The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future from Los Campesinos! on Vimeo.

Over here at The Tripwire, we’re still looking for our winter coat, and have been forced to rock a few more sweater/hoodie combos than we might have liked otherwise. Needless to say, we’re a bit worried about this whole winter thing, and think by the time February comes around we might need a real pick-me-up. Luckily, the folks from Los Campesinos! seem downright ideal for such a scenario (they’re music allows you to pretend it’s sunny even though it’s actually not!) and as it turns out they’ve just announced their upcoming Romance Is Boring will be released February 1, with single “These Are Listed Building” arriving on November 2. Check out the tracklisting below as well as a clip for “The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future” above.

Romance Is Boring

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

(Via: NME)

Day 1: Underwear and sun, at the same time

We came, we saw, we sweated. San Francisco Outside Lands attendees were gifted with a heat wave, sans rash, for the first day of the weekend-long festival, and never before have we seen people more confused (the natives knew this was an oddity). Also, all the indie boys who decided to take off their shirts only upped the hotness factor, considering their torsos served as a light deflector and blinded everyone in sight. Holy whiteness, Batman.

With seven stages situated on two meadows and the main polo field in Golden Gate Park, we have to say that this year’s experience toppled last year’s (you know, where I cried a bunch and then scraped my elbow), with a million tents set up for food, photobooths, prizes, massages, wine tastings, free hugs, trampolines, and even a phone charging station. And while the smaller stages boasted a very impressive knit of indie, electronica, and even hip-hop acts, the main stage line-up felt slightly too 90’s. I do own Pearl Jam’s “Ten” on cassette tape though, so maybe I’m not one to judge.

Highlights include:
- the choice people watching we were afforded as we wandered around the site
- Silversun Pickups and Los Campesinos! slaying their sets
- running around San Francisco at night with no jacket on
- remembering how much we were in love with Incubus’s Brandon Boyd in 11th grade
- Throwing blue lacey underwear at Tom Jones

Day one, you ain’t so bad.

Autolux

Akron/Family

Los Campesinos!

The Dodos

Silversun Pickups

Tom Jones

Welsh pop maniacs Los Campesinos! are about ready to begin a lengthy US tour that will be their first since losing a Campesinos and finishing work on their forthcoming full-length. As a tribute to the American road and local record stores, the band have decided to bring along a box for vinyl, one that they will be buying and adding seven-inches to in each city they stop. Fans will have a shot at winning the box’s contents by the end of said tour, some details for which were disclosed by Gareth Campesinos in the above video. On a side note: someone should write in and ask dude how the English national side performed in last year’s European championships. Oh wait…

Current Contents Of Box (to be added to lots):

• Xiu Xiu/High Places 7″ Split (includes David Horvitz polaroid)
• Lovvers Laughing Man 7″
• Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Town Topic EP
• BARR The Song Is The Single 7″
• Miscellaneous Badges
• A couple of ‘Zines.

[Photo by Jon Bergman]

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