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Almost two years ago, the PopMatters review of Hold On Now, Youngster..., the debut LP of Cardiff-based septet Los Campesinos!, ended thusly:
"Los Campesinos! are the first band of my own generation I have ever had real, honest-to-goodness faith in. I believe in these guys, and I swear to you that I have the standard issue Internet-scribe pragmatic shield against hype. Like a lot of contemporaries, overly explicit proclamations of ambition/belief/love tend to make me squeamish. But I have started buttonholing friends and making them listen to this album. Cynics and those who just don’t feel it may claim instead that this is, at best, just a collection of good songs, with witty lyrics, without much dynamic variation; but I tell you today, five or ten or 20 years from now, the only way we won’t be speaking of Hold on Now, Youngster… as a classic will be if Los Campesinos! have already topped it."
The band very nearly DID top it, of course, a mere six months later. The second album (or "release," as they called it) was We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.
Now, the band is getting set to release their third album--Romance Is Boring. Details are here:
Romance Is Boring ? LC!
They have released a phenomenal single with a shitty video. It is called "There Are Listed Buildings." Here:
VIDEO: There Are Listed Buildings ? LC!
They also put out another song from the record as a kind of teaser, along with a less-shitty video. That one is called "The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future." Here:
The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future ? LC!
Like last time, much to the dismay of u2pm, I am starting up a new thread to talk about the new album "with the same four people who post in the other one." It is now that I bid a fond farewell to, by FAR, my most successful thread in my 5 years on Interference:
http://www.u2interference.com/forums/f221/los-campesinos-we-are-beautiful-we-are-doomed-189615.html
I'll be quite pleased if this one is even half as much fun, and the music is even half as brilliant. Let's go.
If you inexplicably don't already love the band, you will after these (played at full-ass volume, mind)...
YouTube - Los Campesinos - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
YouTube - Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing!
YouTube - The International Tweexcore Underground
YouTube - My Year In Lists
YouTube - Death To Los Campesinos!
YouTube - Los Campesinos! - Miserabilia
YouTube - Los Campesinos! - You'll Need Those Fingers for Crossing
As usual, a coda:
And I always get confused,
because in supermarkets, they turn the lights off when they want you to leave,
but in discos, they turn them on.
And it's always sad to go. But it's never that sad,
because there's only so many places you're guaranteed on getting a hug, when you leave.
And then, on the way home, it always seems like a good idea to go paddling in the fountain.
And that's because it IS a good idea.
And we're just like how Rousseau depicts man in the state of nature:
we're undeveloped, we're ignorant, we're stupid.
But we're happy.
"Los Campesinos! are the first band of my own generation I have ever had real, honest-to-goodness faith in. I believe in these guys, and I swear to you that I have the standard issue Internet-scribe pragmatic shield against hype. Like a lot of contemporaries, overly explicit proclamations of ambition/belief/love tend to make me squeamish. But I have started buttonholing friends and making them listen to this album. Cynics and those who just don’t feel it may claim instead that this is, at best, just a collection of good songs, with witty lyrics, without much dynamic variation; but I tell you today, five or ten or 20 years from now, the only way we won’t be speaking of Hold on Now, Youngster… as a classic will be if Los Campesinos! have already topped it."
The band very nearly DID top it, of course, a mere six months later. The second album (or "release," as they called it) was We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.
Now, the band is getting set to release their third album--Romance Is Boring. Details are here:
Romance Is Boring ? LC!
They have released a phenomenal single with a shitty video. It is called "There Are Listed Buildings." Here:
VIDEO: There Are Listed Buildings ? LC!
They also put out another song from the record as a kind of teaser, along with a less-shitty video. That one is called "The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future." Here:
The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future ? LC!
Like last time, much to the dismay of u2pm, I am starting up a new thread to talk about the new album "with the same four people who post in the other one." It is now that I bid a fond farewell to, by FAR, my most successful thread in my 5 years on Interference:
http://www.u2interference.com/forums/f221/los-campesinos-we-are-beautiful-we-are-doomed-189615.html
I'll be quite pleased if this one is even half as much fun, and the music is even half as brilliant. Let's go.
If you inexplicably don't already love the band, you will after these (played at full-ass volume, mind)...
YouTube - Los Campesinos - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
YouTube - Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing!
YouTube - The International Tweexcore Underground
YouTube - My Year In Lists
YouTube - Death To Los Campesinos!
YouTube - Los Campesinos! - Miserabilia
YouTube - Los Campesinos! - You'll Need Those Fingers for Crossing
As usual, a coda:
And I always get confused,
because in supermarkets, they turn the lights off when they want you to leave,
but in discos, they turn them on.
And it's always sad to go. But it's never that sad,
because there's only so many places you're guaranteed on getting a hug, when you leave.
And then, on the way home, it always seems like a good idea to go paddling in the fountain.
And that's because it IS a good idea.
And we're just like how Rousseau depicts man in the state of nature:
we're undeveloped, we're ignorant, we're stupid.
But we're happy.