copy haho who are touring with them now are good & fun too
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Friday, 30 October 2009 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
yes they are
― quaq quao, sweetie (electricsound), Friday, 30 October 2009 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
(copy haho's too pure 7" out now folks)
― quaq quao, sweetie (electricsound), Friday, 30 October 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
(don't ask the Copy Haho singer about his German girlfriend! Sore subject tonight!)
― carson dial, Friday, 30 October 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
"I think we need more post-coital and less post-rock" is the ultimate expression of music nerd sexual frustration t/f
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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 SadnessExclusive 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!
All the best,LC!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
― ✇ (Tape Store), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
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 :/)
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know, the title is very much in character for these guys.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
This is such great news
― Evan R, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
ordered my bundle, t shirt in black :)
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
soooooooooooo does gareth campesinos! break up with someone once a year or
― thomp, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
so pumped
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 31 August 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
Too soon to arbitrarily pick out songs we are excited about based only on their titles? Because:
05. Every Defeat A Divorce (Three Lions)
― Evan R, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that title made me literally lol
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
more songs about soccer
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 31 August 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 31 August 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
spain is a p sad place
FAT KAKA
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
hope fat kaka gets a mention here
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 31 August 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
i am very excited about this
― phantompenguin, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
indiest £50m footballer
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Evan R, Thursday, 8 September 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ku_ZMPJ5M0&feature=player_embedded
― Gukbe, Thursday, 8 September 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
whoa i love this
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
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
― thomp, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
it's one of the dude guitarists, prob tom
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
why is harriet leaving
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
hottie contingent depleting rapdily :(
― Gukbe, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
eh, the new drummer is an improvement in the face
― thomp, Thursday, 8 September 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― phantompenguin, Friday, 9 September 2011 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
did anyone else listen to the heat rash single? i played those two songs into the ground.
― phantompenguin, Friday, 9 September 2011 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Friday, 9 September 2011 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Mercer Finn, Friday, 9 September 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
Once the shock (or non-shock) wore off, the new song only took a couple listens to completely win me over. They can stray in whatever direction they want so long as the song writing remains this sharp.
― Evan R, Friday, 9 September 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
this is sneakily dense. i didn't realize how much was going on til i put on my headphones.
― phantompenguin, Friday, 9 September 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Still not feeling it, but "Light Leaves, Dark Sees" is great, so there's hope.
― Mercer Finn, Saturday, 10 September 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
pfft love affair being over; their last album had their best songs on it!
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 11 September 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
a bit of a "yonkers" homage, eh?
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Monday, 26 September 2011 07:37 (twelve years ago) link
Woooooooooooooooooooooo
Just about to listen to this! Also it has come with TWO free CDs and a free download AND a T-Shirt how could I not love this band?
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
oooh one is a dvd
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
Did you preorder it somewhere? I want free goodies. Two more weeks til its out here.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
("to tundra" <---- this song is overwhelming)
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 November 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
There are so few albums this year that I really connected with, especially indie albums, that I deeply, deeply want this album to be a masterpiece. Right the draft of my best of the year list is way too heavy on albums I respect and way short on albums I love.
― Evan R, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah they did a pre-order thing ages ago. http://www.loscampesinos.com/wheat/hello-sadness-new-album-14th-november-2011/ afaik this link still works.
Sucks that the only time I am in the same place as them, the show is sold out. And they were fucking giving away free tickets to Heat Rash subscribers! I should check my blogs more regularly.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link