We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

AlbumNov 25 / 200810 songs, 32m 19s95%
Indie Pop Indie Rock
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8.3 / 10

Just eight months after the release of their debut album, Los Campesinos! already return with the follow-up-- a messy, glorious, noisy document of internet café-era indie life that sounds best when sung by heart.

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Los Campesinos magnificently prove that youth isn't always wasted on the young: We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed is the British band's second album this year, following up the unstoppably energetic, endlessly entertaining Hold On Now Youngster. Unsurprisingly, it's mostly more of the same—which in this case is a high…

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Anyone expecting a sophomore slump or a drop-off in quality due to the nature of its somewhat sudden appearance (who makes two albums a year anymore?) will find themselves sorely disappointed by Los Campesinos! second album, We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.

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Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed review: Shout at the world because the world doesn't love you; lower yourself because you know that you'll have to.