“It’s directed at many forms of systems that exist — from personal relationships all the way to our government and our systems and capitalism, the whole fucking thing,” says frontperson Kat Moss
Scowl’s Kat Moss is pissed. And luckily for folks who currently may also be pissed (for reasons), the Santa Cruz band will be dropping their rage-laced LP, Are We All Angels, on April 4th via Dead Oceans.
“It’s personal in a lot of ways — but it’s also pretty fucking pissed,” Moss tells Rolling Stone of the new record, which was produced by Will Yip (Turnstile, Title Fight, Mannequin Pussy). Yip also produced the band’s Psychic Dance Routine EP. “It’s directed at many forms of systems that exist — from personal relationships all the way to our government and our systems and capitalism, the whole fucking thing.”
Scowl are heralding the news about their new record with the power-pop-tinged single, “Not Hell, Not Heaven,” which Moss says in a release is “about feeling victimized and being a victim, but not wanting to identify with being a victim. It’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.”
The accompanying color-saturated video was directed by Sean Stout and filmed at the venue 924 Gilman in Berkeley, where the band first met. (Moss recalls first encountering guitarist Malachi Greene in the pit.) The album also features the spooky “Special,” which dropped in the fall.
“I just wish I could sit down and have a conversation with myself and with any young woman who’s facing that kind of internalized gaslighting that’s been created because of these systems — because our government favors the white man, because the men in our lives have been extremely controlling and manipulative and abusive,” Moss says. “I really just hope this record inspires young women specifically to dig their heels in, to not let the systems sway them.”
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