Nottingham quartet Divorce have announced their debut album Drive to Goldenhammer alongside lead single ‘All My Freaks’. Drive to Goldenhammer is set for release on 7th March 2025 via Gravity / Capitol.
Initially meeting as teenagers through the city’s close-knit DIY scene, Tiger Cohen-Towell (vocals / bass), Felix Mackenzie-Barrow (vocals / guitar), Adam Peter Smith (guitar / synth) and Kasper Sandstrøm (drums) came together as Divorce in mid-2021. Last year they signed to Gravity Records (Universal Music) for their acclaimed Heady Metal EP, before filling 2024 with a raft of international festivals and tours with Bombay Bicycle Club, The Vaccines and Everything Everything. They have since sold out their own upcoming four-night residency at hometown venue Bodega and will wrap-up their October UK tour with their biggest headline show to date at London’s Islington Assembly Hall.
Adjusting to life as a touring, transient entity began to leave the band feeling “like we were being dragged through a hedge backwards – in a nice way!” and as a result searching to carve out a place that they can call home within their music. The result promises to be a pastoral blend of country, indie-rock, folk and chamber pop that traces the upheaval of the last few years while planting roots in their own sound. Influenced by location, memory, warmth and a deep-seated love for their post-industrial Midlands, they explore themes of transformation across 12 tracks that balance heart-on-sleeve sentiments and tongue-in-cheek humour, devastation, playfulness and all-consuming feelings. Drive to Goldenhammer was written and demoed across four recording stays at rural North Yorkshire outpost The Calm Farm with the completed songs brought to life by producer Catherine Marks (boygenius, Foals, Wolf Alice) at Real World Studios.
The album’s lead single ‘All My Freaks‘ is a song which skewers the ego of the music industry with radiant synths, bright riffs and British irreverence. Tiger expands:
“Being a musician can be brutal. I feel like you hear more and more songs coming from artists purely about the trials and tribulations of being a musician, feeling like you aren’t getting enough, or feeling like you’ve got too much and you don’t deserve it. It’s gotten a bit meta if you think about it. ‘All My Freaks’ is about that too, written from the perspective of a humorous/tragic caricature of an up-and-coming artist, this song is laughing at our own egos and yet acknowledging the power that they wield. Putting this out as the first offering from our debut album felt fitting, as we are hypothetically straddling our jet skis and crossing the ocean of delusion to hopefully reach the isle of public approval.”
Continuing about the album, the band share:
“We’re very proud of Drive to Goldenhammer. We got to make an album the way we wanted to, kept the weird parts in, followed the warmth and didn’t overthink it. This album pays homage to seeking place and home; one of the great human levellers. Much of life feels at odds with this particular need. And to Goldenhammer; you are a reason to keep driving. We will find you again and again!”
Divorce Live Dates
September
26 – Bodega, Nottingham, UK – SOLD OUT
27 – Bodega, Nottingham, UK – SOLD OUT
28 – Bodega, Nottingham, UK – SOLD OUT
October
3 – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK
4 – The Cavern, Exeter, UK
5 – The Joiners Arms, Southampton, UK
7 – The Boileroom, Guildford, UK
8 – The Forum, Tunbridge Wells, UK
9 – Face Bar, Reading, UK
10 – Whereelse?, Margate, UK
12 – The Waterfront Studio, Norwich, UK
13 – The Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK
14 – Yellow Arch Studios, Sheffield, UK – SOLD OUT
15 – The Parish, Huddersfield, UK
17 – The Crescent, York, UK
18 – Cluny 2, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
19 – Future Yard, Birkenhead, UK
20 – Blackpool Central Library, Blackpool, UK
22 – The Horn, St Albans, UK
23 – Islington Academy Hall, London, UK
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