Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness (10th Anniversary Reissue)

Released 18th February 2022.

Hello 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 isa horny, hilarious tragi-comedy, rife with masturbation, stallion-like thighs and a sick covered rental tuxedo. Songs About Your Girlfriend is sarcasticand punchy, with lines cribbed from T.I songs and a drunken brag of a chorus.

But by the title track, the bravado evaporates and from there on out, Hello Sadness might be the most gut wrenching, emotionally devastatingalbum the group has ever produced - quite a feat considering the rest of their catalogue.

Recorded back in 2011, just outside of Figueres, Catalonia, and their first with new members Kim, Jason and Rob, it's an album of br