Camera Obscura: quiet release of If Looks Could Kill EP
Camera Obscura quietly released an EP/single for If Looks Could Kill, the third single for Let's Get Out Of This Country. The EP, titled after the single, offers up two additional songs: Hands Up Baby, and Alaska. The EP was released via Elefant Records in Europe and Merge Records in North America on January 22. If Looks Could Kill EP is offered in CD, digital, and vinyl format, with the vinyl version adding a cover of The Paris Sisters' I Love How You Love Me as a fourth track.
Hands Up Baby is a dialogue between a splitting couple caught in a violent argument, with heavy words such as, "Now you don't look so well. Turn that gun back on yourself, and take a load off baby." Alaska has a similar feel to Tears for Affairs, backing off the reverb for a dry mix.
Elefant Records explains the bonus tracks:
"Hands Up Baby" (a duet by Kenny McKeeve and Tracyanne Campbell, recorded during the main album sessions in Sweden) and the very recent song Alaska, recorded on the last weekend of October [2006] by Paul Savage (THE DELGADOS) at Chem19 Studios in Glasgow (where have also recorded, among others, Vashti Bunyan, TRASH CAN SINATRAS, Scout Niblett or TEENAGE FANCLUB)."
Camera Obscura is halfway through a US/Canada tour with The Essex Green. Portastatic joins them for the final four shows. "Afterwards, the six-piece will move to Australia for seven dates there, and will immediately follow their unstoppable international tour with more shows in several territories in Asia. Their comeback to Europe is due for the spring of 2007, with a new UK tour in March and more Spanish shows in April," mentions Elefant Records.
Camera Obscura – Hands Up Baby
Camera Obscura – Alaska
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Camera Obscura tour dates with The Essex Green:
01.19.2007 – Athens GA – 40 Watt Club
01.20.2007 – Carrboro NC – Cat's Cradle
01.21.2007 – Charlottesville VA – Satellite Ballroom
01.22.2007 – Washington DC – 9:30 Club
01.24.2007 – Brooklyn NY – Warsaw
01.25.2007 – Swarthmore PA – Swarthmore College
01.26.2007 – Northampton MA – Pearl St.
01.27.2007 – Boston MA – Paradise Rock Club
01.29.2007 – Montreal QC Canada – La Sala Rossa
01.30.2007 – Ottawa ON Canada – Barrymore's Music Hall
01.31.2007 – Toronto ON Canada – Lee's Palace
02.01.2007 – Ann Arbor MI – Blind Pig
02.02.2007 – Kalamazoo MI – Kraftbrau Brewery
02.03.2007 – Chicago IL – Logan Square Auditorium
02.05.2007 – Columbia MO – Mojo's
02.06.2007 – Kansas City MO – The Record Bar
02.08.2007 – Denver CO – Bluebird Theater
02.10.2007 – Mexico City Mexico – Polyforum Siqueiros
Camera Obscura tour dates with Portastatic:
02.12.2007 – Seattle WA – Neumos
02.13.2007 – Vancouver BC Canada – Richards on Richards
02.14.2007 – Portland OR – Wonder Ballroom
02.16.2007 – San Francisco CA – Bimbo's
02.17.2007 – Los Angeles CA – El Rey Theatre