{"product_id":"656605165882","title":"ARE WE ALL ANGELS (SECRETLY SOCIETY) (CLEAR PINK VINYL) | VINYL RECORD (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSCOWL, Scowl is a band that sounds exactly like their name implies.  Venomous, fierce, antagonistic. A sneer not to be crossed. Over the last five  years, the Santa Cruz, California, band has firmly planted their flag in the  hardcore scene with their vicious sound and ripping live show, sharing stages  around the world with Circle Jerks, Touché Amoré, and Limp Bizkit, and filling  slots at prominent festivals like Coachella, Sick New World, and Reading and  Leeds. But with their new album, Are We All Angels (Dead Oceans), Scowl is  aiming to funnel all that aggression through a more expansive version of  themselves.  Much of Are We All Angels grapples with Scowl's newfound place in  the hardcore scene, a community which has both embraced the band and  made them something of a lightning rod over the past few years. Standout  single \"Not Hell, Not Heaven\" outright rejects the narratives cast onto them by  outsiders. \"It's about feeling victimized and being a victim, but not wanting to  identify with being a victim,\" explains vocalist 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.\" The band breaks from  a sense of disassociation to seek deeper connections on \"Fantasy.\" \"It's  incredibly challenging to try to balance my love for the scene while also feeling,  in some spaces, extremely alienated and hated,\" Moss says. \"'Fantasy' is about  feeling like I don't know how to connect with these people anymore, because I  have shelled myself away so hard.\"  The album ends in a philosophical place on the closing, titular track,  \"Are We All Angels,\" asking questions like, \"Is this all there is?\" and ultimately  putting it on the listener to decide. \"It's about the personal struggle between  good and evil. It doesn't matter how 'good' or 'bad' you are, there are systems  that will try to rewrite your narrative no matter what you actually do,\" explains  Moss, noting that punctuation on \"Are We All Angels\" has been deliberately  omitted in an attempt to leave the statement open-ended. Are We All Angels is  the highly anticipated follow-up to Scowl's debut, 2021's How Flowers Grow, a  16-minute primal scream over punishing riffs. But amidst the pounding chaos, it  was the record's sonic outlier, a cleaner interlude called \"Seeds to Sow,\" that,  true to it's name, planted the seed for what was to come for the band. \"It kind of  laid out this destiny for us, and I feel like now we're fulfilling that,\" says drummer  Cole Gilbert. The band continued to expand their sound on 2023's widely  acclaimed Psychic Dance Routine EP, incorporating more pop hooks and  favoring gentler singing over heavy screaming, paving the way for what would  come next.  Scowl's growth got a huge boost from producer Will Yip (Turnstile,  Title Fight, Code Orange, Balance and Composure), who broadened the band's  scope. \"Will would say, 'Everything you have here is correct, but it's in the wrong  place,'\" says Gilbert. Moss adds: \"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.\" But even through this more eclectic approach, Scowl  loses none of their edge, and still manages to convey the anger and frustration  that lies underneath. They are deeply committed to carrying the ethos of punk  and it's sense of community. \"Hardcore and punk have sculpted how we  operate, what we want to do as a band, and how we participate,\" says guitarist  Malachi Greene. \"At our core, we are a punk and a hardcore band, regardless of  how the song shifts and changes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SCOWL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48242740330741,"sku":"656605165882","price":18.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/thevinylvista.com\/products\/656605165882","provider":"Vinyl Vista","version":"1.0","type":"link"}