holy hell! this is incredible! really really beautiful, song and video
would i be wrong in assuming this is from the new album?
even if it isn’t, i’m so grateful for this. lyrics and violin are lovely beyond words.
OlliSeptember 9th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Oh wow. This is the best way to start a working day ever. Amazing. The strings are awesome.
JamesSeptember 9th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Loving the strings.
Joe DSeptember 9th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Sounds great!
I really like the lyrics; really REALLY looking forward to the new album (whether this is on it or not.)
Thanks guys!
[...] Sometimes Insomnia Pay Off New Los Campesinos song, apparently posted a very short while ago. It’s a good one (no surprsise). Listen to it here. [...]
[...] Campesinos! have put up a new song for free download on their website, “The Sea is a Good Place to Think of The Future”. What do you think of Los Campesinos! [...]
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SamuelSeptember 9th, 2009 at 10:08 am
omg omg omg omg omg “you could never kiss a tory boy without wanting to cut off your tongue” omg omg omg omg omg <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 love it so much.
(Considering I love LC!'s current direction, this seems a stupid question, but is the early sugar-rush really dead and buried? I was always hoping you'd write your own C Is The Heavenly Option [although I like the cover!]).
Great song guys and gals – looking forward to playing it over and over – still laughing at the Record Box Project video! Too funny — one thing – try Porthcawl instead of Barry Island next time – Rest Bay – beautiful.x
This is quite utterly brilliant, will surely become one of my favourite LC! songs even though I adored the twee stuff from Hold on Now Youngster… I was trying to figure out how the hell Jamie Stewart could fit on an LC! album but I totally see it now. Reminds me of Why? too, except with strings – I don’t think I could have hoped for anything better! Thankyou so much!!
[...] Los Campesinos! till we die. You could never kiss a Tory boy without wanting to cut off your tongue again. [...]
liamSeptember 9th, 2009 at 11:28 am
just cause you’re allowed to drink outside and have had nice weather all summer. stop rubbing it in okay? cunts.
with love,
from scotland, the land of rain and £40 on the spot fines for drinking outside xxxx
[...] have uploaded a new song “The Sea is a Good Place To Think of the Future” to their blog. Download it there or hear it in the video below. Is the title B. S. Johnson [...]
Thank you for all your feedback. I’m really glad people seem to like it.
Incase anyone was wondering, and because I cannot bear misquoted lyrics:
THE SEA IS A GOOD PLACE TO THINK OF THE FUTURE
I grabbed hold of her wrist and my hand closed from tip to tip
I said “you’ve taken the diet too far, you have got to let it slip”
But she’s not eating again, she’s not eating again, she’s not eating again, she’s not eating again.
I ask her to speak French and then I need her to translate, I get the feeling she makes the meaning more significant.
She was always far too pretty for me to believe in a single word she said, believe a word she said.
At fourteen her mother died in a routine operation, from allergic reaction to a general anesthetic. She spent the rest of her teens experimenting with prescriptions, in a futile attempt to know more than the doctors.
She said one day to leave her, sand up to her shoulders waiting for the tide
to drag her to the ocean, to another sea’s shore.
This thing hurts like hell,
but what did you expect?
And all you can hear is the sound of your own heart
And all you can feel is your lungs flood and the blood course
But oh I can see five hundred years dead set ahead of me
Five hundred behind,
A thousand years in perfect symmetry
Best known left wrist right finger, through all the Southern States, on every video games machine they call her triple A.
There were racists on the radio trying to give up smoking, the chat show host, he joked “you have to wait for the government program”.
You talk about your politics, and I wonder if you could be one of them, but you could never kiss a Tory boy without wanting to cut off your tongue again.
A good place to look to the future is when you are sat at the sea, with the salt up to your ankles and a view of the end of the pier, you may look down at your model’s feet and wish that you’d just float away, and the weather here is overcast and the sea is the same shade of grey, so the landscape before you looks just like the edge of the world, but to the left side and the right side, either way is a crazy golf course.
The sea is a good place to think of the future.
And all you can hear is the sound of your own heart
And all you can feel is your lungs flood and the blood course
But oh I can see five hundred years dead set ahead of me
Five hundred behind,
A thousand years in perfect symmetry
A thousand years no getting rid of me
A thousand years in perfect symmetry.
MilesSeptember 9th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Ah, thanks, I was just about to e-mail and ask for lyrics.
The song is stunning. Really, properly incredible. I can’t stop listening to it. Thank you.
Amazing stuff. It reminds me of Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time but with less fuzziness. Been checking the site daily to try and catch this, so glad it’s here. Now I can play it over and over on repeat on the train tomorrow morning – I was going to revisit Brighten the Corners but this excites me more!
Now. Come to Australia!
JeskaSeptember 9th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
The Tory line makes me think of Coupling, but there’s probably no relation
This is gorgeous. It’s the first thing I’ve heard all day and nearly cried halfway through. Cannot wait for the new album, you’ve done it again, you brilliant bastards.
JMNSeptember 9th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
This is utterly incredible. Incredible. This whole thing has me on the verge of tears.
I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited about an album than I am LC!3
StevenSeptember 9th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Harriet!!!!!!!! The strings are so beautiful. awesome. thank you.
This is amazing! I can’t wait for the new album. The chorus vocal is so amazing, especially the bit at the end. Really genuine lyrics (but when are they not with Los Campesinos! ?). And the video is just as amazing. I really found the contrast between the idea of the song and the party at the beach tied together by the whole “Sea” theme. Who directed that?
DanielSeptember 9th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Thank you ever so much. The lyrics are wonderful. I can not wait for more. Thank you again.
MitchSeptember 9th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
This is the most gorgeous, depressing song I’ve ever heard. Holy shit. This makes me even more excited than I previously was for the new album.
Thank you Los Campesinos! for making my life a million times better. as if the day couldnt get any better that HEALTH released Get Color today, then I stumbled upon this. This is great I love the sound and I love you all!
Thank you so much… It was great. Lovely, lovely song.
Kyle from TXSeptember 9th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
LC,
From everyone, thanks so much for the free download. I haven’t given it a proper listen yet, but I just wanted to let you know that from what I’ve heard, I think I’ll like the new direction of the band. I do miss the twee, I do. But it seems that as I grow up and mature, so does your music. I appreciate that.
Hope the US treated you well,
Kyle
KevinSeptember 9th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Stunning is definetely the best word to describe this. I had chills watching this. Morbid, happy, hopeful, regardless the mood of the song, you manage to make everything beautiful..I would have to say that this is undoubtedly your most emotional song..I really can’t wait for the enw record. Please, continue to astonish me.
Channeling your inner Dylan Thomas here? Maybe I’m only saying that because of the Welsh connection… but the man loved his women, and his sea seemed to spread out and engulf all four corners of the map.
I feel like I’m stood with my nose pressed up against the window of a great party that I was invited to but nobody can hear me knocking on the door for the music. Why won’t it let me download the track? I’ve tried watching the video but had to give up because my tinternet is slow and it was constantly buffering. Help! How can I hear this track?
SteSeptember 9th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
There was a couple of tears from me. Is this the one you meant when you said you cried first time you heard it?
Amazing. Can’t wait till manchester.
The trying to know more than the doctors line and the bit about all the videogames calling her triple A both completely slay me. Way to pack in the concise storytelling, humor and pathos.
AllisonSeptember 9th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I’m writing this while my incredibly slow internet tries to download the song. The bit that I’ve managed to listen to which isn’t even a minute long is amazing. Gorgeous guitar, beautiful strings, all accompanied by Gareth’s amazing voice. Read through the lyrics and they held their own even without music behind them. Really, really incredible song. Thank you LC! for the download and preview and thank you for making such beautiful music. Keep being your wonderful selves
oh my god, this is so lush and gorgeous and so, so sad. the lyrics are brilliant, i keep trying to select bits to quote at people but i can’t possbly choose. i don’t understand how you are so good at doing wonderful things that bring me joy even though they are sometimes so very sad, but i’m so glad for it, please keep it up & come back to the states soon! i’ve seen you in NYC twice now and honestly i think i’ll try to if i can every time you swing by. <3
Wow, this is absolutely stunning, can’t wait for the new album and SWN. When the new Girls 7″ (finally) arrived this morning I thought the day couldn’t get much better… how wrong I was…
Mike EidleSeptember 9th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
great song, no sure why maybe the summer kind of feel but it made me think of my favorite summer album Unrest-Imperial FFRR
AlisonSeptember 9th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Oh my, I do like this.
ValSeptember 9th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
the song is epic, thank you bunches =]
JaybySeptember 9th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
It sounds so differnt from any other Los Campesinos! song but at the same time I would not mistake it for being anyone else. I feel like the lyrics are a step up from everything else you have done and the song is just beautiful. I really like it a lot guys.
This is absolutely stunningly beautiful. I know everyone has already said this but I thought I’d just let you know again.
You have grown so much in the past three years, positively so (even though I loved you from the very beginning). I might actually die of happiness when the new album comes out.
You guys are the best. I love you.
CorinneSeptember 9th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
I just cried.
In a good way of course. You lot are really just so good, for lack of better word, since I can’t seem to come up with one at the moment.
Blake ASeptember 9th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Well if the new album is going to be anything like this, I am pumped! It’s not as sunny as LC!’s other stuff but I really like the change.
Marcos.September 9th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
brilliant. magnificent. and several oter sinonims for perfect.
When i downloaded the song the mp3 file says its also the name of the album. Is this correct?
FedeSeptember 9th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
brilliant.
MattSeptember 9th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I love this! Great job Campesinos!
AndreaSeptember 9th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
beyond amazing. seriously, you’ve outdone yourselves. this is perfect.
lorenSeptember 9th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Love this! This morning I had two minutes before I had to go so I just unknowingly threw it on a CD with How I Taught Myself to Scream and happened to have a bad day. This song was just perfect for the ride home and some how cheered me up, especially the What did you expect!? bit, so thanks for putting this out. Love the new style.
am i loser for sort of tearing up at this? i still stand by it. lovely song. absolutely lovely. it sounds more grown up for you guys, but you’re still the best band ever because of it.
This is great, thank you very much. heart the dynamics, the density of the arrangement, the rhythms of yr vocals. Is this by any chance that day at the beach you blogged about a few months back? did you know you were going to make it the video? And is there no experience that can’t be made sober with good editing and the right soundtrack?
Anyway, when the leaves start to change, I will drive around with this and a sweater on. thx again
KateSeptember 9th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
absolutley brilliant song- one of my favorites, I think. it seems the beautiful anorexic foot-model is come again, not that anyone minds, of course. sorry for sounding stupid, but how exactly do you download the song? i cant seem to figure it out…
KateSeptember 9th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
beautiful song- one of my new favorites, i think =]
sorry for sounding stupid, but how do you download the song? it wont seem to work for me… D:
utterly superb, can’t wait for the manchester deaf institute gig!
EliotSeptember 9th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Gareth, you fucking genius, (So is the rest of the band)
CarolineSeptember 9th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
each time i try to download it it’s only a thirty second clip? any suggestions? and it sounds amazing.
KevinSeptember 9th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
I had to post for the second time today. The song is up on the LC! myspace if people are having trouble listening to it through buffering video or whatever. I must have heard it at least 10 times today. This better be on the new LP…it’s breathtaking the first to tenth times.
RobSeptember 9th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
I couldn’t be happier with this song! Goddamn will this album be good! And I’m sure the inevitable tour will be better!
chuckSeptember 9th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
hi guys
another great tune – well done – cant wait to see you all in Cov.
was that video shot at Barry Island ??
Chuck
Kyle SSeptember 9th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Longtime reader, first-time poster. Just dropped in to say “Oh-My-God.”
Can anybody help? I’ve spent the best part of a day seeing ‘Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage’ rather than a download box. Does anybody have an idea why everyone else can download this track but me?
VictoriaSeptember 10th, 2009 at 3:15 am
This is amazing. It’s already on my ipod. Yes this is the best day ever.
AllisonSeptember 10th, 2009 at 3:16 am
G, is this based on truth? Either way it’s one of the most beautiful songs you lot have made thus far. All your songs are amazing, but this one is really moving.
michaelSeptember 10th, 2009 at 3:27 am
faaaantastic
silSeptember 10th, 2009 at 3:42 am
Painfully beautiful, impossibly perfect.
And I don`t say that very often.
This is beautiful! It reminds me of Why? too. I personally found this very touching. I have a friend who had an eating disorder and was at a clinic for a few months, earlier this year. She studied French too. She’s recently gotten well again (although still on medication). It’s hard to explain, but the first verse sums up everything incredibly well!
This is a really special song.
Thank you Los Campesinos!
Really looking forward to the tour. x
JohannaSeptember 10th, 2009 at 4:11 am
What a surprise, thank you for the wonderful song. It’s quite different but unmistakably a LC! song. Keep making such fantastic music.
LomasneySeptember 10th, 2009 at 4:32 am
My dear Los Campesinos!,
Thank you for sharing your beautiful work with us. You are growing by leaps and bounds as artists, and I await the new album with great anticipation. Yes, the previous albums, EPs, etc. will always hold a special place, but you’re not looking back, for which I applaud you. Cheers.
My dreams are filled with your new album. After listening to this wonderful, fantastic, beautiful song yesterday, I had a dream last night about killing a man to get the first copy of this album made. Then the police caught me and took my c.d. and I cried and then they played Jimi Hendrix’ version of the American National Anthem over and over until I went insane.
So, moral of the story, wanting the album SOON.
Clay
MelSeptember 10th, 2009 at 7:29 am
amazing! the video is so perfect too, such a beautiful song….probably one of your best
xx
Wonderful song, beautiful lyrics and a sublime balance between strings and guitars. If the rest of the album is anywhere near as good as this song you’ve got gold. Thanks LC for living up to the high expectations.
Thanks, got it at last – I was just being dumb, obviously!! Wonderful wonderful stuff, evocative and atmospheric. Like the best short stories, it sits inside you for a minute after it ends and you can smell it fading away – dusty copper and flaking paint in saline air.
AudreySeptember 10th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
this just made my year, thank you thank you thank you thank you for being such brilliant people!
danielSeptember 10th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
This is stunning.
Thanks x
VeeeSeptember 10th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
all has been said before, but yes, this song is amazing, yes i can’t wait for the new album, yes i can’t wait for the october tour. And yes, the video is gooood.
x
Veee
JustinSeptember 10th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I love this song. I’ve listened to it so many times already. It gives me the chills that’s how good it is.
[...] be worth posting in normal conditions, but the song itself is worth the effort alone. The track was released by the band a few days ago as a free digital download, which you can take home from the link [...]
AnaSeptember 11th, 2009 at 12:45 am
man…this song is sad and sweet, i cant stop listening to it!!!…,well i hope the new album is released soon!
PetrelladSeptember 11th, 2009 at 2:01 am
I love it. Awesome song. Can’t wait for the album and to see you back in Montreal, Canada.
Wolf BlackSeptember 11th, 2009 at 3:29 am
I just got a sad, fuzzy feeling inside. Amazing.
josuempdSeptember 11th, 2009 at 4:04 am
beautiful video… the song gets better with it
SarahSeptember 11th, 2009 at 9:09 am
That’s beautiful, I love it, so excited for your new album.
[...] unos días, la banda de Gales, Los Campesinos!, estrenaron en su blog una canción nueva titulada “The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future”, la cual [...]
Paroma GuhaSeptember 11th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
this song is beautiful and inspiring. thank you so much LC! i hope that i will be able to write lyrics like these one day x
Simply stunning! What a great song! Almost wish you hadn’t posted it, now I can’t wait even more for the new album (kidding). btw I hope at some point you guys make it to Buffalo, NY. I want to see you guys so bad! Pretty please?
DianaSeptember 12th, 2009 at 7:21 am
I agree that that felt like a party that I wasn’t invited to. At the same time, it feels like a moment too precious to invade.
I thought I loved you guys, but then you swept me off my feet when Gareth walked on stage drinking from a two-liter coke bottle and Aleks sang her heart out even though she was sick. Now this.
Thank you from the bottom, top, and septum of my heart.
i refuse to listen to this out of context. album plzlollll.
150 comments, that’s impressive.
AcrobatSeptember 12th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Awesome, can’t stop listening!
leighSeptember 12th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Hey Gareth, great song and even better t-shirt in the video. Wedding Present FTW!
ChloeSeptember 12th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
It definitely speaks to me.
I play it everyday now, it just gets stuck in my head. People go on about the change of direction with the band but i love everything you’ve done and everything you’re doing! Keep it up :)
AlexSeptember 13th, 2009 at 7:39 am
this song is too good for words
MaijaSeptember 13th, 2009 at 9:01 am
I’ve been listening to this two days straight now. It’s beyond words.
I’ve been listening to this song on repeat since you made it available, it’s spectacular. I look forward to hearing me, and to seeing y’all live again whenever you reach california again.
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BobbySeptember 14th, 2009 at 5:58 am
This song is ridiculously awesome, I really hope you guys put out a new album soon. I am so happy that to know that this song is out. Please come to Keene State College in New Hampshire. Haha
EdSeptember 14th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Just five days after this comes out and suddenly it’s played on Spanish radio. I only just came into the room and heard “nueva cancion de Los Campesinos!, The Sea Is A Good Place To Think of the Future”, strings start, internet dies… Lame.
But yeah, you’re hot news on Spanish radio.
uyd4lSeptember 15th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I am always worried when band I really really like puts out something new. Short time periods between recording always makes me increasingly nervous that I will be disappointed. Fortunately, when it comes to LC this line of thinking is total gobshite. Unbelievable lyrics and arrangement, one can only hope for a thousands years of this perfect symmetry.
P.S.’s: 1) Garreth do u have a foot fetish? 2) Ellen looks smashing (and the rest of you look quite sporty as well)! 3) Alex, PLEASE DON’T LEAVE!!
GreggsySeptember 15th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Seriously, fuck ME, that’s amazing
RumpySeptember 15th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Thank you LC!
That is an amazing piece of music, and the lyrics are superb as usual. Just beautiful.
I missed out on tickets to the garage, hopefully I’ll catch you on the festival circuit this year!
How embarrassing… I just left fan mail…!
BenSeptember 25th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
You guys are incredible.
Utterly amazing, you never put a foot wrong, even with this so-called new direction, just amazing.
Can’t wait to see you all in Leeds, then in Doncaster with the Cribs.
X
I like this song way. Sounds a lot like Fevers and Mirrors era Bright Eyes, and I would love to hear more of that. Shame CO disowns his younger persona. It’s a great blend of sounds. Nice to hear you guys strip things down and get somber. More, and come to Sf. Please and thank you.
[...] Los Campesinos! video makes me miss my 20’s. You can download the mp3 from the always-entertaining LC! [...]
lisamartineOctober 2nd, 2009 at 10:37 pm
this has been in my head foreva
so goooood
when does the new album come out!?
LrknOctober 3rd, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Just noticed that the Vimeo page for this shows viewing stats.
23.2k views! My MP3 player has been fecked so at least 60-70 of those have been me in college.
DaltonOctober 5th, 2009 at 8:27 am
I had never heard of Los Campesinos! before…This was posted on a blog I occasionally follow. Sadly not wild about the video, but the song BLEW ME AWAY! I must have listened to it ten times in a row by now. Sheer epic awesomeness. Like seriously, one of the most amazing pieces of music I’ve heard recently
[...] Album liegt im Startloch (kann man das so schreiben?) zur Veröffentlichung bereit. Auf der Band Homepage gibt es schon einen Song kostenlos zum herunterladen. Sehr löblich. Im Dezember gehts dann mit den [...]
froggyOctober 10th, 2009 at 1:15 am
Beautiful. Just beautiful. “And all you can hear is the sounds of your own heart…”
how come you always get to speak MY mind, whether i’m happy or thoughtful? geniuses. hope you’ll come back to rome even though there were like twelve of us at your last show. lots of love.
RichOctober 23rd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
This is a beautiful song. I’ve listened about ten times today. Thank you! First heard you guys when I was living in Canada – wish I had when I was living in the UK! I hope you love what you’re doing because we sure do.
[...] Here’s the video for “The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future,” the first track that dropped a few weeks ago. Technically, it’s not the first single (”There are Listed Buildings”), but I’m not sure what that means in the world of digital distribution. Except, I suppose, that they’re selling vinyl editions of “There are Listed Buildings” at their shows. This is shot by bassist Ellen (the official unofficial videographer of the group) and a friend, and fits beautifully with the melancholia of the song. (via LC!) [...]
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PabloDecember 7th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
I have got to say this is the best song i’ve ever heard, i thought that from “Hold on now youngster” it couldn’t get any better… I am amazed, keep it up, cheers!
[...] the verses I expected the imagery to go the other way based on the general thrust of the lyrics; the video really helped me understand that this is, indeed, a properly uplifting track that helps us all [...]
[...] So along comes ‘Romance is Boring’, the third album. Recorded around one of their North American tours, it is keyboard and vocalist Aleks Campesinos! last record with the band. A taster song, ‘The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future’ was uploaded to the band’s blog — an emotional tale concerning a girl who kicks ass on arcade machines, but remains scarred from her mother’s premature death. This is the band’s first genuinely touching song, and one I’d recommend to anyone — there’s no excuse not to listen, as it is a free single available to download here. [...]
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OSSUM!!!!!!!!!
This is fantastic!!
holy hell! this is incredible! really really beautiful, song and video
would i be wrong in assuming this is from the new album?
even if it isn’t, i’m so grateful for this. lyrics and violin are lovely beyond words.
Oh wow. This is the best way to start a working day ever. Amazing. The strings are awesome.
Loving the strings.
Sounds great!
I really like the lyrics; really REALLY looking forward to the new album (whether this is on it or not.)
Thanks guys!
[...] Sometimes Insomnia Pay Off New Los Campesinos song, apparently posted a very short while ago. It’s a good one (no surprsise). Listen to it here. [...]
Why isn’t it working for me? I’m starting to get paranoid…
[...] Campesinos! have put up a new song for free download on their website, “The Sea is a Good Place to Think of The Future”. What do you think of Los Campesinos! [...]
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omg omg omg omg omg “you could never kiss a tory boy without wanting to cut off your tongue” omg omg omg omg omg <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 love it so much.
(Considering I love LC!'s current direction, this seems a stupid question, but is the early sugar-rush really dead and buried? I was always hoping you'd write your own C Is The Heavenly Option [although I like the cover!]).
Great song guys and gals – looking forward to playing it over and over – still laughing at the Record Box Project video! Too funny — one thing – try Porthcawl instead of Barry Island next time – Rest Bay – beautiful.x
its awesome!!incredible! i love it!!
This is quite utterly brilliant, will surely become one of my favourite LC! songs even though I adored the twee stuff from Hold on Now Youngster… I was trying to figure out how the hell Jamie Stewart could fit on an LC! album but I totally see it now. Reminds me of Why? too, except with strings – I don’t think I could have hoped for anything better! Thankyou so much!!
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just cause you’re allowed to drink outside and have had nice weather all summer. stop rubbing it in okay? cunts.
with love,
from scotland, the land of rain and £40 on the spot fines for drinking outside xxxx
Simply beautiful.
[...] have uploaded a new song “The Sea is a Good Place To Think of the Future” to their blog. Download it there or hear it in the video below. Is the title B. S. Johnson [...]
this is quite possibly my favorite lc! track ever
Thank you that was beautiful, and i cant wait for the new album!
[...] You can watch the song with pretty moving pictures on the LC website. [...]
This is amazing.
ditto liam. i can’t hear the song but the video is making me homesick for summers and friends and lovely lovely days.
any chances of this being played on your UK tour? x
Absolutely fuckin fantastic
Thank you for all your feedback. I’m really glad people seem to like it.
Incase anyone was wondering, and because I cannot bear misquoted lyrics:
THE SEA IS A GOOD PLACE TO THINK OF THE FUTURE
I grabbed hold of her wrist and my hand closed from tip to tip
I said “you’ve taken the diet too far, you have got to let it slip”
But she’s not eating again, she’s not eating again, she’s not eating again, she’s not eating again.
I ask her to speak French and then I need her to translate, I get the feeling she makes the meaning more significant.
She was always far too pretty for me to believe in a single word she said, believe a word she said.
At fourteen her mother died in a routine operation, from allergic reaction to a general anesthetic. She spent the rest of her teens experimenting with prescriptions, in a futile attempt to know more than the doctors.
She said one day to leave her, sand up to her shoulders waiting for the tide
to drag her to the ocean, to another sea’s shore.
This thing hurts like hell,
but what did you expect?
And all you can hear is the sound of your own heart
And all you can feel is your lungs flood and the blood course
But oh I can see five hundred years dead set ahead of me
Five hundred behind,
A thousand years in perfect symmetry
Best known left wrist right finger, through all the Southern States, on every video games machine they call her triple A.
There were racists on the radio trying to give up smoking, the chat show host, he joked “you have to wait for the government program”.
You talk about your politics, and I wonder if you could be one of them, but you could never kiss a Tory boy without wanting to cut off your tongue again.
A good place to look to the future is when you are sat at the sea, with the salt up to your ankles and a view of the end of the pier, you may look down at your model’s feet and wish that you’d just float away, and the weather here is overcast and the sea is the same shade of grey, so the landscape before you looks just like the edge of the world, but to the left side and the right side, either way is a crazy golf course.
The sea is a good place to think of the future.
And all you can hear is the sound of your own heart
And all you can feel is your lungs flood and the blood course
But oh I can see five hundred years dead set ahead of me
Five hundred behind,
A thousand years in perfect symmetry
A thousand years no getting rid of me
A thousand years in perfect symmetry.
Ah, thanks, I was just about to e-mail and ask for lyrics.
The song is stunning. Really, properly incredible. I can’t stop listening to it. Thank you.
Amazing stuff. It reminds me of Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time but with less fuzziness. Been checking the site daily to try and catch this, so glad it’s here. Now I can play it over and over on repeat on the train tomorrow morning – I was going to revisit Brighten the Corners but this excites me more!
Now. Come to Australia!
The Tory line makes me think of Coupling, but there’s probably no relation
This is gorgeous. It’s the first thing I’ve heard all day and nearly cried halfway through. Cannot wait for the new album, you’ve done it again, you brilliant bastards.
This is utterly incredible. Incredible. This whole thing has me on the verge of tears.
I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited about an album than I am LC!3
Harriet!!!!!!!! The strings are so beautiful. awesome. thank you.
This is amazing! I can’t wait for the new album. The chorus vocal is so amazing, especially the bit at the end. Really genuine lyrics (but when are they not with Los Campesinos! ?). And the video is just as amazing. I really found the contrast between the idea of the song and the party at the beach tied together by the whole “Sea” theme. Who directed that?
Thank you ever so much. The lyrics are wonderful. I can not wait for more. Thank you again.
This is the most gorgeous, depressing song I’ve ever heard. Holy shit. This makes me even more excited than I previously was for the new album.
When will I get to hear it live in Australia?
This is beautiful.
this is beautiful and sad and amazing. i’m so excited about seeing lc! in oxford next month.
LOVE THIS. Love the direction you guys are taking, sounds great! Can’t wait for the new album.
This >> Muse’s new one.
Man you guys are awesome. I cannot wait until October the 23rd. <3
So so so so so so good. It made unistuff shopping in the likes of Asda and Matalan much more tolerable.
i cannot get over this. wonderful
Thank you Los Campesinos! for making my life a million times better. as if the day couldnt get any better that HEALTH released Get Color today, then I stumbled upon this. This is great I love the sound and I love you all!
This will on repeat on my iphone for several weeks!
A thousand years no getting rid of me
A thousand years in perfect symmetry.
That has to be the most beautiful set of lines ever written.
Perfect Balance. Perfect Song.
you made me shriek in delight
Absolutley wonderful xx
Thank you so much… It was great. Lovely, lovely song.
LC,
From everyone, thanks so much for the free download. I haven’t given it a proper listen yet, but I just wanted to let you know that from what I’ve heard, I think I’ll like the new direction of the band. I do miss the twee, I do. But it seems that as I grow up and mature, so does your music. I appreciate that.
Hope the US treated you well,
Kyle
Stunning is definetely the best word to describe this. I had chills watching this. Morbid, happy, hopeful, regardless the mood of the song, you manage to make everything beautiful..I would have to say that this is undoubtedly your most emotional song..I really can’t wait for the enw record. Please, continue to astonish me.
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thank you thank you thank you
/brain explodes… Pretty dang good song here
that was amazing. thank you again, los campesinos! i love you and your music so much.
love the conitnuing direction. you guys are becoming even bettwer which i didn’t think was possible
fuck the beatles… this is the better 9-9-09 release!
Great song guys. The darker the better if you ask me.
Best bit?
“This thing hurts like hell,
but what did you expect?”
a m a z i n g
Tune
I love you forever LC!
LC! this song fucking rules.
love,
radmike
this is amazing!
is this gonna be on LP3 Big G?
I think this is probably the best thing you’ve ever done
Did you have to be mean to us Tories? : (
Channeling your inner Dylan Thomas here? Maybe I’m only saying that because of the Welsh connection… but the man loved his women, and his sea seemed to spread out and engulf all four corners of the map.
Good lyrics.
i like the song, it’s different but i think it will grow on me
Thomas – Yes. Apologies.
Listen to so much. Saw you live at newcatle collage last year.. This song has simply made me certain to buy a ticket this year.
Wow amazing ambience.
I feel like I’m stood with my nose pressed up against the window of a great party that I was invited to but nobody can hear me knocking on the door for the music. Why won’t it let me download the track? I’ve tried watching the video but had to give up because my tinternet is slow and it was constantly buffering. Help! How can I hear this track?
There was a couple of tears from me. Is this the one you meant when you said you cried first time you heard it?
Amazing. Can’t wait till manchester.
Loved You Guys in Grand Rapids, Detroit, and Cleveland.
This song is brilliant.
The trying to know more than the doctors line and the bit about all the videogames calling her triple A both completely slay me. Way to pack in the concise storytelling, humor and pathos.
I’m writing this while my incredibly slow internet tries to download the song. The bit that I’ve managed to listen to which isn’t even a minute long is amazing. Gorgeous guitar, beautiful strings, all accompanied by Gareth’s amazing voice. Read through the lyrics and they held their own even without music behind them. Really, really incredible song. Thank you LC! for the download and preview and thank you for making such beautiful music. Keep being your wonderful selves
thank you
xxx
oh my god, this is so lush and gorgeous and so, so sad. the lyrics are brilliant, i keep trying to select bits to quote at people but i can’t possbly choose. i don’t understand how you are so good at doing wonderful things that bring me joy even though they are sometimes so very sad, but i’m so glad for it, please keep it up & come back to the states soon! i’ve seen you in NYC twice now and honestly i think i’ll try to if i can every time you swing by. <3
wow. This just made my day. I love you guys.
Wow, this is absolutely stunning, can’t wait for the new album and SWN. When the new Girls 7″ (finally) arrived this morning I thought the day couldn’t get much better… how wrong I was…
great song, no sure why maybe the summer kind of feel but it made me think of my favorite summer album Unrest-Imperial FFRR
Oh my, I do like this.
the song is epic, thank you bunches =]
It sounds so differnt from any other Los Campesinos! song but at the same time I would not mistake it for being anyone else. I feel like the lyrics are a step up from everything else you have done and the song is just beautiful. I really like it a lot guys.
Just wondering, is this a pre-album bonus one like How I Taught Myself… or is it going to be on the album?
I feel like a sycophant but I like the new musical direction, as much as part of me is yearning so much for It Started With A Mixx back.
This is absolutely stunningly beautiful. I know everyone has already said this but I thought I’d just let you know again.
You have grown so much in the past three years, positively so (even though I loved you from the very beginning). I might actually die of happiness when the new album comes out.
You guys are the best. I love you.
I just cried.
In a good way of course. You lot are really just so good, for lack of better word, since I can’t seem to come up with one at the moment.
Well if the new album is going to be anything like this, I am pumped! It’s not as sunny as LC!’s other stuff but I really like the change.
brilliant. magnificent. and several oter sinonims for perfect.
When i downloaded the song the mp3 file says its also the name of the album. Is this correct?
brilliant.
I love this! Great job Campesinos!
beyond amazing. seriously, you’ve outdone yourselves. this is perfect.
Love this! This morning I had two minutes before I had to go so I just unknowingly threw it on a CD with How I Taught Myself to Scream and happened to have a bad day. This song was just perfect for the ride home and some how cheered me up, especially the What did you expect!? bit, so thanks for putting this out.
Love the new style.
Amazing. I really can’t wait for the album.
Do I have to buy Quicktime 7 Pro to download?
am i loser for sort of tearing up at this? i still stand by it. lovely song. absolutely lovely. it sounds more grown up for you guys, but you’re still the best band ever because of it.
This is my new favourite song. Beautiful.
This is great, thank you very much. heart the dynamics, the density of the arrangement, the rhythms of yr vocals. Is this by any chance that day at the beach you blogged about a few months back? did you know you were going to make it the video? And is there no experience that can’t be made sober with good editing and the right soundtrack?
Anyway, when the leaves start to change, I will drive around with this and a sweater on. thx again
absolutley brilliant song- one of my favorites, I think. it seems the beautiful anorexic foot-model is come again, not that anyone minds, of course. sorry for sounding stupid, but how exactly do you download the song? i cant seem to figure it out…
beautiful song- one of my new favorites, i think =]
sorry for sounding stupid, but how do you download the song? it wont seem to work for me… D:
utterly superb, can’t wait for the manchester deaf institute gig!
Gareth, you fucking genius, (So is the rest of the band)
each time i try to download it it’s only a thirty second clip? any suggestions? and it sounds amazing.
I had to post for the second time today. The song is up on the LC! myspace if people are having trouble listening to it through buffering video or whatever. I must have heard it at least 10 times today. This better be on the new LP…it’s breathtaking the first to tenth times.
hi guys
another great tune – well done – cant wait to see you all in Cov.
was that video shot at Barry Island ??
Chuck
Longtime reader, first-time poster. Just dropped in to say “Oh-My-God.”
This is what I will listen to on my walk home from school tomorrow. Perfect! Reminds me of Washington winters.
Oh my god, the percussion is just…Amazing
This has to be one of your best songs yet.
Notice the YET, the new album is going to be superb, I can feel it.
wow.
im am so excited for the upcoming album…ahhhh
great song!..i love it!!
You’ve made my day yet once more. Thank you.
Thank you, this sounds terrific
x
Props to harriet for the amazing strings
rly, rly good.
Really great, especially the lyrics. I like the narrative style.
Is the new header anything to do with the new album?
Can anybody help? I’ve spent the best part of a day seeing ‘Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage’ rather than a download box. Does anybody have an idea why everyone else can download this track but me?
This is amazing. It’s already on my ipod. Yes this is the best day ever.
G, is this based on truth? Either way it’s one of the most beautiful songs you lot have made thus far. All your songs are amazing, but this one is really moving.
faaaantastic
Painfully beautiful, impossibly perfect.
And I don`t say that very often.
Aaaaaaaand now we know Gareth’s politics?
This is beautiful! It reminds me of Why? too. I personally found this very touching. I have a friend who had an eating disorder and was at a clinic for a few months, earlier this year. She studied French too. She’s recently gotten well again (although still on medication). It’s hard to explain, but the first verse sums up everything incredibly well!
This is a really special song.
Thank you Los Campesinos!
Really looking forward to the tour. x
What a surprise, thank you for the wonderful song. It’s quite different but unmistakably a LC! song. Keep making such fantastic music.
My dear Los Campesinos!,
Thank you for sharing your beautiful work with us. You are growing by leaps and bounds as artists, and I await the new album with great anticipation. Yes, the previous albums, EPs, etc. will always hold a special place, but you’re not looking back, for which I applaud you. Cheers.
I like it!
and i like twee also.
My dreams are filled with your new album. After listening to this wonderful, fantastic, beautiful song yesterday, I had a dream last night about killing a man to get the first copy of this album made. Then the police caught me and took my c.d. and I cried and then they played Jimi Hendrix’ version of the American National Anthem over and over until I went insane.
So, moral of the story, wanting the album SOON.
Clay
amazing! the video is so perfect too, such a beautiful song….probably one of your best
xx
THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC!!!
Wonderful song, beautiful lyrics and a sublime balance between strings and guitars. If the rest of the album is anywhere near as good as this song you’ve got gold. Thanks LC for living up to the high expectations.
Hi, still no luck – is this track still available? Does anyone have a clue as to why I can’t download it?
Like it. Not as dancey as previous endeavors, good to mix things up!
Try right-click, “Save Link As…”
Good luck!
Holy shit! The new album must be amazing.
Thanks, got it at last – I was just being dumb, obviously!! Wonderful wonderful stuff, evocative and atmospheric. Like the best short stories, it sits inside you for a minute after it ends and you can smell it fading away – dusty copper and flaking paint in saline air.
this just made my year, thank you thank you thank you thank you for being such brilliant people!
This is stunning.
Thanks x
all has been said before, but yes, this song is amazing, yes i can’t wait for the new album, yes i can’t wait for the october tour. And yes, the video is gooood.
x
Veee
I love this song. I’ve listened to it so many times already. It gives me the chills that’s how good it is.
amazing song guys
i am glad to say that it’s got that LC! quality of getting better with every listen, despite the fact it already started out as awesome.
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man…this song is sad and sweet, i cant stop listening to it!!!…,well i hope the new album is released soon!
I love it. Awesome song. Can’t wait for the album and to see you back in Montreal, Canada.
I just got a sad, fuzzy feeling inside. Amazing.
beautiful video… the song gets better with it
That’s beautiful, I love it, so excited for your new album.
Absolutely stunning, I cannot wait for the album, its release is going to be an event and a half i’m sure…LC for life.
incredible song so pleased to have something new to obsess over.
but… is it me or does the video just really seem not to go with the song. just a thought. class song
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this song is beautiful and inspiring. thank you so much LC! i hope that i will be able to write lyrics like these one day x
Beautiful.
Simply stunning! What a great song! Almost wish you hadn’t posted it, now I can’t wait even more for the new album (kidding). btw I hope at some point you guys make it to Buffalo, NY. I want to see you guys so bad! Pretty please?
I agree that that felt like a party that I wasn’t invited to. At the same time, it feels like a moment too precious to invade.
I thought I loved you guys, but then you swept me off my feet when Gareth walked on stage drinking from a two-liter coke bottle and Aleks sang her heart out even though she was sick. Now this.
Thank you from the bottom, top, and septum of my heart.
i refuse to listen to this out of context. album plzlollll.
150 comments, that’s impressive.
Awesome, can’t stop listening!
Hey Gareth, great song and even better t-shirt in the video. Wedding Present FTW!
It definitely speaks to me.
:)
I play it everyday now, it just gets stuck in my head. People go on about the change of direction with the band but i love everything you’ve done and everything you’re doing! Keep it up
this song is too good for words
I’ve been listening to this two days straight now. It’s beyond words.
I’ve been listening to this song on repeat since you made it available, it’s spectacular. I look forward to hearing me, and to seeing y’all live again whenever you reach california again.
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This song is ridiculously awesome, I really hope you guys put out a new album soon. I am so happy that to know that this song is out. Please come to Keene State College in New Hampshire. Haha
Just five days after this comes out and suddenly it’s played on Spanish radio. I only just came into the room and heard “nueva cancion de Los Campesinos!, The Sea Is A Good Place To Think of the Future”, strings start, internet dies… Lame.
But yeah, you’re hot news on Spanish radio.
I am always worried when band I really really like puts out something new. Short time periods between recording always makes me increasingly nervous that I will be disappointed. Fortunately, when it comes to LC this line of thinking is total gobshite. Unbelievable lyrics and arrangement, one can only hope for a thousands years of this perfect symmetry.
P.S.’s: 1) Garreth do u have a foot fetish? 2) Ellen looks smashing (and the rest of you look quite sporty as well)! 3) Alex, PLEASE DON’T LEAVE!!
Seriously, fuck ME, that’s amazing
Thank you LC!
That is an amazing piece of music, and the lyrics are superb as usual. Just beautiful.
So what do I do w/ a 12 sec MP3 audio file? I am not able to d/l it fully. What gives?
Good lad for putting in the line about crazy golf, clearly time in Paignton well spent and an inspirational experience.
More blogging from Ellen please.
Cello!
Grey sky today @ Buenos Aires. This song would do great up here. Hope it rains!
Almost forgot! It’s healing, like “the record is about to end” song or Blur’s “tender”! Keep it. Have nice days over and over!
The first time you hear “And all you can hear is the sound of your own heart” gives you such a great rush.
As a couple have said above, it’d be great to hear it played live in Australia.
is anyone from the LC! gang going to Pavement in NYC?
Thank you so much for the song is a great sign of you.
I AM!
Sorry. I am. The first show on the 22nd. Hopeful for a Toronto announcement as well. Seems likely.
SO INCREDIBLY EXCITED!
p.s. I assume “LC gang” refers to the band, and not, you know, me, but anyway. As I said – SO EXCITED.
Sounds A LOT like Modest Mouse, but still a great song. Love it.
Great song
!!
I love youu!!!
Come back to Mexico please!!!
<33333
That’s a very pretty song.
I missed out on tickets to the garage, hopefully I’ll catch you on the festival circuit this year!
How embarrassing… I just left fan mail…!
You guys are incredible.
Utterly amazing, you never put a foot wrong, even with this so-called new direction, just amazing.
Can’t wait to see you all in Leeds, then in Doncaster with the Cribs.
X
I like this song way. Sounds a lot like Fevers and Mirrors era Bright Eyes, and I would love to hear more of that. Shame CO disowns his younger persona. It’s a great blend of sounds. Nice to hear you guys strip things down and get somber. More, and come to Sf. Please and thank you.
sick track
Wow… simply wow! I really love this song; but, I haven’t really come across a LC! song that I don’t love.
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this has been in my head foreva
so goooood
when does the new album come out!?
Just noticed that the Vimeo page for this shows viewing stats.
23.2k views! My MP3 player has been fecked so at least 60-70 of those have been me in college.
I had never heard of Los Campesinos! before…This was posted on a blog I occasionally follow. Sadly not wild about the video, but the song BLEW ME AWAY! I must have listened to it ten times in a row by now. Sheer epic awesomeness. Like seriously, one of the most amazing pieces of music I’ve heard recently
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you guys still got and never lose it. Thank god
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Beautiful. Just beautiful. “And all you can hear is the sounds of your own heart…”
Amazzzzzzzzzzzzzzing!
LOVE YOU GUYS
how come you always get to speak MY mind, whether i’m happy or thoughtful? geniuses. hope you’ll come back to rome even though there were like twelve of us at your last show. lots of love.
This is a beautiful song. I’ve listened about ten times today. Thank you! First heard you guys when I was living in Canada – wish I had when I was living in the UK! I hope you love what you’re doing because we sure do.
[...] Here’s the video for “The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future,” the first track that dropped a few weeks ago. Technically, it’s not the first single (”There are Listed Buildings”), but I’m not sure what that means in the world of digital distribution. Except, I suppose, that they’re selling vinyl editions of “There are Listed Buildings” at their shows. This is shot by bassist Ellen (the official unofficial videographer of the group) and a friend, and fits beautifully with the melancholia of the song. (via LC!) [...]
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I have got to say this is the best song i’ve ever heard, i thought that from “Hold on now youngster” it couldn’t get any better… I am amazed, keep it up, cheers!
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is there any way that i can get hold of this without quicktime pro? i like neeeeeed this song! its amazing! xxxx
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love it