After some initial announcements late last year, Camera Obscura have since delivered exciting news with enhanced specifics: The beloved Scottish indie-pop band released a new album called Look to the East, Look to the West earlier this month via Merge Records. Their first since 2013’s Desire Lines, it finds the group back with producer Jari Haapalainen, who was behind the board for 2006’s Let’s Get Out of This Country and 2009’s My Maudlin Career. A new record meant new tour dates, and now a few short weeks after the record drop, Camera Obscura play Boston’s Paradise Rock Club tonight (May 30).
The album’s lead single is a country-inspired track called “Big Love,” of which Tracyanne Campbell says: “[It’s] our tribute to Waylon Jennings, with a nod to Sandy Denny and prog rock band Scope. It’s a song about not looking back, having faith in the present and future.”
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CAMERA OBSCURA + PHOTO OPS :: Thursday, May 30 at the Paradise Rock Club, 969 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston, MA :: 7 p.m., 18-plus, $29.50 :: Event info :: Advance tickets