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Los Campesinos! review – a hero’s welcome for cult indie stars
Despite having only spent £190.86 on marketing their new album its songs are greeted with sweaty glee by new fans and old alongside the band’s indie disco stalwarts
classic, ticking off their cosily familiar tropes: elaborate lyrics about local football, doomed romances and the fall of capitalism, backed by climactic, quiet-loud indie rock and influenced by midwest emo, David Berman and the Beautiful South. New tracks tuck neatly within a generous set list spanning all seven records, but Feast of Tongues – a sundowner anthem fantasising about a post-nationalism utopia – gets a hero’s welcome from an already passionate, sweaty audience. Paired with 2008 single Knee Deep at ATP, a rager about romantic rejection, it nails the band’s talent for merging raw introspection with outspoken politics.
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