Los Campesinos! is a band of seven unapologetically fun-loving, musically mischievous indie-popsters from Cardiff, Wales. Dave Newfeld of Canada’s Broken Social Scene produced the young outfit’s 2007 EP, Sticking Fingers Into Sockets, which was followed by the debut full-length, Hold On Now, Youngster … in early 2008. The hipster-scene gatekeepers at Pitchfork embraced Los Campesinos! from the get-go, declaring the breezily clever and infectiously up-tempo album “a giddy, tuneful love note to individuality, pathos, smarts, silliness and everything else indie pop built its name on.” Add “prolific” to the band’s virtues, too: a second full-length, We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed, was written, recorded and released before the end of the same year. Los Campesinos! are now set to release a third album this summer.
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