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It is perhaps their most ambitious and assured album yet, whilst simultaneously recalling everything we’ve come to love about LC! over their faultless discography. Recorded between October 2023 and February 2024, it is the first album to be wholly self-produced by band member Tom Bromley (having co-produced previous albums \u003ci\u003eSick Scenes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Blues\u003c\/i\u003e). 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Opener ‘By Your Hand’ is a horny, hilarious tragi-comedy, rife with masturbation, stallion-like thighs and a sick covered rental tuxedo. ‘Songs About Your Girlfriend’ is sarcastic and punchy, with lines cribbed from T.I songs and a drunken brag of a chorus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut by the title track, the bravado evaporates and from there on out, \u003ci\u003eHello Sadness\u003c\/i\u003e might be the most gut wrenching, emotionally devastating album the group has ever produced - quite a feat considering the rest of their catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded back in 2011, just outside of Figueres, Catalonia, and their first with new members Kim, Jason and Rob, it's an album of break ups, body parts and football. An album that finds bandleader Gareth cracking while the band around him play more frantically, more powerfully than they ever had before. 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