![]() No Harriets, Tracys, Nancys, Dustys or any French icon. We shouldn‚t stop finding resemblances and parallel lines to those charming female vocals. That collection of flavors (British pop, acoustic intimacy, backing vocals, string arrangements, sixties sounds, country moods.) is present again in "Underachievers please try harder" (recorded between last year‚s April and December) again produced by Geoff Allan, that achieves to mantain a select and refined pulse in the album sound. On those shows we started to relish those new songs to be included in this new album, which insists again in the keys previously displayed, now improved to perfection. Another fact for the records: CAMERA OBSCURA played more shows in this Spanish week-and-a-half tour than in the rest of their live career so far. Their appearance at Primavera Sound Barcelona Festival served as a mere advance for what later confirmed in a tour with overcrowed venues (El Sol Club in Madrid showed a long queue of fans, the success with the highbrow audiences in Tanned Tin Festival are just two examples). ![]() Some people prefered "Happy new year", others "Eighties fan", some chose "Anti-western" and its male/female alternate vocals. Those first singles started to be played in the radio and made way for Elefant‚s release of "Biggest blues hi-fi". The credentials then used to introduce the band (something that now seems not to be enough to get the whole picture) were their geographical proximity and friendship with BELLE & SEBASTIAN through Stuart Murdoch. The labor of diffusion and expansion in the Spanish market was made little by little. ![]() He directs and hosts Disco Grande radio show in Radio 3 (RNE). ![]()
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