Romance Is Boring

by Los Campesinos!

Romance Is Boring cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 26 January 2010
  • Label: Wichita
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 53:15
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Jamie Stewart, Zac Pennington, John Goodmanson, Izaak Mills, Samantha Boshnack, Jherek Bischoff

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Welsh indie-pop ensemble notably expanded their sonic palette, incorporating darker, more complex arrangements and dense horn sections. Gareth Campesinos!' signature hyper-literate, cynical lyricism tackles themes of relationship decay and self-loathing, pushing their previously twee sound into surprisingly intense, anxious territory.

Genres

Descriptors: breakup, literate, noisy, strings, confessional

Tracklist

  1. In Media Res (4:41)
  2. There Are Listed Buildings (2:54)
  3. Romance Is Boring (2:36)
  4. We鈥檝e Got Your Back (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #2) (4:29)
  5. Plan A (2:01)
  6. 200-102 (0:55)
  7. Straight in at 101 (3:54)
  8. Who Fell Asleep in (4:10)
  9. I Warned You: Do Not Make an Enemy of Me (2:47)
  10. Heart Swells/100-1 (0:45)
  11. I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just so You Know (4:39)
  12. A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; or, Letters from Me to Charlotte (3:42)
  13. The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future (4:26)
  14. This Is a Flag. There Is No Wind (3:29)
  15. Coda: A Burn Scar in the Shape of the Sooner State (2:51)
  16. Too Many Flesh Suppers (Bonus Track) (4:46)

Credits

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