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- Summary: This is the first album from Scottish band Camera Obscura since the death of founding member Carey Lander from cancer in 2015.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Alternative/Indie Rock
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May 3, 2024The resulting album Look to the East, Look to the West is both a fitting tribute to what the band once was and a powerful new beginning.
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May 3, 2024Camera Obscura’s comeback album is a thing of real beauty. Campbell writes movingly about memory and friendship. Looking at what was rather than regretting what might have been with an honesty that goes directly to the heart of things. Look to the East, Look to the West is one of the most poignant albums of the year so far.
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May 2, 2024It’s an album that reveals its charms slowly.
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UncutMay 2, 2024Tracyanne Campbell still writes exquisite songs that don’t sacrifice melancholy for cleverness, and the band still provide smart arrangements that nod to country, Motown, Brill Building pop and other distinctly American sounds. [May 2024, p.32]
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May 15, 2024This album is a spirited, catchy, poignant return, yet it’s also the most affecting record about grief since Nick Cave’s Skeleton Tree.
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May 3, 2024It turns out that subtlety suits them, and if Look to the East, Look to the West isn’t as immediately grabby as past albums were, these songs are nonetheless built to last.
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May 2, 2024Listening to Look to the East, Look to the West feels at once redemptive and healing; Camera Obscura have found their way through the dark.