Three-piece rockers The Rills today announce their debut album Don't Be A Stranger, out 1st November via AWAL. Along with the announcement comes lead single 'Your Dad's Car', a tenderly bittersweet song inspired by the band's first tour van that vocalist Mitch Spencer bought off an ex partner's father. The accompanying Ace Bowerman directed video sees Mitch submerged in a sinking car, drowning amidst the lyrics of the powerful ballad. "I used to drive an old VW when we first started touring. I bought it off an ex's dad & for a while it was our tour van," Mitch explains of the vulnerable, arena-ready lullaby." I feel like this song is driving that car up to a lake, taking the handbrake off & watching it fill with water, submerge, and take all the memories of that time with it. The song is really vulnerable & dark, it's quite twisted in a way. You can hear all the cracks in my voice, bits of it fall in & out of time. It's like seeing an old house from some distant memory but it's all decayed and derelict now. I was trying to exorcise some demons on that one," the frontman admits. Don't Be A Stranger was produced by Dave McCracken, the indie mastermind behind many Ian Brown solo records and key works by dEUS and The Rifles, as well as lending a hand to albums by the likes of Depeche Mode, Sports Team, The Snuts and Beyonce. The eleven-track debut record sees these three young friends take the untapped energy that made them viral sensations and darlings of the grassroots scene and direct it into something more considered, complete and heartfelt. They didn't have a lot of choice when they came out of uni, hungry to make a break when COVID shut the world down. " We were just a little idiot band ," admits Spencer. " Obviously we had these dreams, but then lockdown happened and we were forced into doing TikTok and all that stuff because we didn't have a way to play or release music." It worked, and The Rills quickly found themselves with millions of likes on TikTok, thousands of streams, and a healthy following on social media. " All of a sudden, it blew up, we had fans and we we're talking to the NME. Everything in that time, we scrambled together ." Tracklist: 1 - Seasick 2 - I Don't Wanna Be 3 - Drive 4 - Dad's Car 5 - Mistake 6 - POV 7 - Bones 8 - Dream Of You 9 - Sirens 10 - Stranger 11 - Angel in The Snow