Camera Obscura "Look to the East, Look to the West" 2026-03-13 So It Will Be Again

So It Will Be Again feels like an aptly titled renewal for The Decemberists

John Ellis on guitar

a decade of ear splitting guitars and hammering rhythms have seen the KRUM BUMS mature into a full blown modern hardcore attack that is reaching the rest of the world

all the way back to slowcore

their first LP released in the United Kingdom

Camera Obscura "Look to the East, Look to the West" 2026-03-13 So It Will Be AgainLook to the East, Look to the West is Camera Obscura at their best and most evocative. Reuniting with producer Jari Haapalainen (Let's Get Out of This Country, My Maudlin Career), Camera Obscura have crafted an album that simultaneously recalls why longtime fans have ferociously loved them for decades, while also being their most sophisticated effort to date. Lead single Big Love relishes in the space between country rock and prog, a pining break up