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Hold On Now, Youngster..., the ravenously anticipated debut LP from the Welsh wunderkinds in Los Campesinos!, now has itself a release date and a tracklist. The disc can be yours in the UK February 25 on Wichita, the same day a digital release hits North America from Arts & Crafts. The latter label will get the album onto North American shelves April 1, no foolin'.

From the recently-Forkcasted "Death to Los Campesinos!"-- out in UK-only single form February 18 from Wichita-- through the cheeky "Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks", the band will likely touch on all the glorious vagaries of being young and alive and in a really cracking band.

Old favorites "You! Me! Dancing" and "Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s)" appear, as does the seasonally-appropriate (well, now, anyway) "The Year in Lists" and the extremely lengthy but nevertheless hilarious "This Is How You Spell. 'HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics'". Ya'll got longer titles than Fall Out Boy, yo!

Shucks, there's even a tune on the album called "Knee Deep at ATP", which helps me right along to my next point. Before they themselves are knee deep at this May's ATP vs. Pitchfork festival, Los Campesinos! are touring! They've added a few UK dates around our previous rundown of their European trek, which kicks off in late January in Denmark. Until then, I guess you and me will have to do our dancing elsewhere.

Hold On Now, Youngster...:

01 Death to Los Campesinos!
02 Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats
03 Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s)
04 Drop It Doe Eyes
05 My Year in Lists
06 Knee Deep at ATP
07 This Is How You Spell. "HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics"
08 We Are All Accelerated Readers
09 You! Me! Dancing!
10 ...And We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes in Unison
11 Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks

"Death to Los Campesinos!" single:

01 Death to Los Campesinos!
02 Frontwards (Pavement cover)
03 Clunk-Rewind-Clunk-Play-Clunk

Live Campesinos!:

01-29 Aarhus, Denmark - Voxhall
01-30 Copenhagen, Denmark - Small Vega
01-31 Malmö, Sweden - Debaser
02-01 Gothenburg, Sweden - Pusterviksbaren
02-02 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser (Bluc Fritz's Corner)
02-03 Oslo, Norway - Garage
02-10 London, England - Astoria *
02-11 Dublin, Ireland - Village
02-12 Bedford, England - Esquire's
02-13 Birmingham, England - Academy
02-14 Glasgow, Scotland - King Tut's
02-16 Newcastle, England - Northumbria University
02-17 Sheffield, England - Leadmill
02-18 Manchester, England - Club Academy
02-19 Brighton, England - Concorde 2
02-20 Reading, England - Fez
02-21 Kingston upon Thames, England - The Works
02-23 Portsmouth, England - Wedgewood Rooms
05-09-11 Rye, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (ATP vs. Pitchfork) $

* with Les Savy Fav, Future of the Left, Cut Off Your Hands
$ with the Hold Steady, Of Montreal, Jens Lekman, Black Lips, Deerhunter, Hot Chip, Les Savy Fav, No Age, Yeasayer, A Place to Bury Strangers, Meat Puppets, Sebadoh, Ween, Marissa Nadler, Caribou, Glass Candy, Dirty Projectors, Redd Kross, the Black Angels, Shit and Shine, Pissed Jeans, Fuck Buttons, Apse