And a super crappy quality copy of “To Tundra”
I apologize, I never used this camera before for video, had no idea how bad it was.
We burnt all the skin
From the palm of my hands
With an old zippo lighter
And deodorant can
I went to the palmist
And asked her to read
No heart line,
No sun line
No life line,
No need.
Said all that I wanted was a quiet life
Not one predetermined by minuscule slices
Into my flesh and the broad she agreed
One look in my sad eyes
She had to concede
“Baby… the girdle of venus got me…
Got me down on my knees.
And baby… baby I got the death rattle and
You’re six months old s-shakin’ me.”
Traced my right index finger
‘long the roof of every car
On the walk back to your house
In the cold from City Arms
In the frost I drew a dick
For every girl that wouldn’t fuck me
Woke early the next morning to see
The frost had bitten me
My blisters black and touch cold
Like a cute stuffed toy bear’s nose
The kind of gift I’d give you
Like a less committed Van Gogh
And you, you are an angel
That’s why you pray
And I am an ass
And that’s why I bray
Your halo slipped to frame you
Like a photo, a porthole window
I see blood spill in the pure snow
You see sweet sauce on ice-cream cones
And you, you are an angel
That’s why you pray
And I am an ass
And that’s why I bray
If you were tomorrow
I’d be today
And this is the end…
(I’m serious, so listen)
Baby I got the death rattle
And baby I got it bad
I’ve been digging my grave
For quite some time
When I’m not digging up the past
And I chewed my only necktie
From the metal frame of my bed
Where I tied your wrists together
Spent all night givin’
(Oh, you get the message)
Not headstone
But headboard
Is where I wanna be mourned
“
| — | Los Campesinos!, Baby I Got the Death Rattle |
Today, Hello Sadness is officially released in the UK! If you haven’t procured a copy already, please head down to yr nearest record store and purchase one. Then play it, listen to it and love it.
Waking up to news of one of my favorite bands, @loscampesinos playing a show & dropping a single today is a good way to begin my day
My thoughts on the LC album debate summed up simply
- I’d not care if it was called Dog Shits and Poo Poo and had a picture of Dane Cook fucking Sarah Palin while giving the cameraman a thumbs up on the front.
- It’s just packaging, guys, it’s a wrapper.
Reasons Los Campesinos! is the best band ever
- Gareth proceeding to introduce the new record by linking the D-Generation-X theme
HELLO SADNESS
LOS CAMPESINOS!
- By Your Hand
- Songs About Your Girlfriend
- Hello Sadness
- Life Is A Long Time
- Every Defeat A Divorce (Three Lions)
- Hate For The Island
- The Black Bird, The Dark Slope
- To Tundra
- Baby I Got The Death Rattle
- Light Leaves, Dark Sees pt. II
Hello Sadness is our imminent fourth studio album, recorded earlier this year in Girona, Spain.
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. Hello Sadness.
