Santa Cruz hardcore band Scowl have announced a new album, Are We All Angels, for April 4 via Dead Oceans, their first with the label, whose roster includes Phoebe Bridgers, Mitski, and Japanese Breakfast.
An album marked by alienation, grief, and the loss of control, much of it grapples with their newfound place in the hardcore scene, a community that has both embraced the band and made them something of a lightning rod over the past few years.
The first single, Not Hell, Not Heaven, outright rejects the narratives cast onto them by outsiders. “It’s about feeling victimised and being a victim, but not wanting to identify with being a victim,” explains vocalist/front woman Kat Moss. “It’s trying to find grace in the fact that I have my power. I live in my reality. You have to deal with whatever you’re dealing with, and it ain’t working for me.“
