Nico, Faction – Camera Obscura (VG/VG) – LP, UK 1985

Camera Obscura is an LP by Nico, Faction from 1985 released on the Beggars Banquet label.

About this album

Camera Obscura is one of Nico’s most austere and uncompromising late albums, pairing her deep, haunted vocal delivery with The Faction’s spare, severe backing. Issued in 1985, it distils the art-rock and avant-garde tendencies that defined her later work into a set of brooding, almost ritualistic songs. The title track, “Tananore” and her stark reading of “My Funny Valentine” show how Nico transformed familiar song forms into something colder, stranger and more exacting. It stands as a powerful statement from an artist who made alienation, fragility and formal severity into a singular musical language.

Genre: Pop & Rock