Sounds | Coilguns - Nightshifter
- John Van de Mergel
- 20 sep
- 2 minuten om te lezen
De ene keer laten ze een razende mix van boze punk en energieke noise rock horen, dan weer klinkt een song ingetogen luguber. In navolging van Odd Love (2024) krijgen we met Nightshifter een nummer dat dateert van tijdens die opnamesessies. Het is één van de twee die destijds te donker werden bevonden en nu verschijnt op een two-track EP. Loodzwaar, gedrenkt in angst en traag en allesverwoestend als lava. Neurosis en Guiltless luisteren geboeid.
Lost Love (EP) verschijnt op 26 september 2025 via Humus Records.
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Nightshifter shows Coilguns at their saddest. They share their experience of the archetypal downside of life as a touring musician: returning home alone and tired after weeks on the road, losing sight of the meaning of it all.Like many of their peers, they are familiar with the toll that a career in a band takes on personal lives, relationships, and health. Despite its hopeless vibe, this song is intended as a way to exorcise and accept this aspect of their fate, allowing them to move forward. A kind of prophylactic catharsis to help them to keep focusing on what matters most: keeping the band rolling.Carefully produced by Californian engineer and musician Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City), these four minutes of noise are a perfect example of what Evans's own "Sad Dude Core" recipe is good for: draining the pain away.
As singer Louis Jucker says:“Anyone who has been on tour has experienced this at least once:the tour is over, it's late at night, you're standing in front of your apartment door trying to find your keys in a bag full of stench. No one's home and your fridge is empty, except maybe for that poor limp carrot you forgot there when you left. Better wine a bit, embrace the despair, sleep a bit, do your laundry and start writing new songs".
Track written, arranged and produced by Coilguns, recorded by Scott Evans in Ocean Sounds studio, Giske (Norway), mixed by Scott Evans (January 2025), mastered by Magnus Lindberg (January 2025).
Musician credits for the track:
Kevin Galland - Bass - Luc Hess - Drums - Louis Jucker - Vocals - Jonathan Nido - Guitar
