{"product_id":"camera-obscura-biggest-bluest-hi-fi-25th-anniversary-edition","title":"Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi (25th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 25th anniversary edition is the most definitive version of of their debut LP 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBiggest Bluest Hi-Fi\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eBiggest Bluest Hi-Fi\u003c\/em\u003e as a follow-up to their breakthrough album as opposed to their first. The album is a remarkably-assured opening statement, a fully realized expression of a sound that has enthralled listeners from their first spin of the Stuart Murdoch (Belle \u0026amp; 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose fans have clamored for \u003cem\u003eBiggest Bluest Hi-Fi\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merge Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":51123142787350,"sku":"RMX-64849","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/7f1da2137b73a457a90f078bba4eef4b.png?v=1774015841","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/camera-obscura-biggest-bluest-hi-fi-25th-anniversary-edition","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}