This is one of the most pointless albums I've ever heard in my life. There is nothing going on here aside from cheap nostalgia. It's getting that anytime I hear the words "lush" and "60s" and "pop" in one sentence together in an album description, I start to get scared. This music is meaningless. The melodies are weak--I can't recall how a single song goes on here, even after listening to the thing about five or six times--and the arrangements are boring, great washes of ugly organ thrown over the track, done so incompetently it's as though the musicians are merely
aware that 60s pop contained organ and have no knowledge how or why. It's like a weaker version of late-period Belle and Sebastian, which was already weak enough to begin with. Why does stuff like this exist, and why is it so loved? Are people unaware that it's all already been done? Plus, it's twee. This is so twee. It's tweer than a Scottish kid in a kilt playing with a bunny rabbit. It's tweer than a twelve-year old boy and a twelve year-old girl both placing their palms on a pane of glass, the snow falling on the forlorn boy outdoors. It's so insufferably cute and it makes me want to stomp on a squirrel or douse wedding guests in black paint or something. Jesus, I can't wait for this stuff to fall out of style.
MY RATING:
1.4
Camera Obscura - "Come Back Margaret"
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