{"id":10610,"date":"2013-08-12T16:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T23:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=10610"},"modified":"2013-08-12T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T23:01:18","slug":"camera-obscura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/08\/camera-obscura\/","title":{"rendered":"CAMERA OBSCURA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10611\" alt=\"Camera-obscura-M-Review-No28\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Camera-obscura-M-Review-No28.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Camera-obscura-M-Review-No28.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Camera-obscura-M-Review-No28-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>CAMERA OBSCURA<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Desire Lines<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[4AD]<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unfairly, Camera Obscura have always been lumped in with the other jangly indie-pop bands from their hometown of Glasgow. On their fifth album, the group seizes an opportunity to carve out their own identity, moving away from the kinds of vibrant string arrangements so prominent on their previous releases. While \u201cI Missed Your Party\u201d has shades of the orchestral charm and brass-band camp that\u2014like hand-wringing tweeness\u2014have come to define the band, <i>Desire Lines<\/i> finds the group trying different sounds. There are surf-pop vibes and weedy organs to replace the jettisoned strings, and there are even guest vocals from Neko Case and Jim James of My Morning Jacket. While the closing title track\u2014a bright, chilled-out alt-country tune\u2014may seem like an odd note to end on, it suggests a promising new direction. After all, if you\u2019re going to nix your trademark violins, why not replace them with pedal steel? \u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAMERA OBSCURA Desire Lines [4AD] Perhaps unfairly, Camera Obscura have always been lumped in with the other jangly indie-pop bands from their hometown of Glasgow. On their fifth album, the group seizes an opportunity to carve out their own identity, moving away from the kinds of vibrant string arrangements so prominent on their previous releases. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[3087,196,1203,7036,6978],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10612,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610\/revisions\/10612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}