Tracyann Campbell looking dour while bringing the midtempo vintage pop-rock.
She’s generous, anyway, when making it easy for Camera Obscura fans to figure out what exactly she means when she calls their new record, “My Maudlin Career,” “intense.”
There are a lot of words I’d use to describe Camera Obscura records: “beautiful,” “classic,” “pretty,” and “pretty sad,” but “intense” was never among them.
If you’re as curious as I am as to what “intense” might entail – or if you’re still curious as to why I mentioned generosity and just let it go until this moment – you can find out at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time Monday, April 13, when NPR begins streaming the album in its entirety – but only until it’s officially released April 20.
How do we know this? It’s not because I’m stalking Tracyann Campbell [I tried that for a couple weeks with Lisa Loeb, and I didn't find anything out], but rather because we keep getting press releases from Anna Christopher at NPR.
I don’t understand why NPR sends us press releases. We’re just a couple kids with a blog about their network – read mostly (as far as we can tell) by their co-workers. I’m pretty sure most NPR employees who care about new music already know about what all is coming up in the “First Listen” program.
And judging by a lot of the music I hear used as interstitials on “All Things Considered,” most of those people already know not only about Jason Lytle’s upcoming solo release being part of the program (starting May 4), but also that he was part of Granddaddy, America’s truest answer to Radiohead’s seminal “OK Computer.”
There’s more to that press release, but we’ll save it for when it’s more timely.
I just have to say that we, here at R/S are nothing if not flattered by our inclusion in any press releases NPR Media Relations wants to put us on (and pleased that they seem to know us well enough to make NPR Music the first department to add us).
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