Fast-rising Irish punks Adore have announced their debut EP BITER will be released on  September 26 via Big Scary Monsters. Fresh off a storming summer of festivals and touring, Adore mark the EP announcement with new single ‘Sweet Keith’ – a gnarled bouquet of gratitude and love to their people. Adore today also announce headline tour dates in Ireland for this autumn.

Produced by Daniel Fox (of Gilla Band), debut EP BITER is a seven-track sucker punch that proves this band can be brutal and unexpectedly moving at once. Drawing from horror films, vampire folklore and lived experience, exploring the quiet ways we contort ourselves to fit in – these are songs that howl and unravel; where fear becomes fuel, softness becomes defiance, and biting back is the only way out.

New single ‘Sweet Keith’ is Adore at their most tender and volatile. Fusing flurries of abrasive noise and crunching guitars with disarming honesty, it’s a tribute to chosen family.

On new single ‘Sweet Keith’, vocalist Lara Minchin said: “’Sweet Keith’ is a very honest and obvious song. One of my best friends noticed that a lot of my friends have far apart eyes, and came to the conclusion that this trait was much the same as ‘prey’ eyes in the animal world. She then went on to say that she believed that a lot of my friends had far apart eyes which then translated in my monkey brain as to be gentle and safe as opposed to predators which typically have their eyes right on the front of their face. ‘Sweet Keith’ is about my love for my friends and my love for how they always come as they are, their energy and their stories. It’s one of my favourite songs to play live and within the EP it is the beginning of what is to come for adore. Sweet Keith is the manifestation of all of my favourite people rolled into one name and when we play it live and people who I love are in the crowd I feel like it’s a song for them.”