Blog: Pitchfork: Forkcast

Say it ain't so, Camera Obscura . "This maudlin career has come to an end/ I don't wanna be sad again," sings Tracyanne Campbell on the thumping midtempo title track from the Glaswegian indie poppers' fourth album (and first for 4AD ), the forthcoming My Maudlin Career . The arrangment stays close to the wispy-voiced, Phil Spector-informed pop melancholy that Camera Obscura have gradually refined from Stuart Murdoch-produced first single "Eighties Fan" to 2004 sophomore LP Underachievers Please [...]