Los Campesinos! at the Moth Club, London (Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)
Los Campesinos! will reissue their first two studio albums on vinyl, CD and download.
“In February 2008, Los Campesinos! put out their first album, Hold On Now, Youngster,” Nina Posner has observed. “The record was an efficient creative statement; a debut that quickly brought them critical success, a ‘hit’ single, and a reputation as the most fiercely enthusiastic band in indie pop. Everyone had them all figured out for a solid eight months, until a second record, We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed, was released that October.”
“Those ten tracks of energetic desperation were far more bombastic and far less wholesome than anything on Heavenly or K Records, and established the group not as the latest in a lineage, but rather as a catalyst for an entirely new kind of musical exuberance.”
Both Hold On Now, Youngster… and We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed will be newly available on their tenth birthday on October 12th, releases which will be marked the following day with a show at London’s O2 Forum.