It was summertime, so insects of prey were legion. In 2006, the Glaswegian indie-pop band Camera Obscura performed at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro. I had the assignment to interview lead singer and ...

Scottish indie-pop band Camera Obscura are releasing their first new album in 11 years, Look to the East, Look to the West, on May 3 via Merge. Now they have shared its third single, “Liberty Print,” ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Camera Obscura’s lovingly nostalgic indie-pop has always been heavy on atmosphere and light on overt statements. And while the band’s fifth full-length, ...

Scottish indie-pop band Camera Obscura are releasing their first new album in 11 years, Look to the East, Look to the West, on May 3 via Merge. Now they have shared its second single, “We’re Going to ...

In 2015, Camera Obscura went on hiatus after the death of their longtime keyboardist, Carey Lander. The Glasgow band didn't know what the future would hold, but they knew they couldn't carry on at the ...

When Camera Obscura lost Carey Lander to cancer in 2015, the future of the band was undecided. The group took a break, and frontwoman Traceyanne Campbell made a very good record with Danny Coughlan ...

It proved more than fitting that a moody, gray thunderstorm rolled into the region hours before Camera Obscura took the stage Thursday night at the Wonder Ballroom. After all, the Glaswegian band's ...

‘Happy-clappy” is Tracyanne Campbell’s offhanded description of the kind of music her band is famous for. That sounds about right. For more than a decade, Camera Obscura, the Scottish indie-pop band ...

“This is love,” Tracyanne Campbell sings early on Desire Lines, “It’s alright.” Like most of Campbell’s lyrics, that assessment is loaded with ambiguity. She could mean “alright” in the Lou Reed-ian ...

Since 1996, Camera Obscura has been playing infectious, poetic indie-pop to ever-wider acclaim. The Scottish group released a couple of well-received 1998 singles that led to its first EP and then an ...

"Denon" "We're Going to Make It in a Man's World" "Look to the East, Look to the West" "Tears for Affairs" In 2015, Camera Obscura went on hiatus after the death of their longtime keyboardist, Carey ...