Sick Scenes by Los Campesinos!

“[Depression] is something I’m comfortable with now... the best thing for my mental health has been Pokemon Go.”

Los Campesinos singer Gareth David

It’s been ten years since Los Campesinos! exploded on to the UK’s indie scene.

Sick Scenes is the band’s sixth album (released April 2017).

They approach, images of ageing, mental breakdowns and family funerals, but all these, with their trademark British humour.

The Fall of Home is the 5th track of the 2017 LC! album.

Parent pick up from off the train

Empty high street in pouring rain

Funeral for a family pup

Teenage pubs all boarded up

Left your home town, for somewhere new

Don't be surprised now it's leaving you

Another weekday night alone

The rise of rent, the fall of Home

Battery dies on your monthly call:

Budget cut at your primary school

Another family friend fell sick

Gave the fascists a thousand ticks

This is an elegy to the home towns left behind. It’s about the villages too stifling to ever allow you or itself to flourish. About those who left to protect their mental health or to be the best version of themselves. To those who moved to the city and return “home” for Christmas and funerals, feeling like a tourist. For the lonely people in rented house shares with no idea what they’re doing. And it’s for those who didn’t want to or couldn’t leave, and are still hanging in there.

The lyrics for this song were written at 4am on the 24th June, 2016.

With thanks to Jherek Bischoff for playing violin on the track, and Aniela Marie Perry for cello.

Los Campesinos! are on tour through the United Kingdom and North America in 2017.

Tickets: http://www.loscampesinos.com/live

27/4 - LIVERPOOL, Arts Centre (14+)

28/4 - GLASGOW, Stereo (14+)

29/4 - SHEFFIELD, Queens Social Club (14+)

30/4 - NEWCASTLE, The Cluny (14+)

1/5 - LONDON, KOKO (14+)

5/5 - BRIGHTON, The Haunt (14+)

6/5 - NORWICH, Arts Centre (14+)

7/5- BIRMINGHAM, Hare & Hounds (14+)