Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes (February 24th, 2017) Album • Page 11

This album to me was sounding like the most at-east and content release they've written yet, and I was wondering where the change in demeanour from Blues to Scenes came from. Then I did a bit of research and...

 

This album is dope baby! Los Camps are always good at crafting a song that makes me sound like I've heard it before. Not in a regurgitated or overdone way, they just make songs that sound like I've known them forever. After one or two listens, the melody of Renato Dall'Ara (2008) became incredibly familiar. I Broke Up in Amarante sounds like a song I've been in love with for years.

Idk if that makes sense or if anyone feels that way, just something I enjoy about the band. Happened when By Your Hand dropped too.

 

Aw nice! I had no idea either.

 

it's called really great songwriting. band knows how to craft immediate earworms which is one of the hardest things to do is

 

tom is seriously one of the best song writers out there.

 

Just did my first real listen. Damn that's a tasty record.

 

A conversation with Gareth Campesinos!: "Sick Scenes is very much a record about being confused and uncertain... it may be our most doomed."

really in depth interview on the lyrical content of this album and what inspired it

 

Awesome, going to check that out at work tomorrow

 

Here's To The Fourth Time! is all over the place, in a good way, sonically. The progression of the back half is a treat.

 

Pretty good review from P4K.

 

the first time an LP of theirs has gotten bellow 8. shame on pitchfork. (though a nice write up indeed)

 

They play in Detroit on Friday. May have to go check them out.

 

Been away for a few days, got back last night and--



WHAT TO HECK?

 

If I really like this album but have never listened to this band before, where should I go next?

 

Romance Is Boring

 

hello sadness

 

No Blues

 

pick any of the albums tbh. not one album in their discography really stands above the rest, as they all are on equal terms. Maybe just avoid their first album (hold on now youngsters) cause its the more punk/tween/youthful, and can be pretty jarring while compared to this album .

as evident by everyone above giving a different answer lol

 

I would go No blues, then Hello Sadness. Romance is Boring is my favorite but it's a lot denser than those records

 

This is fantastic, thanks for posting it. What I wouldn't do for an article like this on a number of albums...

 

Agreed, Gareth struck a chord with me and the way he feels at this stage of life.

 

Loving this. Not sure where I'd place it in their discography, but that's only because they've been so damn consistent over six albums.

 

This is the first time I've listened to this band. The whole album is good but A Slow Slow Death and Got Stendhal's are stand outs IMO.

 

Those are my two favorites as well

 

It's hard for me to get to the end of this album because I keep jumping back to the four-song stretch of Amarante, Slow Death, Fall of Home, and 5 Flucloxacillin over and over.