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Man, it's just been a month to forget for Ian MacKaye. A couple of weeks ago, a bunch of punk websites (inaccurately) reported him dead in a car accident. And now the dude from Los Campesinos! openly declares that the he_ "never cared about" _the erstwhile Fugazi frontman. Someone should phone him up, see how he's taking this news.
Anyway, Los Campesinos! are the last great indie band and ‘International Tweexcore Underground’ is as equally unassuming and ridiculous as the title implies, an argument between a twee guy and his punk girlfriend about the relative merits of their scenes as Henry Rollins, Amelia Fletcher and more get large ‘X’s scrawled across their face in permanent marker. "If you knew ten years ago how pretty you'd turn out then you'd never have gotten your ears pierced," sings Gareth LC at one point, accurately summing up roughly eight years of alt-porn for us.
The track itself veers slightly away from LC's usual Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi revivalism and instead merges, content into form, twee-pop with hardcore punk. Of course, the halfway point between twee and hardcore always was the Bouncing Souls, but the Bouncing Souls were occasionally kinda great. ‘International Tweexcore Underground’, then: kinda great.
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bouncing souls are awesome too!
check out 'hopeless romantic' - amaaaaaazin
seconded
How I Spent My Summer Vacation was better, however.
fucking a
brillo pads.
Yay!
We are the true believers.
So, Ian MacKaye: needs a hug?
Is it not about time
that LC's album release was moved forward? I've been waiting for about 9 months already. Get on with it!
i remember that
ace song
Nice
...glad I'm not the only one who remembers Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi.
The song
Is a conversational piece between a boy who likes tweepop (Amelia Fletcher, Sarah Records, Calvin Johnson) and a girl who likes post-hardcore gubbins (Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye, Minor Threat) and having a bit of a lovers tiff about it. Or summat. But 'The International Tweexcore Underground' brings them together!
They've only just finished recording it, haven't they?
As in came home from recording in Toronto and went straight on tour until the end of the year.
Actually, now the review has mentioned it, it is slightly Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, isn't it? Hear The Air, I'm thinking.
?
I've heard them compared to Mo Ho before but don't know why. What's the similarity, apart from being them being based in, but not from, Cardiff?
I dunno its kind of patchy
reinterpretation of their previous work isn't it?Still, a good band.
Album's done
Spoke to Gareth after the Wrexham gig last night and he said it's mastered and ready to go, alas, not til February :(
Cracking show mind, despite a slightly shaky start. And Sky Larkin & You Say Party were fab too.
what about
the cover of "police story"? is it on this single?
why has he got stupid hair?
this has put me off them immensely
mo ho
both bands listened to Pavement a lot?
songs have a similar playfulness?
anyhoo, sounds similar to mo-ho to me.
so this is what Los Campesinos sound like?
hmmm... kinda reminds me of Panic! At The Disco
Hmm
I'm just not... getting this.
Hair
Like Bobby Charlton on a windy day, isn't it?
Since when does "kinda great" rate a fucking 9?
I take off for a couple months and when I come back the high scores are being handed out like cheap candy at halloween (get off my doorstep you dumb kids...)
When Los Campesinos grow up and stop being so whimsy-like, they'll probably be a good band. In the meantime, they annoy the living crap out of me because every song I've heard is punched out of the same stencil.
And did I really hear this guy diss Hurricane Henry Rollins, one-time lead singer for the fucking Flag? A band that ruled the 80s Ameripunk scene like steroid-abusing dictators?
First the dirty projectors, now this...sissiness!!
Argghaea;fgsdilkharh;klh;!!!!
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man has fun issues.
this is pop music.
lovely lovely pop music.
before ringtone companies bastardised everything.
i love pop music.
i love los campesinos
i love sky larkin (the below review this)
im ridiculously happy today
to be fair this song is pretty mediocre
Los Camps have some great songs but I dont
think this is one of them and the review is
more the result of DiS bigging them up for so
long that yr sort of obliged to give em a good
review for consistancy
though Im probably talking shite
the songs ace.
shame about the video. los campesinos just shouldnt make videos at all. the last 2 were utter shite too.
the music's fine...
but the singing grates on me so.
The last 30 seconds of the video are beautiful...
...a call to arms if you like.
I love this band.
Yeah, Passantino's
very conscientious of DiS office politics.
at first listen
that song is weaker than their previous ones...
And not deserving of Mo-Ho comparisons...
no wai!
The last two animations were great.
Also i assumed tweecore was stuff like Milky Wimpshake rather than Bouncing Souls. Nice one anyway.
'hear the air' = delgados rip off
los camp > mo-ho.
Yay
Los Camp, YSPWSD! and Sky Larkin were ace on Thursday night. Best gig of the year and Gareth is a very nice man.
mohobi?
most random reference ever?
I think
it's pretty accurate...
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