Seriously. I don't get it. After the reception 'My Maudlin Career' got, I was swayed to finally give the group a listen. And that album was.. well, nice... In this case thats not necessarily a compliment. I mean, there are thousands of plain old pleasant sounding albums, and for me this did not break out of the pack. Not willing to give up so easily, I though maybe I'd get sucked into the craze by having a listen to 2006's highly praised 'Let's Get Out of This Country'. And yes, I actually did check my player once or twice to make sure I wasn't accidentally listening to 'MMC' again. They are the exact same album. Just as bland, and coincedentally just as nice. For comparison sake, after listening to an album like 'If You're Feeling Sinister' (which I bring up only because of the similarities between the groups), I was immediately able to distuingish each song and have a solid concept of the album after one spin. Both Camera albums however, just left me in a fog. All the songs on both records are indistuingishable. I don't mean to hate here, because the records aren't bad, they just leave the question lingering irritatingly in my head: why the big deal over Camera Obscura??
To make sure no gets completely turned off by this- check out the song "James".
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