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St. Vincent and Camera Obscura, acoustic in France, presumably to mix electric and acoustic in St. Louis

By Todd | Published: August 26, 2009
Normally I try not to be one of those bloggers who just regurgitates his spam box as a way of approximating personal taste, but this particular blast from, I think, “Grand Crew” caught my attention, and not just because it was HTML-embedded with obnoxious hypercolor neons and mostly written in an obscure European language I [...]
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Friday Fix: Camera Obscura

By Scotter | Published: May 1, 2009
Buy this album French Navy [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Away With Murder [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Camera Obscura’s catalog is a concordance to the thoughts and feelings of that dark, grim-visaged, exquisitely vintage dressed girl sitting demurely in a corner of a dark dive–the femme too pigeonhearted to have [...]
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Friday Fix: Camera Obscura, Bishop Allen, The Boy Least Likely To

By Todd | Published: March 13, 2009
Camera Obscura – “French Navy” (from My Maudlin Career) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Is there such a thing as a Camera Obscura song that doesn’t start in a dusty library? Tucked away inside, surrounded by stacks of old books and LPs, Tracyanne Campbell is the introvert par excellence. But the melancholy of [...]
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