Happy Holidays from CAMERA OBSCURA! 23 Nov 2009

Camera Obscura have had an amazing year, with their album My Maudlin Career garnering raves all around.   A huge UK tour was followed by a six-week stretch in North America and Mexico then a summer full of festival appearances. In between these, they recorded many radio sessions in the UK, and made their US TV debut on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.  After being afforded a short break – not until they’d filmed a new video ("The Sweetest Thing": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSanTYPm2g)and recorded a new song, they did a full European tour and now they are back in the US for more dates! 2010 is already shaping up to be as busy with more festivals penned in and the southern hemisphere firmly in their sights.

To end this amazing year, the band have just begun a US tour, and on December 8th  they will be releasing a holiday single! “The Blizzard” will be available as a 7” & digital single with the album track “Swans” as the b-side. “The Blizzard” is a pretty dour song as far as “holiday” tunes are concerned. It was written by country artist Jim Reeves and is about a gentleman trying to get home to a gal named Mary Anne. He’s riding a lame pony in a blizzard, and, well – it doesn’t have a happy ending. He ends up just 100 yards short – ie: freezing to death before he gets there.
Either way, it’s more gorgeousness from Camera Obscura. For a short time My Maudlin Career will be packaged with the single.

Hear “The Blizzard”
Hear “Swans”

Remaining US tour dates:
11/24    Northampton MA    Pearl Street Ballroom             
11/25    Rochester NY        The German House             
11/26    Toronto ONT        Phoenix                     
11/27    Pontiac MI        Crofoot Ballroom             
11/28    Milwaukee WI    Turner Hall                 
11/30    Bloomington IN    Bluebird                 
12/1     St. Louis, MO        Vintage Vinyl (instore performance)
12/1    St Louis MO        Off Broadway                 
12/2    Oxford MS        The Lyric Oxford             
12/3    Athens GA        40 Watt ClubIn addition, the band have just announced a tour of Australia and New Zealand in January next year...

1/18 Auckland Monte Cristo Room
1/19 Wellington San Francisco Bathhouse
1/21 Sydney Beck's Festival Bar
1/22 Brisbane The Zoo
1/23 Melbourne Corner Hotel
1/25 Perth Amplifiers                

Don’t forget about My Maudlin Career for year-end lists!

“The album feels as if it could have been released any time in the last 50-odd years, but the inspired arrangements - and, of course, Campbell's indelible voice -make it sound fresh, too."
Pitchfork (8.3/10)

"Camera Obscura has been crafting its own blend of shimmering chamber-pop since first forming in Glasgow in 1996. Now, more than a decade later, the group [is about to} release its richest and most ambitious album to date."
-NPR's Exclusive First Listen"

"It’s an infectious album that blooms repeatedly throughout, unfolding in muted, endearing aural hues; simultaneously sad and celebratory, and always charming."
-Paste 89%

"The result is a flawless blend of sunny pop, Motown, blues and jazz with the cleanest production in Camera Obscura's catalog."
-Billboard

"On their fourth album, this Scottish indie-pop band's fondness for woeful heartache and Phil Spector–esque production reaches a poignant peak."
-Spin

“Make no mistake, this is a remarkably beautiful record.
(It) exists to reward those both mad, and sad, in love.”
 NME (9/10)

HEAR "MY MAUDLIN CAREER"
WATCH the "FRENCH NAVY" video
WATCH the band perform “FRENCH NAVY” on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson

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