The album's first single, "There Are Listed Buildings," will be released digitally on November 3, 2009; a video for the single can currently be seen on the band's website herefeatures guest turns by Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart, Parenthetical Girls' Zac Pennington and The Dead Science's Jherek Bischoff.

Like the high-octane energy that envelopes their songs, the world has moved at a full-throttle pace for the Welsh seven-piece since the release of their debut album, Hold On Now, Youngster, at the start of 2008. With a smattering of acclaim both here and abroad under their belts, they released a mini-album later in the year called We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed, which landed on many of '08's year-end lists and received rave reviews from the likes of Rolling Stone, Spin, Entertainment Weekly and more. Tours across the U.S. with No Age and Parenthetical Girls followed; each time Los Campesinos! came to town, the venues got bigger, the pogoing hoards jumped higher, and the voices screamed louder to each song. After ending their U.S. run with incredible sets at this year's Coachella and Lollapalooza festivals, Los Campesinos! put the finishing touches on their brilliant forthcoming record. The resulting album is simply their finest – an arrow of sonic excitement moving at a dizzying speed and aiming straight for your heart (if only just to break it).

Romance is Boring, which was recorded in Seattle, Connecticut and Monmouthshire, Wales, sees our seven heroes expanding their instrumental palette to include brass, drum machines and strings, creating a more varied sound than their previous albums. The band says the album is about "the death and decay of the human body, lost love, mental breakdown and football," but we hear more than just that: packed within the record's fifteen tracks are sexual frustration, suicidal tendencies, uninhibited joy, relentless regret and unbridled sarcasm. Romance is Boring is an album that's bigger, deeper, more complex and more direct than anything Los Campesinos! has recorded to date. There are huge choruses ("There Are Listed Buildings") and squalling dissonance ("Plan A"), sheets of twinkling electronic ambience ("Coda: A Burn Scar In The Shape Of The Sooner State") and more great lyrics than you could ever hope to pin down in a press release. Some songs read like diary confessionals ("The Sea is a Good Place To Think of the Future"), while others shift pace and timing, creating taut atmospheres anchored by passionate vocal deliveries ("I Warned You Do Not Make An Enemy of Me," "I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, So You Know.") And though the band's signature touches – sing-along group choruses, frenetic rhythms and unerring excitement – remain present here, Romance is Boring is the mark of a band that has come into their own, fully realizing their own gloriously messy, marvelous potential.

Los Campesinos! return to America to tour this spring. Details on these shows will be announced soon.


The track listing for Romance is Boring is as follows:
1. In Medias Res
2. There Are Listed Buildings
3. Romance Is Boring
4. We've Got Your Back (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #2)
5. Plan A
6. 200 – 102
7. Straight In At 101
8. Who Fell Asleep In
9. I Warned You: Do Not Make An Enemy of Me
10. Heart Swells/100-1
11. I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know
12. A Heat Rash In The Shape of The Show Me State; Or, Letters From Me to Charlotte
13. The Sea Is A Good Place to Think of the Future
14. This Is A Flag. There Is No Wind
15. Coda: A Burn Scar In the Shape of The Sooner State

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