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Remember five years ago and that heady rush of distortion of myriad garage bands with monosyllabic names—each the “Next Big Thing” according to NME??flooding the music scene? Remember how the Libertines, fronted by Pete Doherty, set themselves apart from the Strokes and the Vines and the Hives with an exquisite sense of rock history, harmonic sophistication, and fantastically nihilistic lyrics? Remember how both the Libertines’ albums—first “Up the Bracket” and then their eponymous “The Libertines?...
...English music magazines such as New Musical Express (NME). The British press, notorious for over-hyping bands in a constant search for the next big thing, caught on to the Von Bondies after the White Stripes’ popularity soared. Marcie Bolen was even featured at number seven in NME??s 2002 Cool List. Meg White and Jack White, incidentally, rung in at numbers six and one, respectively...
Camera Obscura’s sound and style seem plucked right from Tigermilk-era Belle & Sebastian, blended with the seminal acoustic indie-pop aesthetic identified with NME??s C-86 compilation and the Sarah 100. Informing the 60s sound and its topical fixation on childish love, Camera Obscura sing slyly ironic lyrics that show abounding self-deprecation. The chorus of lilting opener “Suspended From Class” demonstrates this compromise between form and content best: “I should be suspended from my class,” ethereal lead singer Tracy-Anne Campbell sings...
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