🔴 'More Hell' EP is OUT NOW!

Stream 5 new versions and a cover of a fave. PLUS new merch online.

Today we release the More Hell EP digitally, and on all streaming platforms. A companion piece to our 7th album All Hell, featuring reworked versions of 5 songs from the record, plus a cover of a favourite song.

Maybe it’s self indulgent but we love the album’s strings, and the sax, and all the intimate details that can get lost in a fuller arrangement. Stripping the songs back to these skeletal versions allows all those elements and great musicians to come to the fore. Tom and I re-recorded guitars and vocals to better suit the restrained instrumentation, and that brought us to these pretty renditions.

Wait by the Secret Stars has been one of my favourite songs for two decades. I first encountered it when a friend included it on a mixtape for me as a teenager. For years, this tape dub was the only way I had of listening to the song, and I’d play it over and over. Clunk-rewind-etc. A little later I’d buy the Death Cab ‘You Can Play These Songs with Chords’ CD and was struck by lightning when I surprisedly heard their version. I loved this too and it became a staple of the love letter mix CDs I’d make for others. At some point I found a trashy mp3 on Soulseek, but would keep going back to the tape until 2012 when somebody uploaded the original version of the song to YouTube - a rip of the vinyl audio, playing atop a video of the 7” spinning on a turntable. It feels kind of perfect that the original, 30 years since its release, still hasn’t made its way to streaming. I hope our version will find a place on playlists you send to others to keep this cycle going.

The EP is available on all streaming platforms, and you can download it from Bandcamp.

(Yes, these are the recordings that were briefly available as part of a ‘deluxe’ download of All Hell on the week of the album’s release. Nothing has been changed, so if you purchased them previously (thank you!) you needn’t do so again)

Photo by Martyna Bannister

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Valentines 2 Night Stand

Poster by Mikaela Jane

No matter how many times we do it, I’m always taken by surprise by how much hard work and preparation goes into a big gig, and all of that is well underway for TWO-such Big Gigs! The biggest LC! shows ever, on a beautifully lit stage with violin, cello, saxophone, trombone and trumpet.

A few people have been asking if we’ll be playing the same set both nights, to which the answer is emphatically “no”. We’re a while off sorting the final setlists (and we’ll obviously not be announcing them in advance) but I’d anticipate a variation of about 40% each evening.

We’ll be announcing the opening acts very soon, PLUS a free pre-party to be held nearby, giving you chance to hang out during the day (and buy merch at your leisure so you don’t have to queue for ages once in the venue!).

Don’t forget, if you buy tickets for both nights you can get them for a cheaper bundle price!

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New Merch Online Now

The designs we had on our recent UK tour are finally available to buy online! Honestly, the reason it took so long to get them on the store is that I feel bad about, essentially, instructing you to spend money on our band all the time. But here we are! The Mortal Joy tour shirts are available in limited quantities (and sizes) as they were exclusive to the tour and we’re only selling what’s left over. The rest of them are available in all sizes, with a slight pre-order period so we can gauge just how many to print.

We’ve also reduced some lingering shirt designs to just £15, so you can pick up a bargain while you’re there.

If you’re in the market for a copy of All Hell on vinyl, then I’m reminding you that the new Lunar Rays colourway exists. If you’re in the US then you should be able to pick this up at your local record store. I was gonna publish a list of all the locations that are stocking it, but it’s over 150 names long, so take a chance and have a browse of the racks next time you’re in your favourite record shop.

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Los Camp! at Primavera Sound

We’ll be playing Primavera Sound in both Barcelona and Porto in the Summer of 2025! Of all the festivals in the world, this is probably the one that we’ve most wanted to play for the last few years, but had up until now eluded us. We’re incredibly excited to be invited to play both the Spanish and Portuguese legs on a lineup with so many other amazing bands.

Back in 2010 we played the festival’s pre-party, as part of a Wichita 10th Birthday celebration, and got free tickets to the festival as a result. We had an incredible time but were admittedly a bit jealous not to be playing the real thing. Very glad that 15 years on we get to put things right.

Hoping some of our Spanish (first time since Benidorm in 2014) and Portuguese (first time since 2010) fans finally get to see us (let us know in the comments!) but I’m sure there’ll be a good contingent of Brits abroad too? For sure we’ll be making a weekend of this, and seeing as many bands as we can in Barcelona.

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Matt Guest DJs on Rinse FM

Matt says: “Ifeoluwa has been one of my favourite DJs for a long time - an excellent selecta, writer, producer, and an LC! fan to boot. She very kindly invited me to a guest mix for her Tears in the Club show on Rinse FM, which went out live earlier this week and is up to listen back now. This one compiles the kind of tracks I'd (like to) play in a club (if I ever got booked lol), recorded live at home on my decks, spanning murky dub, leftfield techno and a bit of dark garage for good measure. Plenty of heaters from friends in this one like Littlefoot and Nelson of the East, plus some new(er) producers who made me excited about dance music again like Ploy, Lucy and Piezo. Enjoy!”

Matt has his own Substack which you can subscribe to here.

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• If you’ve been around these parts for a while, you’ll know that Trust Fund are a long-time favourite band of ours. Ellis’ excellent new album came out a couple of weeks back, and his UK tour is underway right now. I’m really looking forward to the Bristol gig (and also seeing Lightning Seeds with my Dad on Thursday night!).

• Any other Elverum-heads in here? I’ve been bristling, waiting for Mount Eeerie’s Night Palace since its announce and have lived inside it since its release. Also want to shout out the new Fred Thomas album. His ‘indie-lifer’ trilogy of records released from 2015-2018 are favourites of mine which for some reason I’ve never really publicly proclaimed, but his new one ‘Window in the Rhythm’ is on another level, and immediately goes to top spot for me.

• This is a month+ old now, but if you’d previously missed it, it’s good value and worth checking out. Hearing Things is a new website helmed by a quintet of former Pitchfork staffers, prioritising engrossing music writing over advertising and the algorithm. We were really chuffed to speak to them in their launch week. I’ve spoken with Ryan Dombal a handful of times over the past two decades and each conversation has been open and enjoyable. Plenty of topics covered in here, but I’m particularly candid about the financials of touring, which may be enlightening, but if not I’m sure there’s some lore in there too!

• 2025 plotting continues. Still working on sneaking back to North America before our visas expire (14 June), and there are more festival appearances to announce!

See you in the comments.

With love,

LC! x