family - Virgins [YouTube] Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others [YouTube] I Concur - Sobotka [YouTube] Johnny Foreigner - Security To The Promenade The Kiara Elles - Odio [YouTube] Local Natives - Camera Talk [YouTube] ...
Camera Obscura “The Sweetest Thing” Video
Culture Bully —
Home Video Camera Obscura “The Sweetest Thing” Video
The Weekly Sweep
Sweeping The Nation —
The Blanche Hudson Weekend - Crying Shame [Myspace] (The second band to emerge from the smoking yet still feeding back rubble of the Manhattan Love Suicides - the main two, singer Caroline and guitarist Darren, this time, heading on a fuzzy retro girl pop 'tip') The Bitter Springs - And Even Now [YouTube] Cant - Ghosts [mp3 via Stereogum] Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing [YouTube] Chapel Club - Surfacing [Myspace] The Dead Weather - I Cut Like A Buffalo [YouTube] Felix - Death To Everyone But Us [Myspace] Field Music - Measure [mp3 from ...
Single of the Week - 2nd November
The 405 RSS Blog —
Monday is upon us again and that can mean only one thing, another Single of The Week shortlist for all you good people in internet-land to vote on.
Which of the following is your favourite track this week?
Camera Obscura - 'The Sweetest Thing'
Plasticines - 'Barcelona'
St Vincent - 'Marrow'
The Horrors - 'Whole New Way' ...
The Weekly Sweep
Sweeping The Nation —
Animal Collective – Brother Sport [Myspace] (Where their current profile picture teeters between 'pleasing' and 'awkward') Au Revoir Simone – Another Likely Story [live YouTube] The Bitter Springs - And Even Now [YouTube] Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This [YouTube] Brakes - Why Tell The Truth (When It's Easier To Lie?) [YouTube] Broken Records - Out On The Water [live YouTube] Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing [YouTube] Felix - Death To Everyone But Us [Myspace] Field Music - Measure [Myspace] Florence & ...
Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing
The 405 RSS Blog —
Label: 4AD
Release date: 02/11/09
Website: http://www.myspace.com/cameraobscuraband
Hot on the heels of their brainstormingly-good single 'French Navy' comes another perfect slice of 60’s girl-group influenced twee from Scottish indie-pop group Camera Obscura.
Lifted from their impeccable fourth album ‘My Maudlin Career’, ‘The Sweetest Thing’ is about as sublime as indie-pop – or indeed any genre of music- can get; Bouncy guitars and bubbling horns swathe Tracyanne’s heartbreaking lyrics (including a deft Paul Simon reference) before swelling into the most vibrant, joyful, life-affirming chorus you’ll ...
CONTEST – Camera Obscura @ The Phoenix – November 26, 2009
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Frank YangThings that you can take to the bank: one, that every couple years Scotland’s Camera Obscura will return with a new album of gorgeous, increasingly orchestral pop and two, that they’ll tour North America at least twice in support of said record, if not more.
To point one, we have their latest record My Maudlin Career, released back in April, and to point two, we have a two-week trek that started earlier this week and which rolls into The Phoenix in Toronto next Thursday, November 26, and which follows a Summer tour that saw them play Lee’s Palace back in June. ...
