No Blues
Los Campesinos!’s fifth album, No Blues, is their strongest release since the staggering 2008 two-fer *Hold On Now, Youngster.../*We Are Beatiful, We Are Doomed. In a strange way, it also ends up sounding like the happiest LC! record, or at least the most implicitly hopeful.
“I think we realized we just like making pop music,” said Los Campesinos! frontman Gareth Campesinos of the Welsh band’s new album in a recent interview. It’s not that the previous album, 2011’s Hello Sadness, deviated greatly from the highly melodic, ramshackle energy of earlier releases. But that album, written in…
The fifth album from Los Campesinos! is their least instantly gratifying, but might well become the most rewarding yet.
Los Campesinos! first gained notice in what seems like a different world, and as a result, hold varying significance…
When Los Campesinos! burst onto the indie scene in the late 2000s, they were a rambunctious (more or less) half-male/half-female crew who madly ran through their songs like they were chasing rainbow-puking unicorns.
What are we going to do about Los Campesinos! 2011's Hello Sadness gave notice of a shift from the ragged polemic of their early work, Gareth David opting largely for inward reflection over snapping in your face. His classically-inclined indie pop manifesto seemed to be running out of steam.
Latest effort No Blues once again finds Los Campesinos! riding their hearts into battle, returning smarter and stronger, if a little bloodied.
Album review: Los Campesinos!, 'No Blues'. The fifth studio album fro the Cardiff indie-pop sextet sees them continuing their singular march to the mainstream.
Los Campesinos! - No Blues review: No Blues will make you dance till you drop. And by drop, I mean die, but in a happy fun way!