Real Lies We Will Annihilate Our Enemies Vinyl

We Will Annihilate Our Enemies is about taking the hand of someone you love intensely and running headlong into the chaos and noise and grinding forces that dominate modern life. It follows gilded 2024 collaborations with Mall Grab, Kettama and Drain Gang’s YEAR0001 label. After a teenhood spent playing in hardcore bands, the duo found ecstasy at a squat party for the first time, and moved to London. Since then, they’ve made music about finding romance and fun when the moon is up, becoming a cult act in the process. While their second album ‘Lad Ash’ (2022) was written during lockdown, and saw the group turn inside themselves, to their memories and formative teenage traumas, for inspiration, We Will Annihilate Our Enemies is a very different record, one written in the present tense that takes aim rather than turns away. The album is the start of a new chapter for Real Lies, whose misfortunes have conversely cemented their status as one of the UK’s most enduring electronic acts. A six-figure record deal vetoed at the last minute, plunging them into years of existential inertia. A world tour with Pet Shop Boys that never happened because their dancers needed too much time to get changed between songs. A global pandemic that broke out just as they were revving up to release their second album.