Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career

Guardian“This, their fourth album, feels like a breakthrough...” Twee Glaswegian indie rockers, distinguished from neighbours Belle and Sebastian by prioritising the romantic over the clever. Cue lavish strings and a little more bite to their songs of heartache...

The Times“Not yet reviewed”

The Independent“What's not to love... ? ” Newly signed to the mid-profile 4AD label, the group have suddenly burst into orchestral pop life. Singer Tracyanne Campbell gives it the full Dusty and swoonsome strings abound in an album every bit as lush as ABC's Lexicon of Love...

The Telegraph“Not yet reviewed”

allmusic“She cranks the sadness to 11...” If it falls a tiny bit short of their last album, and it does, it's only because that album was so wonderful. Really, the group could go on remaking it for years to negligible complaints from their fans and very few diminishing returns...

Uncut“Not yet reviewed”

BBC“The possibilities are endless and exciting...” With each album, they offer just enough tangible difference, without compromising their cuteness or charm. From this example, the potential presents itself for a total evolution - away from country, folk, retro and pop and toward epic soundscape...

Financial Times“Not yet reviewed”

Pitchfork“"Refinement" is the watchword on My Maudlin Career...” The album feels as if it could have been released any time in the last 50-odd years, but the inspired arrangements-- and, of course, Campbell's indelible voice-- make it sound fresh, too...

Drowned In Sound“An album purely and simply about love...” Occasionally shrouded in sadness but with happiness always beating from its core, My Maudlin Career lays bare the sweet melancholy of love...