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Los Campesinos! will take their ‘Hello Sadness‘ album around the UK during March with an eleven-date tour.

Los Campesinos! frontman Gareth has admitted to ‘selling out’ after allowing their track ‘You! Me! Dancing!‘ to be used on an advert for Budweiser beer, but has said the band’s pangs of guilt have been eased somewhat because they haven’t yet seen a penny of the fee.

From forthcoming new album ‘Hello Sadness’

Los Campesinos! have offered the opening track from their forthcoming album ‘Hello Sadness‘ as a free download on their official website, and have also unveiled a series of world-wide tour dates for November.

The song ‘By Your Hand‘ has been uploaded to their website, ahead of ‘Hello Sadness’ release on November 14th. The album’s release will coincide with a month long tour which is to take in dates at various locations across the UK and US, as well as a show in Tokyo on November 24th.

Los Campesinos! will release their fourth studio album ‘Hello Sadness‘ on November 14th, it has been announced. The album has been recorded with producer John Goodmanson in Girona, Spain.

Commenting on the new record, the band described a bitter-sweet tale of ‘ten songs of love, loss and heartbreak.’

Los Campesinos! have offered fans an update on the evolution of their third album, revealing the follow up to 2010′s ‘Romance Is Boring‘ is close to completion.

Writing on the band’s official website, frontman Gareth explained how he wanted to allay any frustrations by providing the impromptu progress report.

It is a well-known fact that the recording industry has taken a turn for the worse, but judging by the latest statistics, it appears live music could be heading in the same direction.

The line-up for this year’s Liverpool Music Week, which will feature both ticketed and free gigs taking place at venues across the city from October 23rd to November 13th, has expanded further with the announcement of two new US acts due to take part in the annual event.

Bands including Four Tet, Los Campesinos!, Local Natives and Broken Social Scene lead the line-up for a new British music festivall which is to take place at Leeds University in November.

Welsh band Los Campesinos! will return to the US and Canada in October for a large tour.