Tag Archives: Camera Obscura

EP Review: Marine Life “Fool of a Kind”

Much of what you need to know about San Francisco indie popsters Marine Life can be gleaned from the fact that they’re labelmates with Camera Obscura and a quick glance at the cover to their debut EP, Fool of a … Continue reading

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Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2006

I have little to say about 2006, except that it’s a year from which I own an awful lot of albums and subsequently a year for whose Top 5 I had to be especially choosy. So, let’s nod to some … Continue reading

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Album Review: Camera Obscura, “Desire Lines”

Glasgow might just be the indie pop capital of the world. Maybe there’s something in the water, industrial tailings in the Clyde that induce in the city’s inhabitants a preternatural talent for gently ironic lyrics and gorgeously melancholy melodies. It … Continue reading

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