French Noise Rockers This Will Destroy Your Ears Announce New Album FUNLAND Released 10th October 2025

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)

Tickets - https://linktr.ee/twdye