Los Campesinos! : Hold On Now Youngster
 

Why does everyone and their grandmother think they can just pick up the microphone and sing? I like the music but the female vocals are so fucking bland I wanna slap the fucking bitch that thought it was a good idea. The bloke can't sing to save his life either but at least it's got character. So yeah, overall, I'm not gonna be giving this much attention...:\

^^^ I understand what you mean about the singing, but i never thought it affected the music at all. countless decent bands do and have had appalling vocalists. i just see it as fun, diy and punky.

but anyway, i love this band a whole lot. i'm waiting for the official release, though, before going any further in comment.

Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, they fall in the latter category. Which is a goddamn shame because the music has a lot of potential...:\

i've noticed a lot of people find the vocals off-putting. i tried playing "putting fingers into sockets" to a load of people last summer, me typically being really excited, others just looking puzzled. my brother for instance just saw it as ridiculous and a joke.

myself, i think the vocal style is part of what makes them them, part of what distinguishes them. that's probably why i find it tolerable. if another band were to do it, i wouldn't stand it a moment.

I don't think their vocal style is particularly distinctive, as it is for example with the Dirty projectors or Antony Hegarty, nor do they have particularly memorable voices, like Win Butler from the Arcade fire. It would be better if the woman doesn't sing at all but that wouldn't change the fact that the songs vocally don't really go anywhere. It's as if the rest of the band got some really cool ideas but the singer(s) just didn't manage to follow up on them...I dunno if I'm making sense here. Anyways, it's all subjective...:\

Really good album. I'm not loving it as much as last year's EP yet, but it's growing with every listen. Of the new songs, "This Is How You Spell..." and "My Year In Lists" would be favourites so far.

Alright, I've heard most of this album now - and on early impressions what I'll say is that I do not think it's at all as good as the EP "placing fingers into sockets". It'll be a great pity if that impression stays the same.

I'm having trouble finding this and remember really digging some of their stuff. Anyone care to help me out?

Alright, I'm back to give my 2 cents on this now.

This album is great, it really is. The song structures are incoherent and messy, the layers and layers of pointless noise and intertwining instrumental add-on parts are insane, the tag-team vocals overlap and cut into each other like competing race horses in a way that's so absurd it's hilarious, the lyrics are so tongue-in-cheek and ridden with in-joke references that they're completely indecipherable probably even to the other members of the band...and it all sounds ABSOLUTELY F'CUKIN BRILLIANT!

It takes some time to sink in, but this is a record of lasting appeal that just gets better upon each subsequent listen. Basically, get a copy of it! Now!

Peace

You said "send me stationary to make me horny"
So I always write you letters in multicolours
Decorating envelopes for foreplay
Damn extended metaphors, I get carried away
On the back of a natural disaster, fixed with parcel tape and with kids sticking plasters
Nothing says 'I miss you' quite like war poetry carved in your door with a stanley knife


It's bad enough you ever use the word as an adjective
But to suggest we do it in heels is really quite crass
And frankly, we're reasonably practical
And we know the benefits of always doing these things in flats


ETHAN VOTES EXCELLENT
this album just keeps getting better and better, the lyrics are incredible.

Yay! So I wasn't going mad. This album really is tha biz.

C'mon then, favourite songs. Pray tell!

I honestly can't decide which is my favorite or even favorites because I love the whole thing so much. I can quote you all my favorite verses though =D

like WOAH

great band

great album

Makes me ****ing proud to be a Pavement fan, to see them have inspired music like this, almost 10 years after their breakup.

Wonderful
So yeah, I'm late, but I really do love this album,
Very catchy and fun and just wonderful and wonderful
Death to Los Campesinos! is probably my favorite song, although there are so many good ones
Very Good is my vote

Oh yes, and I actually do love the singing

I went for Excellent.
Fav tracks so far are Death to Los Campesinos!, and Don't Tell Me To Do The Math(s)
Good stuff.