Camera Obscura, The Rosebuds - NYC
Location: Knitting Factory NYC
Author: David Obenour
Photography: N/A
It’s been raining in New York. A lot as of recently and honestly the whole thing is getting a little depressing. Sticky air and a steady drenching is a horrible combination. It’s enough to find yourself mumbling under your breath about how you can’t wait for the whole stupid season to be over.
But. The AC is cranked at the Knitting Factory tonight and we’ve got the Rosebuds and Camera Obscura to remind us how much fun summer actually is.
First up are the sunny, retro-tinged rock outfit The Rosebuds. From their first song to their last, it’s as if you’re in one of those ‘bikini-blanket’ movies from the sixties. In fact, their music is enough to make you forget about the last 40 years. It’s not that they’re copyists or unoriginal moochers of melody, but they just sound like they’re from a different era.
So, forty years later, in comes Glasgow’s Camera Obscura. Camera Obscura are what the kids call, 'twee.' (For more on twee, see Belle & Sebastian, the Reindeer Section… hell, most any band from Scotland.) It seems you either like twee music or you don’t. Personally, I do. For those of you who don’t… well, we've established this really isn’t your sort of thing haven't we?
Camera Obscura is more than twee though. I mean, it’s still twee, but think twee from west-Scotland. Country-western Scottish twee, if you will. Camera Obscura takes us back another decade, to an even more innocent time. This is the kind of music my mother would like and I don’t mean that as a slight at all, my mother has impeccable taste.
So for three and a half hours cooped up in The Knitting Factory, it wasn’t raining. Inside, the air was light and crisp, not heavy and thick. While, yes, you could say that it’s because there was a ‘roof’ over our heads and ‘air conditioning’ running, I’d like to think of it as more. I’d like to think it was the music that did it.
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