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The album is a carefully crafted rollercoaster of emotional and auditory highs and lows, exhibiting the group's subtle growth since its major breakout, "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed."
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Los Campesinos! now sound a little less like a series of twitching climaxes, and they're the better for it.
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Q MagazineEvery 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]
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It would be too optimistic to hope that the band would have ever made a record as vital and thrilling as Hold on Now, it’s just too bad that they’ve sunk to the level of bland irrelevance so quickly.
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UncutFor their second album proper, the band have beefed up their sound at the expense of their spindly charm. [Mar 2010, p.89]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 32 out of 38
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Mixed: 2 out of 38
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Negative: 4 out of 38
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