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- Summary: Recorded in Girona, Spain, with producer John Goodmason, the latest album for the Welsh band led by Gareth Campesinos expands on its pop sounds.
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- Record Label: Arts & Crafts
- Genre(s): Rock, Indie Rock
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Songs About Your Girlfriend | |
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You do not like us 'cause your girlfriend likely does And all your friends agree On her soft-spot for me I'll have my hard hands Over her soft spots... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 30
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Mixed: 6 out of 30
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Negative: 1 out of 30
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Jan 3, 2012Mature, reflective, elegant and just that little bit haunting, but ultimately and most importantly of all, brilliant.
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Nov 16, 2011[It offers] up some of the most melodramatic songs Los Campesinos! have recorded to date.
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Nov 10, 2011Los Campesinos! can't stop adorning their odes to existential grief with snappy handclaps, but the Welsh septet are still showing signs of growth on this third album.
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Nov 18, 2011There are instrumental bridges on this album that seem, blissfully, to go on forever, leading perfectly into the next song.
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Nov 17, 2011The kids of the LC! still bristle with a fundamental melodic vibrancy, and the hand-in-hand maturing of music-writer Tom Campesinos! into the realms of Sonic Youth thrashes, cranky synthetics and handclaps, harmonium, violin and bar-room piano gives the record a gravitas to counterpoint Gareth's lyrical anguish.
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Dec 5, 2011It still is either very sincere or very sarcastic, or both, though these are two qualities which have always been both a justification for liking them and just as easily a reason why not, meanwhile not offering any amnesty or middle ground.
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Nov 22, 2011Whereas previous albums took a massive leap into noise and danger, this disappoints.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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