Monday, 9 February 2009

Camera Obscura's Maudlin Career

The new album from Camera Obscura - "My Maudlin Career" - will be released on the seminal 4AD Records label (www.4ad.com) on CD, vinyl & digital download on April 20th.

This is the fourth full-length offering from Glasgow's finest purveyors of literate, melodic pop. It is the follow up to the critically acclaimed "Let's Get Out Of This Country" album. And it is their best yet.

The title track is available NOW on i-tunes, or you can hear it HERE or get it for free HERE (subscribe to mailing list for download).

Camera Obscura will perform at the South By Southwest Music Conference* in Austin, Texas in March before heading to New York for a show at the Bell House in Brooklyn with special guest Laura Cantrell.

The band will also play some UK dates in April:
23 April - Shepherd's Bush Empire, London. Tickets on sale 10th Feb 9am HERE**.
26 April - Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow. Tickets on sale 12th Feb 9am - Phone 08444 999 990 or go HERE.

* Other Scottish bands confirmed for SXSW so far include Come On Gang!(Edinburgh), Dananananakroyd (Glasgow), Flood of Red (Glasgow), FOUND (Edinburgh), The Hazey Janes (Dundee), Healthy Minds Collapse (Fife), Nacional (Glasgow), Pearl and the Puppets (Glasgow), The Pictish Trail (Anstruther), Primal Scream (Glasgow), The Proclaimers (Edinburgh), Sandi Thom (Edzell), Twin Atlantic (Glasgow), The Vaselines (Glasgow), We Were Promised Jetpacks (Glasgow) and Astrid Williamson (Shetland Islands).

** If you thought the current ticketing system for gigs was bad, then READ ON.

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