“I wrote [the title track] in the middle of the pandemic, wondering what was going on, but also the bigger picture of what was going on with me and what I was going to do,” singer Tracyanne Campbell says on a recent Zoom call from her band’s tour bus. “What’s the band’s future, and what direction are we going to go in? It’s a song about trying to be optimistic and aware of choices in life.”

For nearly two decades, Camera Obscura delivered a delightful Americana-infused brand of Glaswegian indie pop to twee fans long before Tumblr (or, God forbid, TikTok) got ahold of the term. But in 2015, that run was cut short by the death of keyboardist Carey Lander of bone cancer, and for years, the band went dark.

During that hiatus, Campbell had a child and made an album under the name Tracyanne & Danny, with English singer-songwriter Danny Coughlan. In 2019, she was asked by fellow Scottish soft rockers Belle & Sebastian — including singer Stuart Murdoch, who produced Camera Obscura’s first album — to join them and others on a nostalgic concert cruise and play some of the band’s songs.

“I said, ‘Absolutely not, because this is Tracyanne & Danny,’” she says. “‘If you want the band, you can ask them to play.’ People up until that point were maybe, respectfully, trying to be sensitive to the fact that we’d lost [Lander]. Maybe we just weren’t in the shop window anymore. It had never occurred to me that we would play shows or not play shows.”

But for Campbell, preparing for a 2019 reunion at the Boaty Weekender (“like Glasgow in the middle of the Mezze,” Campbell recalls) set in motion a period of newfound inspiration. The band found a new keyboardist in Donna Macioca and started making music again; the lyrics came easily.

“The band had a new lease on life. … [There was] something very fresh about what was going on,” Campbell says. “When you start going in a room again after such a long time, especially after what happened, it just provokes lots of emotion.”

After a pandemic-shaped delay, the resulting album is “Look to the East, Look to the West,” produced by two-time collaborator Jari Haapalainen and containing all of the quippy lyricism, floaty earworms and subtle twang (now courtesy of Campbell’s husband Tim Davidson’s pedal steel guitar) that fans have long adored. It lacks the string arrangements and “bells and whistles,” Campbell says, to opt for something more intimate, more in line with the musical talents the band flaunts today. It’s their first album in 11 years, but it’s not nostalgia-core.

“We weren’t interested in coming back and playing a greatest hits set,” Campbell says. “Not having something new to say, there’s no point to it, as far as I’m concerned.”

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