Los Campesinos! – My Year In Lists – 14/04/2008
Artist: Los Campesinos!
Title: My Year In Lists
Label: Wichita
Rating 3 out of 5
“…all the best pop songs are short, or short-lived. As are most pop bands careers.” Note Los Campesinos! And at 1:51 in length ‘My Year In Lists’ definitely falls into the category of ‘short’ but unfortunately not into the more exclusive category of ‘all the best pop songs’.
Taken from their rather good debut album ‘Hold On Now, Youngster…’, MYIL is a rather bizarre single choice given the selection they had to pick from, but it will nevertheless further add to their current perception of ‘cool’ that comes inevitably alongside being featured on Skins.
A catchy little song with cute lyrics about impressing your distant partner with your penmanship skills is flawed by its briefness. A couple more verses to help digress what became of the jilted lovers wouldn’t have gone amiss and unfortunately leaves this song with a sense of ‘?’ when it comes to a close.
Jonathan Deamer said,
April 16, 2008 at 12:16 am
I really like Los Camp (as us cool kids call them). But you’re right: this song is a bit of a dud, especially when there are so many stone-cold pop classics on the album.
BTW: I did think it odd when I saw this on your Last.fm recently played list. The fact it was for a review explains all…