My Year In Lists, by Los Campesinos (7" on Wichita)

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Format:	7"
Label:	Wichita
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Rating: happy This record left our BRIAN D feeling happy.

Really like Los Campesinos! but must say I struggle to represent them in words. The music on 'My Year in Lists' is a little like old forgotten 4AD/Guernica band That Dog crossed with Bis & The Go Team (in the trill ladyvox) They sound really young & have a charming way with a tune. Old skool indie with heartfelt lyrics and a bit of a ramshackle thang happening like Bearsuit but with a penchant for instrument tuning. This song is way to short to get yr teeth into so due to it's cheeky infant status, it gets 2 gold stars & a stripey lolly full of E numbers! Yipee! This is really worth it for the fantastic covers medley on the flip of this white vinyl 7" treat. Yes 3 of their fave contemporary short songs rendered in LC colours, originally by Deerhoof, Casiotone FTPA & Bikini Kill, proving impeccable cool credentials at their tender age. A bit of a delight from Wichita!

What the label says:

TRACKLISTING: (A) My Year in Lists (B1) ‘The Eyebright Bugler” (Deerhoof cover)
(B2) “In Accordance to Natural Law” (Bikini Kill cover) (B3) “Yr Boyfriend” (Casiotone For The Painfully Alone cover)

OVERVIEW:
**Praise for Los Campesinos!’s debut album ‘Hold On Now, Youngster…’** Pitchfork – 8.4/10
The Fly – “destined to be one of the freshest, most invigorating releases of 2008”
Glamour - “soaring, excitable guitar pop” 4 stars
Drowned in Sound – “There really isn’t anything wrong with this album. It’s just the most amazing sugar rush you’re going to have this year.”

From the discovery of their destined-to-be-attentively-studied-by-blogs-the-world-over musical wares nearly two years ago, right through to the recent release of their debut album ‘Hold On Now, Youngster…’, Los Campesinos! have time and again proved themselves as a band to stir the most hardened of cynics – those who ceased to believe in bands rooted in a genuine aesthetic, long ago. Youthful they may be, but Los Campesinos! are then an implicitly important band in 2008.
The second single proper to be taken from their longplayer, ‘My Year In Lists’ is 1 minute 49 seconds, of pure, unadulterated, pop-flecked brilliance. ‘Lists’ essentially mulls over the process of living out a relationship via Royal Mail, and bemoans the tedium of New Year (and the resolutions it inevitably engenders. “I believe in changing things when they need to be changed” says vocalist Gareth, pretty sagely, given his years).
Continuing the ‘short-lived’ theme to the single’s b-sides package, the band have covered three of their favourite short songs. Deerhoof, Bikini Kill, and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone are the subjects of happy study across the single’s formats (for full info, see below).
“All less than a minute long, or "<1" as we've so economically named it”, LC! explain. “It's a celebration of brevity and transience in pop music: all the best pop songs are short, or short-lived. As are most pop bands' careers. Probably ours too.
Having spent most of their time out on the road in the UK, US, Europe and Japan since recording of their debut album was completed last summer, our Cardiff kids are now, inarguably, masters of any stage they occupy. LC! are set to tour the UK in April