Divorce

DIVORCE are today sharing their first new music of 2025. New single 'Pill' is out now. The band's debut album 'Drive to Goldenhammer' is out March 7th via Gravity/Capitol.

Released on the heels of radiant lead single 'All My Freaks' and the breezy guitar wash of 'Antarctica' – both of which reached the A-list on BBC 6 Music – new single ‘Pill’ weaves a universe of sounds together across its 5 minute playing time. Grappling with agitated guitars, pensive strings, a wrenching solo piano interlude, swooning alt-country flirtations and crashing, dramatic climaxes, ‘Pill’ is Divorce at the peak of their alchemical powers.

Commenting on the new single, co-vocalist and guitarist Tiger Cohen-Towell says::

"'Pill' was written on not my piano at not my flat in not my city; Glasgow to be specific. It’s about sexual awakenings and the absolute thrill of feeling seen properly. It’s also about a long-term long-distance relationship that turned my life upside down (and continues to), and my relationship with a new place alongside that. It’s one of the queerest songs on the record, all three sections highlight a different realm of my queer experience. It’s also potentially the most unconventionally arranged song on the record and making it was a very playful and light-hearted process. From the get-go I wanted it to have three very different sections in this song, the rest of the band trusted that instinct and we all threw ourselves into making it work, so it was nice to feel professionally seen whilst making a song about feeling personally seen!"

More about Divorce's debut album Drive to Goldenhammer

Initially meeting as teenagers through the city’s close-knit DIY scene, the band – completed by members 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, releasing a slew of genre-defiant singles that quickly caught the attention of tastemakers the world over. 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 four-night residency at hometown venue Bodega (the first band to do so) and wrapped up their UK tour with their biggest headline show to date at a sold out 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 is 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 meticulously crafted tracks that balance heart-on-sleeve sentiments and tongue-in-cheek humour, devastation, playfulness and all-consuming feelings. Sonically rich and lyrically open-hearted, it sees Divorce assemble a shelter for themselves amid the chaos and leave the front door open to everyone.

Drive to Goldenhammer was written and demoed across four recording stays at rural North Yorkshire outpost The Calm Farm. Sessions spanned the spring, summer, autumn and winter - the band writing night and day - before the completed songs were brought to life with producer Catherine Marks (boygenius, Foals, Wolf Alice) at Real World Studios. As a result, the record has a well-worn and lived-in feeling, with a natural warmth, something they deliberately wanted to bake into the album to reflect the band’s identity as it relates to the Midlands, but also as – in a nod to the fantasy location of Goldenhammer - a fictional refuge from the world at large.

Still refusing to box themselves into a genre, Drive to Goldenhammer lays the Divorce “stamp” across a breadth of influences. Across songs that waltz around weaving riffs and vocal acrobatics, moody acoustic introspection, walls of alt-rock, shape-shifting electronic glitches, with string flourishes, these are songs that build, bloom and release, fittingly always finding their way home under the influence of the band’s stewardship. It is an album that much like its writers, leaves the door open to discovery, and actively reaches out for connection.

Tiger says of the album: "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!"