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| Album Rating: B |
Although they're a popular and acclaimed outfit in their own right, it's fair to say Camera Obscura's career do date has been dominated - and to an extent undermined - by constant comparisons with another member of Glaswegian pop's elite. It's an association that's haunted them ever since Stuart Murdoch handled production duties on debut LP
Biggest Bluest Hi Fi, to the extent that you'd be hard pressed to find a single review in the past 12 years which doesn't make use of the words "Belle and Sebastian" - this one now included. In fairness, the parallels are understandable, especially after Murdoch and company's mid-'00s radio-friendly makeover, but it's still an unread and rather dismissive method of evaluating a group who over the years have done more than enough to carve their own sonic identity.
