Camera Obscura Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi

Format: CD.
Year Of Release: 2002.
Label: Elefant.
Label reference #: ER-1090.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M147927
Approximate release date: June 18, 2002.
Genres: British Bands

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Distributor/label description(s):

Elefant description:
Elefant releases in Spain the debut album of this Scottish six-piece. Sensitive, acoustic pop and perfect pop tunes like �Eighties fan�, produced by Stuart Murdoch from BELLE AND SEBASTIAN. Our edition includes two extra tracks.

Track listing:

1. "Feliz A�o Nuevo"


2. "Fan De Los Ochenta"


3. "Casa Flotante"


4. "Brilla Como Una Patena"


5. "Boligrafo Y Cuaderno"


6. "Piscina"


7. "Anti-Western"


8. "Juguemos A Los Bolos"


9. "No Hago Multitudes"


10. "El Sol A Su Esplada"


11. "Programa Doble"


12. "Arreglos De Formas Y Espacio"



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Twee Kitten review of Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
by Keith Mclachlan

What joy must be brought the the heart of Stuart Murdoch on those rare days when he can escape the skullduggery of his own group of musical miscreants and find himself among what are essentially his children in Camera Obscura. He beams when they come to him asking him whether their new songs are good and when he nods in approval the children scream with passionate excitement and beg him to place the score on his refrigerator with his collection of precious moment magnets. And after a day when Stevie J and Miss Isobel are complaining angrily about there being not enough of their two chord dirge contributions on the quite excrementable Todd Solondz' soundtrack he can think only of sugar plums as he drives his car to the studio where his children in Camera Obscura have been working overtime to write a song even more to his liking and when he arrived on that day when 'Eighties Fan' was presented to him he was so overwhelmed with the whiff of nostalgic happiness of his own youth when he penned breathless wonders such as 'Get Me Away I'm Dying' and 'Boy With the Arab Strap' with little worry over whether the others might complain 'Oh look at Stuart with his classic songs again', the whiff so bravura that he decides to strap on the old six-string himself and live vicariously for a moment through Lindsay Boyd's voice and the perfect strums and feel pleasure even at the stifling of tears when he thinks back to his days of stalking Lawrence Felt and the drama of adolescence. And his children respect the old man, they can't understand his patience with those who wish only to displace his mantle of glory, but in response they push themselves even harder to achieve the greatness within his admiring gaze and pull even harder to wrench him from his funk at the fount of irreconciable differences. Pity the poor old pop star then his only winning moments the thoughts that come to him when he listens to the marvelous 'Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi' and the knowledge paired that he played a grand part in its magnificence.



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