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Romance Is Boring
Universal acclaim
Based on 12 critic reviews
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Album Info
Label: Arts & Crafts
Release Date: 26 January 2010
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Indie
Summary
The latest album for the Welsh rock band was recorded in Connecticut and Seattle, with Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart, Parenthetical Girls' Zac Pennington, and Dead Science's Jherek Bischoff appearing as guests.
Also By This Artist: Hold On Now, Youngster We are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
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PopMatters
What makes this possibly the best album of the band’s career is that it represents how sonic exploration can actually go right.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
It might’ve made a better EP than LP. But even at their brattiest, the Welsh indie-rockers in Los Campesinos are a tough lot to hate. Their cacophony of instruments and voices aptly conveys what the music is about.
Read Full Review >NOW Magazine
It’s exhilarating, cheeky, Pavement-influenced indie rock that’ll leave you exhausted – and maybe anxious – by track 15.
Read Full Review >Clash Music
Romance Is Boring is another step up for the Cardiff seven-piece; avoiding the shoutier, brattier elements of debut ‘Hold On Now, Youngster...’, the band bring to their latest effort a much darker atmosphere, with similarly desperate lyrics.
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
Their sloganeering, haughtiness and mocking dismissal of their dislikes will always remain contentious, but never suggest they don’t mean it. This matters more to them than it does anybody else; Romance is Boring is the openly flawed but often brilliant proof.
Read Full Review >Alternative Press
Romance may be boring, but this ambitious triumph is anything but. [Feb 2010, p.96]
musicOMH.com
Romance Is Boring is a triumph, a glistening, breathless success. Musically and lyrically Los Campesions! are a rare treasure of a band at the peak of their considerable powers.
Read Full Review >The Phoenix
Romance Is Boring doesn't eschew the sugar-high, too-clever angst of its predecessors altogether, but the band have learned how to vary their song structures, often opting for a darker, more atmospheric æsthetic.
Read Full Review >Spin
Romance, their third album in 24 months, is more slickly assured -- and far less twee -- than its predecessors.
Read Full Review >Under The Radar
Romance is Boring is anchored by enough exhilarating moments, big and small, to make trolling for them through the muck a pleasure. [Holiday 2009, p.77]
Paste Magazine
Fuzzy atmospherics crash in, overpowering some of Romance’s most brutal quips, forcing the band to struggle at making its musings rhythmic and begging for its earlier punk-twee punctuation.
Read Full Review >Tiny Mix Tapes
The album is a carefully crafted rollercoaster of emotional and auditory highs and lows, exhibiting the group's subtle growth since its major breakout, "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed."
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.4 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.