Los Campesinos! w/New LP in Nov.

On the hippest label in North America, to boot!

By Blurt Staff

Cardiff, Wales, septet Los Campesinos! are set to release their second album We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed in North America on November 11 via Arts & Crafts.

Los Campesinos! took North America by storm this past year, first landing with the six-song Ep, Sticking Fingers Into Sockets, in July 2007 and making their U.S. debut performance at Lollapalooza, launching the explosive single, “You! Me! Dancing!” Then in April of this year, Los Campesinos! returned with their debut full-length, Hold On Now, Youngster, which garnered glowing reviews from all the right hipsters.

Upon the conclusion of the band’s extensive North American tour this past spring, Los Campesinos! remained on America’s West Coast, in a Seattle studio with producer John Goodmanson (Sleater-Kinney/Blonde Redhead/Bikini Kill) for a two week recording session and returned to Wales to mix at Monnow Valley.

In a recent note to their fans the band had this to say: “This is no B-sides, rarities or ‘songs that weren’t good enough to be on the album cobbled together with some remixes and field recordings’ collection. It’s all new tracks that none of you have ever heard before. Sure, we considered re-releasing a radio-edit of ‘You! Me! Dancing!’ and trying to get famous, scrape another tour out of that, but our parents unanimously agreed that if we did they would never speak to us again.”

Well, all right then. For the entire website posting from Los Campesinos! visit www.loscampesinos.com

We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed track listing:

1. Ways To Make It Through The Wall

2. Miserabilia

3. We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

4. Between An Erupting Earth And An Exploding Sky

5. You'll Need Those Fingers For Crossing

6. It's Never That Easy Though, Is It? (Song For The Other Kurt)

7. The End Of The Asterisk

8. Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown # 1

9. Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time

10. All Your Kayfabe Friends