Los Campesinos! -- ROMANCE IS BORING

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I am too, but seminal punk-rock band The Used had a better third album.
 
this album is brilliant! first album this year i'm really getting into. sounds sometimes like Architecture in Helsinki with bi-polar disorder. really exciting and energetic in the first half, and then final third all gets a bit depressing, but altogether just fantastic.

In Medias Res, Listed Buildings, Romance is Boring (how's the way he snarls "boring"!), Straight in at 101, Who Fell Asleep in, This is a Flag....

shame Vampire Weekend is getting all the attention.
 
anyone else noticed that the lyrics for Straight in at 101 in the booklet state thusly:

some people give themselves to a lover
i have to give myself to goals
, not girls.
 
Well, it sounded like "goals" all along, and it says "goals" in the A&C distributed copy of the album. Why would he write "...to a lover" and put essentially the exact same thing after it? It's "goals."


Something else that pisses me off about that Penn State review:

In "I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know," the band channels its inner Vampire Weekend and emerges with lighter, addicting tempos and genuine messages.

Now, "I Just Sighed" is probably my favorite song in the record, and it's no secret that I'm not one to ride the tripe train that is Vampire Weekend, so the comparison upsets me. Especially when it couldn't be less valid.
 
no, i was just reading back through the thread, and seen Lemel had quoted it as 'girls', i assumed that's what you all had.

strange comparison though, you're right. something tells me that as this 'indie' music becomes more popular this year a lot of it will get compared to Vampire Weekend, they're getting all the attention. i don't see anything in I Just Sighed that 'channels' Vampire Weekend.

Plan A, 200-102 and Heart Swells are all gratutious.
 
I actually think "Heart Swells/100-1" has a nice kind of delicacy to it. Short and sweet. "Plan A" is indeed shit, their second worst song behind "End of the Asterisk," and "200-102" is a completely superfluous interlude, but certainly not offensive.

"Plan A" and "Who Fell Asleep In" bog the entire thing down. Lose those and "200-102" and you've still got a 12 track 41 minute album on your hands. A pretty damn good one too. I'm not saying it's a bad album as presently constructed, but without the filler, it might have been better than the sum of its parts.
 
"Plan A" and "Who Fell Asleep In" bog the entire thing down. Lose those and "200-102" and you've still got a 12 track 41 minute album on your hands. A pretty damn good one too. I'm not saying it's a bad album as presently constructed, but without the filler, it might have been better than the sum of its parts.

:up: i could dig that.
 
Am I the only one that likes Plan A? I don't see what the big deal is. And those other tracks aren't even songs, they're fucking segues. Who cares?

Also, no fucking way do I cut Who Fell Asleep In. I wouldn't cut anything, honestly.
 
Am I the only one that likes Plan A? I don't see what the big deal is. And those other tracks aren't even songs, they're fucking segues. Who cares?

Also, no fucking way do I cut Who Fell Asleep In. I wouldn't cut anything, honestly.

Looking like you are. It's just not my thing. I find both the vocals and the "musical sounds" extremely annoying. It doesn't help that it's got songs like "We've Got Your Back" and "I Just Sighed" making it look even worse. As far as the segues go, this isn't an album that flows particularly well anyway, and I don't see the segues as leading into any groups of songs which thematically or musically go together. It just seems kind of superfluous.

"Who Fell Asleep In" is just something we'll have to disagree on.
 
Plan A has a great chorus, but it's pretty jarring and haphazardly arranged. Definitely the weakest legit song on the album.
 
I still believe that There Are Listed Buildings is the weakest, simply because it sounds EXACTLY what you'd expect a Los Camp song to sound like. I don't dislike it, but it sure doesn't excite me.
 
After getting to know the album pretty well, I more or less agree with that. I'd also put "Who Fell Asleep In" in the "weakest" discussion, though.
 
I love it, too. It's all relative, you know? ...Although I do think that "Who Fell Asleep In" is actually a weak song, whereas I think that "There Are Listed Buildings" sounds like the "fast" songs on Challengers, by The New Pornographers--just a little bit off.
 
Who Fell Asleep In sounds VERY close to the more stoner Pavement songs (perhaps the closest they've ever come to this style of their major influence), and for that I really enjoy it. It's mellow but off-kilter and it doesn't surprise me that it puts off some people.
 
No, it's very good, works very well in that spot.

Certainly a better finale than the last album; this one has some damned strong shit in those last few tracks.
 
Plan A always sounds soooooo much like Pretty Girls Make Graves (the band, not the song) to me. It's really distracting.
 
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