Los Campesinos! In North America!

Sick Scenes is due out Feb. 24 as the follow-up to 2013’s No Blues. The LP was co-produced by longtime collaborator John Goodmanson and Los Campesinos! guitarist Tom Bromley.

An announcement from the Cardiff-based indie pop band says the “album exists as a release of pent-up aggression, a document of both personal and societal malaise.  But it’s also a celebration of just getting to be a band again, of getting to play music with our friends.”

For a taste of Sick Scenes, check out the track “I Broke Up In Amarante.”

“The song’s about battling with bad mental health, trying to comfort and reason with yourself over something you can’t control,” vocalist Gareth David said. “Specifically it’s about how my main coping mechanism was to keep myself constantly drunk in the blistering heat of Amarante while being failed by a largely terrible international football tournament.”
 
Bromley added, “In March 2016 I went to Melbourne to produce a record for a band called Ceres.  We went super deep on the details and textures for their album, but it was the songs themselves that left me with a hunger to do something with a similar energy.  I’d had the chorus sitting around for years, but it was only when I had the idea to use it as a major-key payoff to a minor verse that it made sense, and played over a loop of a distorted bowed saw, it all came together really quickly.”

The trip to the North America kicks off Feb. 20 in Seattle and runs through March 11 in Boston.

Feb. 20 – Seattle, Wash., The Neptune
Feb. 21 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Imperial
Feb. 22 – Portland, Ore., Doug Fir Lounge
Feb. 25 – Los Angeles, Calif., Teragram Ballroom
March 1 – Minneapolis, Minn., Triple Rock Social Club
March 2 – Chicago, Ill., Metro / Smart Bar
March 3 – Detroit, Mich., The El Club
March 4 – Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Grog Shop
March 5 – Toronto, Ontario, Velvet Underground
March 6 – Pittsburgh, Pa., Rex Theater       
March 8 – Philadelphia, Pa., Theatre Of Living Arts
March 9 – Washington, DC, 9:30 Club
March 10 – Brooklyn, N.Y., Warsaw
March 11 – Boston, Mass., Paradise Rock Club

U.K. dates are booked April 27 through May 7.

Tickets are on sale now. Visit LosCampesinos.com for more information.