Los Campesinos! Set Release Date for New Album, Announce Tour

Former Paste Band of the Week Los Campesinos! plan to introduce a new sound, singer and subject matter with next year’s release of their third studio album.

In Romance is Boring, the band of twee-punkers say they have added brass and drum machines to their characteristically frenetic melodies. The album also covers “the death and decay of the human body, lost love, mental breakdown and football,” along with the usual topics of regret, suicide and sexual frustration.

Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart, Parenthetical Girls’ Zac Pennington and The Dead Science’s Jherek Bischoff all contribute to the new album, as well a new member. Vocalist and keyboardist Kim Campesinos! joined the band in September, after Aleks Campesinos! left to attend medical school in June.

Romance is Boring is out Jan. 26 through Arts & Crafts.

Tracklist:

1. In Medias Res
2. There Are Listed Buildings
3. Romance Is Boring
4. We’ve Got Your Back (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #2)
5. Plan A
6. 200 – 102
7. Straight In At 101
8. Who Fell Asleep In
9. I Warned You: Do Not Make An Enemy of Me
10. Heart Swells/100-1
11. I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know
12. A Heat Rash In The Shape of The Show Me State; Or, Letters From Me to Charlotte
13. The Sea Is A Good Place to Think of the Future
14. This Is A Flag. There Is No Wind
15. Coda: A Burn Scar In the Shape of The Sooner State

Dates:

February
11 – Wrexham @ Central Station
12 – Liverpool @ The O2
13 – York @ Fibbers
15 – Aberdeen @ Tunnels
16 – Dundee @ The Doghouse
17 – Edinburgh @ The Bongo Club
18 – Derby @ The Venue
19 – Leicester @ Queen’s Hall at the University of Leiceister
21 – Cambridge @ The Junction
22 – Norwich @ Norwich Arts Centre
23 – Brighton @ AUDIO Brighton
24 – Portsmouth @ The Wedgewood Rooms
25 – London @ KOKO
26 – Falmouth @ Princess Pavillion
27 – Bristol @ Thekla