Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career

01. French Navy
02. The Sweetest Thing
03. You Told a Lie
04. Away With Murder
05. Swans
06. James
07. Careless Love
08. My Maudlin Career
09. Forest and Sands
10. Other Towns and Cities
11. Honey in the Sun

Persistent despair is charming and cute again! Camera Obscura is back with My Maudlin Career, the follow-up to 2006's Let's Get Out of This Country. Title track "My Maudlin Career" signals that the album's tone tends towards the fuzzy, dream-y twee that made up its predecessor. Most of the time it's difficult to make out what singer Tracyanne Campbell is saying amidst all the reverb and spaced-out guitars, but she still manages to make sadness sound sweet and romantic in a way that most of her contemporaries can't match. My Maudlin Career is out April 20 on 4AD...www.prefixmag.com