One of the year's best pop albums.   Full text...

The music is painfully gorgeous, with the Belle & Sebastian influence worn like a gaudy broach on the retro-hip tweed grandma jacket of Tracyanne Campbell. Pop sensibility, smart production, and a newfound confidence help this album resound with the Glasgow sound that B&S pioneered but abandoned.  Full text...

Quite, quite wonderful.  Full text...

Though they haven't changed much in the span of three terrific albums, Camera Obscura no longer recall Belle & Sebastian; they only sound like themselves.  Full text...

The collection of ten songs on this album are mostly solid, with some real pearlers and a few that pass you by—but the band is so easy to listen to that you don’t need to be an established fan.  Full text...

Camera Obscura has been in all the right places at all the right times doing all the right things.   Full text...

The production is "light", to say the least, but redeemed by Traceyanne's vocal style which is sweet in much the same way as St Etienne's Sarah Cracknell is sweet; the depth of feeling with which she imbues the songs is extraordinary.  Full text...

"I promise words of tenderness in every single line that I write" coos Traceyanne Campbell on If Looks Could Kill and, eight tracks into this warm collection of pop loveliness, you're more than happy to believe her.  Full text...

It's not hard to see why Camera Obscura picked Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken to be the opening track on their album, and the single that heralds its arrival. A blissful, sunshine-strewn, lemonade-slugging pop song, it's impossible to hear it without instantly feeling jolly.  Full text...

Let's Get Out of This Country, the third album from Glasgow indie-popsters Camera Obscura, begins with brilliant single “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken.” It’s a lush, swooning pop song of the highest order, directed at Lloyd Cole, featuring extra-fantastic organ bits, a wide-eyed, catchy chorus, and a doubtful undercurrent that makes it all the more sweet on multiple listens.  Full text...