I was fortunate to be in NYC last night to see Camera Obscura play at the South Street Seaport Festival. The Festival has hosted free outdoor shows all summer long and it was a pretty cool scene to hear great music framed by a couple of ships (one of them named "Baroque" if memory serves) with Brooklyn in the background. I've been listening a lot to the last Camera Obscura record, Let's Get Out Of This Country, which I think is their best one. They're Scottish and are heavily influenced by Belle and Sebastian -- a great thing in my book. They have a very happy sweet, mellow sound with tinges of melancholy -- some call it twee pop. The album has been the perfect soundtrack for my spring and summer (along with Neon Bible and Post-War). Fred Wilson is digging them as well.
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