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- Record Label: Arts & Crafts
- Release Date: Nov 25, 2008
- Summary: The second release for the Welsh indie-pop band was recorded in two weeks.
- Record Label: Arts & Crafts
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 22
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Mixed: 2 out of 22
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Negative: 0 out of 22
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We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed is full of half-heartfelt, half-hilarious songs that capture the rush of being young in a noisy new century.
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Cooked up in a session originally meant to spawn a batch of B-sides, We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed instead debuts 10 songs that outstrip LC!’s debut album at every turn.
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The painful detail and joyful exuberance are there once they get going. But in under two years this Welsh punk sextet has matured/devolved from tromping over their pan-sexual alienation like so many glockenspiel-wielding grape dancers to enacting "miserabilia" about how unfulfilling it is to get on your knees next to a urinal.
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"Hold on Now, Youngster" is still the more magical of the two records, it's the one to play when you want to feel joy, but We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed has more depth and feeling.
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The band is still firing on all cylinders, even when they downshift into the textured, minor key electronics-and-acoustic guitar lament of 'Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time' or the instrumental snippet 'Between an Erupting Earth and an Exploding Sky' (strangely reminiscent of Mogwai’s 'The Sun Smells Too Loud'), and no one can make bitterly self-aware misanthropy sound quite as exciting as this band does.
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For Los Campesinos! to come up with such a strong follow-up not even a year after their last is an amazing feat.
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Q MagazineAs the exclaimation mark in their name suggests, their every sentiment is exaggerated, but they do do careening anxiety rather well. [Nov 2008, p.110]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 11
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Mixed: 0 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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LeahT.Jan 20, 2010Brilliant, although not at first - Los Campesinos! requires always a few listens - and then you wonder how you ever lived without them.
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KevinS.Dec 26, 2008Very good.
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Clayw.Nov 27, 2008
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MikeTJan 18, 2009
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PeteWDec 15, 2008Lovely. More heartfelt than the first. Roll on the next 8 months.
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JohnH.Dec 20, 2008Energetic and sincere, the most fun you'll have being depressed.
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NoahH.Nov 26, 2008
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