Los Campesinos!: "Death To Los Campesinos!"

The Campesinos Bunch

If you scroll down and around here you'll probably notice the huge abundance of exclamation points lately. While completely unintentional, some might say it really enhances the mood. Some might also say that exclamation points are prententious, but some might also say that those people can get the hell out.

Functional punctuation aside, we love love love Cardiff's Los Campesinos! We first posted on their song "You! Me! Dancing!" back in July, and since then they've opened for Broken Social Scene, recorded a BBC session, and I would venture to guess they've had a lot of fun. This track comes from their Maida Vaile session and is well, pretty damn awesome.

[MP3]: Los Campesinos! :: Death To Los Campesinos! (Highest Rec!)
Much like "You! Me! Dancing!," this song starts out with a period of silence. But, where the former opted for a feedback-laden build up, "Death To Los Campesinos!" jumps from the dark straight into a layered frenzy of jangly guitars, organ, ride-heavy drums, and of course Aleksandra's fantastically sweet vocals. The cute playful back and forth vocals between Aleksandra and Gareth, come off as exactly that and that's why I love these guys so much. You can genuinely tell that they have more fun doing this than anything else in the world.

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Pretty much completely unrelated:
I've never liked Kanye West at all and this is just further proof of what an huge egotistical ass he is. He lost for "Best Video" at the MTV Europe Music Awards and decided to come out on stage and make a fool of himself. I'm not sure how many of you have seen this video yet. it keeps getting deleted off of YouTube, but I managed to find it on iFilm. "This video cost a million dollars, maaaaan, I Had Pam Anderson baby!" God, what a idiot.

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