Showing posts with label Strange Desire Lines Album Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Strange Desire Lines Album Review. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Camera Obscura's Latest Album "Desire Lines"

(I'm having shoulder surgery in less than 7 hours. It's 12:22 am.)

Camera Obscura
Desire Lines

cool, rhythmic, jazzy, soulful, soft, mellow, Scottish pop music: plenty of quips, barbs, humour, melody, stories, self-deprecation, heartbreak, squish squish, plenty of poems, squish squish, I love this music, I have since "Underachievers Please Try Harder". Is there a better album title? Is there a better album? It was a record in Prospect Park I listened to and felt better. It might be the one album that I associate with a good time in my life. laugh out loud. The Tea Lounge cafe in Park Slope, 7th and Union, where I went with my loneliness, and my loneliness left me to talk to the hot barista for a while so I could listen to Camera Obscura or maybe stream an Oakland A's game when mlb.tv was in its infancy. I love this music. And now Desire Lines, with its unsurprisingly beautiful cover art, and its surprisingly groovy first two tracks. You're like "damn, that's kindof Jay-Zesque". Ok, no. nobody says that. But, Curtis Mayfield, yes, definitely yes, and I'm thinking of the song "So In Love". Camera Obscura brought a surprising groove to the potluck at my house, and it makes me feel damn happy again, again at a good time in my life.

Camera Obscura
Desire Lines

with love in lines of desire,
Anthony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESTd0AHkzlQ