Introducing: THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR EARS
Introducing: THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR EARS
French Noise Rockers Reveal Black Flag Live Session ‘I WANT TO WRITE A GOOD SONG’
Watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SK8VhD74TA
Taken From Their 2022 Second Album Everybody Knows Mickey
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Upcoming Appearances At Les Inrocks Festival w/ Fat White Family + Festival Hors Pistes
Hossegor, France-based noise-rock trio THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR EARS are kicking off their year by sharing an utterly punishing live session video for their single 'I WANT TO WRITE A GOOD SONG'.
The session comes ahead of the official announcement of a new album due for release in 2025, with further details to be revealed over the coming months.
‘I WANT TO WRITE A GOOD SONG’ is taken from the band’s second album Everybody Knows Mickey, released in 2022 on respected French label À Tant Rêver Du Roi (FR), Cowboy À La Mode (FR) and Brutalist Records (UK).
The album was produced and recorded by Henri D’Armancourt and TWDYE at pARPAINg, Angresse, mixed by Alex Greaves at Nave Studio, Leeds, and mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering, Chicago.
Conceptually, ‘I WANT TO WRITE A GOOD SONG' is built around a series of song titles the band would have liked to have written, including 31 influences from the Pixies' 'Debaser' to the Talking Heads' 'Psycho Killer', not forgetting Johnny Cash's 'Man in Black', The Murder Capital's 'Green & Blue' and IDLES' fabulous 'Colossus'—a noisy anthem to the artists TWDYE love so much.
Filmed by Loula Productions (already responsible for the group's excellent ‘Coffin For Two’ video on a fishing boat) at the Black Flag in Seignosse in the middle of winter, this live session was conceived as an obvious counterpoint to the exercise. The trio had fun simulating an audition organised by the bar to find a house band for the coming summer, finding themselves in front of a meagre five people who are less than enthused (the zooms on the faces of the protagonists speak for themselves...) whilst they hammer through the single as if nothing had happened.
As is often the case with TWDYE, it’s a quirky and tongue in cheek take that juxtaposes with the crushing weight of their music.
If you want to see the band live with more than five people in the room, you can choose between the two French dates in March, or wait until the band announce their Autumn 2025 UK tour dates later this year.
Further details of their soon-to-be-announced new album will follow.
Live Dates:
05.03.25 - Bordeaux - Rock School Barbey - Les Inrocks Festival 2025 (w/ Fat White Family)
07.03.25 - Annecy - Festival Hors-Pistes (w/ Shannon Wright and Quentin Sauvé)
TWDYE online:
https://thiswilldestroyyourears.com
https://www.instagram.com/thiswilldestroyyourears
https://thiswilldestroyyourears.bandcamp.com
Biography:
It might be easy to stop in front of this band’s apocalyptic name and walk on by… convinced that you’re entering a deliberately badly lit alley or already exhausted by the heavy weather forecast. However, even if this most Mancunian trio from the suburbs of Hossegor is indeed committed to the democratisation of tinnitus, it would be far too simplistic to classify them as a “too loud for Mum” band (especially if Mum likes the dancing melodies of the 80s, contemporary art, and the end-of-the-world energy of the 90s…)
Formed in 2017 in the Landes region of south-west France the members of This Will Destroy Your Ears, who are at once choreographers, visual artists and video makers, are what is now known as a DIY band. Except that in this case, this practice can’t be considered as just a trendy term, but as a true passion… everything is done by them: amps, instruments, communication, videos… they even built their own recording studio: pARPAINg.
Nestled on the ocean’s edge, surrounded by forest and horses, this project is part of an even bigger package – The KONTAINER – which includes a creative space dedicated to artists, a screen-printing workshop, a place for experimentation with the public and a whole host of profiles ranging from coders to translators, graphic designers to writers, not to mention a specialist in North Atlantic hurricane risk modelling; you can’t make this stuff up. It’s an exuberant community (where everyone works a little on each other’s projects), far from the cliché of the adrenaline-fuelled blond surfer, and which carries the seeds of a counter-culture closer to a “Berlin on the beach” than to a fantasised, and already largely has-been, Landifornia (nickname given to this region of France).
For their first tour in March 2018, they decided to go to England with a 1981 Renault Master – which the locals tenderly renamed “Georges” and which would go on to become the hero of their first video – to understand, as they say, how the English went about re-inventing rock & roll over and over again. They then shared the stage with USA Nails, JOHN, Black Midi or METZ and never stopped going back and forth between their English and French audiences.
In 2019, they released their first album CLEAR, recorded in one week at pARPAINg with the help of Boris Lehachoir and Dorian Verdier (keyboard player at JC SÀTAN) and mixed in London at Wayne Adams’ Bear Bite Horses Studio on Cowboy À La Mode (FR) and Brutalist Records (UK) labels. After a few confinements and the À TOI À MOI “musical blending” EP created with The Eurosuite (London), Naguals (Sheffield) and Shoefiti (Paris), they released their second album, EVERYBODY KNOWS MICKEY, on November 18, 2022 on French labels Cowboy À La Mode and À Tant Rêver Du Roi, and on English label Brutalist Records.
Recorded once more at their pARPAINg studio, they were joined by Henri d’Armancourt (Steve Amber, The Psychotic Monks) for production, Alex Greaves (Heavy Lungs, LICE, Ditz) for mixing, and Carl Saff (Bambara, Protomartyr, Fu Manchu) for mastering. Even more polished and accomplished than its predecessor, we find with this release both the band’s live energy and their unconditional love for melodies that place them somewhere few people dare to venture. Because yes, This Will Destroy Your Ears do love people a lot—they just tend to tell them way too loudly.
