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Best CDs So Far: Listener Picks

The results are in and we've got a good idea of what NPR listeners think are the best CDs so far. On this edition of All Songs Considered we look at the results and play some of the CDs we missed.

Best CDs So Far: Listener Picks

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Los Campesinos! Lighten Up With 'No Blues'

The new Los Campesinos! album, No Blues, comes out Oct. 29. Kirsten McTernan/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Music Interviews

Los Campesinos! Lighten Up With 'No Blues'

Lead singer Gareth David talks with NPR's Scott Simon about his band's upcoming album, which he calls a turning point for the group. Hear the surprisingly upbeat "What Death Leaves Behind," which seems destined to be heard as a film's end credits scroll by.

Los Campesinos! Lighten Up With 'No Blues'

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Los Campesinos!: Inventive Invective

Surly and overstuffed, Los Campesinos!'s "Romance Is Boring" takes an unsurprisingly dim view of domestic bliss. Kim Coulour hide caption

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Song Of The Day

Los Campesinos!: Inventive Invective

It's fitting that, when the title track to the Welsh group's new album Romance Is Boring gives way to a guitar solo, it's a fractured, discontented mess — all shards and shrapnel, frayed nerves and raw power. Surly and overstuffed, "Romance Is Boring" takes an unsurprisingly dim view of domestic bliss.

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Song Of The Day

Los Campesinos: Making Misery Fun

In "Ways to Make It Through the Wall," words of hopelessness are joined by dour aphorisms, but the result is a lot more fun that it might seem on paper. In the world of the Welsh septet, bummed-out lyrics and rousing music coexist wonderfully.

Ways to Make It Through the Wall

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Favorite Sessions

Los Campesinos!: Dark But Gleeful

KEXP

The Welsh band Los Campesinos! blasted through four songs in record time during this studio session from KEXP. Throughout the performance, the group played its acerbic but infectious pop with the unabashed joy of a bunch of schoolkids on the last day before summer.

Los Campesinos! in Studio on KEXP 5/31/08

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World Cafe

Los Campesinos!: A Lo-Fi Pop Chorus

XPN

Los Campesinos! is a seven-piece Welsh indie-pop band with an exciting, multilayered debut called Hold on Now, Youngster. Already soaking up international buzz, Los Campesinos! visits World Cafe with host David Dye.

Los Campesinos! in Studio on World Cafe, 7/31/08

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Los Campesinos! On World Cafe

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Los Campesinos! On World Cafe

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Hear the U.K. septet perform sharp, lively indie-rock ballads from its newest album, Hello Sadness.

Los Campesinos! On World Cafe

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Los Campesinos!: Tiny Desk Concert
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Tiny Desk

Los Campesinos!: Tiny Desk Concert

Los Campesinos! usually performs with as many as eight members — the group needs that many to reproduce the mightily clamorous ruckus heard on its records — but only four Campesinos are present here. And while there's no nudity or violence in this performance by the whip-smart U.K. band, the group's bawdy, often sexually suggestive lyrics make this the closest we've come to a NSFW Tiny Desk Concert.

Audio Only: Los Campesinos! Tiny Desk Concert

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Fall Music Preview

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All Songs Considered

Fall Music Preview

The All Songs gang spins favorites from a jam-packed season of great new music, including albums from Feist, Atlas Sound, Real Estate, Jens Lekman and more.

Fall Music Preview

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