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Album News: Los Campesinos!, Peter Gabriel, Frightened Rabbit, Midlake

Cardiff twee poppers Los Campesinos! have announced that their third album will be called 'Romance Is Boring', and will be released on February 1st 2010. According to the official press release, 'The album also reveals the bands first experiments with brass and far wider instrumentation than they have employed before and according to the band is a record "about the death and decay of the human body, lost love, mental breakdown, and football."'  Single 'There Are Listed Buildings' will be released on November 2nd.

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Peter Gabriel is to release an album of orchestral covers entitled 'Scratch My Back', featuring tracks by Radiohead, Arcade Fire and David Bowie. Gabriel collaborator John Metcalf told BBC 6 Music that the tracks are 'major reinterpretations of some famous stuff. It's quite radical'. 'Scratch My Back' is due in Spring 2010, and the tracklist looks something like this:

Heroes (David Bowie)

Street Spirit (Fade Out) (Radiohead)

The Book Of Love (Magnetic Fields)

Flume (Bon Iver)

My Body Is A Cage (Arcade Fire)

Listening Wind (Talking Heads)

I Think It's Going to Rain Today (Randy Newman)

Après Moi (Regina Spektor or Eartha Kitt)

Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks)

The Boy In The Bubble (Paul Simon)

The Power Of The Heart (Lou Reed)

Philadelphia (Neil Young)

Mirrorball (Elbow)

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Following the induction of former Make Mode guitarist Gordon Skene as their fifth member, Selkirk indie rockers Frightened Rabbit have revealed details of their third album 'The Winter of Mixed Drinks'. Recorded in Connecticut with The National producer Peter Katis, frontman Scott Hutchison claims the new album is 'classier' and 'better' than last year's utterly fantastic 'Midnight Organ Fight'. If that's true, we'll be on the edge of our seats until its release on March 1st. The tracklist is below, along with the video for current single 'Swim Until You Can't See Land'. Seriously, any excuse...

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Swim Until You Can't See Land

The Loneliness & The Scream

The Wrestle

Skip The Youth

Nothing Like You

Man/Bag Of Sand

Foot Shooter

Not Miserable

Living In Colour

Yes I Would

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Fleet Foxes Bella Union labelmates Midlake return with the long awaited follow up to 2006's 'The Trials of Van Occupanther'. It will be called 'The Courage of Others', and is due for release in Feburary 2010. Apparently, it will have a 'British trad-tainted folk sound 'and though 'It may share the same gorgeously analogue-warm electro-acoustic template as Van Occupanther but it's a slower, darker and more carved record, both eerier and dreamier.'

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Meanwhile, The Red Hot Chili Peppers are currently working on the follow up to 2006's Stadium Arcadium, and claim it could be ready for release by next October. Echo and The Bunnymen will release 'Live At The Royal Albert Hall' on November 23rd, which features their classic 1984 album 'Ocean Rain' played in its entirety, and Fall Out Boy will release their greatest hits, 'Believers Never Die' on November 16th.

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