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Underachievers Please Try Harder (CD)

By: Camera Obscura (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Underachievers Please Try Harder (CD) Album By Camera Obscura (Artist)
1   Suspended From Class
2   Keep It Clean
3   Sisters Social Agony, A
4   Teenager
5   Before You Cry
6   Your Picture
7   Number One Son
8   Let Me Go Home
9   Books Written For Girls
10   Knee Deep At The Naitonal Pop League
11   Lunar Sea
12   I Don't Want To See You
13   Footloose And Fancy Free
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (2/5/04, p.59) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[Shuffles] between cheapo bossa nova and countrified folk....Not emo, exactly - more like twee-mo."
Uncut (2/04, p.78) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[T]his is revitalising indie-pop..."
Magnet (2/04, pp.90-2) - "Witty, cool and nowhere as maudlin as it might've been in less talented hands, UNDERACHIEVERS is pure getting'-over-you delight."

Title Note

Camera Obscura: Kenny McKeeve (vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonica); Tracyanne Campbell (vocals, guitar); Carey Lander (vocals, piano, organ); John Henderson (vocals, percussion); Nigel Baillie (trumpet); Gavin Dunbar (bass); Lee Thomson (drums).

Additional personnel: Willie Gamble (pedal steel guitar); Americo Alhucena (flute); Geoff (stylophone, percussion, sound effects).

Scottish outfit Camera Obscura hit their apotheosis with 2006's LET'S GET OUT OF THIS COUNTRY, but that album's predecessor, 2003's UNDERACHIEVERS PLEASE TRY HARDER, lays the groundwork for the band's greatness. With its guileless air, gorgeous arrangements, and solid songcraft, UNDERACHIEVERS proves the band worthy successors to the indie pop crown held by their countrymen Belle & Sebastian.

Camera Obscura's albums are so well written and put together it is difficult to pick highlights or favorites. From the sparkling, delicate folk-pop of opener "Suspended from Class" to the nostalgia-tinged doo-wop of "A Sister's Social Agony" and the breezy charm of "Teenager," the album is a nonstop stream of enchanting melodies and hooks.

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