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Biggest Bluest Hi Fi

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Released
  
November 12, 2001

Release date
  
12 November 2001

Label
  
Andsound

Artist
  
Camera Obscura

Producer
  
Stuart Murdoch

Genres
  
Indie pop, Indie rock

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Biggest Bluest Hi Fi (2001)
  
Underachievers Please Try Harder (2003)

Similar
  
Camera Obscura albums, Indie pop albums

Camera obscura pen and notebook


Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi is the debut LP from the indie pop band Camera Obscura. It was released in 2001 by Andmoresound and in 2002 by Elefant, then re-released in 2004 by Merge.

Contents

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Tim Sendra praised the album, writing "makes a strong case for Camera Obscura as one of the best indie pop bands to come down the pike since, well, Belle and Sebastian". Marc Hogan of Pitchfork Media called it "charmingly understated".

Track listing

All tracks written by Tracyanne Campbell.

2002 and 2004 re-releases

  1. "Happy New Year"
  2. "Eighties Fan"
  3. "Houseboat"
  4. "Shine Like a New Pin"
  5. "Pen and Notebook"
  6. "Swimming Pool"
  7. "Anti-Western"
  8. "Let's Go Bowling"
  9. "I Don't Do Crowds"
  10. "The Sun on His Back"
  11. "Double Feature"
  12. "Arrangements of Shapes and Space"

Band

  • Tracyanne Campbell – vocals, guitar
  • Gavin Dunbar - bass
  • John Henderson - vocals, percussion
  • Kenny Mckeeve - guitar, mandolin, vocals
  • Lee Thomson - drums
  • Lindsay Boyd - keyboards

    • Other

  • Arranged By [Strings] – Camera Obscura, Stuart Murdoch
  • Bells [Sleighbells] – Geoff Allan
  • Design, Layout – Anne Maclean
  • Engineer – Geoff Allan
  • Mastered By – Frank Arkwright
  • Other [The Cover Star] – Fiona Morrison
  • Strings – Cheryll Crockett, Elin Edwards, Greg Lawson, Lisa Webb, Lorna Leitch, Murray Ferguson
  • Trumpet – Nigel Baillie

    • Songs

    1Happy New Year4:04
    2Eighties Fan4:20
    3Houseboat3:22

    References

    Biggest Bluest Hi Fi Wikipedia
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