Rising Irish punk band Adore has announced their debut EP, BITER, will be released on September 26th via Big Scary Monsters. Following a successful summer of festivals and touring, the band is celebrating the news with a new single, “Sweet Keith,” a raw and gritty tribute to their loved ones. Adore also confirmed a series of headline tour dates across Ireland and the UK for this autumn.
Produced by Daniel Fox of Gilla Band, the seven-track EP is described as a “sucker punch” that proves the band can be both brutal and emotionally resonant. Drawing on influences from horror films, vampire folklore, and personal experiences, the songs explore the pressures of conformity and turn fear into a form of defiance. The new single, “Sweet Keith,” perfectly showcases this duality, fusing abrasive noise and crunching guitars with disarming honesty.
On new single ‘Sweet Keith’, vocalist Lara Minchin said:
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.
Following the departure of bassist Lachlann Ó Fionnáin, Adore now continues as a duo with Lara Minchin (guitar, vocals) and Naoise Jordan Cavanagh (drums). Minchin and Cavanagh, hailing from Dublin and Galway respectively, move forward with their creative fire and instinctive sound intact. The band’s music, which is angular, twitchy, and abrasive, pulls from a long lineage of artists who make messiness feel deliberate.
Adore play Brighton, Manchester and Edinburgh Psych Fests this month, before embarking on an extensive run of Ireland and UK headline dates this autumn.
