Camera Obscura have released new single ‘We’re Gonna Make It In A Man’s World’. Check it out below, along with frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell telling us about what went into ‘Look To The East, Look To The West’ – the Scottish indie legends’ first new album in over a decade.The group’s new single, which comes ahead of the album’s release on May 3 via Verge Records, began life as part of the soundtrack for Icarus (After Amelia), a visual study of women’s labour in Glasgow by Margaret Salmon.
When asked to meet up with the filmmaker by a mutual friend, Campbell admitted she had her reservations. “I was terrified of this academic filmmaker!” she told NME. “But Margaret and I started going for walks in the countryside and I think we really clicked.”Taking inspiration from the themes of the film, Campbell explained: “It’s not specifically about my experience as a woman in the music business, but it was a tongue in cheek approach to that kind of thing.“I don’t live my life every day thinking ‘I’m so hard done by’, but I was thinking about who I am in the world.
The film is about what women are and aren’t paid for, and I realised that as a woman of a certain age I was the one washing the dishes, making the dinner and being a mum, and looking after grandparents who need it.
It spoke to me.”Having released their last album ‘Desire Lines’ in 2013, the band went on hiatus two years later following the death of their keyboard player Carey Lander from osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.
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