Los Campesinos! announce new album 'Sick Scenes'

Los Campesinos! are back with a brand new album next year.

Titled ‘Sick Scenes’, the band’s follow up to 2013’s ‘No Blues’ is set for release on February 24th via Wichita Recordings.

It comes alongside the lead track, ‘I Broke Up In Amarante’. “The song’s about battling with bad mental health,” frontman Gareth Campesinos! explains. “Trying to comfort and reason with yourself over something you can’t control. Specifically it’s about how my main coping mechanism was to keep myself constantly drunk in the blistering heat of Amarante while being failed by a largely terrible international football tournament.”

There’s a new batch of tour dates too, including a UK run this coming April and May.

You can check out ‘I Broke Up In Amarante’, as well as those live dates, the album’s tracklisting and artwork, below. You can also give it a spin via our Spotify Brand New Bangers playlist right now, and follow to get the best new music curated straight into your app.

December

03 Cardiff, Wales - Clwb for Bach

04 Leeds, England - Us vs Them - Brudnell Social Club

05 London, England - UK Moth Club

February

20 Seattle, WA - The Neptune Theatre

21 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Imperial

22 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge

25 Los Angeles, CA - The Teragram Ballroom

March

01 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club

02 Chicago, IL - Metro

03 Detroit, MI - El Club

04 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop

05 Toronto, Ontario - Velvet Underground

06 Pittsburgh, PA - Rex Theater

08 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts

09 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club

10 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw

11 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club

April

27 Liverpool, England - Arts Centre

28 Glasgow, Scotland - Stereo

29 Sheffield, England - Queens Social Club

30 London, England - Koko

May

05 Brighton, England - The Haunt

06 Norwich, England - Arts Centre

07 Birmingham, England - Hare & Hounds

with Crying

‘Sick Scenes’ tracklisting

01 Renato Dall’Ara (2008)

02 Sad Suppers

03 I Broke Up in Amarante

04 A Slow, Slow Death

05 The Fall of Home

06 5 Flucloxacillin

07 Here’s to the Fourth Time!

08 For Whom the Belly Tolls

09 Got Stendhal’s

10 A Litany/Heart Swells

11 Hung Empty