{"product_id":"scowl-are-we-all-angels","title":"SCOWL- Are We All Angels (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eScowl is a band that sounds exactly like their name implies.\r\nVenomous, fierce, antagonistic. A sneer not to be crossed. Over the last five\r\nyears, the Santa Cruz, California, band has firmly planted their flag in the\r\nhardcore scene with their vicious sound and ripping live show, sharing stages\r\naround the world with Circle Jerks, Touché Amoré, and Limp Bizkit, and filling\r\nslots at prominent festivals like Coachella, Sick New World, and Reading and\r\nLeeds. But with their new album, Are We All Angels (Dead Oceans), Scowl is\r\naiming to funnel all that aggression through a more expansive version of\r\nthemselves.\r\nMuch of Are We All Angels grapples with Scowl's newfound place in\r\nthe hardcore scene, a community which has both embraced the band and\r\nmade them something of a lightning rod over the past few years. Standout\r\nsingle \"Not Hell, Not Heaven\" outright rejects the narratives cast onto them by\r\noutsiders. \"It's about feeling victimized and being a victim, but not wanting to\r\nidentify with being a victim,\" explains vocalist Kat Moss. \"It's trying to find grace\r\nin the fact that I have my power. I live in my reality. You have to deal with\r\nwhatever you're dealing with, and it ain't working for me.\" The band breaks from\r\na sense of disassociation to seek deeper connections on \"Fantasy.\" \"It's\r\nincredibly challenging to try to balance my love for the scene while also feeling,\r\nin some spaces, extremely alienated and hated,\" Moss says. \"'Fantasy' is about\r\nfeeling like I don't know how to connect with these people anymore, because I\r\nhave shelled myself away so hard.\"\r\nThe album ends in a philosophical place on the closing, titular track,\r\n\"Are We All Angels,\" asking questions like, \"Is this all there is?\" and ultimately\r\nputting it on the listener to decide. \"It's about the personal struggle between\r\ngood and evil. It doesn't matter how 'good' or 'bad' you are, there are systems\r\nthat will try to rewrite your narrative no matter what you actually do,\" explains\r\nMoss, noting that punctuation on \"Are We All Angels\" has been deliberately\r\nomitted in an attempt to leave the statement open-ended. Are We All Angels is\r\nthe highly anticipated follow-up to Scowl's debut, 2021's How Flowers Grow, a\r\n16-minute primal scream over punishing riffs. But amidst the pounding chaos, it\r\nwas the record's sonic outlier, a cleaner interlude called \"Seeds to Sow,\" that,\r\ntrue to it's name, planted the seed for what was to come for the band. \"It kind of\r\nlaid out this destiny for us, and I feel like now we're fulfilling that,\" says drummer\r\nCole Gilbert. The band continued to expand their sound on 2023's widely\r\nacclaimed Psychic Dance Routine EP, incorporating more pop hooks and\r\nfavoring gentler singing over heavy screaming, paving the way for what would\r\ncome next.\r\nScowl's growth got a huge boost from producer Will Yip (Turnstile,\r\nTitle Fight, Code Orange, Balance and Composure), who broadened the band's\r\nscope. \"Will would say, 'Everything you have here is correct, but it's in the wrong\r\nplace,'\" says Gilbert. Moss adds: \"Will really helped restructure a lot of the\r\nmaterial. Some songs he tore apart to make more space for the really good\r\nhooks and choruses.\" But even through this more eclectic approach, Scowl\r\nloses none of their edge, and still manages to convey the anger and frustration\r\nthat lies underneath. They are deeply committed to carrying the ethos of punk\r\nand it's sense of community. \"Hardcore and punk have sculpted how we\r\noperate, what we want to do as a band, and how we participate,\" says guitarist\r\nMalachi Greene. \"At our core, we are a punk and a hardcore band, regardless of\r\nhow the song shifts and changes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpecial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e B.A.B.E.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Fantasy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Not Hell Not Heaven\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Tonight (I’m Afraid)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Fleshed Out\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Let You Down\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cellophane\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Suffer The Fool (How High Are You?)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Haunted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Are We All Angels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46054131138781,"sku":"656605165813","price":769.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4398203-3315401.jpg?v=1737468967","url":"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/ja-tw\/products\/scowl-are-we-all-angels","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}