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9.0
8334
9.0 |
PopMatters
This is the band’s third album in under 24 months, and it’s no less wordy and personality-driven than the previous two. This is a prolific band with a prolific and unstoppable songwriter, who we are clearly not hearing the last of
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8.4
8757
8.4 |
Beats Per Minute
There are a couple of tracks in the middle portion of the album that drag down its consistency and may have been better off on the cutting room floor, but taken as a whole it triumphs
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8.3
8633
8.3 |
Pitchfork
It's fun watching bands grow; it's been a pleasure watching this band grow up
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8.0
8321
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Their sloganeering, haughtiness and mocking dismissal of their dislikes will always remain contentious, but never suggest they don’t mean it. This matters more to them than it does anybody else; Romance is Boring is the openly flawed but often brilliant proof
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8.0
8603
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
...can switch from dubstep-influenced downtempo to Spectoresque overkill in a half-second
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8.0
8503
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A couple of later tracks could have been dropped to make it a trim forty minutes through the emotional wringer, in truth, but if the intention was to edge away from the stock image of glock-wielding shouty full-frontal charges, it’s worked a treat
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8.0
8350
8.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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8.0
8412
8.0 |
NME
What primarily sets ‘Romance Is Boring’ up as a significant step forward is that it’s incredibly structurally cohesive, and yet blows anything they’ve previously released out of the water
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8.0
8244
8.0 |
Clash
...the band bring to their latest effort a much darker atmosphere, with similarly desperate lyrics
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8.0
8246
8.0 |
The Digital Fix
Pull on your leather jacket and start back-combing your hair. Los Campesinos! have gone all rock and roll. Discard all that is twee. Stop making eyes at the wallflowers and make a bee-line for the mosh-pit
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8.0
9087
8.0 |
No Ripcord
Romance Is Boring is fun, knowing, astute, energetic and packed with vignettes of youth and love lost
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8.0
9125
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
While the collision of unexpected instruments (horn explosions appearing without warning etc) is not a new concept to indie rock, Los Campesinos! succeed due to their pure vitality, urgency and energy
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8.0
13279
8.0 |
Blurt
For a band lacking any obvious instrumental virtuoso, Los Campesinos! are still tight as hell and these songs turn on a dime, from anthemic to despairing and back again (sometimes both at once)
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8.0
14119
8.0 |
FasterLouder
The insular, adolescent outlook won’t appeal to everyone, but anyone who has ever wanted to throw a brick through the window of an ex will know that we’re not always calm
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7.0
9380
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Tts exuberant din is hard to deny
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7.0
8245
7.0 |
Spin
...one of the most touchingly sarcastic lyricists to emerge in years
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7.0
8542
7.0 |
The Fly
...some tracks may pass you by but these moments will floor jaws and steal hearts
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7.0
8658
7.0 |
God Is In The TV
It is a success in places and not in others but the essence which runs throughout is of a band with more maturity than their years with a lot more to offer
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7.0
8690
7.0 |
Under The Radar
Anchored by enough exhilarating moments, big and small, to make trolling for them through the muck a pleasure
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6.0
8545
6.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
The album is a carefully crafted rollercoaster of emotional and auditory highs and lows, exhibiting the group's subtle growth since its major breakout
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6.0
8270
6.0 |
State
Granted the septet have crafted some of their strongest tunes thus far but they seemed to have lost some of their ramshackle charm along the way
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6.0
8318
6.0 |
Eye Weekly
...an astute portrait of their generation, blending sugary new wave and vitriolic lyricism into swooning, brassy pop
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6.0
8357
6.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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6.0
8808
6.0 |
The Guardian
Los Campesinos! now sound a little less like a series of twitching climaxes, and they're the better for it
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4.0
8424
4.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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4.0
8526
4.0 |
The Irish Times
Up-tempo boy-girl duets with breezy choruses and sputters of glockenspiel are all well and good, but 15 of them is just, well, boring
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