Wanna know what I fucking hate about Los Campesinos? Their fucking song titles -kiss of death for a rock crit and a straight drag to type.
Wanna know what else? They kinda suxd the second time I caught em last year.
Wanna know what else? So much language it takes forever to get a handle on em and the sixteen track Romance Is Boring is information overload. This is the 21st century folks, less is more.
So I listen to music ALL THE TIME and I still don’t the time to get to the bottom of this one. So I cheated and went to Metacritic and ended up on Pop Matters where I read Jordan Sargent’s superb review of the album. Jordan helped me focus and though I didn’t quite agree with him (or her -one of those names, right?) I saw what Jordan meant. We agree upon the themes (sex, god, the connection) and we agree upon the sound (noisy twee) what we disagree is the strength of the songs. I love em all but it doesn’t peak high enough. There is no “fingers for crossing” there is no “get drunk and call me”: lotsa good stuff, “Sea” is epic (Im not gonna spend my life typing out Garth’s ridiculous song titles) “Romance Is Boring” is a real pop move, “Listed Buildings” I listen to insatiably but I just don’t hear that one or two tracks to push it to the level of their first two.
Still early days and I’m still listening.
Still early days and I’m still listening.