What does the city have to offer me?
In eary 2004, x amount touted a track from Camera Obscura's Underachievers Try Harder on his previous (and legendary) online newsletter. I liked it, but never really dove into the album -- the twee, Scottish pop pushed out at the time by my nonstop diet of a competing x tip-off: Nellie McKay's Get Away From Me. With Nellie occupied by Broadway and sans label, I should be able to devote proper attention to the forthcoming Let's Get Out Of This Country. After grabbing the excellent first single, I stumbled upon some of the surrounding tracks from the album through what the industry calls a "leak". Apparently, music record albums often appear in digitized format (generally .mp3, often collected in a "compressed" .zip file) in advance of their official retail "street date". This is wild.
Here's the title track:
Camera Obscura - "Let's Get Out Of This Country"
Bonus track: Camera Obscura - "If Looks Could Kill"
( Click here to pre-order Let's Get Out Of This Country)