Los Campesinos! have released a deluxe edition of their new album ‘All Hell’, but it won’t be available on streaming, and you only have until Thursday to buy it.
Following their self-released seventh studio album dropping on Friday (July 19), the Welsh indie-pop group have already shared a deluxe version with fans. Coined ‘More Hell’, the new version features the full album alongside five reworked versions of the new tracks, offering a more delicate, stripped-back take. There’s also a cover of ‘Wait’ by Secret Stars, which was popularised by Death Cab For Cutie in 2000.
In an Instagram post announcing the deluxe, guitarist Tom Bromley wrote: “I know it’s self-indulgent, but I love the strings on this record, and I love the sax, and I love all the intimate details that can get lost in a fuller arrangement, and stripping the songs back to these skeletal versions allows all those elements and great musicians to come to the front.”
He continued: “It wasn’t part of the plan, but it became clear that the original vocal performances no longer made sense when presented this way, nor the guitars, so we quickly re-recorded these in a day in Cardiff, and now I love them too.”
The extended version of ‘All Hell’ won’t be available on streaming platforms, however, and will only be listed on Bandcamp until this Thursday (July 25). You can buy it here.
In 2021, NME watched Los Campesinos! perform live to celebrate a decade since they shared their fourth album ‘Hello Sadness’. “The Welsh indie-pop outfit deliver a rousing tribute to their back catalogue, and the future is looking bright,” the four-star review read.
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Last year, the band shared that they wanted to commission writers as a way to continue to foster their fanbase community.
“Our recent experiences are that very few outlets will cover our band anymore (no hard feelings, I get it!). But we want to continue to foster this community outside of social media, and it seems we’ve an ever-growing fanbase that want to hear about our band,” they wrote on social media.
They also made a point to highlight that they plan to pay writers “well and on time, to publish in-depth pieces to be enjoyed by fans, outside of the restrictive ‘album cycle’ PR pattern.”