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Los Campesinos! Announce New Album

- Source: The Quietus

Los Campesinos! are heading into the studio to record a new album, report The Line Of Best Fit. The band will head to Bangor's Bryn Derwen studios in their native Wales to lay down their fifth album, their first recording since the departure of previous bass player Ellen Campesinos!.

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Label Profile: Arts & Crafts

- Source: ClashMusic.com

There is an argument that the internet has diluted the importance of the record label, that the ability to self finance, self release has rendered the label structure redundant.

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Review of Shout Out Louds’ Optica and giveaway

- Source: Chromewaves

Frode & Marcus I get why people have such affection for Shout Out Louds' 2005 debut Howl Howl Gaff Gaff ; the way it tapped into the scrappy, garage-rock sound in vogue at the time but rather than the insouciant attitude that typically came with the aesthetic, it offered a wide-eyed and sincere charm and stood apart from the pack for it.

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20 albums for 2013

- Source: Sweeping the Nation

Responsible for two luscious, detailed emotional charges of albums, Rolf Klausener put The Acorn on hiatus for a year and then, with a reworked lineup, started work on a new record in the autumn.

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Thirteen for '13

- Source: Sweeping the Nation

Before the look back at 2012 starts, like so many others, a quick look forward to 2012, thirteen artists who we reckon are set fair for big years, maybe not commercially but almost definitely qualitatively.

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Listen: Los Campesinos! – “A Doe to a Deer”

- Source: Under The Radar Magazine

Not letting Sufjan Stevens or Casiokids have all the fun this holiday season, Los Campesinos! have offered up a free Christmas tune of their own titled "A Doe to a Deer." A solid addition to the indie rock Winter Wonderful playlist you've been building over the past couple of weeks, you can listen and download the song below.

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A Letter From... Wales #6

- Source: ClashMusic.com

For those of you already geared up for the festive season, I bring you an early Christmas present in the shape of some great Welsh music (with a healthy bit of Ghana-ish... garnish. No?).

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ON AN ON

- Source: The Recommender

Music bloggers aren't music journalists, anyone that calls us such is being a little unfair on all those real critics, with their professional qualifications and, well, you know, paid jobs and all that.

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Rdio Playlist: Los Campesinos!

- Source: Consequence of Sound

In part 1 of our 3-part Rdio playlist series showcasing bands heading to Austin City Limits this weekend, Gareth from the Welsh hearts-out indie rockers Los Campesinos! drops off this set of tunes for us.

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This Many Boyfriends - This Many Boyfriends

- Source: Drowned In Sound

With a squeal of feed-back, a riff of purest indie-disco and Richard Brooke's crisp first line, " You love pop songs about love more than being in love in the first place ", This Many Boyfriends and their self-titled debut album burst out of the speakers in a blast of nostalgia, the sound of a beleaguered genre returning to the modern day, a return to the indie of old.

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A Letter From... Wales #5

- Source: ClashMusic.com

The weather may be terrible, the novelty Christmas jumpers already creeping towards the front of your wardrobe and the festival season over, but not in wonderful Wales (well, only really the festival bit. The weather isn't looking too great here either).

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Hey Sholay – ((O))

- Source: The Line Of Best Fit

Hotly tipped indie rockers Hey Sholay at last unfurl their debut, ((O)) , after a slew of tantalising titbits which piqued the interests of pretty much everyone at BBC Radio and a plethora of other important tastemakers.

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Turnpike Glow: The TVD First Date

- Source: The Vinyl District

"It was an autumn afternoon Sicily, when I left home to check out my friend's brand new Technics SL-1200 turntable. My mother was under the impression we were doing our homework, but we spent the entire afternoon listening to Black Sunday by Cypress Hill." "I immediately fell in love with that album and clearly recall the goose bumps caused by B-Real's high pitched vocals. It sounded like a hawk on crack, with a runny nose and an arrow up its bottom.

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