The UK’s first and only emo band Los Campesinos! return with their highly-anticipated seventh album, All Hell. It is perhaps their most ambitious and assured album yet, whilst simultaneously recalling everything we’ve come to love about LC! over their faultless discography. Recorded between October 2023 and February 2024, it is the first album to be wholly self-produced by band member Tom Bromley (having co-produced previous albums Sick Scenes and NO BLUES). The album is also self-released on the band’s own Heart Swells record label.
In the band’s words All Hell is an album about…
Drinking for fun and drinking for misery // adult acne // adult friendship // football // death and dying // love and sex // late-stage capitalism // Orpheus // day dreaming // night terrors // the heart as an organ and as a burden // Tears of the Kingdom // the punks on the playlist // increments of time // climate apocalypse // the moon the moon the moon///
Los Campesinos! have become one of the most important and influential cult acts in the UK since they formed in the mid-2000s. Starting out in the Cardiff indie scene and soundtracking Budweiser adverts, the seven-piece’s musical evolution since then has been slow, steady and remarkable. From the frenzied chaos of debut album Hold On Now, Youngster… (2008) through 2010 breakthrough Romance is Boring and the self-mythologising of latter day highlights NO BLUES (2013) and Sick Scenes (2017), their discography is an interconnected web of niche references, big swings and unflinching honesty.
Tracklisting
A1 The Coin-Op Guillotine
A2 Holy Smoke (2005)
A3 A Psychic Wound
A4 I. Spit; or, a Bite Mark In The Shape Of The Sunflower State
B1 Long Throes
B2 Feast Of Tongues
B3 The Order Of The Seasons
B4 II. Music For Aerial Toll House
C1 To Hell In a Handjob
C2 Clown Blood/Orpheus’ Bobbing Head
C3 kms
C4 III. Surfing a Contrail
D1 Moonstruck
D2 0898 HEARTACHE
D3 Adult Acne Stigmata
Heart Swells
