From DCist contributor Catherine Andrews: 
Call them precious, call them twee, call them a second-rate Belle and Sebastian. Whatever you think of them, the Scottish pop group Camera Obscura brings its adorable act to the Iota in Arlington tonight.
We really werent kidding about the second-rate Belle and Sebastian comparison, though. Seriously, check out the bizarre similarities between the two groups: both hail from Glasgow; each band has seven or more members; they maintain a propensity for cable-knit sweaters and chunky-rimmed spectacles; and melodic, lilting trumpets are featured to excess on all their albums.
So maybe Camera Obscura is a little derivative. But how could DCist not like a band who can pen a masterful lyric such as “I should be suspended from class / I don’t know my elbow from my arse”? Add to that the fact that Camera Obscuras latest offering, Underachievers Please Try Harder, has been garnering good reviews across the board, and tonights concert sounds like just the ticket.
8:30 p.m., $12. With The Rosebuds.
