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LOS CAMPESINOS-"Hold On Now, Youngster"

Aug 17, 2008, 5:48am

Los Campesinos already have a rabid fanbase, even if this album is their debut, but this is the first album of theirs I've had the fortune to hear, and it reminds me a lot of The Go! Team. Only better, because it doesn't suffer from muddy production and because it doesn't lack song structure. At least not entirely. "Hold On Now, Youngster," has lots of shouting, hyperactive beats, beeps, jumps, and every guitar plays riffs. Nothing but riffs. It's like eating Fun Dip through Pixie Stix, and washing it down with Pop Rocks [...]

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