Sick Scenes

_Los Campesinos!

There’s an art to matching an upbeat sound with downbeat lyrics, and on their sixth album Los Campesinos! come close to nailing it. Singer Gareth Paisey is still fighting his demons in I Broke Up in Amarante, while A Slow, Slow Death finds him “face-down in a puddle” – yet musically they’re more dynamic than ever. Marc Mclaren

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