THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR EARS Examine Fluidity Of Love Over Time On New Single ‘This Is Why’ Released 24th September 2025
THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR EARS Examine How Love Changes Over Time On New Single
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French Noise Rockers Reveal Details of New Album FUNLAND
Released 10th October 2025
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Hossegor, France-based noise-rock trio THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR EARS are pleased to return today with the official video for their new single ‘This Is Why’, set for release on 24th September 2025.
The track is the latest to be taken from their forthcoming third album, FUNLAND, set for release on 10th October 2025 via À Tant Rêver Du Roi (FR), Luik Music (BE) and Conicle Records (cassette tape), and is available to preorder now.
FUNLAND was recorded by Ben Hampson (DITZ, Lambrini Girls) at pARPAINg Studio in January 2025, mixed by Ben Hampson at Agricultural Audio in Brighton, UK and mastered by Katie Tavini at Weird Jungle, UK.
Alongside the new track, the band have also revealed additional UK/EU live dates as part of their Winter 2025 headline tour, with tickets on sale now (see below for listings).
Commenting on the new single, guitarist and vocalist Pierre-Yo said: “‘This Is Why’ is about life as a couple, and how the way we look at each other changes over time. Those little quirks or ‘charming’ flaws that seem so endearing—or that we barely notice—at the beginning of a relationship inevitably start to appear differently as the years go by. That isn’t necessarily negative: it’s also about learning to accept the other person in their entirety, with more depth and intimacy.”
For the official video, Pierre-Yo unearthed nearly twenty years of VHS tapes and Super 8 films shot by his parents. Weddings, family dinners, travels, everyday life…he entrusted videographer Antoine Bernays with the task of bringing a more neutral, detached perspective to these archives, with just one instruction: to focus on the glances exchanged between his parents. Because his father never stopped filming his mother—and over time, we can see how her gaze toward him changes.
“No resentment, no bitterness: just the passage of years quietly transforming things,” he explains. “And that’s precisely what makes the video so beautiful and fascinating. You can feel that these two still love each other immensely, but that the way they look at one another is no longer the same. Now, they know each other by heart. And to truly know someone is also to embrace both their shadows and their light. Without judgment, without trying to reshape them, simply seeing them as they are: the most beautiful person with whom to share the time we’re given. It makes a touching contrast with the harshness of the song’s lyrics—as if the images softened their edges.”
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.
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).
The three piece followed up with a video for FUNLAND’s lead single ‘Gorgeous Eve Holds A Banger Hammer’ over the summer, premiered with French music magazine MOWNO.
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.
Live Dates:
04.10.25 - Grabuge - Rennes (FR)
10.10.25 - La Ferronnerie - Jurançon (album release party) (FR)
11.10.25 - Le Circus - Capbreton (album release party) (FR)
19.11.25 - Venue TBC - Edinburgh (UK)
20.11.25 - Adelphi Club - Hull (UK)
21.11.25 - Sydney & Matilda - Sheffield (UK)
22.11.25 - 33 Oldham Street - Manchester (UK)
26.11.25 - Le Chinois - Montreuil (FR)
27.11.25 - Le Malterie - Lille (FR)
29.11.25 - Le Charleston - Amiens (FR)
13.12.25 - Le Cafe Music - Mont De Marsan (FR)
FUNLAND album tracklist:
01 - Gorgeous eve holds a banger hammer
02 - Losing my rag
03 - Stop that wacky show
04 - No more letters
05 - The way it goes
06 - Pill pop night
07 - This is why
08 - Hurray
09 - Orange Clown
10 - Lost our track
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).
