Download: Los Campesinos! – By Your Hand

08 September 2011, 15:09 | Written by Matthew Britton

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By now, you’re certain to know whether you’re a Los Campesinos! fan or not. If you are, it’s likely you shelled out £30 for their recent Heat Rash venture and you can feel your heart beat in your chest as you count down the moments to your pre-order of the new album, Hello Sadness, plopping through your door. If you’re not, then this last paragraph has probably made you feel a little bit sick. Sorry about that.

Anyway, in between games of Football Manager and tweeting about X-Factor, Gareth and the band have managed to find time to put together the video for the first track on the forthcoming LP. For the first time in 2 albums, they’ve managed to make a pop song -something that could actually get played on the radio without people overtly sobbing.

Entitled ‘By Your Hands’, it doesn’t take much reading between the lines to see that this is a typically upbeat-but-ultimately-depressing number, as you’d expect from a band who’s singer recently admitted that he’ll struggle to sing these songs live without crying. There’s no weeping in the video, but Gareth does try asphyxiate himself.