Romance Is Boring

Romance Is Boring is the third studio album by Welsh indie pop band Los Campesinos!, released via Wichita on 26 January 2010. The album's maximalist production, unconventional structure and particularly demoralising themes marked a departure from the band's previous twee pop sound. Los Campesinos! recorded Romance Is Boring in early 2009 with producer John Goodmanson in Stamford and Seattle. Desiring to build a complex soundscape, the band experimented with strings and brass instruments for the first time. As the album's narrator through three distinct acts, lead vocalist Gareth Paisey wrote about "the death and decay of the human body, sex, lost love, mental breakdown, football and, ultimately, that there probably isn’t a light at the end of the tunnel". Two singles were issued before the album's release: "The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future" and "There Are Listed Buildings". Romance Is Boring debuted at number 92 on the UK Albums Chart and received widespread critical acclaim, appearing on the annual lists of music publications including DIY and The Line of Best Fit. Four of its tracks would be reworked on the All's Well That Ends EP in 2010. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)