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Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi (1LP)

£23.99


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On May 8, 2026, Camera Obscura will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi, with a vinyl reissue via Merge Records. Out-of-print on the format since its initial UK release on Andmoresound in 2001, the 25th anniversary edition is the most definitive version of of Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi ever pressed to vinyl, featuring both “Eighties Fan” B-sides — “Shine Like a New Pin” and “Let’s Go Bowling” — which were later added to expanded CD reissues of the album.

Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi first reached Stateside in 2004, after the success of Camera Obscura’s 2003 Merge debut Underachievers Please Try Harder. New fans who weren’t keyed in to the UK import market or to what John Peel was spinning on his BBC Radio programs would be forgiven for mistaking Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi as a follow-up to their breakthrough album as opposed to their first. The album is a remarkably-assured opening statement, a fully realized expres- sion of a sound that has enthralled listeners from their first spin of the Stuart Murdoch (Belle & Sebastian) produced “Eighties Fan” to their last listen of the band’s 2024 return to the studio Look to the East, Look to the West.

Those fans have clamored for Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi to receive the vinyl reissue it has long deserved. Setting the needle down on tracks like “Swimming Pool,” “Pen and Notebook,” and “Happy New Year,” it’s easy to hear why: each of the album’s 12 songs are perfectly-observed slices of life rendered cinematic through opulently-detailed arrangements. It’s eternal, bedrock pop music as only Camera Obscura could make it, suitable for the hi-fis of 1966 and 2026 alike.
Tracklist
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
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