Los Campesinos

well yeah, exactly -- she doesn't have a strong enough voice to be in the same space as him (and obviously it'd just be dumb for him to be close-miced like her), so they just sit where they sit. (and people always go to their concerts and then say "I couldn't hear her! turn up her mic!") you're right about how the contrast works and how they totally use it, but then there's also this whole just-production level on some songs where it still feels really odd to me. it must be very interesting to produce them.

yeah it's weird because they have some elements that are outwardly twee — wordiness, mousy girl vocals, glockenspiel — but they really aim to make lots of noise while still making glock lines a central part of the arrangements (along with the strings). and i think it makes sense that they are produced by one of the broken social scene guys, not sure if many other producers could handle the dynamic of 7 band members all trying to be heard at once.

yay more football references. i hope one song is dedicated to losing an epic football manager savefile.

oh how i love this band.

i never got the reference to "tony cascarino circa 1995" - what is the significance of player & year

it rhymes?

tony cascarino is a bit of a nob actually but he was a great goalscorer.
1995 is an odd year to pick because he went to marseille after they were done for match fixing and were made to be relegated etc. for it.

i guess 'hristo stoichkov in 1995' didn't sound as good.

i love los campesinos, i can't wait for there new album

kinda prefer johnny foreigner

kinda prefer getting my balls twisted off by an angry lesbian

think i might see them on Saturday. can anybody vouch for their live show?

very fun imo

They do have swine flu, mind you! Even had a bucket on stage with them tonight in Oxford, just in case. But yes, lots of fun!

copy haho who are touring with them now are good & fun too

yes they are

(copy haho's too pure 7" out now folks)

(don't ask the Copy Haho singer about his German girlfriend! Sore subject tonight!)

"I think we need more post-coital and less post-rock" is the ultimate expression of music nerd sexual frustration t/f

Hello,
We, the band Los Campesinos!, are delighted to inform you of the details of the release of our imminent fourth album, Hello Sadness.
The 14th November (15th in North America) will see the record's birth in CD, Vinyl and Digital format.
Conceived in Girona, Spain earlier this year, under the watchful eye of producer John Goodmanson, Hello Sadness is ten songs of love, loss and heartbreak nail-gunned to a back-drop of broken, tangled bodies, creeping, dead-eyed animals, suffocating, looming shadows and World Cup exits. It is an honest, bare bones documentation of breaking up and trying not to break up in the process.
As an incentive for you to get in early and pre-order your copy, we've put together what we consider to be a pretttttty impressive pre-order bundle, only available direct from Los Campesinos! and for a limited time. This includes:
CD/Vinyl copy of Hello Sadness before store-release date.
Digital download of Hello Sadness
Exclusive Limited Edition DVD of footage from the recording of the new album. Including Documentary and a “How To Play...” feature.
Exclusive LC!.com pre-order only 'Palmist' t-shirt.
Hold On Now, Youngster... 'The Demos' CD – recently unearthed demo versions of songs from our first album. Including rare track How I Taught Myself To Scream and the previously unreleased No Tetris.
Just head on over to our website to get it while you can.
As ever, we thank you for your interest and support. We're really excited about this new record, and we're looking forward to you joining us in that excitement,

All the best,
LC!

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Huzzah! Now they just need to get Heat Rash #2 out. Only quarterly zine I know that publishes on a yearly basis. (I kid. Psyched for the new album, although the title is a bit :/)

I don't know, the title is very much in character for these guys.

This is such great news

ordered my bundle, t shirt in black :)

soooooooooooo does gareth campesinos! break up with someone once a year or

so pumped

Too soon to arbitrarily pick out songs we are excited about based only on their titles? Because:

05. Every Defeat A Divorce (Three Lions)

yeah that title made me literally lol

more songs about soccer

i think it's hilarious that they went & recorded an album in freaking spain that they ended up naming 'hello sadness' w/ a cover photo that's like the antithesis of spain

spain is a p sad place

FAT KAKA

hope fat kaka gets a mention here

i am very excited about this

indiest £50m footballer

New song "By Your Hand" is out now, and it's catchy but really soft around the edges—there's almost no bite to Gareth's voice. Not sure if I like that change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ku_ZMPJ5M0&feature=player_embedded

whoa i love this

gareth's voice sounds great i think, really full like he's trying to sing from his belly

sounds like something off 'we are beautiful, we are doomed' imo

on laptop speakers it sounds like they made some rudimentary attempt to make the full-band vocal harmonize rather than just yell in a rough unison

whatever i mean i like it

was not expecting a shot of the guitarist singing! um i think his name is tom possibly i don't know

how many of them are there at this point, i forgot to count

Is that Tom? Ollie is gone now and was replaced by Rob. Harriet is leaving soon. Alecks left post-RiB and Kim is on vocals now. The rest are the same, so I think that the size of the band hasn't changed.

I like By Your Hand but there's something different that will take getting used to. Gareth's voice sounds fuller and warmer and more trained somehow? It's less of a yelp, even at its shoutiest.

it's one of the dude guitarists, prob tom

why is harriet leaving

it's def a bit odd to hear his voice that way but i think it's kinda cool

also lyrics are still on point

hottie contingent depleting rapdily :(

eh, the new drummer is an improvement in the face

and gareth looks like he's washed his hair but that might just be for the video

i don't want to rain on the los camp party, but after the insane growth between wabwad and rib, i'm wondering if it's even possible for the new album to maintain that trajectory of artistic growth. i do like this new song though. it's solid.

did anyone else listen to the heat rash single? i played those two songs into the ground.

i listened to them a few times, thought 'there is a reason the aren't on the albums' and shelved them. maybe i should go back, i was in a happier mood when i got them.

Kim looks way too much like her brother Gareth for me in terms of 'hottie contingent'. Boo.

Blog doesn't say why Harriet is leaving, although i'm sure sharing the spoils of a v. indie band w/ your 34 other band mates can't be too good for the bank balance in 2011.

i really like this though.

Some of the urgency (in Gareth's vox + the music) is lost. Reminds me of the crooner on RIB ("Who Fell Asleep In"), which I still hate. Massive black hole in the middle of that record.

Mind you I though "Sea is a Good Place" was rubbish when it leaked, and now I really like it, so my opinion on "By Yr Hand" might change too.

To echo phantompenguin above. It was inevitable that at some point, Los Camp! would have grown away from what I loved about them in the first place. At least the affair lasted longer than the one with Bloc Party -- man did they fall off fast. I dunno: perhaps band loyalty is harder to maintain in musically glutted times we are livin in...

Intrigued by the Heat Rash singles, are they on youtube?