Swindon rock four-piece All Ears Avow have announced that their debut album ‘Horrors’ will be released 10th October via Western Audio Records. The news comes off the back of a storming performance opening up proceedings at the iconic Download Festival’s “Village” this year and precedes a bunch of further live dates the band have coming up. See below for details.
Alongside this landmark announcement for the band, All Ears Avow have unveiled a new single, which appears on the forthcoming full-length. The riff-propelled ‘Young Horror’ refers to the album’s title and is out today with a music video. Vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, producer and all-round mastermind behind All Ears Avow, Claire Sutton says: “This song is about the freedom of youth and the position it gives you to make up your own mind about the world. But then you’re progressively gaslit by society to play the game, comply and become yet another sheep lining the pockets of the rich; all the while simultaneously being brainwashed into looking the other way. I loved the notion of how we identify a child who resists authority as a ‘Young Horror’ and the double meaning behind the horrors of this earth that we recognise when we are young, but turn a blind eye to as we age.”
‘Horrors’ also features the recently-released single ‘Dark Skies’ – an uncompromising, arena-ready rock song, which emanated from the intense chaos of a panic attack – and the previously-released ‘Bird On A Wire’, and ‘Sinking’. Recent singles have seen success on the Kerrang! Chart, BBC Radio 1 Introducing Rock, Kerrang! Radio Fresh Blood and Primordial Radio, amongst a plethora of blogs across the internet.
Sutton wrote, produced, mixed and mastered ‘Horrors’, which she performed with her bandmates at her own facility Western Audio Studios. “Things happened that we didn’t expect,” says Jake Willcock (guitar) of the experience of recording ‘Horrors’, continuing: “like Claire screaming on one of the songs, which we never thought would be in our wheelhouse. There’s an energy running through the entire album that we never let drop. But because it’s a bigger record than anything we’ve done before, there’s room for ebb and flow, and that’s allowed us to stretch out creatively and really put our passion on display. The album explores themes of societal control, brainwashing, obsession, incompetence, self-confidence, and hopelessness. We realised it was about the horrors of life – both external and internal – and how, in many ways, life feels like one big horror show we’re all battling through. Calling the record Horrors summed everything up.”
See All Ears Avow live:
04/07 – The Victoria, Swindon
01/08 – Green Gathering, Chepstow
02/08 – The Takeover, Bridgwater
19/09 – The Flapper, Birmingham
21/09 – The Grace, London
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All Ears Avow are:
Claire Sutton (Vocals, Guitar)
Jake Willcock (Guitar)
Joe Bishop (Bass)
Sean Ivens (Drums)
