Los Campesinos! at Triple Rock, Minneapolis (01 Mar 2017)

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.

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