Scowl have introduced their sophomore full-length album and debut LP on Useless Oceans. The brand new album, Are We All Angels, arrives on April 4. The Santa Cruz band has additionally shared “Not Hell, Not Heaven,” with a music video directed by Sean Stout. The visible was filmed at 924 Gilman Avenue, the enduring Californian venue the place three members of Scowl first met years in the past. Test it out under.
Scowl frontwoman Kat Moss defined that the brand new tune is about “feeling victimized and being a sufferer, however not eager to determine with being a sufferer.” She continued, “It’s looking for grace in the truth that I’ve my energy. I reside in my actuality. You must cope with no matter you’re coping with, and it ain’t working for me.”
Scowl reunited with Grammy-nominated producer Will Yip for Are We All Angels after working collectively on 2023’s Psychic Dance Routine EP. Based mostly on the primary two previews of the brand new album, “Not Hell, Not Heaven” and final yr’s single “Particular,” the hardcore band is popping towards a extra melodic sound according to pop punk and alt-rock.
Examine Scowl within the essay “Hardcore Expanded Its Boundaries in 2023—and the Scene Embraced It.”
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Are We All Angels:
01 Particular
02 B.A.B.E.
03 Fantasy
04 Not Hell, Not Heaven
05 Tonight (I’m Afraid)
06 Fleshed Out
07 Let You Down
08 Cellophane
09 Undergo the Idiot (How Excessive Are You?)
10 Haunted
11 Are We All Angels