View basket “Reunion” has been added to your basket. 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 Richard Hawley Now Then: The Very Best Of Richard Hawley Rock And Pop | BMG | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 2nd February 2024 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Richard Hawley Now Then: The Very Best Of Richard Hawley £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG SKU: 4099964021288 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 2nd February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Zombies, The I Love You Rock And Pop | Craft Recordings | 1LP Released 14th August 2020 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Zombies, The I Love You £32.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Craft Recordings SKU: VSD0002002 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th August 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dylan John Thomas EP2 Rock And Pop | Ignition | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 4th November 2022 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dylan John Thomas EP2 £13.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Ignition SKU: IGN216TC Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 4th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Foo Fighters In Your Honor Rock And Pop | RCA | 2LP Released 22nd May 2015 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Foo Fighters In Your Honor £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: RCA SKU: 88697983271RE1 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 22nd May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Camille Le Fil Rock And Pop | Because Music | 1LP Released 31st July 2021 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Camille Le Fil £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Because Music SKU: BEC5156979 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st July 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Dylan Another Side Of Bob Dylan Rock And Pop | Mobile Fidelity | 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Released 14th August 2012 £73.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Bob Dylan Another Side Of Bob Dylan £73.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mobile Fidelity SKU: MFSL245379 Formats: 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Released Date: 14th August 2012 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Yardbirds, The Live Blues Wailing July 1964 Rock And Pop | Sundazed | 180g, 1LP Released 27th July 2016 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yardbirds, The Live Blues Wailing July 1964 £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sundazed SKU: SUNDAZEDLP5181 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 27th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sound, The All Fall Down (1982) Rock And Pop | Rhino | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 13th September 2024 £28.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Sound, The All Fall Down (1982) £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rhino SKU: 5021732340696 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 13th September 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders On Sale View Product Quick View E.B. 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