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At the start of 2022, The Howlers, outwardly at least, were on a high. They had just completed a sold-out tour, off the back of recording their debut EP during the depths of the 2020 lockdowns. ‘We took the decision to bubble together during the pandemic,’ says lead-vocalist Adam Young,…
At the start of 2022, The Howlers, outwardly at least, were on a high. They had just completed a sold-out tour, off the back of recording their debut EP during the depths of the 2020 lockdowns. ‘We took the decision to bubble together during the pandemic,’ says lead-vocalist Adam Young, describing the band’s near-apocalyptic experience of travelling back and forth between their shared living accommodation and a rehearsal studio, made available to them by previous members of Palma Violets and Big Moon.
‘Everyone was queuing up with facemasks outside banks, there were protests, it was dystopian’, he recalls, of that time. Adam, bass player Guus Ter Braak, and their former drummer were living in close quarters, eating, and sleeping in a small house share, laying down the record against the precarious backdrop of a live music industry in lockdown turmoil. The result was the band’s first EP which earned the band rapid attention and a cohort of loyal fans, but beneath the surface, things were not running as smoothly as they seemed.
