Swindon rock four-piece All Ears Avow have announced that their debut album Horrors will be released October 10 via Western Audio Records. The news comes off the back of a storming performance opening up proceedings at the iconic Download Festival’s “Village” this year and precedes a bunch of further live dates the band have coming up.

Alongside this landmark announcement for the band, All Ears Avow have unveiled a new single, which appears on the forthcoming full-length. The riff-propelled ‘Young Horror’ refers to the album’s title and is out today with a music video. Vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, producer and all-round mastermind behind All Ears Avow, Claire Sutton says: “This song is about the freedom of youth and the position it gives you to make up your own mind about the world. But then you’re progressively gaslit by society to play the game, comply and become yet another sheep lining the pockets of the rich; all the while simultaneously being brainwashed into looking the other way. I loved the notion of how we identify a child who resists authority as a ‘Young Horror’ and the double meaning behind the horrors of this earth that we recognise when we are young, but turn a blind eye to as we age.”

Sutton wrote, produced, mixed and mastered Horrors, which she performed with her bandmates at her own facility Western Audio Studios. “Things happened that we didn’t expect,” says Jake Willcock (guitar) of the experience of recording ‘Horrors’, continuing: “like Claire screaming on one of the songs, which we never thought would be in our wheelhouse. There’s an energy running through the entire album that we never let drop. But because it’s a bigger record than anything we’ve done before, there’s room for ebb and flow, and that’s allowed us to stretch out creatively and really put our passion on display. The album explores themes of societal control, brainwashing, obsession, incompetence, self-confidence, and hopelessness. We realised it was about the horrors of life – both external and internal – and how, in many ways, life feels like one big horror show we’re all battling through. Calling the record Horrors summed everything up.”

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