My Maudlin Career (Vinyl LP) Reggae & Ska

My Maudlin Career (Vinyl LP) Reggae & SkaCamera Obscura's last album, Let's Get Out of This Country was to prove pivotal, taking them out of the shadows and to long deserved new heights. The band had finally found the time and ears of discerning music fans worldwide. Nearly three years on from that release and Camera Obscura are ready to release the follow up, My Maudlin Career, their first for 4ad and fourth overall.

Protest songs were given a wider resonance - the text of Masters of War remains sadly relevant decades later - while his love songs are haunting but universal statements

a state that seems to be an inner retreat and a journey at the same time: Florida

Following on from last years successful RSD 7\

while Terak'Anosy Group work around a stomping Congolese guitar groove

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and came up with a series of albums and singles that are among the catchiest and most enduring of the period

with it's evocation of "Marlon Brando

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Marling chose Ethan Johns to produce her new material

call and response chants echoes layer over electronic beats

Just before recordings began for his second album which was to be called 'My Sweetheart The Drunk'

who sang vocals on a few of the tracks