LOS CAMPESINOS! / TALL SHIPS - SOLD OUT
Thursday 22nd March, 2012
Electric Ballroom
184 Camden High Street, London, NW1 8QP
7pm / £13.50
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Following the a sellout King's College show to launch their fantastic fourth album "Hello Sadness", Los Campesinos! return to London to play The Electric Ballroom in March
‘Hello Sadness’ is the fourth record by Los Campesinos!, and if 2009’s ‘Romance Is Boring’ marked a giant step on from their genesis – seven kids and a glockenspiel, ricocheting off the four walls of a Cardiff rehearsal room – ‘Hello Sadness’ constitutes another step, and a turn of the corner. These 10 tracks cover what we are coming to recognise as core Los Campesinos! concerns – love, loss, heartbreak, football (always football). But this is a record that’s wiser and more focused than its predecessors, confident in its abilities and clear in its aims.
“It feels like we’ve done all our growing up while in this band,” says vocalist Gareth Campesinos! “Not like we’re Hanson, or anything. But we’ve been Los Campesinos! since finishing university, and in that time we’ve all changed as people massively. That’s something we want to put across in the music.”
Gone is the hypertense, panic-attack rattle that characterised ‘We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed’, and the melancholy wallow that you heard in corners of ‘Romance Is Boring’ is in short supply. Play it more, though, and you hear an emotion that comes from somewhere softer, deeper, and – dare we say it – more authentic.
Wielding guitars, samplers, synths, bass, drums and so many macho moves you don’t know where to look. Tall Ships fuse the energy and stylings of Battles and Foals with influences as wide ranging as Why?, Prince and Explosions In The Sky to form a dynamic musical marvel, full of excitement and intricacies.
“At a time when I’m finding less and less indie to adore Tall Ships have come out of nowhere and peaked my interest... truly refreshing” Sonic Minefield
This show has a 14+ age restriction (under 16's must be accompanied by an adult), all tickets for this show are now completely SOLD OUT.
