UK band DIVORCE recently announced their debut album Drive to Goldenhammer, along with the news, the Nottingham band has shared the lead single “All My Freaks”. The album arrives on March 7th 2025 via Gravity/Capitol records. 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

The band have played 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.

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.

The album’s lead single ‘All My Freaks’ is out today, a song which skewers the ego of the music industry with radiant synths, bright riffs and British irreverence. Tiger says:

“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 says: “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 2024 Tour Dates

08 Oct – The Forum, Tunbridge Wells, UK
09 Oct – Face Bar, Reading, UK
10 Oct – Whereelse?, Margate, UK
12 Oct – The Waterfront Studio, Norwich, UK
13 Oct – The Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK
14 Oct – Yellow Arch Studios, Sheffield, UK – SOLD OUT
15 Oct – The Parish, Huddersfield, UK
17 Oct – The Crescent, York, UK
18 Oct – Cluny 2, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
19 Oct – Future Yard, Birkenhead, UK
20 Oct – Blackpool Central Library, Blackpool, UK
22 Oct – The Horn, St Albans, UK
23 Oct – Islington Academy Hall, London, UK

Pre-order Drive to Goldenhammer HERE