Pitchfork

The title of their debut album (Hold on Now, Youngster...) may have been a message of restraint, but Los Campesinos! are pursuing this whole "being a band" thing full bore. The Welsh septet will release their sophomore full-length-- We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed-- via Wichita on October 13 in the UK, mere months after Youngster hit stores. A North American release is scheduled for November via Arts&Crafts.

Los Campesinos! spoke about the suddenness of their second album's appearance in a post on their website and in their newsletter: "Despite Hold on Now, Youngster... being only five or so months old, we wanted to emphasize that this is no post-album cash-in.

"It's no B-Sides and rarities or 'songs that weren't good enough to be on the album cobbled together with some remixes and field recordings of Cardiff's indie scene'; it's 10 all-new tracks that none of you have ever heard before.

"Sure, we considered re-releasing a radio-edit of 'You! Me! Dancing!' and trying to get famous and scraping another tour out of that, but our parents unanimously agreed that if we did they would never speak to us again."

Los Campesinos! have an August full of festival shows, but a UK tour announcement is not far behind.

We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed:

01 Ways to Make It Through the Wall
02 Miserabilia
03 We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
04 Between an Erupting Earth and an Exploding Sky
05 You'll Need Those Fingers for Crossing
06 It's Never That Easy Though, Is It? (Song for the Other Kurt)
07 The End of the Asterisk
08 Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #1
09 Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time
10 All Your Kayfabe Friends

Los Campesinos!:

08-02 Manchester, England - A Day at the Races
08-03 Hertfordshire, England - Standon Calling
08-09 Tokyo, Japan - Summersonic
08-10 Osaka, Japan - Summersonic
08-15 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop
08-16 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands - Lowlands
08-17 Brecon, Wales - Greenman Festival
08-23 Reading, England - Reading Festival
08-24 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival