Sick scenes
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February 24, 2017 |
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June 2016 |
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| Label (s) | Wichita Recordings | ||||||
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
40:24 |
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Sick Scenes is the sixth studio album by the Welsh - British indie pop band Los Campesinos! . It was released by Wichita Recordings on February 24, 2017 . It was produced by John Goodmanson and band member Tom Campesinos! in a recording studio in Portuguese Fridão at Amarante .
production
After the release of their fifth studio album, No Blues, in 2013, all band members took full-time jobs and left the band activities on hold. When it became clear to them that the band's tenth anniversary was coming up in 2016, they started to discuss a possible sixth album together. No Blues fulfilled their contract with their music label and management, whereupon they decided to finance the new album for the first time in their band history. Here, the sale helped by self-designed Adidas - anniversary jerseys . 100 pieces should be sold, over 1,000 were ultimately delivered. Sick Scenes was recorded within four and a half weeks in Fridão, a small village outside of Amarante, Portugal. Because of their jobs, some band members could only record sporadically. The music and arrangements come from guitarist Tom Campesinos !, while front man Gareth Campesinos! wrote the lyrics in the recording studio.
reception
| source | rating |
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| Metacritic | 74/100 |
| Allmusic |
 
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| Exclaim! | 9/10 |
| Music Express |
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| Plattentests.de | 5/10 |
| Pitchfork | 7.6 / 100 |
| The AV Club | B. |
| The Observer |
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| Uncut |
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Sick Scenes received mostly positive reviews. The album achieved a rating of 74/100 on the rating aggregator Metacritic , based on 19 reviews.
For Emily Mackay of the British Observer, the album balances the "warmer, more adult sound with a still wild energy" compared to the previous albums. Ryan Dombal of Pitchfork also rated Sick Scenes positively and described the album as "a love letter to the aging one." Indie idealism and to those who their frenzied pop-punk - Sing Alongs . enjoy infringing neuroses and charming specific football references "Tim Sendra of Allmusic called the album" overproduced "and" directionless ", where there are still some elements of their music from the In the beginning he had: “All this leads to an unbalanced listening experience, one that probably only the most committed Los Campesinos! Fans want to experience.” The AV Clubs Alex McLevy also found the album inconsistent, but entertaining: “Although Sick Scenes as a whole does not come together fits, the individual songs are strong enough that it doesn't actually bother. "
For the intro Christian Steigels wrote that some aspects of the album are too pathetic, but that there are many good pop songs to be found. In particular, the song Got Stendhal’s could have been suspected by Steigels in Lorde or Beyoncé .
Track list
| No. | title | length |
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| 1. | Renato Dall'Ara (2008) | 2:48 |
| 2. | Sad suppers | 3:37 |
| 3. | I broke up in Amarante | 3:14 |
| 4th | A slow, slow death | 4:01 |
| 5. | The Fall of Home | 2:57 |
| 6th | 5 flucloxacillin | 3:09 |
| 7th | Here's to the Fourth Time! | 3:45 |
| 8th. | For Whom the Belly Tolls | 3:24 |
| 9. | Got Stendhal’s | 5:27 |
| 10. | A litany / heart swells | 3:27 |
| 11. | Hung Empty | 4:30 |
| Overall length: | 40:24 | |
occupation
- Los Campesinos!
- Gareth Campesinos! - Singing
- Neil Campesinos! - guitar
- Tom Campesinos! - Guitar, brass instruments
- Rob Campesinos! - vocals, guitar, keyboards
- Kim Campesinos! - vocals, keyboards
- Jason Campesinos! - Drums, percussion instruments
- Matt Campesinos! - E-bass , vocals
- More musicians
- Kelly Pratt - brass instrument
- Aniela Marie Perry - violoncello
- Jherek Bischoff - violin
- production
- design
- RN Taylor - artwork
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sarah Murphy: Los Campesinos! Announce 'Sick Scenes' LP, Share New Single. In: Exclaim! Exclaim! Media Inc., November 10, 2016, accessed April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Rob Hakimian: A conversation with Gareth Campesinos !: “Sick Scenes is very much a record about being confused and uncertain… it may be our most doomed.” In: The 405. February 24, 2017, accessed on 13. April 2017 (English).
- ↑ Jay Breitling: Still Ill: Gareth Paisley of Los Campesinos! talks 'Sick Scenes' and the band's enduring audience. In: Vanyaland. Redefined, March 10, 2017, accessed April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Los Campesinos! 10th Anniversary Football Shirt AVAILABLE NOW! In: loscampesinos.com. Los Campesinos! , March 31, 2016, accessed April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Tom Johnson: Los Campesinos! on How Mental Health Struggles Informed "Sick Scenes". In: Bandcamp Daily. Bandcamp , February 28, 2017, accessed April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Reviews and Tracks for Sick Scenes by Los Campesinos! In: Metacritic . CBS Interactive , accessed August 8, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Tim Sendra: Sick Scenes - Los Campesinos! In: Allmusic . All Media Network, accessed April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Ava Muir: Los Campesinos! Sick scenes. In: Exclaim! Exclaim! Media Inc., February 22, 2017, accessed April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Weiland: Review: Los Campesinos! - Sick scenes. In: Musikexpress . Axel Springer SE , February 24, 2017, accessed on April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Pilgrim: Los Campesinos! - Sick scenes. In: Plattentests.de . Retrieved April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Ryan Dombal: Los Campesinos !: Sick Scenes Album Review. In: Pitchfork . Condé Nast Verlag , March 1, 2017, accessed on April 13, 2017 (English).
- ↑ a b Alex McLevy: Maturing rather than mellowing with age suits Los Campesinos! In: The AV Club . The Onion, Inc., February 24, 2017, accessed April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Emily Mackay: Los Campesinos !: Sick Scenes review - undimmed indie energy. In: The Observer . Guardian Media Group, February 26, 2017, accessed April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Christian Steigels: Review: Los Campesinos! "Sick Scenes". (No longer available online.) In: Intro . INTRO GmbH & Co. KG, February 20, 2017, archived from the original on April 14, 2017 ; accessed on April 13, 2017 . 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.
