French Noise Rockers THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR EARS Announce New Album FUNLAND Released 10th October 2025
French Noise Rockers THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR EARS Announce New Album FUNLAND
Released 10th October 2025
Celebrate Blackpool On New Single ‘Gorgeous Eve Holds A Banger Hammer’
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Announce 2025 UK/EU Tour Dates
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Hossegor, France-based noise-rock trio THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR EARS are delighted to announce their forthcoming third album, FUNLAND, set for release on 10th October 2025.
Recorded by Ben Hampson (DITZ, Lambrini Girls) at pARPAINg Studio in January 2025, the album will be released on À Tant Rêver Du Roi (FR), Luik Music (BE) and Conicle Records (cassette tape).
To celebrate the news, the band have revealed a video for lead single ‘Gorgeous Eve Holds A Banger Hammer’ set for release on 4th June 2025.
The track was produced and recorded by Ben Hampson at Recording United in Angresse, France, mixed by Ben Hampson at Agricultural Audio in Brighton, UK and mastered by Katie Tavini at Weird Jungle, UK.
'Gorgeous Eve Holds a Banger Hammer' is an ode to the town of Blackpool and the extravagant nights the trio spent there while touring the UK. “We encountered a horde of larger-than-life characters in this whimsical north-west seaside town,” they say, “including a pirate singing karaoke, a man in an angel costume jumping off the pier, and a mermaid spilling gin on passers-by.”
The album's title comes from one of Blackpool's iconic locations: FUNLAND—an unlikely mix of slot machines, children's games, and gently decrepit living rooms, reminiscent of the start of a David Lynch film or a Stephen King short story.
For the official video, the band commissioned artist Thibault Tourmente to create a bespoke book. “His work collecting, arranging and combining iconographic images was ideally suited to the occasion,” says vocalist Pierre-Yo. “The video simply shows this object in a still shot. The bulk of the work for this one-shot piece, filmed at WRONG in just a few hours, was the creation of the object itself.”
Drawing inspiration from encyclopaedias, magazines, newspapers and vintage adverts, Tourmente successfully captured the strangeness and complex humanity of the city that the band loves so much. The result is just like the band and their forthcoming album: surprising, enigmatic and touching.
The band announced their return earlier this year by releasing an utterly punishing live session video for their single 'I WANT TO WRITE A GOOD SONG', taken from their 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).
Already appearing at InRocks Festival 2025 supporting Fat White Family and Festival Hors-Pistes with Shannon Wright and Quentin Sauvé, TWDYE will be announcing further live dates in the coming months.
Further details of the new album will follow.
TWDYE's new album FUNLAND is released 10th October 2025
Live Dates:
10.07.25 - Blackflag - Seignosse (FR)
12.07.25 - La Nuit Farouche - Le Tréhou (FR)
01.08.25 - Progress Festival - Lac de Labigalette (FR)
02.08.25 - Le Wharf - Vieux Boucau (FR)
10.10.25 - La Ferronnerie - Jurançon (album release party) (FR)
11.10.25 - Le Circus - Capbreton (album release party) (FR)
20.11.25 - Adelphi Club - Hull (UK)
21.11.25 - Sydney & Matilda - Sheffield (UK)
22.11.25 - 33 Oldham Street - Manchester (UK)
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TWDYE online:
https://thiswilldestroyyourears.com
https://www.instagram.com/thiswilldestroyyourears
https://thiswilldestroyyourears.bandcamp.com
Biography:
This Will Destroy Your Ears were born in 2018 in the southwest of France and hit the UK roads straight away, sharing stages with USA Nails, JOHN, and Black Midi. That first tour—in a battered Renault Master affectionately nicknamed Georges by the Brits—set the tone: loud, raw, no-nonsense, and fiercely DIY.
In 2019, the band recorded their debut album CLEAR with Dorian Verdier (JC Satàn) and Boris Lehachoir in their self-built Angresse HQ, pARPAINg, before having it mixed in London by Wayne Adams (Petbrick, Green Lung). It was released on their own label, Cowboy À La Mode.
Moving back and forth between the French and UK scenes, TWDYE kept gigging, collaborating, and growing. In 2022, they took part in À TOI À MOI, a 12" split celebrating “musical mingling,” alongside Shoefiti (FR), The Eurosuite (UK), and Naguals (UK).
That same year, they received support from The Inspector Cluzo and hit the road again (with LIFE, among others), releasing their second album Everybody Knows Mickey, recorded with Henri D’Armancourt (Steve Amber, The Psychotic Monks), mixed by Alex Greaves (Heavy Lungs, LICE), and released via Cowboy À La Mode, À Tant Rêver Du Roi (FR) and Brutalist Records (UK). The album was warmly received on both sides of the Channel and drew attention from the French national press.
From 2022 to 2024, the trio played extensively alongside bands like Slift, METZ, Frustration, Pogo Car Crash Control, PENICHE, and Stuffed Foxes, refining a live sound that’s raw, noisy, sometimes tender — and always loud. Because yes, This Will Destroy Your Ears love people… they just tend to tell them a bit too loudly.
Meanwhile, they built Recording United, their own studio nestled in the heart of Kontainer, a multidisciplinary hub in the Landes — part Warhol’s Factory, part Death By Audio’s DIY activism. Their third album, FUNLAND, is the first to be entirely recorded there.
Inspired by their UK tours — and especially the decaying Technicolor charm of Blackpool — the album takes its name from a run-down amusement park: a magical mess of dying slot machines, sad clowns, and buzzing neon. A pop nightmare postcard, somewhere between David Lynch and Stephen King.
Produced and mixed by Ben Hampson (DITZ, Lambrini Girls) and mastered by Katie Tavini (Bloc Party, Los Bitchos), FUNLAND will be released on October 10, 2025 via Luik Music (BE), À Tant Rêver Du Roi (FR), Cowboy À La Mode, and Chronicle Records (on cassette, of course).
