Here is something I said less than a week ago:

! will go down as the one of the greatest bands that only made one album.

Here is what the Los Campesinos! newsletter says today:

We at Los Campesinos! are very happy to announce the release of a new record. Coming on October 13th is ‘We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed‘: ten brand new tracks…

Shows what I know, doesn’t it? I don’t even know what really spawned the original comment, but I’ve thought that for a while. They just seemed like the band destined to not last, and every interview I read with them seems to add to that suspicion. There’s no one specific reason for this, I just have a sense that it’ll all fall apart sooner rather than later. Which to be perfectly honest, that title isn’t really helping with.

Seeing as Hold On Now, Youngster… is my second favourite album of the year (you can guess the first), I’m delighted to be getting new material so quickly. I’ve no idea what to expect from it coming only a few months after the first record, but if there’s anything on it that sounds like My Year in Lists, I’ll be happy enough. Their best song and fifth single (which didn’t chart in the top 200!) with an absurdly simplistic yet brilliant video. How many other bands could get away with an opening line of “send me stationary to make me horny” and still seem so gleefully innocent?