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Los Campesinos!: You! Me! Dancing!

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by Gareth Dobson

The song that begat the Los Campesinos! love-in last year finally gets an official release. Probably by now sitting on more people’s hard drives and linked to more music blogs than is strictly necessary, it’s already become the anthem of a new indie world order ready to reject the folly and horror of the three years that have preceded it.

Indeed, ‘You! Me! Dancing!’ is pretty much the perfect John Peel-favoured (probably) anthem: boy-girl vocals, a monologue over an instrumental outro, lyrics about social inadequacy, and all with a big old pop song behind it. Some may decree it obvious twindie by numbers, but many more will proclaim it a righteous nod of genius towards innocent sticky floors in clubs not ridden with the menacing visage of a Kasabian fan ready to glass you.

More importantly though, ‘Y!M!D!’ is a beautifully realised single; newly recorded with Dave ‘Broken Social Scene’ Newfeld (who they’re making their debut album with this summer), it fills your heart with joy and encapsulates that optimistic rush of can-do happiness that surrounds the onset of every balmy summer. Ace, then.

Video!

Footnote: DiS’s Mike Diver dreamt earlier this week that he took on Los Camp! at Sensible Soccer on the Sega Megadrive. Consider that an open invitation, Gareth, Neil, Ellen, Ollie, Tom, Harriet and Aleks...

  • Los Campesinos! 9 / 10

Horrible song

The most grating, explicitly twee vocals heard this year. I'll stick with The Little Ones.


Majestic.

Performed so incredibly well on Tuesday night as well... The sound of summer, or something.


Live

most certainly better than this re-recorded single - even so it is one of my favourite songs of last year let alone this year!


pretty

annoying song. Hate the vocals


i just bought this off hmv.

its on red vinyl yeah? and i love this song, it is summer.


single of the year

so far.


wow

i never expected people to hate this, I fucking love it to its very core.


Basically

no other pop song this decade touches it.

Should have been a ten.


Happy Song!

:)


I'll take on Mike Diver...

... at Sensible Soccer on the Amiga 500+...


Sorry...

...we onlyhave it on Megadrive here.

Not that you need the A or C buttons. At all.


My Los Camp! dream

was better. Not as good as this song though!!!!!!!1


it's good..

..but it's one of those songs that doesn't quite equal the sum of it's parts for me.


9

seems about right to me.


this is amaaazing

saw the video on mtv2 last night and fell in love!


Great song.

Not as good as the demo version, but, y'know, I'm not going to complain - this is a single of the year f'sure.


I think this version's a bit percussion heavy.

It takes away the tune a bit from the demo version. At least to my ears.

I don't like it as much, I'd give it a 7, wheras I would have given the demo 9.


I like the demo more

ah why does the re-recorded version sound crap compared to the demo. why do bands do this? i do love it though. so sad i haven't been able to see them live yet


i have

the demo of this. it grates on me. the male vocals sound like one of them voices of old 'thats all folks' cartoons. cant remmeber which one exactly. i can imagine the voice in my head. garr!


verging on

percy pig or whatever?


ace.

Think I prefer Sweet Dreams Sweet Cheeks though.


LC

Still a cracker. Will be seeing you guys at glasto.


Great record...

but preferred the other video with the little Japanese girls doing their bonkers dancing. Immense!!!!


5/10

good song totally ruined by an inability to even attempt to hit notes.and not in a mark e smith kind of way or owt.

forget this lot!





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