- 2025-01-22
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MUSIC
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Scowl Announces New Album “Are We All Angels”, Shares New Song “Not Hell, Not Heaven”
American hardcore punk band Scowl, consisting of Kat Moss (vocals), Cole Gilbert (drums), Malachi Greene (guitar), Bailey Lupo (bass), Mikey Bifolco (guitar), has announced their upcoming sophomore album “Are We All Angels” will be released on April 4, 2025 via Dead Oceans.
From the album, the band unveiled a new song “Not Hell, Not Heaven” along with a music video on January 21, 2025.
Initially, the song was supposed to be released last week as the second single off of the album, but pushed back due to the California wildfires.
The track was written by Bailey Lupo, Cole Gilbert, Katrina Moss, Malachi Greene, Michael Bifolco, and William Yip.
The accompanying video was directed by Sean Stout.
The band lead singer Kat Moss said of the song, “It's about feeling victimized and being a victim, but not wanting to identify with being a victim. 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.”- She added, “Not Hell, Not Heaven is about the pain of living inbetween... I had the realization that I could not survive in that space because it is simply uninhabitable I wrote NH,NH for those that lived in their own limbo for far too long, for those who haven't made it out, and those who didn't make it out alive.”
The new album comprises a 11-track, produced by Will Yip. The album is an album marked by alienation, grief, and the loss of control.
At every turn on the album, the band explores ambitious new directions and bends genre norms. -
Kat Moss said, “The majority of us were really not proficient musicians when this band started. It was very Germs-esque in that way, like baby's first hardcore band, which is awesome. But now, we still might not know what we're doing, but we have a better idea of what we want to do.”
Drummer Cole Gilbert said woking with producer Will Yip, “Will would say, 'Everything you have here is correct, but it's in the wrong place.'”
Kat Moss added, “Will really helped restructure a lot of the material. Some songs he tore apart to make more space for the really good hooks and choruses.”
Photo by Silken Weinberg - source : Apple Music
