Los Campesinos! - Hello SadnessHello Sadness is Los Campesinos! shooting for a pop album. Not pop punk, not indie pop punchy, pristine pop. But as with everything in life, nothing ever quite goes to plan. The UKs First and Only Emo Band (see also: Your Ex Girlfriends Favourite Band), started off with the best of intentions. Opener By Your Hand is a horny, hilarious tragi comedy, rife with masturbation, stallion like thighs and a sick covered rental tuxedo. Songs About Your

It features Walter Rhodes

Émilie Tiersen has

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Frances has built a universe full of intimacy and depth

The album reveals itself much like a coming of age novel about the breaking apart of girlhood and rebuilding of a young woman

smoky voice which she likes to keep at a whisper” - Consequence of Sound

taken from jams and improvised sets taken from theåÊRainbowhead recordings in Kyle of Lochalsh

It may not be for you

The first song recorded for the project was Check My Machine (eventually included as a B-side on the Waterfalls single)

'Light Upon the Lake' on Secretly Canadian

“came together in such a crazy way - all equal parts ecstasy and terror

Then you go to the supermarket and you bump into someone you kind of know and you have to pretend that everything’s OK when