New Los Campesinos! – The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future
At times, it’s difficult to believe that Los Campesinos! are the same band that leaped onto the scene a mere three years ago with You! Me! Dancing!. Since then, it’s seemed as if the band wanted to get away from that song, or rather that general sound of slapdash joy. Second album We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed seemed to suggest that a move into darker, more complex territory was inevitable.
Which leads us to The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future. It’s certainly bleaker than previous efforts, both lyrically (battles with anorexia, drug use, kissing Tories) and musically. This is all slow builds with strings dominating, into the occasional explosion of noise. It’s never excitable like their previous work though. This is a song that has been precisely arranged into a thing of beauty.
I don’t know if this is what we can expect from Los Campesinos! going forward or whether we’ll be getting a mixture of this and the old shouty chaos, but on the basis of this, either one would be fine with me.
The third, currently untitled, album from Los Campesinos! is due to be released, er, sometime in the future. I think I read January somewhere. Whether or not this song is on it I couldn’t tell you. I’m a fountain of information me.
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