On Repeat: Los Campesinos!: "You! Me! Dancing!"
Great, so indie kids know how to dance again. Cardiff, Wales seven-piece Los Campesinos! might finally be the band to get more of us to show off our clumsy moves in public. Exuberant "You! Me! Dancing!" easily lives up to the group's excitable punctuating habits. After teasing us with a slow-motion intro for more than a minute, Los Campesinos! (Latin-American Spanish for "The Farmers!") start dropping exclamation points all over the place: Trebly, distorted guitars twist and shout while xylophones and reedy synths unlock a Boy Least Likely To-like toyshop playfulness.
A song about fear of dancing in public, "You! Me! Dancing!" shakes off its phobias in a spree of contagious, footloose giddiness. "If only there were clothes on the floor/ I'd feel for certain I was bedroom dancing," lead singer Gareth Campesino! worries, amid charmingly unpolished backing oohs. As frontman, he treads the line between irony and earnestness with the poise of Art Brut's Eddie Argos, then leaps into a spoken-word epiphany that could've been borrowed from Scotland's Ballboy. Confessions are made, love is quietly declared, and the chorus is exactly what you'd hope. Bailamos!
MP3: > Los Campesinos!: "You! Me! Dancing!" [demo] (removed)["We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives" single due 02/26/07 on Wichita] | [PRE-ORDER]