“I taught myself to scream in secret, in the car and the shower. I kept that in my back pocket until we’d had a few rehearsals!” Meet Cwfen, the Scottish doomgazers ruling the night with haunting shows and steel guitar picks

Cwfen.

Less than two years after making their first demos, Cwfen entered the studio with no plans beyond making music with longtime friends. But since Sorrows dropped in May 2025, they’ve delivered sell-out tours, appeared on annual best album lists, and beat The Cure and Lambrini Girls to Drowned in Sound’s Neptune Prize.

The Scottish quartet are surprised by these rapid achievements, but have some theories why it’s happening. “There’s the maturation of our songwriting – we’ve been doing music for a very long time,” says guitarist-vocalist Agnes Alder. “And Sorrows has an authenticity since we wanted to make music just for us.”