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Wichita Recordings has hopped, skipped and jumped into the digital era.

The label (home to Bloc Party, The Cribs and Simian Mobile Disco amongst many others) has released a 15-track FREE digital sampler featuring some of their new signings and old favourites.

The digital album celebrates new signings Lovvers and Sky Larkin, and keeps the home fires burning with favourites from Her Space Holiday, Peter Bjorn & John and The Bronx - all of whom are set to be releasing new material this year.

The tracklisting is:
01. Tasty Boy - Those Dancing Days
02. Human Hair - Lovvers
03. Molten - Sky Larkin
04. How I Taught Myself to Scream - Los Campesinos!
05. Knifeman - The Bronx
06. Meet Me in the Dollar Bin - Les Savy Fav
07. I Dont Want To Die (In The Hospital) - Conor Oberst
08. Tell Me In Time - Peter Moren
09. Burn The Margins - Greg Weeks
10. Saving Up To Get Married - Euros Childs
11. Maiden in the Moor Lay - Meg Baird
12. Paint The Rust - The Dodos
13. Inland Empire - Peter Bjorn & John
14. I Got This Down (Invisible Conga People Mix) - Simian Mobile Disco
15. The Year In Review - Her Space Holiday

Did we mention it’s FREE?

Just visit http://www.wichita-recordings.com/freemusic to get yours.

Just five months after the release of their, in the end disappointing, debut, Los Campesinos! return with a brand new record, ‘We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed’.

Entering the studio with the plan to record a new EP, the band were so happy with the 10 tracks they recorded, they wanted to put them out immediately.

In the band’s own words:

Hello there!

We at Los Campesinos! are very happy to announce the release of a new record. Coming on October 13th is ‘We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed’: ten brand new tracks recorded in Seattle from June 12-23rd with our dear friend Mr John Goodmanson (Blonde Redhead, Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Wedding Present, Wu Tang) and mixed immediately after at Monnow Valley in Wales.

And despite ‘Hold On Now, Youngster…’ being only 5 or so months old, we wanted to emphasise that this is no post-album cash in.

It’s no B-Sides and rarities or “songs that weren’t good enough to be on the album cobbled together with some remixes and field recordings of Cardiff’s indie scene”; it’s ten all-new tracks that none of you have ever heard before.

Sure, we considered re-releasing a radio-edit of ‘You! Me! Dancing!’ and trying to get famous and scraping another tour out of that, but our parents unanimously agreed that if we did they would never speak to us again.

Rather, we are blessed with having an incredibly supportive record label in Wichita, and they are as excited about such freedom, frivolities and spontaneity in releases as we are.

The tracklisting looks something like this:

1. Ways To Make It Through The Wall
2. Miserabilia
3. We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
4. Between An Erupting Earth And An Exploding Sky
5. You’ll Need Those Fingers For Crossing
6. It’s Never That Easy Though, Is It? (Song For The Other Kurt)
7. The End Of The Asterisk
8. Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown # 1
9. Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time
10. All Your Kayfabe Friends

Let’s hope it’s a more stripped back and rawer affair than its overly polished predecessor.