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Los Campesinos! are machines.  They released two stellar albums (“Hold On Now, Youngster…” and “We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed”) in the span of a year, they tour constantly, and now they’re reaching the release date of their next album, “Romance is Boring,” is due out next month.

Los Campesinos! have to be one of my favorite new bands.  They sound like they are having a ton of fun making music, but they’ve got the melodic and lyrical chops to back it up.  Their songs are always simultaneously fun and heart wrenching.  Take, for example, “It’s Never That Easy Though, Is It?” which rolls at a breakneck speed with violins, xylophone, and saccharine harmonies as lines like “I walked into the room to see my ex-girlfriend/Who by the way, I’m still in love with/ Sucking the face of some pretty boy with my favourite band’s most popular song/ In the background/ Is it wrong that I can’t decide which bothers me most?” spill from the lead singer’s mouth in a thick Welsh accent.

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If you haven’t heard this band’s music yet, please check it out.  For a band that favors long song titles, exclamation points, and slightly sloppy instrumentation, they’re surprisingly consistent.  Hopefully “Romance is Boring” is another win and they keep churning out great albums at this pace.  I really dig their lead single for the album, which, with its chugging guitars, is slightly sleeker than past efforts, but maintains the ramshackle joy and speed of past tracks.

Check out the new video for the album’s title track here.

Check out the interview I did with Tom from Los Campesinos! from their “Hold On Now, Youngster…” tour HERE.

Photo stolen (with love and gratitude) from this guy.