Ireland’s Adore have announced their debut EP, BITER, will be released on 26th September via Big Scary Monsters, the EP is a seven-track sucker punch that proves this band can be brutal and unexpectedly moving at once. Drawing from horror films, vampire folklore and lived experience, exploring the quiet ways we contort ourselves to fit in, these are songs that howl and unravel; where fear becomes fuel, softness becomes defiance, and biting back is the only way out.

Adore have marked the announcement with their new single, Sweet Keith, the track is a gnarled bouquet of gratitude and love to their people. Sweet Keith is Adore at their most tender and volatile. Fusing flurries of abrasive noise and crunching guitars with disarming honesty, it’s a tribute to their chosen family. Adore have also announced headline Autumn tour dates in Ireland and the UK.

“Sweet Keith is a very honest and obvious song. One of my best friends noticed that a lot of my friends have far apart eyes, and came to the conclusion that this trait was much the same as ‘prey’ eyes in the animal world. She then went on to say that she believed that a lot of my friends had far apart eyes which then translated in my monkey brain as to be gentle and safe as opposed to predators which typically have their eyes right on the front of their face. Sweet Keith is about my love for my friends and my love for how they always come as they are, their energy and their stories. It’s one of my favourite songs to play live and within the EP it is the beginning of what is to come for adore. Sweet Keith is the manifestation of all of my favourite people rolled into one name and when we play it live and people who I love are in the crowd I feel like it’s a song for them. BITER is a collection of tracks written before and after Adore’s formation which document a long lesson in being loud and biting back. Over the past few years, I have been obsessed with people’s childhood mannerisms and if they carried into or developed into anything in adulthood. I came to the conclusion that most children pick up one or more of these vices: Biter, burner (setting fires), poker, tickler. These little acts of childhood menace are preformed when a child feels great emotion; be it positive or negative, love or hatred. Over the years, I learned how keeping to myself and using silence as a form of self defence was affecting my sense of self. I no longer have to be obedient to survive. Though I was not a biter as a child, I began wishing I was. I admire the release of big feelings that my friends indulged in when they were small and as I’ve grown up, I too have become a biter.” (vocalist Lara Minchin)

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