Hossegor, France-based noise-rock trio THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR EARS are pleased to return today with the official video for their new single ‘This Is Why’, set for release on 24th September 2025.

The track is the latest to be taken from their forthcoming third album, FUNLAND, set for release on 10th October 2025 via À Tant Rêver Du Roi (FR), Luik Music (BE) and Conicle Records (cassette tape), and is available to preorder now.

FUNLAND was recorded by Ben Hampson (DITZ, Lambrini Girls) at pARPAINg Studio in January 2025, mixed by Ben Hampson at Agricultural Audio in Brighton, UK and mastered by Katie Tavini at Weird Jungle, UK.

Alongside the new track, the band have also revealed additional UK/EU live dates as part of their Winter 2025 headline tour, with tickets on sale now (see below for listings).

Commenting on the new single, guitarist and vocalist Pierre-Yo said: “‘This Is Why’ is about life as a couple, and how the way we look at each other changes over time. Those little quirks or ‘charming’ flaws that seem so endearing—or that we barely notice—at the beginning of a relationship inevitably start to appear differently as the years go by. That isn’t necessarily negative: it’s also about learning to accept the other person in their entirety, with more depth and intimacy.”

For the official video, Pierre-Yo unearthed nearly twenty years of VHS tapes and Super 8 films shot by his parents. Weddings, family dinners, travels, everyday life…he entrusted videographer Antoine Bernays with the task of bringing a more neutral, detached perspective to these archives, with just one instruction: to focus on the glances exchanged between his parents. Because his father never stopped filming his mother—and over time, we can see how her gaze toward him changes.

“No resentment, no bitterness: just the passage of years quietly transforming things,” he explains. “And that’s precisely what makes the video so beautiful and fascinating. You can feel that these two still love each other immensely, but that the way they look at one another is no longer the same. Now, they know each other by heart. And to truly know someone is also to embrace both their shadows and their light. Without judgment, without trying to reshape them, simply seeing them as they are: the most beautiful person with whom to share the time we’re given. It makes a touching contrast with the harshness of the song’s lyrics—as if the images softened their edges.”

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.

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).

The three piece followed up with a video for FUNLAND’s lead single ‘Gorgeous Eve Holds A Banger Hammer’ over the summer, premiered with French music magazine MOWNO.

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.

Live Dates:

04.10.25 – Grabuge – Rennes (FR)
10.10.25 – La Ferronnerie – Jurançon (album release party) (FR)
11.10.25 – Le Circus – Capbreton (album release party) (FR)
19.11.25 – Venue TBC – Edinburgh (UK)
20.11.25 – Adelphi Club – Hull (UK)
21.11.25 – Sydney & Matilda – Sheffield (UK)
22.11.25 – 33 Oldham Street – Manchester (UK)
26.11.25 – Le Chinois – Montreuil (FR)
27.11.25 – Le Malterie – Lille (FR)
29.11.25 – Le Charleston – Amiens (FR)
13.12.25 – Le Cafe Music – Mont De Marsan (FR)

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