LOS CAMPESINOS! - Hold On Now, Youngster...

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 09:00AM
soundscapes in Pop/Rock

By now well familiar to our readers, those kids from Cardiff team up with Dave Newfeld once again to re-record a handful of tracks from both their introductory Arts & Crafts EP and their self-released 2006 demo debut (confusingly also entitled Hold On Now, Youngster) along with new material, this time on Newf's home turf with sessions at Stars and Suns. The group's gawky bravado and journal-entry candour do their best to embarrass the old, making the moments that bear the hallmarks of their broken A&C elders all the odder, taking form in their lead-guitar figures, bouncy tempos, and co-ed vocal tradeoffs.

Article originally appeared on Soundscapes - 572 College Street Toronto (http://www.soundscapesmusic.com/).