I like this song a lot... Not the most profound lyrics but there is something about their young indie pop style that just puts a smile on my face when listening. By Your Hand has been on repeat since the albums release. A definite favorite song of 2011. By Your Hand - Los Campesinos! Hello Sadness 2011 (Arts & Crafts)
Nic Shonfeld Alongside labelmates and countrymen The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit , Glasgow-via-Edinburgh's We Were Promised Jetpacks should have formed a 21st century dream team of new Scottish acts, dispensing their peoples' distinctive brand of angst through their respective brands of rock. And yet while those other two won and maintain places in my heart, Jetpacks' 2009 debut These Four Walls did't quite win me over. The specifics of why aren't entirely clear, but I suspect that it was just a little too [...]
It is unusual for Crack in the Road to have seemingly ignored an album such as Hello Sadness for so long after its release, two weeks ago I believe. Being a band who have been integral to growth of this website, featuring in a handful of live reviews and interviews, any release from Los Campesinos! is always hotly anticipated. Yet I can't help feeling that our lack of urgency in reviewing their third LP is down to the relatively mediocre quality of [...]
Beat London's Summer Camp likes them some make-believe, that much is clear. Their first appearance on the musical radar was in the guise of a Swedish septet with a taste for vintage photographs who'd met at a Summer retreat - hence their name. It didn't take too long for them to be outed as the English duo of Jeremy Warmsley and Elizabeth Sankey, which may have disappointed fans of elaborate back stories but should have done nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of those who like enthusiastic boy-girl indie-pop. Not that [...]
The last time Los Campesinos! did such an extensive tour of the United Kingdom to the point of playing Leeds, they were in this very room. 'The big room' at the Cockpit last time hosted a band diagnosed with swine flu but determined to play out their tour in full. It's that kind of resilience that's led LC! to sell out Shepherds Bush Empire and gain a dedicated following worldwide and even if they've not grown out of the venue, they've grown a lot as a group. Promoting their fourth full record [...]
This is the second segment of a two-part interview with Los Campesinos! . Read Part One here. So you play a special matinee show today, which is always a strange but wonderful experience that means beer in the afternoon and being able to stroll home and have dinner afterwards - are you excited for the gig? Gareth: Oh yeah, what else is there to do on a Sunday afternoon? This is basically the first time we're playing the new [...]
Cuando nos aficionamos a una banda es normal que queramos escuchar más de ella y, por tanto, que estemos pendientes del nuevo material que publique. Luego están los lados extremos: los hipsters por un lado y los haters por otro. O lo que es lo mismo, aquellos que no pueden vivir sin saber hasta el último detalle de su grupo favorito y aquellos otros que no pierden oportunidad para escupir contra un determinado artista. En todo este círculo de simpatía, amor y odio influyen muchos factores pero es quizá el estilo [...]
It's approaching midday on a crisp Sunday and Camden Town is rife with families heading to Sunday lunch and strandlers in their late-teens and early-twenties recovering from the night before; I am shamefully and regrettably in this latter grouping. Which is a complete lack of good judgement on my part because I have to interview Los Campesinos! - one of my favourite bands - in just under a hour. I say "have to interview", but I had been looking forward to it all week. But, you know, there's something destructive [...]
Los Campesinos persiste et signe avec Hello Sadness, le 4e album de cette (encore) jeune formation paru il y une semaine à peine. Rien qui devrait débalancé les habitués, on retrouve sensiblement les mêmes thèmes (amour, relations, futur, etc.) et surtout, ces mélodies accrocheuses qui caractérise si bien ce groupe. J'espère qu'ils viendront nous visiter d'ici peu. Et de grâce, pas dans un festival, mais bien dans une salle de spectacle. Los Campesinos – Hello Sadness ( mp3 ) [...]
Oh Los Campesinos! you are frustrating sometimes, with your patent talent distorted by your oft unorthodox ways. Although you're likely to not want to hear this, you kinda remind me of a certain Premiership footballer with your Woe Is Me witticisms, cocksure declarations and innate ability to split opinion. You do make things difficult for yourself. When it comes down to it though, it's still pretty bloody hard to dislike you. On Hello Sadness , however, it seems like the band's most controversial days are behind them, as they [...]
Frank Yang A few songs into M832s performance at Lee's Palace on Friday night, frontman and mastermind Anthony Gonzalez stepped to the mic and said something to the effect of, "thanks, this is our first time here". Which was perplexing as it was far from their Toronto debut - it was their fourth time here, the last time being not THAT long ago in November 2008 . It wasn't even their first time playing the venue, as it was where they made their actual first local appearance back in 2005 . [...]
Los Campesinos! Hello Sadness Arts & Crafts Records [2011] Fire Note Says: Los Campesinos! get serious on fourth long player, Hello Sadness, that paves new paths for the band which succeeds all the way to the end! Album Review: Any band with longevity always works their way towards a "mature" record, which is a widely used term to convey a multitude of things, such as [...]
Childish Gambino vs Drake by Drake Lelane I love it when Drake reviews his namesake. -ed. Drake's Take: New Releases 11.15.11 Two actors-turned-rappers face off in this week's new releases, with Drake's nuanced sophomore release dropping the same day as Donald Glover's full length debut as Childish Gambino. Both rappers try to shrug off being called 'oreo' from certain circles in hip-hop, both having mostly grown up in white environs, both releases address, in some matter, [...]
Watch Los Campesinos! dabble with a twisted world of medieval sadomasochism where they are tortured with pineapple and force fed spaghetti and bologna by fem doms in the video for Hello Sadness. It may be unwatchable to some but do it for the indie pop goodness that will meet your ears. Los Campesinos! Official Site SAMPLE MP3's BY Los Campesinos! BUY MUSIC HERE AND HELP SUPPORT SOUNDHYPE! [...]
Words: Saam Das The first interview we ever did was in August 2006 with a band called Los Campesinos! . At the time, they were becoming arguably the UK's first blog hyped band. Thankfully, they're still going strong today and their newest album 'Hello Sadness' came out on Monday. To celebrate, I thought I'd take you through a potted history/chronological "greatest hits" of the band thus far... The seven-piece with no surnames [...]
Hey, there were some good videos this week! Two of the five videos below come from the directing team of Casey Raymond and Ewan James Morris, neither of whom I'd ever heard of before. They even came out on the same day. Nice work, Casey Raymond and Ewan James Morris! We've got those, as well as the rest of the five, below. Read More...
Two actors-turned-rappers face off in this week's new releases, with Drake's nuanced sophomore release dropping the same day as Donald Glover's full length debut as Childish Gambino. Both rappers try to shrug off being called 'oreo' from certain circles in hip-hop, both having mostly grown up in white environs, both releases address, in some matter, this insecurity -- Glover's Childish Gambino seeming obsessed about it at times. Elsewhere, there's the latest from Los Campesinos!, Crystal Stilts, Goldmund, The Do, Odonis Odonis, a live release from Tegan & Sara, soundtrack to a Betty Wright movie with The Roots, and an all-inclusive [...]
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18 Los Campesinos! has finally embraced the misery it has hinted at for years. From Hold On Now, Youngster… to We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed to Romance Is Boring , Los Campesinos! has made a steady decline into twee-pop depression. The Welsh band's latest album, appropriately titled Hello Sadness , doesn't even pretend to be happy. It is an obvious reflection of the break-up that inspired it. The music itself remains unbearably anxious and involved, with countless beats and instruments, but the affect is much gloomier. Lyrics like, "This dripping from my broken heart/Is [...]
Pumping out a delightful mixture of psychedelic garage-pop, happily married couple Sarah Everton and Rob Garcia front Reading Rainbow 's hypnotic sound by providing soothing harmonies and brash instrumental punches with the help of Swimmers Ear 's Al Creedon on the axe. The band will have copies of their split 7" with Super Wild Horses from HoZac Records' Hookup Klub series available tonight at Union Transfer. The three-piece will be opening for Los Campesinos!, who will be in town to support the release of their new album Hello Sadness , which came out earlier this week. Don't [...]
Watch 'Hello Sadness' here. Hello Sadness is out now. Follow Los Campesinos! on Twitter. Purchase Los Campesinos! items via Insound. Photos by wagz2it. [...]
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