Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi

Turns out that Camera Obscura were really good from the get-go. I've listened to them an awful lot over the last three (count it back) or so years - most recently My Maudlin Career, and before that, Underachievers Please Try Harder and, especially, Let's Get Out Of This Country - without particularly tiring of them, and Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi, their debut, is another charming and easily loveable hit of the band's sunnily wistful melodic sweetness, cuts like "Eighties Fan", "Pen and Notebook" and "Anti-Western" all basically perfect.