View basket “To Each His Own” 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 View Product Quick View Traffic Traffic Rock And Pop | Friday Music | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 28th January 2013 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Traffic Traffic £36.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Friday Music SKU: FRMLP9081 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 28th January 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Enter Shikari Moratorium (Broadcasts From The Interruption) Rock And Pop | So Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th August 2021 £23.00 - £26.00 Select options Enter Shikari Moratorium (Broadcasts From The Interruption) £23.00 - £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: So Recordings Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th August 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Sinead O'Connor Trouble of The World Rock And Pop | Heavenly | 7", Single Released 11th December 2020 £8.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sinead O'Connor Trouble of The World £8.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Heavenly SKU: HVN583 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 11th December 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jewel Pieces Of You (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Rock And Pop | Craft Recordings | 4LP, Box Set Released 20th November 2020 £62.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jewel Pieces Of You (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) £62.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Craft Recordings SKU: CR00298 Formats: 4LP, Box Set Released Date: 20th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Coral, The The Coral Rock And Pop | Run On Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 4th March 2022 £29.00 - £31.00 Select options Coral, The The Coral £29.00 - £31.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Run On Records Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 4th March 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Various Artists Don’t Leave Me This Way – 20 Disco Sizzlers Rock And Pop | UMC | 2LP Released 31st August 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Don’t Leave Me This Way – 20 Disco Sizzlers £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 5383030 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 31st August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pale spring Cygnus Rock And Pop | American Dreams | 1LP Released 19th March 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pale spring Cygnus £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: American Dreams SKU: LPADR15 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th March 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Clean, The Vehicle Rock And Pop | Captured Tracks / Flying Nun Records | 2LP Released 31st July 2013 £31.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Clean, The Vehicle £31.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Captured Tracks / Flying Nun Records SKU: FNCT004LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 31st July 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Dylan & The Band Basement Tapes Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP Released 23rd December 2011 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bob Dylan & The Band Basement Tapes £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP429 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 23rd December 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Todd Rundgren Space Force Rock And Pop | Cleopatra Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th October 2022 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Todd Rundgren Space Force £27.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Cleopatra Records SKU: CLOLP3082 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 14th October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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