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February 19, 2007
Camera Obscura - Live @ Bluebird Theatre, Denver, CO - 2.08.2007
Blessed with the most velvety smooth voice in indie rock, Glasgow's Camera Obscura stepped into Denver last week to showcase their brand of melodic pop to a mostly reverent audience. Tracyanne Campbell and her unassuming bandmates politely performed a set that drew heavily from last years gem, Let's Get Out of this Country. An album that just barely got squeezed out from our Top 10 by some late tallying (which incidentally dropped it to number eleven in the MS.com rankings for best album of 2006).
When beautifully written songs of sadness are delivered with the mellifluous treatment that Campbell gives them, you get a pass when you find yourself contently humming to the forlorn words of "Come Back Margaret," which kicked the night off. That pass then gets extended to the balance of the audience when the supremely satisfying rapid handclaps are demanded (and obeyed) by the band to the crowd. Wonderment officially set in when "The False Contender" followed and it cha-cha-cha'd straight down to the bowels of the near-capacity Bluebird. You could almost feel the heavy, heart-filled gazes from fanboys and girls wrestling to see who could slyly emote their smitten appreciation loudest.
Camera Obscura is the kind of band that inspires the doodle art of hyper sentimental high school kids when they deface schoolbooks. If those kids happen to be the same ones that get teased for straying far from the adrenalized music of their peers, they surely melted into their Chuck Taylors when Tracyanne mixed in a tale of karaoke fun from the night before to thanking the crowd for showing up and skipping the Incubus show across town. "Nothing against Incubus, never heard of them. At least they're on the jukebox." Now just think how adorable that sounds in a Scottish accent.
More pics after the jump.
Posted by Merry Swankster at February 19, 2007 10:50 AM
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