With the football transfer window deadline day in full swing, football obsessed misery-troupe Los Campesinos! have announced details of their forthcoming album, Hello Sadness, which will be released on the 14th November. News of various exciting pre-order bundles, which include a free exclusive t shirt, DVD and CD full of previously unheard demos, was accompanied by this description of the release itself:
"Hello Sadness is ten songs of love, loss and heartbreak nail-gunned to a back-drop of broken, tangled bodies, creeping, dead-eyed animals, suffocating, looming shadows and World Cup exits. It is an honest, bare bones documentation of breaking up and trying not to break up in the process. Hello Sadness."
No change in the kind of themes the band have been exploring since releasing their We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed EP, then. This mixture of existential melodrama, flawed romantic wailings and references to the world of soccer has served their frenetic and foreboding aesthetic perfectly, and ties in with lead singer Gareth's 1970's-'experimental'-author B.S. Johnson-inspired mission to document the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth - whatever that is. A much quoted, particular by Gareth, B.S. Johnson maxim is 'Telling stories is telling lies'.
The band recently announced the departure of violinist, Harriet, from its lineup, and it remains to be seen whether she shall be replaced. She'll definitely be featuring on Hello Sadness though, which promises to be one of the most excitingly miserable albums of the year.
To pre-order the album, along with a whole load more Los Campesinos! goodies, visit the band's website shop
To pre-order the album, along with a whole load more Los Campesinos! goodies, visit the band's website shop
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