Real Lies - We Will Annihilate Our Enemies [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: TONAL001CD
Barcode: 199538078879
Release Date: 05 Sep 2025
Genre: Electronic

Real Lies’ new album ‘WE WILL ANNIHILATE OUR ENEMIES’ will arrive on April 16th 2025 via Tonal. The album 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. Lyricist Kevin Lee Kharas and producer Patrick King created the record in their studio, hidden away under a railway bridge somewhere in London’s Zone 3. Three pictures stared down at them from the walls throughout, including an image of a young Sasha Shulgin in the relief print style of Che Guevara t-shirts sold at Camden Market, and a photo of an orbiter fairground ride in flight, taken sometime in the early 2000s. Kharas’ lyrical inspiration comes when he steps away from the tsunami of data flooding his consciousness and paces London’s rain-soaked streets late at night. “I wanted the songs on WWAOE to confront modern reality head-on, unflinching,” he explains. “I didn’t want to whine about a lost past. I didn’t want nostalgia. I wanted to learn to love the modern world, with all its horrors and futility.” 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. 

Tracklisting
1. Loverboy
2. Towards Horses
3. Wild Sign I Choose You
4. WWAOE
5. Down And Out (Where E-Girls Dare)
6. loverdrink
7. I Could Join the Birds
8. Arielle
9. Shulgin
10. LOVERWORLD
11. Finding Money (feat. Jessica Barden)