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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 InchNot Hell, Not HeavenInch outright rejects the narratives cast onto them by outsiders. InchIt's about feeling victimized and being a victim, but not wanting to identify with being a victim,Inch explains vocalist Kat Moss. InchIt'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.Inch The band breaks from a sense of disassociation to seek deeper connections on InchFantasy.Inch InchIt's incredibly challenging to try to balance my love for the scene while also feeling, in some spaces, extremely alienated and hated,Inch Moss says. Inch'Fantasy' is about feeling like I don't know how to connect with these people anymore, because I have shelled myself away so hard.Inch The album ends in a philosophical place on the closing, titular track, InchAre We All Angels,Inch asking questions like, InchIs this all there is?Inch and ultimately putting it on the listener to decide. InchIt's about the personal struggle between good and evil. It doesn't matter how 'good'
