2008, The Year Los Campesinos! Won (My Heart)

Hyperactive, mildly spastic Welsh twee-pop jamboree Los Campesinos! have already issued one of the most brilliant indie sets of 2008: their charm-loaded debut disc Hold On Now, Youngster.... Deciding to keep on keeping on whilst the keeping-on's still good (or, um, something like that), those crazy Los Camp! kids have recently revealed that their second album, We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed, will be their second album of 2008; announcing its imminent arrival for October 27.

In celebration of their swiftly-disseminated second disc, Los Campesinos! have planned one almighty hype-startin' tour of both British and Emerald Isles; playing eight October dates with Sub Pop's red-hot Los Angelino noiseniks No Age, and Matador's in-the-red, overdriven lo-fi jam-kids Times New Viking. When it comes to assembling touring parties of 2008-hype-bands cranking out short, sharp songs, three, it seems, is the heavenly option.

We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed Track List
1. "Ways To Make It Through The Wall"
2. "Miserabilia"
3. "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed"
4. "Between An Erupting Earth And An Exploding Sky"
5. "You'll Need Those Fingers For Crossing"
6. "It's Never That Easy Though, Is It? (Song For The Other Kurt)"
7. "The End Of The Asterisk"
8. "Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown # 1"
9. "Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time"
10. "All Your Kayfabe Friends"