Track Listing

1. Death To Los Campesinos
2. Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats
3. Don't Tell Me To Do The Math(s)
4. Drop It Doe Eyes
5. My Year In Lists
6. Knee Deep At ATP
7. This Is How You Spell Ha Ha Ha We Destroyed The Hopes And Dreams Of A Generation Of Faux Romantics
8. We Are All Accelerated Readers
9. You Me Dancing
10. ...And We Exhale And Roll Our Eyes In Unison
11. Sweet Dreams Sweet Cheeks

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75721 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-25
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
'Hold On Now Youngster' is the debut album from Cardiff based seven piece Los Campesinos. Record in Canada and producedby David Newfeld (Broken Social Scene) the album is a frenetic mix of indie pop inspired by the likes of Architecture In Helsinki, Pavement and Bis. The single 'Death To Los Campesinos' is also included.

Customer Reviews

"Nothing says I miss you quite like poetry carved in your door with a Stanley knife!"
I love discovering new music, and having heard this at a friends house recently, this is for me the best album by a new band I have bought in the last year.
Los Campesinos sound to me like a mixture of `Arcade Fire', `The Pixies' & `The Go! Team' all mixed into one - although I would tone down the expection of all that down one notch.
This is a self-assured debut album full of intelligent, catchy lyrics overlaid with some very nice hooks. It's punchy, upbeat and foot-tappingly good.
I'm disappointed there aren't more positive reviews for this album as these guys really derserve to be noticed.
The best song is `You Me Dancing' and if you're not singing along with a smile on your face, after having heard it a couple of times, then I'm sorry, but there's some part of you that's dead inside.
Other highlights are the opening track `Death to Los Campesinos', `My Year in Lists', `This is how you spell...' and `Sweet Dreams Sweet Cheeks', but in general I loved the whole album, with only `Don't Tell me to do the Math' being below par.
They have been quoted as being inspired by `Broken Social Scene', and if you like them, the bands I listed above and Indie Punk Pop style bands then I fail to see how you wouldn't like this.
Being objective I would rate this 4 stars but will give it 4.5 stars as a debut album and the fact that it just makes me happy.
Check this out.

surpisingly great package
i didnt know what i was getting myself into when i bought this, wasnt expecting the dualling male & female vocals but i love it.

if you like bit of belle & sebastian then i highly recommend you pruchase this.

quriky, happy & poppy but never too sweet or dull.

buy buy buy

Not as great as I'd hoped
I feel a little let down - the "Sticking Fingers into Sockets" EP was such an excellent piece of pop magic and whilst You!Me!Dancing! is included on this release it never quite reaches the hights of Tweexcore or C Is the Heavenly Option. That said, this album is still a damn sight more fun and lot more interesting than anything else released so far this year. For the uninitiated, my favourite description of this band is "Belle & Sebastion gone punk"!