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Cardiff’s Los Campesinos! returned to Minneapolis at the sold-out show at the Triple Rock Social Club on Wednesday, March 1st.
New York’s Crying opened up the show. The indie lowfi / electropop band features Elaiza Santos on vocals, Ryan Galloway on guitars, and Kynwyn Sterling on drums (replacing original drummer Nick Corbo).
Songs on their set included songs from their new album Children of the Wind and a few from their debut Get Olde Second Wind record.
The trio seemed to have either a cult following or that the audience was immediately converted to #1 fans by the end of the night. Those fans in the front started shouting “one more song!” chants after Crying left the stage.
We didn’t catch Los Campesinos! the last time they were in town, on account that it was in the winter (29 January 2012 at the Varsity Theater), and somewhat regretted it. That is because for the next five years, the band skipped America for their next few albums (A Good Night for a Fist Fight and No Blues) for whatever reason. I suspect it was because it was just very hard to organize schedules for all six members (and on top of that they added a seventh member, Matt, in June 2016!)
It’s been a long time, but it’s good to have the Welsh band back in town. Judging by the sold-out status of the show, that hardcore fans have not forgotten the much-beloved indiepop / twee band (although the band tried very hard to shake that stereotype in their music by diversifying their sound).
With a new album recently released called Sick Scenes on Wichita Recordings, the seven-piece band did their obligation to play a few songs from it (including ‘I Broke Up in Amarante’, ‘5 Flucloxacillin’ and ‘A Slow, Slow Death’). Because they’ve been absent for so long, they’ve also decided to play a few tracks from the last two albums, as they’ve never been played live in America before.
The band seemed really tight, never missing a beat, and it just tells me that even though they haven’t played here in five years, they never really stopped rehearsing.
Los Campesinos!’s Sick Scenes is available now.
Remaining tour dates:
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Crying
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Songs on their set included songs from their new album Children of the Wind and a few from their debut Get Olde Second Wind record.
The trio seemed to have either a cult following or that the audience was immediately converted to #1 fans by the end of the night. Those fans in the front started shouting “one more song!” chants after Crying left the stage.
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Los Campesinos!
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It’s been a long time, but it’s good to have the Welsh band back in town. Judging by the sold-out status of the show, that hardcore fans have not forgotten the much-beloved indiepop / twee band (although the band tried very hard to shake that stereotype in their music by diversifying their sound).
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Setlist
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The band seemed really tight, never missing a beat, and it just tells me that even though they haven’t played here in five years, they never really stopped rehearsing.
Los Campesinos!’s Sick Scenes is available now.
Remaining tour dates:
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03/05/17 Toronto, ON Velvet Underground
03/06/17 Pittsburgh, PA Rex Theater 03/08/17 Philadelphia, PA Theatre Of Living Arts 03/09/17 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 03/10/17 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw 03/11/17 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club 04/27/17 Liverpool East Village Arts Club |
04/28/17 Glasgow Stereo
04/29/17 Sheffield Queens Social Club 04/30/17 Newcastle The Cluny 05/01/17 London Koko 05/05/17 Brighton The Haunt 05/06/17 Norwich Norwich Arts Centre 05/07/17 Birmingham Hare & Hounds |
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Los Campesinos! at Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis (01 Mar 2017) |
