Music Box at the Fonda Theater
6126 Hollywood Blvd
323.464.0808
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Camera Obscura
Thursday June 11, 2009 (8pm)
Music Box at the Fonda Theater
6126 Hollywood Blvd
323.464.0808
$17.50
"Spent a week in a dusty library / Waiting for some words to jump at me,” sighs Tracyanne Campbell on "French Navy," the deliriously catchy debut single off Camera Obscura's fourth full-length, My Maudlin Career. Textbook Scottish twee, no doubt; but these Glaswegian indie-poppers show a distinctive flair for the dramatic. As with the lovely Let's Get Out of This Country, the Motown rhythms and Phil Spector instrumentation play like grandiose drama rather than just '60s poses. Still, it's Campbell's vocals, a mesmerizing mix of Hope Sandoval and Victoria Bergsman, that really make their weary defiance shine.
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