{"id":951,"date":"2008-03-04T11:02:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/los-campesinos-hold-on-now-youngster\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T11:05:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T18:05:40","slug":"los-campesinos-hold-on-now-youngster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/los-campesinos-hold-on-now-youngster\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Campesinos! &#8211; Hold On Now, Youngster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/campesinos.jpg\" alt=\"Los Campesinos! - Hold On There, Youngster\" class=\"cover\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/>Sometimes when I first get ahold of a new album the first thing I do is jump to the final cut and hit PLAY. I find that if the artist has something to say, it&#8217;s often summated in the album&#8217;s last song. Other times, the final cut is where the band or musician in question drops the more experimental, free-form, discursive track. Those tracks tend to be my favorites. &#8220;Sea Of Tranquility&#8221; by Wild Swans, for example, or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/the-raveonettes-lust-lust-lust\/\">aforementioned<\/a> &#8220;Drown&#8221; on the <em>Singles <\/em>soundtrack, or &#8220;We Float&#8221; on PJ Harvey&#8217;s <em>Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea<\/em>, just to name three completely off-the-cuff examples.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, that&#8217;s the first thing I did on the new album by Los Campesinos!, <em>Hold On Now, Youngster.<\/em> I happen to be one of the throng of admirers of last year&#8217;s <em>Sticking Fingers Into Sockets<\/em> EP, so I expected to like the new one. So far I love it. But I&#8217;ve only really gotten as far as the final cut. &#8220;2007, The Year Punk Broke (My Heart)&#8221; contains the upbeat jingly poppiness I expect from a Los Campesinos! effort, but it&#8217;s different enough to qualify as a stellar album closer. It&#8217;s got that requisite build and that climactic finale feel. If I get around to back-tracking through the rest of the album and find that I hate it, I&#8217;ll be sure to post an update. But I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;ll happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/mpthree\/campesinos.mp3\">Los Campesinos! &#8211; &#8220;2007, The Year Punk Broke (My Heart)&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the Web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;token=ADFEAEE47B16D947A57520D39B3348E9A77AEA1ACF56FB9C1B6E495AD1A9675B9C1877F359E9DAD2B5E577B479A7B32FA6500AD4C0EC50ECBC1B&amp;sql=11:wvfoxqydld6e\">allmusic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loscampesinos.com\/\">official site<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?i=273121604&amp;id=273121566&amp;s=143441\">itunes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/campesinos.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Los Campesinos! - Hold On There, Youngster\" class=\"cover\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,52],"tags":[314,313],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}