Not a band to rest on their laurels, this is the fourth album from Los Campesinos! in the four years since they signed to Wichita.

Undoubtedly their strongest recordings to date, this is the first album to feature new drummer Jason Campesinos! and the first album on which Kim has taken over lead female vocal duties.

They returned to the studio with the producer of their previous two records, John Goodmanson (Death Cab For Cutie, Blonde Redhead, Sleater-Kinney, Wu Tang Clan).

Hello Sadness is ten songs of love, loss and heartbreak nail-gunned to a back-drop of broken, tangled bodies, creeping, dead-eyed animals, suffocating, looming shadows and World Cup exits. It is an honest, bare-bones documentation of breaking up and trying not to break up in the process. A record whose complexion changed dramatically when, on the eve of recording, the end of a relationship meant every word that had been penned before had to be rewritten.

“It feels like we’ve done all our growing up while in this band,” says vocalist Gareth Campesinos! “Not like we’re Hanson, or anything. But we’ve been Los Campesinos! since finishing university, and in that time we’ve all changed as people massively. That’s something we want to put across in the music.”

As a result, Hello Sadness is a record made by a band united, all pulling in the same direction with the result being Los Campesinos!’ most lean, direct, coherent, and simultaneously exhilarating and debilitating collection of songs to date.

LP is 180g vinyl in gatefold sleeve and it includes the 16 page CD booklet and digital download code. Limited to 500 copies.