Los Campesinos! Release New More Hell EP: Listen

The Los Campesinos! comeback continues. After returning, in July, with their first album since 2017, All Hell, they’re now releasing the companion EP Extra 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 after I was a teen. For years, this tape dub was the one manner I had of listening to the track, and I’d play it again and again. Just a little later, I’d purchase the Demise Cab You Can Play These Songs With Chords CD and was struck by lightning after I surprisedly heard their model. I beloved this, too, and it grew to become a staple of the love letter combine CDs I’d make for others. Sooner or later, I discovered a trashy MP3 on Soulseek, however would maintain going again to the tape till 2012 when anyone uploaded the unique model of the track to YouTube. A rip of the vinyl audio, taking part in atop a video of the 7″ spinning on a turntable. It feels type of excellent that the unique, 30 years since its launch, nonetheless hasn’t made its technique 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 parts and nice musicians to return to the entrance. It wasn’t a part of the plan, however it grew to become clear that the unique vocal performances now not made sense when introduced this fashion, nor the guitars, so we rapidly re-recorded these in a day in Cardiff, and now I really like them, too.”