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No Blues

Los Campesinos!

No Blues

Album No.5 from the indie pop band, now a six-piece, helmed by singer and lyricist Gareth Paisey

ADM rating[?]

7.8

Label
Wichita / Heart Swells / Turnstile
UK Release date
28/10/2013
US Release date
12/11/2013
  1. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    At its most forceful, For Flotsam is a brilliantly whirling, bullish concoction of roaring bass, clashing vocals, synth and driving guitar
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  2. 9.0 |   Paste Magazine

    The band has made its best album yet
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  3. 8.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    More polished but less straight-forward songs makes for their least instantly gratifying collection, but leaves a strong feeling that in the long term it might become the most rewarding yet
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  4. 8.3 |   A.V. Club

    Where Hello Sadness seemed like a more mature album, No Blues finds Los Campesinos! getting a better, more pragmatic handle on aging
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  5. 8.0 |   Pitchfork

    No Blues ends up sounding like the happiest LC! record, or at least the most implicitly hopeful
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  6. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    No Blues sees Los Campesinos! continue to file their sound down to its purest form
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  7. 8.0 |   Entertainment.ie

    Los Campesinos! are the Nick Hornby of pop - they make sincere, emotional, life affirming and hugely underrated music and we are lucky to have them. Magnificent
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  8. 8.0 |   The 405

    Five albums in and Gareth Campesinos! has produced his best performance ever
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  9. 8.0 |   NME

    It's the melodic swells that prevent everything becoming too suicidal
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  10. 8.0 |   Q

    A period of making new friends await. Print edition only

  11. 8.0 |   DIY

    Los Campesinos! are a band who've clearly grown up, but here, that's only a good thing
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  12. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    In a far corner of a foreign field that is forever England (or, okay, Wales) Los Campesinos! are genuinely and deservedly treasured. Wonderful
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  13. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    Los Campesinos! remind us why we fell for them in the first place. No Blues sounds like a band in mojo recovery mode
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  14. 7.6 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Los Camp have never sounded better or more essential
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  15. 7.5 |   Under The Radar

    No Blues continues Los Campesinos!' development as reliable mainstays of the U.K.'s fragmented alternative music scene
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  16. 7.0 |   Clash

    Although weaker tracks are covered up by pristine studio trickery, ‘No Blues’ is consistently infectious and edges the band closer to mainstream territory
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  17. 5.0 |   All Music

    The almost giddy highs and heartrending lows of their songs and sound have flattened out, and this album feels more like a quarterly report than a heartfelt missive of pain and excitement
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