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"The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future" - Los Campesinos!
     Like the rare actor who can pull off comedy and drama with equal aplomb (I'm looking at you, Meryl Streep), the Cardiff septet Los Campesinos! herein announce that they are capable of steering their large-scale, unfettered, exclamation-pointed sound in the direction of serious fare just as knowingly as they have engaged in good-natured mayhem (see "You! Me! Dancing!," This Week's Finds, February 2007).
     In both cases they utilize the full dynamic range of music--soft to loud, uncluttered to cluttered, solo vocals and gang singing--and an inventive sense of drama and production. This time around the band produces an almost industrial racket in service of the somber, subtly seafaring mood, and yet it's also somewhere within that noisier-than-you-realize ambiance (check out that odd, squawking sound that punctuates the rhythm at the outset of the second verse, for instance) that something redemptive emerges. Sad, but redemptive. Maybe. The lyrics seem to have to do with the singer trying to make sense of a troubled woman he probably loves. The song isn't fun but it's powerful, and all but demands repeated listens for full effect.
     "The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future" is a song from the band's forthcoming CD, We Are Beautiful, We Are Damned, set for an October release on Witchita Recordings.