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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Jan 6, 2014 22:39:44 GMT -5
This review of their 2013 album, No Blues, says it all in the very opening. I don't understand why this forum continues to ignore them. This review is for you. ---- entertainment.ie/music/news/Album-Review-Los-Campesinos-No-Blues/226195.htmWe don't deserve a band like Los Campesinos! For the last seven years now, they have been pouring their heart and soul into making this raucous, exuberant and curiously life affirming racket while we continue to reserve our affections for those less deserving of our love and respect. Seven years and five wonderful albums later, we continue to feign indifference, blithely ignoring these songs that make the heart swell, these symphonic pop anthems about the things that really matter - love, life, sex, death, it's all in here. This is most definitely pop music, but there is an eloquence, wit and intelligence inherent in the song-writing that can get lost in the great surge of sound that is Los Campesinos! through and through. No Blues is their fifth album and is right up there with their very best - and their very best is very good indeed. A song like 'For Flotsam' defies us to remain indifferent, to remain steadfast as a chorus of gargantuan proportions threatens to sweep us off our feet. It doesn't end there; 'What Death Leaves Behind' may be the first song in the history of pop to have the word 'tautology' in the chorus (they still make it sound insanely catchy), while 'Avocada, Baby' is probably the greatest song ever to compare the human heart to the fruit also known as the Alligator Pear. Gareth Paisey is the principal lyricist and lead vocalist - he delivers these songs with bags of passion, wringing every last ounce of pathos from these words that often seem wrapped up in a kind of faux hurt. Technically, he may not be the strongest vocalist you will ever hear, but hey, we will take passion, wit and eloquence every time over note perfect automatons. It would be easy to dismiss Los Campesinos! as purveyors of lightweight pop, trading in the kind of standard indie miserabilia that appeals exclusively to lonely bedsit students wallowing in self pity. It would be easy, but it would also be wrong. Los Campesinos! are the Nick Hornby of pop - they make sincere, emotional, life affirming and hugely underrated music and we are lucky to have them. Magnificent.
Review by Paul Page | FOUR STARS |
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Post by Sternumman on Jan 7, 2014 8:04:22 GMT -5
Too be honest have never heard of them besides your constant posts about them in every music thread. Just listened to a few songs of theirs on YouTube and they did nothing for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2014 8:22:26 GMT -5
Why the Indifference? You could say that about a shitload of bands.
So keeping in the spirit of the thread I would choose these guys
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jan 7, 2014 12:23:12 GMT -5
Why the Indifference? You could say that about a shitload of bands. So keeping in the spirit of the thread I would choose these guys The MLB Network show "Intentional Talk" uses that tune as it's theme song. It's been played out. Especially since it's used in movies and many commercial. |
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jan 7, 2014 12:30:14 GMT -5
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Post by Cast on Jan 7, 2014 13:24:34 GMT -5
If i had to pick the best song from The Heavy it'd be "Cause for alarm."
I like Los Campesinos. I really enjoy their first two releases. They are a pretty consistent band, and they combine elements twee and punk pretty damn well.
It's just I can't really listen to them all the time. They can get annoying after awhile, but they are a excellent dose of sugary excitement when I do play a song from them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2014 16:02:28 GMT -5
I think you brown nose them a bit too much Beady Eyed Pigeon. They ain't nothin' special.
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