3 new signings for 4AD

The spate of new signings continues with 4AD announcing that Camera Obscura, The Big Pink and Broken Records will be joining their roster, which already hosts many luminaries including Deerhunter, The National and Beirut.

Forming over a decade, Scottish indie-pop band Camera Obscura will be releasing their follow up to 2006's Let's Get Out of This Country early this year.
On being signed to 4AD, the band have posted on their myspace that they "are understandably excited about this but will endeavor not to reflect this in our facial expressions so as not to cause unnecessary alarm."

Taking their name from The Band's 1968 album, The Big Pink are a London duo who create electronic soundscapes described as "The Teardrop Explodes being played by MBV whilst Suicide man the mixing desk". They are long time friends Milo Cordell (founder of Merok who has released Klaxons and Crystal Castles to name a few) and Robbie Furze (former guitarist with electro-punk singer Alec Empire).

There must be something in the water in Scotland that makes people want to form large bands, as Broken Records one up Camera Obscura with 7 members. Using a range of instruments including guitars, bass, violin, cello, accordion, mandolin, piano, trumpet, glockenspiel and drums, they create a sound combining traditional European folk with modern Scottish alternative music. Last year the band released a limited edition single If The News Makes You Sad Don't Watch It on Young Turks (El Guincho, Holy Fuck, Jack Peñate).