Romance Is Boring
- Los Campesinos!
- Band Name: Los Campesinos!
- Record Label: Arts & Crafts
- Release Date: Jan 26, 2010
- Summary: The latest album for the Welsh rock band was recorded in Connecticut and Seattle, with Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart, Parenthetical Girls' Zac Pennington, and Dead Science's Jherek Bischoff appearing as guests.
- Record Label: Arts & Crafts
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 28
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Mixed: 5 out of 28
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Negative: 0 out of 28
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90What makes this possibly the best album of the band's career is that it represents how sonic exploration can actually go right.
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83Romance Is Boring smacks of that feeling, knowing more than before but still trying to hash out just where to go with it. It's fun watching bands grow; it's been a pleasure watching this band grow up.
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60Every so often, a newfound edginess gratifyingly creeps in, be that musical, on the gothic post-hardcore of "Plan A," or lyrical, on "The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future," a movingly detailed portrait of a suicidal girl. The signs of a band whose ambition may yet match their productivity. [Mar 2010, p.055]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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