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Apr 4, 2025It’s absolutely fantastic. Where previously their records had sounded like a moment captured, a document of a fire blazing away, this is more controlled and deliberate, where everything arrives with the confidence of a heavyweight champ.
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Apr 4, 2025Production from Will Yip (who’s also helmed recent recordings by Turnstile and Mannequin Pussy) and a mix from Rich Costey (My Chemical Romance, Fiona Apple, Interpol) give the sound a clean but powerful punch. But like all of Scowl’s material, we expect the new songs to find their true definition in a live setting.
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May 19, 2025Fans of contemporary punk upstarts like Lambrini Girls, Turnstile, Amyl and the Sniffers, and the Linda Lindas should find plenty to love on Are We All Angels, a refreshing dose of no-frills, youthful punk energy.
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May 19, 2025Fans of contemporary punk upstarts like Lambrini Girls, Turnstile, Amyl and the Sniffers, and the Linda Lindas should find plenty to love on Are We All Angels, a refreshing dose of no-frills, youthful punk energy.
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May 2, 2025This 33-minute introduction to the next evolution of Scowl answers a question posed on their debut: “I just wanna know, is this how flowers grow?” The answer is yes. They bloom and blossom into something wonderful that still has a heap of potential ready to sow.
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Apr 28, 2025Just as No Doubt succeeded as being the ska band that wasn’t always a ska band, Scowl is succeeding as Scowl- the structures built around them are irrelevant, which makes me think again of the image of the moth breaking free of its cocoon, which is necessary for its survival and evolution.
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Apr 10, 2025The result is an album that feels expansive and unshackled, while still boasting a gnarly punk heart. Love it or hate it, one thing’s clear here: this band’s ambitions are soaring skyward.
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Apr 4, 2025These 11 tracks are relentlessly melodic, channeling the soulful pop-punk of Descendents and anthemic grunge of Hole rather than any of Scowl’s pit-stomping hardcore peers. Moss’ ruthless scream makes a handful of notable appearances, such as on ‘B.A.B.E’ and titular closer, however, the main focus here is an elegant sense of rock euphony that manifests via a range of differing but cohesive songwriting approaches.
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May 15, 2025Are We All Angels proves that blending hardcore and alternative rock from the 1990s and 2000s is still a potent combination.
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Apr 7, 2025Scowl's push toward melodicism is overall a step in a positive direction; certainly nobody loves to see punks embrace melody more than me, but it feels like Scowl is still trying to appease their old fans and branch out at the same time, and they end up handicapping themselves in the process.
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Apr 4, 2025Things start promisingly on opener Special, with the equally rip-roaring Fantasy shortly after. The problems emerge in the album's latter half, starting from the latest single Tonight, which feels sadly very safe and leads to songs that wouldn't feel out of place on an early 2000s generic pop-punk album.