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Roddy Frame, the Scottish singer/songwriter behind Aztec Camera, has always been precocious: By 17, he was recording New Wave folk with the verbal sophistication of a baby Wordsworth; by 23, he had reinvented himself as a slick blue-eyed soul man from the Northlands; and now, before hitting 30, he's...

1993 RS: 2of 5 Stars

Knife

1984

High Land, Hard Rain

1983

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This one-man band arrived on the heels of punk. Roddy Frame had started writing songs at 15. He formed Aztec Camera a year later as a vehicle for his highly individual style of folky pop. Initially signed to the Glasgow independent label Postcard, Aztec Camera soon moved to the much higher profile English indie Rough Trade. A flurry of attention in Great Britain piqued Sire's interest. Before the ...

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