Los Campesinos!

Los Campesinos! at London Monto Water Rats, Mon 11 Sep

Review by Colin Roberts

If there's one thing that's going to stifle talent and kill music in this country it's industry scrums before a band has even had time to mature in any way. The blame could lie at the feet of MySpace, message boards or just the immediacy of the internet as a whole, but whatever has led the entire music industry (and its friends) to the Water Rats tonight, it needs taming...»

Monto Water Rats

Train: Kings Cross (6 mins)

Tube: Kings Cross (7 mins)

Capacity: 200»

Los Campesinos!

• Aleksandra Campesinos! - singing, clapping, melody horn
• Ellen Campesinos!! - bass, singing
• Gareth Campesinos! - singing, glockenspiel, guitar, clapping
• Harriet Campesinos! - violin, keyboards, singing
• Neil Campesinos! - guitar, singing
• Ollie Campesinos! - drums, singing
• Tom Campesinos! - guitar, singing

Hold on now youngster, this is a good thing to look into the maw of the void, but let's not be excessive, there is still Los Campesinos!. And one day you will wake in the middle of the night and the water on your face will not be from the cold sweat that your dreams of impending doom have produced but from tears of joy squeezed out by a lingering melody, a droning violin, a haunting mantra or a panic attack brought on by a song so tight and serene and messy and polished and dense that it suffocates you like the fumes of the paint that made your favourite album covers. Actually, it's just pop music.

Listen at their MySpace