View basket “Another Side Of Bob Dylan” has been added to your basket. Ben's picks Look to the East, Look to the West Camera Obscura SKU: 27.00 28.00 £27.00 - £28.00 £27.00 - £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge Records Released Date: 3rd May 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Buying Options Choose an option1LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve1LP Gatefold SleeveClear Look to the East, Look to the West quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Look to the East, Look to the West, the new album by Camera Obscura, is a revelation. The Tracyanne Campbell-led outfit, reuniting with producer Jari Haapalainen (Let’s Get Out of This Country, My Maudlin Career), have crafted an album that simultaneously recalls why longtime fans have ferociously loved them for decades while also being their most sophisticated effort to date. It is also the most hard-fought album of Camera Obscura’s career. Following the 2015 passing of founding keyboardist and friend Carey Lander (to whom the penultimate track “Sugar Almond” is addressed), the band went into an extended hiatus. They remained in contact, but their status was uncertain until they announced their return, having been invited to perform as part of Belle & Sebastian’s 2019 Boaty Weekender cruise festival, along with a pair of sold-out warm-up shows in Glasgow. Donna Maciocia (keys and vocals) joined founding members Kenny McKeeve (guitar and vocals), Gavin Dunbar (bass), and Lee Thomson (drums and percussion) for those shows and has since become a regular songwriting partner of Campbell’s. Recorded in the same room where Queen wrote “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Look to the East, Look to the West feels big, a widescreen reframing of Camera Obscura’s sound that, paradoxically, saw the band go back to basics there are no string or brass arrangements, with more emphasis placed on piano, synthesizers, Hammond organ, and drum machines, and, perhaps most strikingly, the group have dropped the veil of reverb that characterized their previous albums. The tinges of country and soul that give Camera Obscura’s baroque take on pop music its bittersweet edge have never been more apparent guitars shimmer into the distance, keys haunt, and Campbell’s voice searches for the heart, reflecting on love, loss, and the passage of time. Lead single “Big Love” relishes in the space between country rock and prog, a pining break-up anthem featuring the soaring pedal steel of Tim Davidson. It’s a Nashville Sound heartbreaker, tackling the complexity of wanting to rekindle a bad relationship with Campbell’s uncanny ability to render the past: “It was a big love, she said / That’s why it took ten years to get her out of her head,” she begins. “We’re Going to Make It in a Man’s World” was co-written with Maciocia for filmmaker Margaret Salmon’s 2021 film Icarus (After Amelia). (Salmon, in turn, shot Look to the East, Look to the West’s cover photography featuring Fiona Morrison, who was on the cover of Camera Obscura’s debut, Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi.). Ironic and sincere, the two navigate the reality of being women in the music industry, somehow floating over Davidson’s pedal steel and Maciocia’s keys. “The Light Nights” is a swooning song propelled by a western shuffle and killer guitar, striking a balance between a particularly good honky-tonk joint’s jukebox and a lost gem of California pop music waiting to be discovered in a 7” bin. Look to the East, Look to the West is the sound of a band that has grown more confident in its sound and purpose than ever. It is Camera Obscura at their best and most evocative, an album that completely rearranges the listener’s emotional core, leaving them sad and exhilarated at the same time. Camera Obscura’s catalog is replete with songs people point to as life-changing, songs that will stick with them all their lives. Look to the East, Look to the West has 11 of them; take your pick. Artist Camera Obscura Genre Rock And Pop Label Merge Records Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve , 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Gatefold Sleeve Condition New Country UK Track Listings Liberty Print We’re Going to Make It in a Man’s World Big Love Only a Dream The Light Nights Sleepwalking Baby Huey (Hard Times) Denon Pop Goes Pop Sugar Almond Look to the East, Look to the West Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Camera Obscura and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Camera Obscura Desire Lines Rock And Pop | 4AD | 1LP Released 30th August 2019 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Camera Obscura Desire Lines £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 4AD SKU: CAD3314 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th August 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career Rock And Pop | 4AD | Miscellaneous Released 24th May 2019 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 4AD SKU: CAD2907 Formats: Miscellaneous Released Date: 24th May 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Al Stewart Russians & Americans Rock And Pop | Passport | 1LP Released 15th April 2024 £10.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Al Stewart Russians & Americans £10.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Passport SKU: nn284584 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Welshly Arms Wasted Words & Bad Decisions Rock And Pop | Vertigo | 1LP Released 23rd September 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Welshly Arms Wasted Words & Bad Decisions £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Vertigo SKU: 4807617 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chicago Chicago Christmas Rock And Pop | Rhino | 1LP Released 22nd November 2019 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chicago Chicago Christmas £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rhino SKU: 0603497849734 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd November 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Drenge Undertow Rock And Pop | Infectious | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 1st April 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Drenge Undertow £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Infectious SKU: INFECT215LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st April 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Confidence Man Confident Music For Confident People Rock And Pop | Heavenly | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 10th April 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Confidence Man Confident Music For Confident People £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Heavenly SKU: HVNLP152 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 10th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bjork Vespertine Rock And Pop | One Little Independent | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 12th May 2015 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bjork Vespertine £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: One Little Independent SKU: TPLP101 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Vex Ruffin LiteAce Frequency Rock And Pop | Stones Throw | 1LP Released 21st August 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Vex Ruffin LiteAce Frequency £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Stones Throw SKU: STH2443LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st August 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Meat And Bone Rock And Pop | Bronzerat | 1LP Released 27th September 2012 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Meat And Bone £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Bronzerat SKU: BR29LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th September 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Blake Mills Look Leftfield / Experimental | Caroline International | 1LP Released 30th November 2018 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Blake Mills Look £29.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Caroline International SKU: B002900301 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th November 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Miss May I Deathless Rock And Pop | Rise | 1LP Released 7th August 2015 £TBC Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Miss May I Deathless £TBC Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rise SKU: 600618 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th August 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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