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 13.

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"

This decade, the Baltimore-born, New York-raised, globally-based freak-folk outfit Animal Collective have earned a reputation as one of the most forward-thinking, consistently impressive, utterly unique voices in modern music. Having delivered such classics as 2004's Sung Tongs and last year's brain-meltingly good Strawberry Jam, the quartet have operated at a level above and beyond the artistic pale. And to cap off the oughts, AC have announced details of their latest longplayer.

Entitled Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's ninth studio album was recorded at Sweet Tea Studios in Oxford, Mississippi (a studio used, of recent, by those moodists of the NYC, The Walkmen). Though, thus far, guarded in equal parts secrecy and mystery, the forthcoming Merriweather Post Pavilion does feature recent live-favorite "Taste." Needless to say, by January 20, 2009, when the Domino Record Co. serves it up to the world, all shall be revealed.

Merriweather Post Pavilion Track List
1. "In The Flowers"
2. "My Girls"
3. "Also Frightened"
4. "Summertime Clothes"
5. "Daily Routine"
6. "Bluish"
7. "Guys Eyes"
8. "Taste"
9. "Lion In A Coma"
10. "No More Runnin"
11. "Brothersport"