Los Campesinos! will return this fall with their fourth album, Hello Sadness, mixed, mastered, and ready for release on November 14. Recorded in Spain’s Girona province by Romance Is Boring producer John Goodmanson, the Welsh indie outfit described the effort on their official site:
Hello Sadness is ten songs of love, loss and heartbreak nail-gunned to a back-drop of broken, tangled bodies, creeping, dead-eyed animals, suffocating, looming shadows and World Cup exits. It is an honest, bare bones documentation of breaking up and trying not to break up in the process. Hello Sadness.
As a fan of break-up records, this doubling down on that theme is sounding particularly promising. You can pre-order the set — complete with the stark album cover above — today alongside a collection of demos, and check out their latest round of awesome song titles below. *Update: Check out new song “By Your Hand” after the jump:
Hello Sadness
01. “By Your Hand”
02. “Songs About Your Girlfriend”
03. “Hello Sadness”
04. “Life Is A Long Time”
05. “Every Defeat A Divorce (Three Lions)”
06. “Hate For The Island”
07. “The Black Bird, The Dark Slope”
08. “To Tundra”
09. “Baby I Got The Death Rattle”
10. “Light Leaves, Dark Sees pt. II”