In 2004 Camera Obscura suffered two crippling losses - the death of Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who had playlisted their Glasgow chamber pop from the outset and whose birthday party they had played just a few months previously; and the defection of founding member and percussionist John Henderson, the guy with whom Tracyanne Campbell, ten years before, had tentatively placed an ad in the local bookshop looking for musicians to play their songs.

No wonder the singer set on calling their next record Let's Get Out of This Country.

"I guess I was meaning a general thing about changing how I was in myself and what I was doing with my life," she says. "Och, I suppose I was just quite unhappy. I was working for a distribution company, putting up gig posters in the snow and rain. The whole situation just needed changing." So the band, now a six-piece, took off to Sweden to record an album they were all thoroughly happy with before taking off on a tour of Australia, New Zealand and Mexico - places they'd never been before and were so far away from Glasgow, they really would just have to give up their day jobs.

Not that any of this really signifies in relation to the muted, lilting country which makes up the majority of the band's third album, recorded with acclaimed producer Jari Haapalainen.

Full of gentle crescendos and pleasant lulls, Camera Obscura's music has always been the sort to which listeners can bring their own romantic narratives without fear of intrusion.

The singles can be a different story, however. Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken - a worthy response to the Lloyd Cole classic - was a minor hit last summer. And yesterday the band released the jauntily jaded Tears for Affairs, one version of which features a cover of ABBA song Super Trouper, which became the most requested session of Dermot O'Leary's BBC Radio 2 show in 2006.

"When it was written, I fantasised about it getting on to some kind of David Lynch soundtrack," says Campbell. "It's a bit sleazy."

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