"You said send me stationary to make me horny, so I always write you letters in multicolour." The temptation is to write out the entire lyric to this song, which at one and the same time celebrates and lampoons indie pop, while creating a brilliant end of an affair narrative, all in under two minutes.
But then I would run out of space to mention the amazing clatter of boy-girl vocals, strings, and glockenspiel. My Year in Lists is as twee as can be, it even mentions children's sticking plasters; but you would have to have a heart of stone not to fall for Los Campesinos! and their brand of pop, pitched somewhere between Bis and Heavenly, on this, their finest single so far.
From amid this uproarious pile-up, lines like "Nothing says I love you like the poetry I carve in your door with a Stanley knife" swim to the surface like sharks with glittery hairclips for teeth. And enumerating his top five resolutions of the year, Gareth Campesinos and company do the finest counting in a song since Violent Femmes' Kiss Off.
If you have any respect for yourself, you will buy this track now!
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