Camera Obscura - My Maudlin CareerFollowing the widespread recognition that greeted Lets Get Out Of The Country, Camera Obscura signed a worldwide deal with 4AD in 2009. Returning to Sweden once more, their fourth album My Maudlin Career once again showcased the intuitive relationship the band have with producer Jari Haapalainen (Ed Harcourt, Peter, Bjorn & John, The Concretes), creating a body of refined cinematic indiepop that underlines the bands position in the pop pantheon. Now

Matthew explains

it now stands as a classic of it‰۪s genre

” explains founder and vocalist/guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Marcos Garcia (who also plays guitar in Antibalas) of the band’s sound

'The Top' is arguably the most hedonistic record the cure ever produced

When rendered in such a way as this album

sold out must-see shows in NYC

On this album

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There’s more swagger

which has already inspired interpretations from hundreds of musicians the world over

though the inspired eccentricity is toned down - an instrumental tribute to fellow Stockton-ite Dave Brubeck being the closest thing to their early quirkiness - this is the most consistent set of stubbornly catchy songs ever

brilliant amalgam of deeply layered sci-fi soundscapes that drift between the ambient drones