Camera Obscura have been announced as the first headliners of the Indietracks festival.

Camera Obscura have revealed details of their forthcoming album.

The last time we left Glasgow twee-pop heartbreakers Camera Obscura, they were trading Merge Records for 4AD. You know, because they can. And now they're ready to dish on the details of their 4AD debut, My Maudlin Career, which will be available to buy with money on April 20 in the UK (April 21 in the U.S.). It was produced by Swede Jari Haapala...

Say it ain't so, Camera Obscura. "This maudlin career has come to an end/ I don't wanna be sad again," sings Tracyanne Campbell on the thumping midtempo title track from the Glaswegian indie poppers' fourth album (and first for 4AD), the forthcoming My Maudlin Career. The arrangment stays close to the wispy-voiced, Phil Spector-informed pop mela...

While most of the world's tussling and toiling indie rock bands would break their tour van's gear shaft to get a seal of approval from Merge Records, Glasgow twee-poppers Camera Obscura are leaving the North Carolina label behind for an imprint with even more history behind it: 4AD.According to a MySpace post, the band is "understandably excited...