Thanks to their third album “Let’s get out of this country”, Scottish band CAMERA OBSCURA, has finally turned into one of the most popular bands of the moment: the album has sold over 100.000 copies, reviews (Mojo, Q, Uncut, Word, The Guardian) couldn’t be more positive (Stool Pigeon has even labeled singer Tracyanne Campbell “the new Carole King”). CAMERA OBSCURA has played live around the whole …
Thanks to their third album “Let’s get out of this country”, Scottish band CAMERA OBSCURA, has finally turned into one of the most popular bands of the moment: the album has sold over 100.000 copies, reviews (Mojo, Q, Uncut, Word, The Guardian) couldn’t be more positive (Stool Pigeon has even labeled singer Tracyanne Campbell “the new Carole King”). CAMERA OBSCURA has played live around the whole world (for a thousand fans in Mexico, selling out tickets in the biggest cities in USA), more than a million people have visited the band’s myspace and musicians as influential as Stuart Murdoch (BELLE AND SEBASTIAN), Richard Hawley or Brett Anderson (SUEDE, THE TEARS) have declared themselves huge fans. The band’s music has been included in the soundtracks of several TV series (highly successful “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Friday Night LIghts” or “Hollyoaks”, a popular, lengthy series for British Channel 4) and movies (BBC production “Imagine me and you”).
Amidst all this success, a fourth single from the album is released: “Tears for affairs”. Singer Tracyanne wrote this mysterious and intriguing song inspired by the sleazy atmospheres of David Lynch‘s movies. The song is released in two different formats: seven inch single and CD-Single, each of them including different bonus tracks. In the CD-Single we find “The last song”, a brand new track recorded just before the band started a lengthy tour that took them around the United States, Mexico and Australia. The track was recorded by Paul Savage (THE DELGADOS) in Glasgow’s Chem 19 Studio (where other artists such as Vashti Bunyan, TRASH CAN SINATRAS, Scout Niblett or TEENAGE FANCLUB have recorded has well).
The CD-Single also includes a new video for “Lloyd, I¹m ready to be heartbroken”, first single of the album and one of the most popular songs by the band so far; it has been included in many compilations all over the world, and it was chosen by renowned Q magazine as one of the “best 100 songs to discover”. This new video (not to mistake for the one directed by Domingo González, who also filmed videos for LA CASA AZUL and the short film “Las superamigas contra el Doctor Vinilo”) has been directed by Victoria Bergsman. Victoria was the singer of THE CONCRETES (and sang backing vocals in some CAMERA OBSCURA tracks); she now leads a new band called TAKEN BY TREES, and she also directs videos for such famous artists as NEW ORDER.
The clip was filmed by Blair Young, responsible for most CAMERA OBSCURA videos; this one features drawings by François Marry, French designer and musician currently living in England. François toured the States with CAMERA OBSCURA, substituting trumpet player Nigel, who has recently been a father.
As it happened in the three previous singles, the seven inch B-side includes a cover version; this time, it’s the recreation of ABBA’s “Super Trouper” that CAMERA OBSCURA recorded for Dermot O’ Leary‘s show on BBC Radio 2. The show listeners loved the track, making it the most requested track in 2006.
