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  • Cult Classic: It'd be a struggle to call them "amazingly successful", but Los Camp maintain a strong community and are fondly-regarded within the indie rock world, with none other than Pitchfork dubbing them in 2021 "the 21st century’s most endearing cult band." Gareth half-jokingly acknowledges that this what the band has become, and once noted that many of the bands that have opened for Los Campesinos! in the past — like Vampire Weekend, Two Door Cinema Club and Imagine Dragons — have become highly successful while LC! remains a cult band touring mid-size clubs, yet is comfortable knowing that people listen to them at all.
    David Kohl: Look up Los Campesinos! online. They're going to be bi—actually scratch that. They're never going to be "big" big, but they're going to be big to some people.
  • First Installment Wins: While the band still has a strong cult following, Hold on Now, Youngster... is considered their most popular, successful and — depending on who you ask — best album.
  • Narm:
    • "Coda: A Burn Scar in the Shape of the Sooner State" is a poignant track, presumably about the death of a loved one, but it dips into narm with the lines "I fall to my knees / My piss-soaked jeans". One would assume it was from shock and fear but... yeah. It manages to recover from it, though.
    • Gareth's hair in the music video to "International Tweexcore Underground." It might be befitting of the twee fan he plays in the song, but that doesn't stop it from looking ridiculous on him.
  • Signature Song: "You! Me! Dancing!" from Hold On Now, Youngster... is considered their most popular song, but each album has also had a standout track, such as "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed" from the album of the same name and "The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future" from Romance is Boring.
  • Tear Jerker: Oh, they've got a lot.
    She said one day to leave her, sand up to her shoulders (waiting for the tide)
    To drag her to the ocean, to another sea’s shore (This thing hurts like hell)
    But what did you expect!?
    Battery dies on your monthly call
    Budget cut at your primary school
    Another family friend fell sick
    Gave the fascists a thousand ticks
    • The line "31 and depression's a young man's game" off of 5 Flucloxacillin. Feeling like you should've grown out of your depression with time but you just haven't.
    • "Selling Rope (Swan Dive to Estuary)" is sung from the perspective of a man committing suicide by jumping into an estuary and realizing mid-leap that no one will be affected by his death. And this is the FINAL track on No Blues.

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