By Marke B.
Morrissey may have crapped out of his stint at the Paramount, Belle and Sebastian are probably off looking for 20 more band members — and whither the classic Bluebells, I ask you?
But at least on this overcast break from yesterday’s heatwave we have the 13-year-old and much overlooked Scottish popsters Camera Obscura — no, not this camera obscura, although the music has the same ethereal shimmer — to keep us melancholically sunny with their new, lushly orchestrated My Maudlin Career (4AD). Somehow the 11 slightly countrified gems on this release seem like the ones that got away from both Neko Case and Rough Trade …
Camera Obscura, “French Navy”
Bonus! Bluebells (Hey, I’m in the mood for jangly Scottish maudlin today)
The Bluebells, “I’m Falling” (much better sound quality here)
What do you know? The singers look quite a bit alike ….
View the previous Snap Sound here.