Group shouts, glockenspiels, lots of members, exclamation points — and yet Los Campesinos! sound fresh and vital and a step removed from the blog-bogged devices they’re wielding. It’s the winks to critics with references to bygone heroes that’s helped, yes, but the Sticking Fingers… EP was dud free, and now “Death,” a souped-up take on an old track, re-recorded for their forthcoming full-length, just does more to justify the exclamatory reception and punctuation. Here their rambunctious indie literally pops and bursts with rainbows, and balloons and kitties. Very punk. Death by confetti never sounded so good.
[Pic from Los Campesinos! @ Bowery Ballroom 11/30/07]
Looking forward to Hold On Now, Youngster…, which is out in the US digitally 2/25, physically 4/1 via Arts & Crafts. HONY… also boasts a very wordy tracklist (not surprising) with just a few previously released repeats. Check it:
01 “Death To Los Campesinos!”
02 “Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats”
03 “Don’t Tell Me To Do The Math(s)”
04 “Drop It Doe Eyes”
05 “My Year In Lists”
06 “Knee Deep At ATP”
07 “This Is How You Spell ‘HAHAHA, We Destroyed The Hopes And Dreams of A Generation of Faux-Romantics”
08 “We Are All Accelerated Readers”
09 “You! Me! Dancing!”
10 “…And We Exhale And Roll Our Eyes in Unison”
11 “Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks”
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Soon to be appearing at the top of Best Of 2008 lists near you. Too bad no re-take on “International Tweexcore Underground,” but hey, the first one was pretty perfect.
This band could not be more annoying.
The song is ok, but the vid makes me cringe. just like their last one.
It wasn’t cringe-worthy until the balloons started floating up from the floor. Then it all went to pot. I still like the song, though.
I think the video is fantastic and only gets better as it advances.
I really don’t like the new mixes of these songs. The originals had a much better quality… more lo fi, with little nuisances.
sounds almost over produced. and his voice is worse in this version.
oh well. still looking forward to the new album.
Extravangantly shite sound, ugh.
awesome! not their best song, but still pretty darn good. I’ll the album the it the day it comes out. Also,
i love it when the bassist gets attacked by a unicorn or something similar from the amp.
this song is killer….the album is gonna be dope
also 2 of the girls in the band are mad cute
the bassist….not so much