History Music / LosCampesinos

** "The Time Before The Last Time" has: ''"The shower head moaned, and I looked down to the drain, sons and daughters washed away."''
* AlbumTitleDrop: ''We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed'', ''Romance Is Boring'' and ''Hello Sadness'' all feature one within each album's [[TitleTrack title track]]. ''A Good Night For A Fist Fight's'' album title comes from the song ''By Your Hand'', ''No Blues''' comes from the song ''As Lucerne/The Low'', and ''Sick Scenes''' title comes from the song ''Here's to the Fourth Time!''

* AlbumTitleDrop: ''We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed'', ''Romance Is Boring'' and ''Hello Sadness'' all feature one within each album's [[TitleTrack title track]]. ''A Good Night For A Fist Fight's'' album title comes from the song ''By Your Hand'' and ''No Blues''' comes from the song ''As Lucerne/The Low''.

* CoverVersion: A favorite of the band for B-sides early in their career. Aside from the cover of Heavenly's "C is the Heavenly Option", they also recorded covers of "Frontwards" by {{Pavement}}, "Yr Boyfriend" by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, "The Eyebright Bugler" by Deerhoof and "Police Story" by BlackFlag.

-->-- Kohl, ''ComicBook/{{Phonogram}}''

* InsistentTerminology: The band and their label claim ''We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed" isn't their second album. The band calls it an "EEP", an "[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Extended Extended Play]]". Wikipedia calls it a "mini-album" instead.

* UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball: Pops up ''a lot'' in song lyrics, since everyone in the band (but ''especially'' Gareth) is a fan. In more recent songs especially, he makes many European football references that tend to be really obscure if you're not a fan. To remedy this, Gareth has made annotations to the band's lyrics on [[https://genius.com/artists/Los-campesinos their Genius.com page]] to clarify every single football reference he has made since ''We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed''.

* UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball: Pops up ''a lot'' in song lyrics, since everyone in the band (but ''especially'' Gareth) is a fan. In more recent songs especially, he makes many European football references that tend to be really obscure if you're not a fan, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK2aU9m4nW8 "We connected like a Yeboah volley"]] from "Glue Me". He also likes comparing disappointing tournaments to disappointing relationships, such as in "I Broke Up In Amarante" (which mirrors his feelings towards [[EuropeanChampionship Euro 2016]], which he considered "largely terrible"), and "Every Defeat is a Divorce (Three Lions)" (in which he compares a divorce to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the lions on the English National Football logo coming to life and clawing him to death.)]]

* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Averted, probably on purpose, with their cover of Heavenly's famed duet with Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening, "C Is the Heavenly Option". That is, Calvin Johnson's part is sung by the female Aleksandra, and Heavenly guitarist Amelia Fletcher's part is sung by the male Gareth.
** [[WordOfGod Gareth]] has said in an interview that it was mainly because he wanted to do Amelia's spoken/rapped breakdown

* UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball: Pops up ''a lot'' in song lyrics, since everyone in the band (but ''especially'' Gareth) is a fan. In more recent songs especially, he makes many European football references that tend to be really obscure if you're not a fan, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK2aU9m4nW8 "We connected like a Yeboah volley"]] from "Glue Me". He also likes using it as a metaphor for disappointing relationships, such as in "I Broke Up In Amarante" (which mirrors his feelings towards [[EuropeanChampionship Euro 2016]], which he considered "largely terrible"), and "Every Defeat is a Divorce (Three Lions)" (in which [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the lions on the English National Football logo come to life and claw him to death.)]]

* LongTitle: "This Is How You Spell 'HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics'". Yes, the whole title ''does'' appear in the lyrics.
** "Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #1", certainly in terms of syllables.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Gareth half-jokingly believes that this what the band has become in the indie rock world. He [[http://bbook.com/uncategorized/band-apart-los-campesinos-find-place/ once noted]] that many of the bands that have opened for Los Campesinos! in the past -- like Music/VampireWeekend, Music/TwoDoorCinemaClub and Music/ImagineDragons -- have become highly successful while LC! remains a cult band touring mid-size clubs.

* UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}: Was always a light part of their aesthetic, sharing some of the visual style in a few promotional images and the general philosophy in frustration with the world. This was prominent even back in their "Hold On Now, Youngster..." days, with "International Tweexcore Underground" being a back-and-forth between IndiePop fan and a {{{Punk}}. Amusingly, one of the B-sides for that song was a completely straight cover of [[Music/BlackFlag Black Flag's]] "Police Story."

* UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}: Was always a light part of their aesthetic, sharing some of the visual style in a few promotional images and the general frustration with the world. This was prominent even back in their "Hold On Now, Youngster..." days, with "International Tweexcore Underground" being a back-and-forth between IndiePop fan and a {{{Punk}}. Amusingly, one of the B-sides for that song was a completely straight cover of [[Music/BlackFlag Black Flag's]] "Police Story."

--> We are two ships that pass in the night!\\
You and I, we are nothing alike!\\
I am a pleasure cruise, you are gone out to trawl,\\
Return nets empty, nothing at all.

* BreakupSong: ''Hello Sadness'' is a breakup ''album''.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While they still have quite a few poppier numbers on their more recent albums, they're far more noisier and lyrically dense than their earlier songs. Compare 2006's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqY_ZJKAupw It Started with a Mixx]]" to 2010's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-cWxcC5oRM This is a Flag, There is No Wind]]" to 2013's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irSOwulDsPE Cemetery Gaits]]".

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Gareth half-jokingly believes that this what the band has become in the indie rock world. He [[http://bbook.com/uncategorized/band-apart-los-campesinos-find-place/ once noted]] that many of the bands that have opened for Los Campesinos! in the past -- like Music/VampireWeekend, Music/TwoDoorCinemaClub and Music/ImagineDragons -- have all become highly successful while LC! remains a cult band touring mid-size clubs.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Gareth half-jokingly believes that this what the band has become in terms of indie rock music. He [[http://bbook.com/uncategorized/band-apart-los-campesinos-find-place/ once noted]] that many of the bands that have opened for Los Campesinos! in the past -- like Music/VampireWeekend, Music/TwoDoorCinemaClub and Music/ImagineDragons -- have all become highly successful while LC! remains a cult band touring mid-size clubs.

--> Kohl, ''ComicBook/{{Phonogram}}''

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: While Los Campesinos! has always circled around IndiePop, ''Sticking Fingers into Sockets'' and ''Hold on Now, Youngster...'' are far, ''far'' more along the lines of upbeat twee pop. Everything since has sounded far more mature and more emotional, if not occasionally noisy.

* RockStarSong: The first verse of "Songs About Your Girlfriend" comes across as a tongue-in-cheek version of this.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While they still have quite a few poppier numbers on their more recent albums, they're far more noisier and lyrically dense than their earlier songs. Compare 2006's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqY_ZJKAupw It Started with a Mixx]]" to 2010's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-cWxcC5oRM This is a Flag, There is No Wind]]"