Owen Richards
Recording sessions in Fridao, Portugal during Euro 2016 have produced the next Los Campesinos! album.
“This was the longest the band had gone without releasing any music,” lead guitarist Tom says. “That was for a whole bunch of reasons, but I also deliberately tried to resist putting ideas together for as long as possible so I could feel excited about writing again. I was touring with Perfume Genius in 2015 and I think a combination of long van rides listening to music with too much time to (over)think, as well as getting to play guitar on PG’s beautiful and weird, affecting songs every night got me all excited about working on ideas again.”
“So halfway through the tour we had a fortnight off in Seattle where I put together all the ideas I’d been collecting and started the process of a new album.”
Sick Scenes is to be released on February 24th, 2017, but first single I Broke Up In Amarante is here right now.
Sick Scenes tracklist:
Renato Dall’Ara (2008)
Sad Suppers
I Broke Up In Amarante
A Slow, Slow Death
The Fall Of Home
5 Flucloxacillin
Here’s To The Fourth Time!
For Whom The Belly Tolls
Got Stendhal’s
A Litany/Heart Swells
Hung Empty