Los Campesinos

they still have these sorts of indie kids in wales?

they sound a lot like envelopes with the girl with the cute accent playing off the boy with the cute accent. a lot of the same roughed-up but still sharp guitar sounds and kinda twee bells/claps/keys, too. they share the same hyper self-awareness as well, but i think campesinos! try much harder to be a serious band while still doing the "it's not blood it's cherryade" thing, while envelopes are one stepr from I'm From Barcelona in terms of omglookbutdon'tlook tweenes.

i really really like this band.

The "Frontwards" cover is great (probably my second favorite rendition of it, with the live version on the second disc of the S&E reissue being my first). "You! Me! Dancing!" is quickly becoming one of my top summer jamzzzz.

this band makes me sort of wish i'd never found ilx.

Essplain

they make taking drowned in sound seriously and not listening to any music that isn't made by white people in cords seem like a good idea.

i do think that they've got it in them to make the indiepop "juicy" thou

define:self-parody

RIP Big Man?

My ex-girlfriend used to say that

When you came?

Yeh, that was too far.

Must have left my house at eight, because I always do
My train, Im certain, left the station just when it was due
I must have read the morning paper going into town
And having gotten through the editorial, no doubt I must have frowned
I must have made my desk around a quarter after nine
With letters to be read, and heaps of papers waiting to be signed
I must have gone to lunch at half past twelve or so
The usual place, the usual bunch
And still on top of this Im pretty sure it must have rained
The day before you came

I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past two
And at the time I never even noticed I was blue
I must have kept on dragging through the business of the day
Without really knowing anything, I hid a part of me away
At five I must have left, theres no exception to the rule
A matter of routine, Ive done it ever since I finished school
The train back home again
Undoubtedly I must have read the evening paper then
Oh yes, Im sure my life was well within its usual frame
The day before you came

Must have opened my front door at eight oclock or so
And stopped along the way to buy some chinese food to go
Im sure I had my dinner watching something on tv
Theres not, I think, a single episode of dallas that I didnt see
I must have gone to bed around a quarter after ten
I need a lot of sleep, and so I like to be in bed by then I must have read a while
The latest one by marilyn french or something in that style
Its funny, but I had no sense of living without aim
The day before you came

And turning out the light
I must have yawned and cuddled up for yet another night
And rattling on the roof I must have heard the sound of rain
The day before you came

never understood why you post entire lyrics to songs

-- blueski, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:14 (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rHt2CveSXqE

"Calvin Johnson never meant anything to me"

HEY THIS BAND ARE FUCKING AWESOME TALK ABOUT THEM YOU GUYS

Yes, they are awesome. When's the full-length?

February 08

Someone mentioned Envelopes here, they are much better than the Campesinos.

I never cared about Henry Rollins either.

The commercial potential for "You! Me! Dancing!" is off the charts, isn't it?

They're like a not-humorless Arcade Fire, with better production and funner songs! And Welsh! Yesssss!

Xpost. "off the charts" is where it'll stay.

I hear Gruff Rhys is playing with them on tour next year.

Wasn't Hugh Pooh-Stick available?

Xpost. "off the charts" is where it'll stay.

I knew I set that up as soon as I hit "Submit Response."

:)

mang have the retards in this video ever seen this video ?
surely they must die

Track listing for the album (Wichita, 25th Feb)

1. Death To Los Campesinos!
2. Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats
3. Don’t Tell Me To Do The Math(s)
4. Drop It Doe Eyes
5. My Year In Lists
6. Knee Deep At ATP
7. This Is How You Spell ‘HAHAHA, We Destroyed The Hopes And Dreams of A Generation of Faux-Romantics’
8. We Are All Accelerated Readers
9. You! Me! Dancing!
10. ...And We Exhale And Roll Our Eyes in Unison
11. Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks

Nice, but no room for "We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives"...?

I still like them, but hoo boy they need to work on the live show - when nine out of the ten songs in your set prominently feature glockenspiel, headaches arise.

this has leaked

Listening now.

"I am not Bonnie Tyler/ And I am not Toni Braxton"

7. This Is How You Spell ‘HAHAHA, We Destroyed The Hopes And Dreams of A Generation of Faux-Romantics’

^^^What's really great about that track is that that is the chorus, it's not just a fucking instrumental they've slapped a great title on.

My copy has a track 12, called "2007 The Year Punk Broke (My Heart)"

Anyway, so yeah, 2008 album of the year.

I can't wait to listen to this, but as hungover as I am, I'm not sure my head will be able to stand it just yet.

I relented, it's as wonderful as I'd hoped.

guitars on this are great

sadly, much as when live, this is boringly samey. you can interchange vocal lines between most of their songs.

when seen live

I was really hoping they'd have some new tricks up their sleeve for the lp. sadly not.

guys this album is so good

Anyway, so yeah, 2008 album of the year.

-- Dom Passantino, Friday, January 4, 2008 1:34 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link

^would agree w/ this if not for hot chip

This album is great. I just can't wait to hear the mastered version.

so you think is an early leak?

the only two weak songs on here are 'knee deep at atp' and 'this is how you spell hahaha'. everything else is great. love how it's sequenced, too.

has to be the first indie rock song with flucloxacillin in the title

Not right to call this old age
But it certainly ain't youth no more

Was kinda down on side B at first but have been going back to it loads recently. Might rank this above WabWad now.

This band's great trick was going from making some of the most immediate records of their era to making growers. Sick Scenes has really aged beautifully.

Hold On Now, Youngster turns 10 today

'Hold On Now, Youngster…' is 1️⃣0️⃣ years old today! 🎉

Related commemorations and celebrations, coming soon.

For now, blast it loud on your headphones one time tonight. pic.twitter.com/BqwjQzDLEL

— Los Campesinos! (@LosCampesinos) February 22, 2018

front to back classic

yeah I'm so lucky to have this thing in my life

aw I remembered 'You! Me! Dancing' only just this week. What a fantastic song. What a great band. I should have spent more time with them.

this album saved me from trash-heap indie

You Me Dancing, My Year in Lists, Death to Los Campesinos, Sweet Dreams Sweet Cheeks...I still play these on the regular, brilliant energy.

This and Thunder Lightning Strike by The Go! Team were my go-to mood boosters for years

https://goo.gl/images/1goPv3 Probably posted this in another thread, but agree/disagree with the music he loves, the Phonogram series is a good read.

Whoops. It's the third image down in this article. One Phonogram character recommends the band to another. There's a page that follows where the second character listens to "You! Me! Dancing!" and loves it.

listened to this again today and it sounded as good as ever

then i was listening to some of romance is boring and it also sounded great

Those are the two that have held up the best, I think. But whenever I put on We Are Beautiful, that one sounds glorious, too. I'm really hoping some younger bands discover them and are inspired by their voraciousness.

between like crying, martha and modern baseball they've already had a pretty good influence imo

how was their album from last year? i've been meaning to check it out (since, uh, last year).

it's really good, their best since Romance is Boring, but it doesn't quite deliver the youthful jolt most people probably expect from this band

they had a really incredible run with those first three albums

Reissues of HONY and WABWAD out in Oct to celebrate the glorious anniversary!

http://www.loscampesinos.com/news/2018/4/11/hold-on-now-youngster-and-we-are-beautiful-we-are-doomed-to-be-remastered-and-repressed

On Saturday October 13th we’ll be playing our biggest ever UK headline show at the O2 Forum, London. MISERABILIA, as we’re calling it, will be unlike any Los Camp! gig before as we’ll be playing two sets, supporting ourselves.

The first set will be made up solely of songs from the above mentioned albums (plus maybe some other tracks from the time…) and then once we’ve towelled down and sprayed on some deodorant we’ll be back out on stage again to play another set, made up of the rest of our catalogue from the past decade of being the UK’s premiere DIY/punk/emo (delete as applicable) band.

😻

picked up a ticket, may be US shows as well:

We're really excited that you're excited, thank you.

AMERICANS - please don't do anything rash and fly over like you say you're going to. We're looking into the affordability of/getting the time off work for US shows. We'll keep you posted...

— Los Campesinos! (@LosCampesinos) April 11, 2018

the above show was very excellent

i mean:

This Is How You Spell "HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics"
Death to Los Campesinos!
Ways to Make It Through the Wall
Drop It Doe Eyes
Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown # 1
You'll Need Those Fingers for Crossing
We Are All Accelerated Readers
Knee Deep at ATP
My Year in Lists
Frontwards
Miserabilia
...And We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes in Unison

I Broke Up in Amarante
What Death Leaves Behind
Romance Is Boring
By Your Hand
A Slow, Slow Death
A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; or, Letters from Me to Charlotte
5 Flucloxacillin
For Flotsam
Songs About Your Girlfriend
Here's to the Fourth Time!
We've Got Your Back (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #2)
The Fall of Home
Baby I Got the Death Rattle
Straight In at 101
I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future
Avocado, Baby
Coda: A Burn Scar in the Shape of the Sooner State

Heart Swells / Pacific Daylight Time
Hello Sadness
You! Me! Dancing!
Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks

greatest to ever do it

Thanks for the setlist, was also there and it was fantastic.

Goosebumps when they played “...Sooner State”.

holy shit

my only suggestion is they should always play “the low”

the low and in medias res would have been welcome but honestly the best show i've ever been to.

also great was the scalper outside kentish town tube station trying to sell tickets to the peasants

I was impressed the show was a big enough deal to have bootleg t-shirts on sale outside.

We were discussing it after and despite playing for about 2.5 hrs there were still at least half a dozen big tunes left out.

for once in my life i can say i have valentine's day plans

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of our third album, ‘Romance Is Boring’ we will be repressing the sold-out album on vinyl, plus playing a lusty double header of shows in London, on Valentine’s Weekend 2020

You can pre-order your remastered copy of Romance Is Boring on gatefold gold vinyl now, as well as getting hold of it's companion, the ‘All’s Well That Ends’ EP. ‘All’s Well That Ends’ is limited to just 500 copies on 10” vinyl and features brand new artwork by LC!’s own R N Taylor. All pre-orders come with a Valentine’s Card signed by the band.

Also up for grabs is ‘Romance Is Boring: an Oral History’ — an extensive ‘zine featuring conversations with Los Campesinos! members past and present over the last decade, as well as exclusive photographs and illustrations.

furloughed as of this morning so have been sat here ranking their songs

https://isthisyoursanderling.tumblr.com/post/617366942035116032/furlough-special-los-campesinos-ranked

very much agreed with the top 2 but i have never liked "baby i got the death rattle"

new album finished, out this summer

all hell out July 19th, based on the first song and that it's 15 tracks I'm hoping this is RiB II.

I can’t see anything about it other than your post devvvine.

went out yesterday evening in a newsletter, think should go public this morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgwEUnBmcE4

https://loscampesinos.substack.com/p/all-hell-the-new-los-campesinos-album

this has the details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgwEUnBmcE4

this is the single. not really romance is boring 2, sounds like they've been listening to like, foxing?

That makes me excited to check it out. Foxing is exactly what they shoulda been listening to imo! (But also Romance is Boring is my least favorite one so I'm a weirdo)

a second new one, in classic lc! stomper mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN0ZaXKBFYg

You’re all in agreement that the police are useless
They want them emboldened, Baby, you want them bootless
The punks on the playlist, are crooning for kindness
Asking “why can’t we all just get along?”
Me and my friends are sadists, backbreakers for spineless
Wish ‘em dead and then we’ll put it in a song

I'm not all that familiar with their earlier music but their new one is the best record I've heard in 2024.

for a band yet to record a bad song, it's still a surprise how essential this feels. they've managed grasp a scope and ambition they maybe lost hold of for a little bit.

it's quite good, definitely better than the last, but it's still not on the level of their best material. i'm a bit surprised at how positive the reaction has been overall. might be able to make a case for 'best since romance is boring' though idk yet

I know I'm a Bernard Sumner fan at all, but several lyrics had me rolling my eyes.

nothing new there unfortunately

yeah i'm happy to say this is their best since romance is boring, and their best-produced album

finally got around to all hell which triggered a discog run. no blues remains insanely underrated. and all hell is nearly as good as romance is boring :)

but i'm a weirdo who thinks the first to lc! albums are mostly like... fine. first three tracks of we are beautiful are the greatest songs ever made but it's hard for me to inhabit the rest like i did when i was in college

first two*

likewise, the first two are kind of inseparable from being 16/17. whereas I've aged alongside the others more so. if i was making a list of the greatest twee/indie pop records I would put HONY in there with a bullet though.