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| 4.5 superb | AggravatedYeti | January 31st 09 |
Year #1, Album #2(2!). 'We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed' sees the Campesino camp mature a little bit through acting just a bit more immature. As opposed to 'Hold On Now, Youngster...' their auspicious debut, where they seemed to be going over every line with red pen, 'We Are Beautiful,' is more haphazard. 'Youngster' saw all its lines end with just the perfect punch, just clever enough, and just enough emotion. Essentially showing they aren't involved as much as observing from the outside, basically they were too good for themselves; this time around they seem to feel right in their own skin. Gareth takes over the vocals predominantly, and he's basically crying about his ex, but he does it in such a way (You said he's got his teeth fixed/ I'm gonna break them!), that exemplifies a sense of here and now (Oh we kid ourselves there's future in the fucking!/but there is no fucking future!) that most other frontpeople can't attest to(My life was saved by a packet of 19 cigarettes/Held in my left breast pocket/for a closest friend). To say they have spirit is a bit cheap, they bombast through 10 tracks of glockenspiel infused, violin savvy indie rock. They keep the tensions high, the boy-girl interchanges sweet or biting and when they decide to slow it down on 'Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time' it pays off. It's one of their most touching tracks, they grow up just a little, enough to see their faults and deliver a fucking great follow up.
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| 4.5 superb | Steech | November 28th 12 |
The indie pop explosion on the back half of the 2000s was a nice change. No album synthesizes the rediscovery of pop better than We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed. The collision of excruciating sexual angst, feedback, violins, and glockenspiel is the perfect cathartic release from a decade stultified by alt-folk, youth crew hardcore, and worse.
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| 0.0 | Steoandnoodles | May 15th 10 |
This is teenage life in song, perfectly accurate, perfectly genius.
A lyrical and musical phenomenon.
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| 0.0 | OhAliceMonster | March 9th 10 |
fun read i suppose but i mean the album was superb- i agree. i love the lyrics and it seems that they always have good album art. err in my opinion at least
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| 3.5 great | Raqinq | September 25th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Asthurse | November 27th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | jimbo | October 21st 17 |
| 3.5 great | Brandon | September 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | 2ool | March 19th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Kryne7 | February 24th 17 |
| 3.5 great | hep | January 10th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Tom Read CONTRIBUTOR | October 21st 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | swoen | June 1st 15 |
| 4.5 superb | slarti | April 25th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bokonon | April 20th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | krka | March 5th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lettuce | February 4th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Meruem | October 25th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Yay | July 31st 12 |
| 5.0 classic | Meln | November 16th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | RIB1995 | November 15th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | conradtao EMERITUS | October 23rd 11 |
| 1.5 very poor | zillah | June 29th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | junyi15 | June 12th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | PieRye | March 7th 11 |
| 3.0 good | DaveyBoy EMERITUS | February 7th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | mms540 | February 1st 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ayon | June 29th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matski | June 29th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ramos29 | April 7th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Splash | February 28th 10 |
| 2.5 average | MrChuck | February 28th 10 |
| 2.5 average | Rudy K. EMERITUS | January 26th 10 |
| 1.0 awful | kingsoby1 EMERITUS | January 20th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Knott- EMERITUS | January 18th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | megajon | December 14th 09 |
| 3.0 good | SD4L | November 24th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | TheDMV | October 26th 09 |
| 3.0 good | JoRos | October 5th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Downes | September 25th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Aeryn | August 29th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Fratbox | January 6th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | chessler | November 29th 08 |
| 3.5 great | Kiran EMERITUS | November 2nd 08 |
| 3.5 great | natey | November 2nd 08 |
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