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MagnetDec 18, 2013After a few tracks, you may find yourself seeking relief with your favorite method of self-obliteration. [No. 105, p.56]
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Q MagazineNov 22, 2013No Blues is their best album yet. [Dec 2013, p.109]
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Nov 14, 2013The finest songs here are as solid as any other rock music you’ll find in 2013.
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Nov 6, 2013Although weaker tracks are covered up by pristine studio trickery, No Blues is consistently infectious and edges the band closer to mainstream territory.
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Nov 4, 2013No Blues is precisely the grimly euphoric lift-up it purports to be, validating Los Campesinos! on their own terms as connoisseurs of perversely thrilling, desperately mundane misery.
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Nov 1, 2013Abounding with the usual collision of love, death, sex, and football (of the spherical shaped kind), the band's fifth studio album holds no shocks for those who have followed them from the cradle.
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Oct 31, 2013No Blues shows the wisdom of age, rather than its perceived follies.
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Oct 30, 2013It's a very satisfying record, and it's the type of album where every song will probably be your favorite at some point, and you'll almost certainly have each of them stuck in your head at some point in the next week.
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Oct 29, 2013Follow-up No Blues finds the band settling into a more consistent sound.
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Oct 29, 2013The musical maturity is the most notable and commendable part of No Blues.
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Oct 29, 2013LC! have never sounded so muscular or crafted melodies as instantly memorable.
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Oct 29, 2013Where Hello Sadness seemed like a more mature album, No Blues finds Los Campesinos! getting a better, more pragmatic handle on aging.
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Oct 28, 2013Its flame flickers at best, and the feeling of deja vu that pervades the album means that Los Campesinos! need to change something before they hit the studio again, or the next record will be an even more faded copy of their glorious early days.
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Oct 28, 2013Los Camp have never sounded better or more essential, even if it’s all a little Motion City Soundtrack-ish.
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Oct 24, 2013It's one gripped with thoughts of death and yet somehow it's is the very sound of being alive. Los Campesinos! are a band who've clearly grown up, but here, that's only a good thing.
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Oct 24, 2013Their fifth album continues the work done on their last, 2011’s Hello Sadness, the emotional context and sentiments much sharper, painfully so in some cases, with big, lovely pop hooks on even their starkest tracks.
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Oct 24, 2013There’s the archetypical vulnerability lurking beneath each track, but their sound suggests something everyone from that mid-2000s period has (hopefully) done--matured and become more assured. With it, indie pop mk II has as well. Excellent, this.
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Oct 24, 2013These more polished but less straight-forward songs makes for their least instantly gratifying collection, but leaves a strong feeling that in the long-term it might become the most rewarding yet.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 22 out of 23
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Mixed: 0 out of 23
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Negative: 1 out of 23
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