Romance Is Boring is the best album of 2010 (I'm pulling a Stereogum here)

Reader, I know that it is folly to hear one album that you've been looking forward to from the coming year and then declare to you that it is the best album of that year, when the year hasn't even begun (I'm looking at YOU, Stereogum. While Merriweather Post Pavilion was very, very good, it is not the best album of 2009, as a future post shall tell us,) but as of now, I will be willing to pull a Stereogum (with tongue tucked firmly in my cheek) and say that the latest release from Los Campesinos! is the best album of 2010. So far.

Ever since I started listening obsessively to "The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future," I had very high expectations for this album. I hoped, nay, reader, I knew that this album would be a 10.0 in my book. You understand my anxiety, reader, that came with actually pressing play on this album. What if I'm disappointed? What if the rest of the album is subpar and I'll be stuck obsessively listening to "The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future" screaming "Why, Los Campesinos!, Why?!"

Thankfully, reader, that is not the case. Romance Is Boring is, pardon my French, fucking awesome. It is representative of a major progression from the passive-aggressive twee of Hold On Now, Youngster... to, as my high school theater teacher would say, questions, concerns, frustration, and angst. All in the space of single songs.

Prepare yourself, reader, to not be disappointed.

9.3/10