Let’s Get Out of This Country album cover
Let’s Get Out of This Country

Camera Obscura

2006
Elefant Records

Glasgow’s Camera Obscura had been operating in the indie pop shadow of Belle And Sebastian for a number of years before their 2006 breakthrough third album. Propelled by the galloping, Spector-ish, Lloyd Cole And The Commotions-referencing sweep of opener “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken,” Let’s Get Out This Country boasted a deft classicism and musical sophistication far beyond any notion of ‘twee’. Singer Tracyanne Campbell’s tender, rueful songs are given a full widescreen colourisation here with both lyrics and arrangements managing to be both in thrall to their musical touchstones, yet fully able to transcend them.

Chris Catchpole

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