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| 4.0 excellent | AggravatedYeti | April 2nd 08 |
What could've been a haphazard mix of indie pop, punk spirit and a heap of distortion ends up working out as an well crafted, insightful album. Los Campesinos! hold true their roots, embracing much of what made their genre enjoyable in the first place, this being said nothing here is fantastically original. They just play to their strengths, handle themselves with class and honestly don't craft a single bad track on this album. 'Death to Los Campesinos!' starts of 'Youngster' strong & EP winners 'Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s)' & 'You! Me! Dancing!' hold up as album highlights. Though the crown goes to '...And We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes in Unison'. With pop sensibility, tight, intelligent song writing and the best tongue-in-cheek spirit seen in a while, 'Hold On Now, Youngster...' is an extremely strong debut.
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| 3.5 great | lo-figuy | November 18th 14 |
Loud, extroverted, and full of cute banter, Los Campesinos!'s debut is a zany indie party favorite.
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| 0.0 | Steoandnoodles | January 28th 11 |
Ironic that Los Campesinos! tell the youngsters to hold on and then fill their systems with all sorts of sugar and pixie dust. This is an album filled with immersible musicianship and purposely pretentious insights on young life. Slightly twee, but all the more to soak your teeth into.
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| 4.0 excellent | Splash | February 28th 10 |
A great debut album from this band. If you like this, I highly recommend checking out their EP. (Sticking Fingers Into Sockets)
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| 0.0 | robin | February 26th 10 |
This is ridiculously annoying. But so am I!
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| 4.0 excellent | Apathetic | October 22nd 09 |
A very good album from a great indie band. There is not a band track on this album. High energy songs flowing into the next with a few dips in the energy. None of these are bad either. "Knee Deep at ATP" is probably one of my favorite songs off this album. Alecks' and Gareth's (singers) vocals harmonize so well on some tracks.
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| 4.5 superb | benthomas | November 11th 08 |
This is what music should sould like. It�s feisty, raw and emotional but yet melodic. It�s weird but very very creative. Los Campesinos! set a new level for creativity with many instruments and singers which culminate their musical dance like Tinkerbell on speed.
I love how both Gareth and Aleksandra get aggressive and it�s like we�re included into their discussions on life, love, happiness and of course hornyness (including everything else too).
Take Welsh singers from their mines throw in some Madison Greene and put them in 2010; Los Campesinos! (but of course you have to be accelerated readers and never leave the house.)
Even the lyrical construction is raw and emotion and that�s how LC! will flipping blow your socks off, so c�mon, get up, shake those socks off; It�s You! Me! Dancing!
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| 3.5 great | Naseki | July 15th 22 |
| 3.5 great | anat CONTRIBUTOR | March 21st 22 |
| 3.5 great | Raqinq | September 25th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | SweetAsh | September 6th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Asthurse | November 27th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Brandon | September 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kryne7 | February 24th 17 |
| 3.5 great | hep | January 9th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | Tom Read CONTRIBUTOR | September 13th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | mdrive | February 21st 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Walt | November 9th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bokonon | April 20th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | slarti | March 17th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | krka | March 5th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lettuce | February 4th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tusseto | January 22nd 14 |
| 3.5 great | jmh886 | November 19th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Meruem | October 25th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Eko | March 3rd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Local | August 14th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Yay | June 18th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | sattyre | April 22nd 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | gvogel | January 1st 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Naps | December 8th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ayon | December 6th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Meln | November 19th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | RIB1995 | November 15th 11 |
| 2.5 average | yots | September 4th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | junyi15 | June 12th 11 |
| 3.5 great | DaveyBoy EMERITUS | February 6th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | PieRye | December 22nd 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | cvlts | November 9th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | conradtao EMERITUS | November 7th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | ECRbubs | October 21st 10 |
| 4.5 superb | bSoupy | July 7th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matski | June 29th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Stebner | June 21st 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ramos29 | April 7th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | barns | February 16th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Rudy K. EMERITUS | January 26th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Knott- EMERITUS | January 18th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | SD4L | November 24th 09 |
| 3.5 great | JoRos | October 5th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | TheDMV | April 21st 09 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | February 5th 09 |
| 3.5 great | IsItLuck? EMERITUS | September 29th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ghearufu | September 29th 08 |
| 3.5 great | camote | September 18th 08 |
| 3.0 good | Iai EMERITUS | June 30th 08 |
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