LONDON five piece Evans the Death will tour their new album, Vanilla, across the UK this summer.

Vanilla is the band’s most ambitious and experimental album to date, shunning the more traditional pop structures and hooks of their first two albums, 2012s self-titled debut and 2015s critically acclaimed Expect Delays.

While Expect Delays was a step towards something more collaborative, experimental and abrasive - a bleak, introspective album that still retained a pop sensibility - Vanilla sees the band veer in an ever more adventurous direction: more aggressive, extroverted and raw.

Named after the undertaker in Dylan Thomas’ radio play, Under Milk Wood, the band was formed by brothers Dan and Olly Moss after meeting singer Katherine Whitaker at a Let’s Wrestle show.

After numerous line-ups, the band is now completed by James Burkitt on drums and Daniel Raphael on bass. The new album was recorded at Lightship95 in London with producer Rory Attwell, who worked on both of their previous records.

Highly erratic in style and mood, brimming with extreme contrasts, from noisy to funky to melodic, energetic to dejected, full of chaos and restlessness, the album was the result of a carefully planned recording strategy.

Vanilla bounces wildly between styles, lending a real energy and vitality to the flow of the album.

A dark, howling, ragged storm of an album, resisting categorisation, Vanilla is anything but – a far cry from the bland, unimaginative music that pervades the airwaves.

It is a brittle, brilliant new chapter in the story of a band who never fail to surprise.

Evans the Death will perform at The Full Moon, Cardiff on July 21. For more information about the show or for tickets please visit thefullmooncardiff.com