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Mar 3, 2017With some of their catchiest songs yet and Gareth's muse in top form, this album stands among their strongest work.
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Mar 2, 2017Though Sick Scenes is unlikely to win the band legions of new fans, it’s a record that sits comfortably alongside the rest of their canon while acting as an affirmation as to why, in 2017, a decade after their debut, Los Campesinos! are just as important now as they were ten years ago.
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Feb 22, 2017Los Campesinos!' brief hiatus has resulted in one of their strongest releases to date; Sick Scenes is an eloquent testament to the triumphs and trials of adulthood.
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Jul 18, 2017These 40 minutes for maybe the most well-rounded Los Campesinos! record yet.
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Feb 27, 2017It’s scene-stealing stuff.
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Feb 24, 2017While Sick Scenes is a record that questions its authors places in the world in tandem, it’s also one that shows that, for as long as they’re here, Los Campesinos! will always be able to express a certain character type better than most.
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Feb 23, 2017They write hooks, they’re inventive, they’re passionate, they can do uplifting and they can do poignant, and on ‘Sick Scenes’, they do it all with panache.
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Feb 23, 2017Sick Scenes isn’t a doom and gloom exercise, nor miserable thousand-yard stare. Instead it is the sound of a band doubling down on what brought them to their particular dance, peppered with unflinching honesty and conviction, all dressed up in requisite ‘take us or leave us’ glamour.
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Feb 3, 2017Sick Scenes sees LC! offering up a liberating set of songs about odious city hipsters, youthful nostalgia and future anxiety, wrapped up in the seven-piece’s usual glorious flurry of chipper riffs and witty lyricisms.
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Mar 1, 2017Sick Scenes, the British group’s sixth album, plays like a love letter to aging indie idealism; to the fans who have reveled in this band’s careening pop-punk singalongs, scathing neuroses, and charmingly specific soccer references.
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Feb 24, 2017If Sick Scenes doesn’t necessarily cohere as a whole, the individual songs are strong enough that it also doesn’t really matter.
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Mar 21, 2017They just make records, and they’ve made a very good one in Sick Scenes.
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Feb 27, 2017Few bands are able to translate the full spectrum of emotions into song as well as the Welsh outfit and now they have established their independence, hopefully Sick Scenes will represent the beginning of an exciting new chapter in their career.
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Feb 24, 2017Sick Scenes is among LC!’s most accomplished collection yet.
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Under The RadarFeb 3, 2017Los Campesinos! continue to hone in on their craft in the best way possible. [Jan - Mar 2017, p.66]
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Q MagazineMar 14, 2017Any nuance is stomped by hectic drums and background chants, but it's hard not to warm to people acting on the very human compulsion to make their presence known in case they spin out of reach forever. [May 2017, p.107]
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Feb 23, 2017It all makes for an unbalanced listening experience, one that only the most dedicated Los Campesinos! fans will likely want to undertake. For anyone else, Sick Scenes might be a little too over-produced and undercooked, despite the moments when some of the band's old thrills poke through the fresh coat of paint.
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Feb 3, 2017Brasher, younger-sounding than the band’s previous records, but with the hard-won wisdom that experrience brings.
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UncutFeb 3, 2017Sick Scenes is certainly a messy affair, stylistically, and overrun with densely packed lyrics, though it's not entirely without charm. [Mar 2017, p.32]
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 13 out of 16
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Mixed: 2 out of 16
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Negative: 1 out of 16
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