Oct 26 2006

Los Campesinos! BBC Session: new song, Pavement cover, more

Los Campesinos!

Starved for new Los Campesinos! material after playing their four available songs to death repeatedly? I know I certainly am, so you can imagine my joy to get hold of this BBC session that they recorded for Huw Stephens’ show at Maida Vale. Not only do you get two old favourites in ‘Death To Los Campesinos!’ and ‘You! Me! Dancing!’, you also get two brand new recordings.

‘We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives’ is a live staple, so if you’ve been lucky enough to see them live you’ll be somewhat familiar with it. It actually sounds better in it’s current form than when I saw them back in september though, although that might just be the voice of somewhat overjoyed to get new material talking. Secondly, and most interesting of all, we have a cover of ‘Frontwards’, a classic Pavement song from all the way back in 1992. It’s a great version of the song, adding a male-female duelling vocals thing, but I’ll be interested to hear how it goes down with the hardcore Pavement fans.

MP3 Los Campesinos! - Death To Los Campesinos! (expired)
MP3 Los Campesinos! - Frontwards (expired)
MP3 Los Campesinos! - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives (expired)
MP3 Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! (expired)

Los Campesinos!: Myspace

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10 Responses to “Los Campesinos! BBC Session: new song, Pavement cover, more”

  1. # happy camper!on 26 Oct 2006 at 3:51 pm

    thanks for these! perky and absolutely perfect!

  2. # Simonon 26 Oct 2006 at 4:45 pm

    I guess I’m just a miserable old git, but Frontwards sounds too fast. The lyrics are wrong for that sort of treatment. Malkmus would be spinning in his grave.

    I like the other stuff though.

    That’s quite a result, considering I hate all music now.

    Yes, I know I just contradicted myself.

  3. # Eddieon 26 Oct 2006 at 4:57 pm

    I didn’t think it sounded that different to the Pavement one time wise when I first heard it, but I’m playing the Pavement one now and I’m surprised at how slow it seems by comparison.
    I’m quite proud to have put up something you actually liked though. Impressive for someone who hates everything.

  4. # Simonon 26 Oct 2006 at 5:06 pm

    The Pavement one isn’t slow, thats the correct speed :)

    I might start my own blog. I won’t have to post much, considering I hate everything. I might call it “Covered in Coma”

    My first post will be about 4′33″ by John Cage. Four and a half minutes of silence..

  5. # Eddieon 26 Oct 2006 at 5:08 pm

    “slow by comparison”.. I didn’t say it wasn’t correct!
    No, contribute here instead. My readers love the silence. The proof is in how my traffic goes up when I don’t post..

  6. # Simonon 26 Oct 2006 at 5:17 pm

    It should have read “the Los Campesinos! version is too fast by comparison.” ;)

    I will consider your proposal. After all, setting up a blog requires effort.

  7. # Eddieon 26 Oct 2006 at 5:22 pm

    Indeed. Took me a good ten minutes.

  8. # Simonon 26 Oct 2006 at 5:24 pm

    Exactly.

  9. # Mikeon 27 Oct 2006 at 1:58 am

    Damn! I was waiting on permission for on uploaded these! I’ll direct people here I guess…

  10. # The Doorkeeperon 27 Oct 2006 at 10:04 pm

    Tried to listen but somethings up, so I went to The MySpcae site and got three of em there. Good Stuff. Like The Streets on Lysergic Acid.

    Good luck with the blog, Simon.

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