Los Campesinos!: Hold On Now, Youngster... (anniversary repress, indie exclusive) [ARTS & CRAFTS]

Why you'll love it

An indie exclusive anniversary repress of the Cardiff band's debut. It's home to "You! Me! Dancing!", which Rolling Stone ranked among the best songs of 2007, plus "My Year in Lists" and "Death to Los Campesinos!".

This edition

• Anniversary repress
• Indie exclusive
• Twelve tracks, including the hidden "2007: The Year Punk Broke (My Heart)"

About the album

Few debuts sound as happy to exist as Hold On Now, Youngster.... Los Campesinos! were a seven-piece of Cardiff students with glockenspiels, violins and shouted gang vocals, and the album bursts with all of it: songs that start sprinting before the first chorus and titles that sometimes run longer than the verses ("This Is How You Spell, 'Hahaha, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics'" is a personal favourite).

Three singles paved the way, "Death to Los Campesinos!", "My Year in Lists" and a re-recorded, slightly longer "You! Me! Dancing!", which Rolling Stone put at number 72 on its list of the 100 best songs of 2007. The album came out in February 2008 and reached the UK chart, It still sounds like the best party a library ever hosted.

"You! Me! Dancing!" even ended up in a beer commercial a couple of years later, which is the indie-pop equivalent of a knighthood.

A giddy, tuneful love note to individuality.
Pitchfork

Tracklist

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On Arts & Crafts, a repress of the 2008 album.