The Los Campesinos! comeback continues. After returning, in July, with their first album since 2017, All Hell, they’re now releasing the companion EP More Hell. It options alternate variations of 5 All Hell songs and a brand new cowl of the Secret Stars’ “Wait.” Discover the brand new EP beneath; scroll down for the group’s 2025 tour dates.
In an announcement, the band’s Gareth David mentioned, “The Secret Stars’ ‘Wait,’ was included on a mixtape a good friend made me once I was a teen. For years, this tape dub was the one approach I had of listening to the track, and I’d play it time and again. A bit of later, I’d purchase the Demise Cab You Can Play These Songs With Chords CD and was struck by lightning once I surprisedly heard their model. I liked this, too, and it grew to become a staple of the love letter combine CDs I’d make for others. In some unspecified time in the future, I discovered a trashy MP3 on Soulseek, however would maintain going again to the tape till 2012 when any person uploaded the original version of the song to YouTube. A rip of the vinyl audio, enjoying atop a video of the 7″ spinning on a turntable. It feels form of excellent that the unique, 30 years since its launch, nonetheless hasn’t made its strategy to streaming. I hope our model will discover a place on playlists you ship to others to maintain this cycle going.”
Tom Bromley added, “I do know it’s self indulgent, however I really like the strings on All Hell, and I really like the sax, and I really like all of the intimate particulars that may get misplaced in a fuller association, and stripping the songs again to those skeletal variations permits all these components and nice musicians to come back to the entrance. It wasn’t a part of the plan, but it surely grew to become clear that the unique vocal performances not made sense when offered this manner, nor the guitars, so we shortly re-recorded these in a day in Cardiff, and now I really like them, too.”
Los Campesinos!:
02-08 Dublin, Eire – Button Manufacturing facility
02-14 London, England – Troxy
02-15 London, England – Troxy
06-07 Barcelona, Spain – Parc del Fòrum (Primavera Sound Barcelona)
06-12-15 Porto, Portugal – Parque da Cidade (Primavera Sound Porto)
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