For some people, finding music to hate is as easy as finding something that sounds too much like something they love. For instance, "I love Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots sounds like Pearl Jam. Thus I hate Stone Temple Pilots." Fortunately Camera Obscura sound nothing like Pearl Jam. They do, however, sound an awful lot like Belle and Sebastian. Both of those bands started the day with an endearing mix of shaky singing and musical chops could just barely suggest the retro sounds they were aiming for. But while Belle and Sebastian married their ever-increasing sonic sophistication to the same old shitty singing, Tracyanne Cambell of Camera Obscura has developed a voice that can stand up to the mountain-high fortress of strings surrounding her on every song. Granted, it's not a traditionally great voice. It's more like the vocal equivalent of that quirky cute girl you had a crush on in high school. The one who never smiled and over-enunciated her words, made all the more attractive by the thought that you might actually have a shot.Monday, September 21, 2009
999,993: Camera Obscura — French Navy
For some people, finding music to hate is as easy as finding something that sounds too much like something they love. For instance, "I love Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots sounds like Pearl Jam. Thus I hate Stone Temple Pilots." Fortunately Camera Obscura sound nothing like Pearl Jam. They do, however, sound an awful lot like Belle and Sebastian. Both of those bands started the day with an endearing mix of shaky singing and musical chops could just barely suggest the retro sounds they were aiming for. But while Belle and Sebastian married their ever-increasing sonic sophistication to the same old shitty singing, Tracyanne Cambell of Camera Obscura has developed a voice that can stand up to the mountain-high fortress of strings surrounding her on every song. Granted, it's not a traditionally great voice. It's more like the vocal equivalent of that quirky cute girl you had a crush on in high school. The one who never smiled and over-enunciated her words, made all the more attractive by the thought that you might actually have a shot.
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I like this. It makes me want to get drunk on a Saturday afternoon and go play with art school girls and French Poetry majors in the woods, while the leaves turn. Mittens may or may not be involved.
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