2009 has been a strange year for Los Campesinos!: they haven't released a single album!The hyperactive Welsh indie-pop posse did the deed twice-over last year, first releasing their debut disc, Hold on Now, Youngster... (one of '08's best albums), and then six months later issuing their second record, We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed; thereby cementing their status as one of 2008's breakout bands.
Now, after the band kept discographically silent this year, 2010 will be bringing with it the third LC! LP. The magnificently-titled Romance is Boring will be released on January 26 in North America via the Broken Social Scene-bankrolled Arts & Crafts, and on the 1st of February in the EU via Wichita.
Writing on their website, Los Campesinos! call Romance is Boring "a record about the death and decay of the human body, sex, lost love, mental breakdown, football and, ultimately, that there probably isn't a light at the end of the tunnel."
Helping them explore the darkness are a bunch of super-special guests, including Jherek Bischoff of the Dead Science, Xiu Xiu mastermind (and sometime Former Ghost) Jamie Stewart, and our old pal Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls. Indeed!
Romance Is Boring Track List:
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"
Los Campesinos Play Four Shows Supporting The Cribs, Just So You Know:
December 2: Birmingham, England - O2 Academy
December 3: London, England - Brixton Academy
December 5: Doncaster, England - Dome
December 6: Edinburgh, Scotland - Corn Exchange
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