Camera Obscura - Underachievers, Please Try Harder"Underachievers Please Try Harder" is the album on which Stuart Murdoch continued showing his support for the band with the cover photo; the album produced by Geoff Allan (Mogwai, Teenage Fanclub, The Delgados, Arab Strap And Belle & Sebastian); the album that quickly surpassed 100,000 copies sold, a number that causes a bit of vertigo nowadays; the album that put them at the top of indie lists in the United States, and that was included on an episode

through the ceiling and in the attic

so let’s just enjoy this time

even if the solutions aren’t

The album has a raw

The album has been re-released by its original distributor

taking the loud/quiet dynamic as a jumping off point for the song’s unsettling seasick vibe

Jennifer and Neil furthered the hip-hop-styled dual-vocal approach from ‰Û÷The Radio-Video EP‰۪

The idea was to create a musical world that would feel familiar to an audience more used to dance records but stay true to our own values

and Dave Fridmann

The locale let the city’s grit creep into the crevices of their new record

the special limited edition reissue comes in a newly designed and beautifully packaged gatefold sleeve with liner notes by Ben Eshmade and Tsutomu Noda

To confuse matters