The Glaswegians Are Coming! From: The Washington Post | Date: July 7, 2006 | Copyright 2006 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Like the praised-by-scenester types Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura hails from Glasgow. On top of that, they have an eerily similar sound: dreamy pop that glows with '60s sunshine and squishy heaps of bubble gum. As a result, the two bands are too often lumped together.

So how does Camera Obscura feel about all this pigeonholing? Just check out one dispatch from the band's American record label. "Camera Obscura as a band are bored to tears about answering questions about Belle and Sebastian," Christina Rentz of Merge Records told the Boston Globe in an e-mail. "Tracyanne [Campbell, the ...

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