[ATTENDED: June 17. 2024] Los Campesinos!
I have been a fan of Los Campesinos! (who are actually Welsh) since their debut album. But I have never seen them live. I missed the 2022 show because our postponed Ben Folds concert was rescheduled to this evening. Bummer.
I didn’t really follow them much after their first couple of albums, but their overall vibe hasn’t changed dramatically over the years. They write funny, literate songs about loss disguised as really catchy scream along type anthems.
Singer Gareth David Paisey has a yelling kind of voice that is really fun to get behind. (Util this year all of the band members used Campesinos as their last name, but now they acknowledge their actual names.
I had always thought they were a totally under the radar band. But I was shocked to see how many people were at this show, in particular how many younger people were at this show. I mean, where do you hear about Los Campesinos! in 2024? But everyone there knew all the words and shouted along. It’s also fun to realize that most of the band has been with them since the beginning and the newer people are all in the band over ten years by this point. Pitchfork describes their fan base
emo-curious indie adults, indie-curious emo kids, DIY scenesters and Genius annotators, avid consumers of hard cider and hard-left politics, obsessives of European football and American Football alike.
The new album All Hell is just as good if not better than their others. The lyrics are still wordy and verbose with words like selenograph and phrases like “a cavalcade through antemortem, terminal suburban boredom.” If these words appeal and you can imagine more or less screaming them over catchy melodies, then this is the band for you. (more…)
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