Los Campesinos! are an indie-rock collective in the vein of Belle & Sebastian, only theyre more punkish and much noisier. The eclectic instrumentation on the Welsh septets third full-length, Romance Is Boring (part of which was recorded at a Seattle studio owned by Jason McGurr of Death Cab For Cutie), includes trombone, piccolo, and flugel horn, and lots of brash, shouty melodies. The wacky lyrics Gareth Campesinos! (all seven members have taken Campesinos! as their surname) also pack a frankness to them thats both disarming and realistic, as on the records title track, when he sings, Youre pouting in your sleep/ Im waking, still yawning/ Were proving to each other that romance is boring. With Signals. ERIN K. THOMPSON
Tue., May 4, 8 p.m., 2010
