Perhaps best known as one of the founding members of pastoral, Scottish twee outfit Camera Obscura, Tracyanne Campbell helped shape the Scottish music scene in the 2000s with album's such as 2001's Biggest Bluest HiFi and 2009's My Maudlin Career.

Born in Glasgow in 1974, Campbell grew up listening to records from her mother and grandmother's record collections -- bands like the Velvet Underground, the Pastels, and Yo La Tengo have been a lasting influence. After attending college, she formed Camera Obscura with John Henderson and Gavin Dunbar in 1996. Becoming an integral part of the Scottish music scene alongside Belle and Sebastian, the Delgados, and Franz Ferdinand, Camera Obscura delivered several albums, including 2009's U.K. Top 40-charting My Maudlin Career. In 2015 the group went on hiatus after the death of keyboardist Carey Lander, which affected Campbell on a deeply personal level; she retreated from performing, focusing instead on her son and marrying her long-time partner Tim Davidson.

In the early 2010s Campbell crossed paths with Danny Coughlan, and while a friendship developed over the years, it wasn't until Coughlan sent Campbell some demos that the pair decided to collaborate. Recording at Edwyn Collins' remote Scottish studio in 2017, their debut album, Tracyanne Danny, appeared in 2018 on Camera Obscura's previous label Merge Records. ~ Rich Wilson, Rovi