Romance Is Boring

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Romance Is Boring
Studio album from Los Campesinos!

Publication
(s)

January 26, 2010 (USA)
February 1, 2010 (UK)

admission

2009

Label (s) Arts & Crafts (US)
Wichita Recordings (UK)

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Indie pop, indie rock

Title (number)

15th

running time

48 min 22 s

occupation
  • Violin, keyboard: Harriet
  • Guitar , backing vocals: Neil
  • Guitar, backing vocals: Tom

production

John Goodmanson

Studio (s)

March – June 2009 at Carriage House Studios, Stamford, Connecticut; Two Sticks Audio, Seattle

chronology
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
(2008) 		Romance Is Boring -

Romance Is Boring is the third studio album by the Welsh indie pop band Los Campesinos! . It was recorded at various studios in the United States and Wales and produced by John Goodmanson . It was released on January 26, 2010 in the US and February 1 in the UK . In Germany, Romance Is Boring was released on January 29th. The album includes guest appearances by Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu , Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls and Jherek Bischoff of The Dead Science . According to frontman Gareth, the album is about "death and football". The album cover and artwork were created by photographer Cari Ann Wayman .

Track list

All lyrics were written by Gareth (tracks four and eleven by Aleks and Gareth). All songs were composed by Tom and all violin pieces by Harriet and Tom.

  1. In medias res - 4:42
  2. There Are Listed Buildings - 2:54
  3. Romance Is Boring - 2:35
  4. We've Got Your Back (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown # 2) - 4:29
  5. Plan A - 2:02
  6. 200-102 - 0:53
  7. Straight in at 101 - 3:55
  8. Who Fell Asleep In - 4:11
  9. I Warned You: Do Not Make an Enemy of Me - 2:47
  10. Heart Swells / 100-1-0 :46
  11. I just sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know - 4:38
  12. A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State ; or, Letters from Me to Charlotte - 3:43
  13. The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future - 4:24
  14. This is a flag. There Is No Wind - 3:28
  15. Coda: A Burn Scar in the Shape of the Sooner State - 2:52
  16. Too Many Flesh Suppers ( iTunes bonus track) - 4:49

reception

The reviews of the album were mostly positive. At Metacritic , Romance Is Boring has an average rating of 75 based on 28 reviews.

Josh Modell from Spin Magazine awarded 3.5 out of 5 points and referred to Gareth Campesinos! as "one of the most moving and sarcastic lyrics writers in years". Lisa Wright's ( NME ) review was also very positive with 8 out of 10 points: “What makes Romance Is Boring a particularly significant step forward is its unbelievable structural coherence, which nevertheless blows away everything you have published before, in terms of structural complexity, technical ability and general experimentation; each track seems to take an element that was alluded to before and expand it into a full form. "

Charts

Charts (2010) Highest
position
UK albums chart 92
US top heatseekers 3
US Top Independent 28

Further line-up

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Los Campesinos! on Recording Romance Is Boring. (No longer available online.) EQ, archived from the original on November 22, 2010 ; accessed on April 29, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eqmag.com
  2. ↑ a b Ryan Dombal: Los Campesinos! Announce New LP. Pitchfork, October 26, 2009, accessed April 29, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Romance Is Boring reviews. Metacritic, accessed April 29, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Josh Model: Los Campesinos !, 'Romance Is Boring' (Arts & Crafts). Spin , December 23, 2009, accessed July 6, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Lisa Wright: Album review: Los Campesinos! - 'Romance Is Boring' (Wichita). NME , February 1, 2010, accessed July 6, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Los Campesinos! Album & Song Chart History. Billboard, accessed June 29, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Romance Is Boring - Los Campesinos! Billboard, accessed June 29, 2010 .

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