Los Campesinos

ha well i googled his name and shit so i know that he's a footballer (lol british thread) but what's the significance of the circa 95 part also why him besides that he was a good soccer player

having barely heard anything by this band before, i am really really liking the album. christ, it moves at about 300 mph (in a good way), full of drama, great shouty bits, etc

i just stumbled upon gareth and tom (one of the guitarists) doing a track by track rundown of the album

http://www.loscampesinos.com/downloads/lc-hony_-_track-by-track.mp3

i can't even tell if this is interesting or not esp cuz gareth did a track by track for DiS

the album meaning HONY

I could feel the riot grrrl assemblage collage kid's (i think its gareth?) jealous gaze as i H&M hoodie danced better than him at a Danananakroyd gig at Cardiff Barfly a coupla weeks ago. Actually, i think its because i was pissed and elbowed him in the neck. Either way i think LC are shit

I can't get past Gareth's voice TBH, which is a shame 'cos the rest of them sound good - reminding me of Broken Social Scene. However, they were excellent live on the Shred Yr Face tour.

"Miserabilia" off the new album is especially aces IMO.

Any band that sings Kenickie lyrics in their live act is fine by me!

I could feel the riot grrrl assemblage collage kid's (i think its gareth?) jealous gaze as i H&M hoodie danced better than him at a Danananakroyd gig at Cardiff Barfly a coupla weeks ago

Any chance you could post to the WDYLL thread so I know to avoid you? Thanks in advance

lol british people

pipe down. it was a jibe at the self conciousness of lol indie dress at gigs, ng mencap. you misunderstand my funny.

lol this will end well

I don't think I understand it at all really. Never mind.

Is there a word for the feeling of awkwardness you get when you meet people in a bar, get on well with them, and then belatedly realise they are a band you have been slagging off on the internet for the past year?

This happened to me when I met Kanye down Spoony's last week.

i am jealous

i like this but yet i feel remarkably gross for doing so

im gonna watch the wab wad dvd tonight :D

i like this but yet i feel remarkably gross for doing so

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You gotta give into it, man.

"A fifteen year-old editorial (something)/The last man standing is a girl/Four sweaty boys with guitars tell me nothing about my life"

Which female-lead guitar bands came through in 93? Sleeper?

sleeper, elastica, err

echobelly was '94 i think.

When were Republica? I was thinking today as I stood at The Valley that it would be a sad day when "Ready To Go" was no longer played at football league grounds before kick-off.

"The last man standing is a girl" would imply that the lead singer went on to have some sorta career after the band, so it must be Wener or Frischman.

republica was later, 96-7

"The last man standing is a girl" would imply that the lead singer went on to have some sorta career after the band, so it must be Wener or Frischman.

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sleeper was 3 boys 1 girl and wener 'went through' all the other manz in the band iirc which sort of makes sense there? elastica had the reverse proportion.

Sleeper had an EP out in '93, I think...

im such a fanboy

http://i43.tinypic.com/2zfl4rp.jpg

it says, "jordan, thanks a lot dude. love gxo"

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hearing them live tonight reminded me of how complicated a lot of their arrangements are

This is a pretty good album, this is. (The new one, at least.)

the actual single is just ridiculously good

ooh, there's a new record?

wait — there's a download-only single and a tour-only single? i just can't keep up with these indie kids.

yeah "the sea is a good place for the future" (or w/e) was a download 'teaser' of some sort, this new one has been sent to radio, is under 3 mins, etc etc

it's streaming on their website - loscampesinos.com

AH. Wow. The Sea was certainly enjoyable and ambient etc. But this is more like it. Punch-in-the-gut-Campesinos! are back!

thx jordan.

gareth really sells the pleading of the chorus - i think his "trying to sing now, guys" voice is kinda great in a way

I dunno, it feels like just another album track (which could be potentially great). Wish they carried on being the band that made awesome singles though after We Throw Parties and You! Me! Dancing!

ya i feel you. "my year in lists" is actually my fav single of theirs.

i dno guys i think i get more out of this sea song

more something they haven't done before. this is good obv.

yeah fair. i mean, i probably will end up liking the sea more after the shock of this wears off, but it's nice to know that they haven't totally ditched the old mode. the sea continues the trend of doing interesting but dissonant things with the music while amping up the focus on gareth's lyrics - which are evocative, but more SERIOUS i think then they used to be (or at least less funny, because there was a time when they were both). it's a good look for them, and it's a needed shift, because they've probably plumbed the depths of the Hold On Now, Youngster sound by now. but absent the context of the album i'm not sure exactly how much I'll end up loving the Sea is a Good Place.

"my year in lists" is actually my fav single of theirs.

^^^ OTM. Short and fast and dirty, with a pretty awesome video to boot.

loscampesinos Finally finished typing up the lyrics to our new record. 3,530 words, without repeated choruses. I hate myself.
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I = EXCITED.

i already know that this is gonna be in my top 3 albums of 2010, it's basically preordained

I'm sorta behind: is this material with or without the one singer replaced?

One minor thing that's always fascinated me about them is that they've always broken a basic rule of production, which is that you (generally) want to have all the sounds on a record in some realistic spatial relationship with one another. (Unless you don't.) Whereas they've had one loud shouty back-off-the-mic singer and then one quiet small-voiced close-on-the-mic singer, and they've had to just go with that. Either one of them alone would sound totally normal over the music they play, but having both is kinda strange: he always sounded like he was in a room with a rock band, whereas she wound up pitching in all close-miced like an announcer's voice appearing out of nowhere. I haven't yet heard how the new singer (it's his sister, right?) works, like whether that dynamic remains the same or whether she'll wind up changing it. It's a pretty weird dynamic -- the vocals on their records are really spatially wonky!

the new album has vocals from the old female member, she basically quit after the album was completed and a recent tour. the new girl will be signing her parts on tour & presumably the recorded material from here on out, but she doesn't have anything on the new album

re the spatiality, i always thought that she was super close-miced because her wispiness wouldn't be able to be heard when the band is full going, but it's very much like gareth uses her as his own internal voice. she never really raises her singing voice or inflects much, it's very much like she is the steady hand mirror to gareth's out of pitch screaming and flailing

Romance is Boring:

"It is a record about the death and decay of the human body, sex, lost love, mental breakdown, football and, ultimately, that there probably isn’t a light at the end of the tunnel."

So friggin' excited.

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.