Los Campesinos! are back with a brand new album next year.
Titled ‘Sick Scenes’, the band’s follow up to 2013’s ‘No Blues’ is set for release on February 24th via Wichita Recordings.
It comes alongside the lead track, ‘I Broke Up In Amarante’. “The song’s about battling with bad mental health,” frontman Gareth Campesinos! explains. “Trying to comfort and reason with yourself over something you can’t control. Specifically it’s about how my main coping mechanism was to keep myself constantly drunk in the blistering heat of Amarante while being failed by a largely terrible international football tournament.”
There’s a new batch of tour dates too, including a UK run this coming April and May.
You can check out ‘I Broke Up In Amarante’, as well as those live dates, the album’s tracklisting and artwork, below. You can also give it a spin via our Spotify Brand New Bangers playlist right now, and follow to get the best new music curated straight into your app.
December
03 Cardiff, Wales – Clwb for Bach
04 Leeds, England – Us vs Them – Brudnell Social Club
05 London, England – UK Moth Club
February
20 Seattle, WA – The Neptune Theatre *
21 Vancouver, British Columbia – The Imperial *
22 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge *
25 Los Angeles, CA – The Teragram Ballroom *
March
01 Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club
02 Chicago, IL – Metro *
03 Detroit, MI – El Club *
04 Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop *
05 Toronto, Ontario – Velvet Underground *
06 Pittsburgh, PA – Rex Theater *
08 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts *
09 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club *
10 Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw *
11 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club *
April
27 Liverpool, England – Arts Centre
28 Glasgow, Scotland – Stereo
29 Sheffield, England – Queens Social Club
30 London, England – Koko
May
05 Brighton, England – The Haunt
06 Norwich, England – Arts Centre
07 Birmingham, England – Hare & Hounds
* with Crying
‘Sick Scenes’ tracklisting
01 Renato Dall’Ara (2008)
02 Sad Suppers
03 I Broke Up in Amarante
04 A Slow, Slow Death
05 The Fall of Home
06 5 Flucloxacillin
07 Here’s to the Fourth Time!
08 For Whom the Belly Tolls
09 Got Stendhal’s
10 A Litany/Heart Swells
11 Hung Empty