COILGUNS (Noise Rock / Indie / Post Hardcore - Switzerland) - New album "Odd Love" OUT on 22 November - New single / video "Generic Skincare" available NOW
About "The Wind To Wash The Pain" taken from the album Odd Love, due out in November:
Known for their raw energy and unrestrained soundscapes, Coilguns take a bold step in a new direction with this track, showcasing a more introspective side. The single envelops listeners in melancholic harmonium layers, timpani, and haunting melodies, a stark contrast to the band’s usual sonic intensity. However, Coilguns doesn't stray too far from their roots, ending the song with a climactic surge of distorted guitars and feedback.
Commenting on the single, lead vocalist Louis Jucker shares:
“When you're feeling down again, and that pain feels like an old one, something you've felt already, almost familiar, too normal to bedangerous, yet too real to be ignored, only thing you've left to do is wait for the wind to wash it all away. Until it comes back again."
With its poignant lyrics, the track is a profound exploration of recurring emotional turmoil and the futile attempts to escape it. "The Wind to Wash The Pain" is a fascinating addition to Coilguns' discography, presenting a vulnerable yet powerful new facet of the band that will resonate with listeners long after the music stops.
Credits for the single:
Kevin Galland – Harmonium, Synths, Backing Vocals • Luc Hess – Timpani, Percussion • Louis Jucker – Vocals, Guitar • Jonathan Nido – Guitar
Track composed, written, produced by Coilguns, recorded by Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City, Thrice) in the Ocean Sounds studio, Giske (Norway), mixed by Tom Dalgety (The Pixies, Ghost, Royal Blood) and mastered by Robin Schmidt (Liam Gallagher, The Gaslight Anthem.
About the new album "Odd Love"
«Odd Love is a way to summarize our relationship with music in itself, theoverall music business and our band life. We're amazed how long this band has lasted so far and the importance it has taken in our life, knowing how randomly it started. Our music has always been a sane yet intense way to process all the light and deep things we were going through in our personal lives. Oddness is our nomality and love is our motor to achieve it. It took us a long time to fit somewhere in a scene, since we never believed and cared so much about scenes. Our drive was to get on stage and tore it down, and we found out pretty quickly that it would be hard to turn this energy into a business plan. Through the years we tried to cherish this strangeness while adapting to this gigantic chaos that is music today. This has for instance seen us start our own label and create most of our tools from scratch. We've obviously learned a lot together, and this whole process has taught us to love ourselves for what we are: a noisy odd band from a tidy watchmaking city.»
Much of ‘Odd Love’ was initially written by guitarist and founder Jona Nido alone at home during the first two months of the Spring 2020 COVID lockdown. “The starting point for the process of the new record was to go back to where Coilguns actually started, which was Jona writing songs and asking us to arrange them with him. “ Jucker said. Nido wrote and prepared 14 demos to show Hess, Jucker and Galland. They worked on the songs together but intentionally let the collection sit for weeks or even months afterward, before revisiting some songs whose meaning had changed for them. “It made us go into so much detail that we’ve never had the time to go into,” Nido said. “We had decided to break all patterns. We knew that we were at the end of a certain era”.
Breaking down—and breaking out of—their usual process provided the musicians with challenges that grew into great rewards. They recorded a first version of the album at their home studio, before travelling to the legendary Norwegian studio Ocean Sound, where Arcade Fire, Cult of Luna and others have also recorded, and flew American producer Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City, Thrice, Ghoul) across the ocean to free them from any technical duties and benefit from the man incredible inputs and experience when it comes to get the best out of « a band in a room ». These three weeks were a life changing experience for both parties. Coilguns did much of the artistic production on Odd Love themselves, but also recruited Grammy-nominated producers Tom Dalgety (The Pixies, Ghost, Royal Blood) and Robin Schmidt (Liam Gallagher, The Gaslight Anthem) to mix and master the album.
Odd Love’ was born…
Full band biography available in the press kit (private dropbox link available above):
Initially coming from the DIY hardcore scene, Coilguns, from La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, have since then crafted their very own blend of punk and extatic noise-rock. The history of the band is deeply bound to the development of guitarist Jona Nido’s own label – Humus Records – that now gathers up to 150 releases from Swiss artists of all sonic horizons. Though their last two albums were 100% self-produced, engineered and mixed by the band members, Coilguns drove in the summer of 2022 to end-of-the-world’s Oceansound Recordings in Norway with producer Scott Evans to track their 4th studio album which was then mixed by grammy nominated producer Tom Dalgety. The band is known for its raw, uncompromising and euphoric live performances, proudly serving the dancing freaks and the crowd-surfing weirdos.
3 other singles available "Venetian Blinds", "We Missed The Parade" & "Generic Skincare" from the forthcoming album "Odd Love" available (Public links to be shared):
Venetian Blinds available on digital platforms : https://coilguns.ffm.to/venetianblinds
Official video also available on Coilguns Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Coilguns
We Missed The Parade available on digital platforms: https://coilguns.ffm.to/parade
Official video also available on Coilguns Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Coilguns
Generic Skincare available on digital platforms: https://coilguns.ffm.to/genericskincare
Official video also available on Coilguns Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Coilguns
Webshop: https://humus-records.com/product-tag/coilguns
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coilguns
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coilgunsnoise
Site web: https://coilguns.ch
Concerts at Soulcrusher (NL) and Desert Fest (BE), Paris show just added
04.10.24 Yverdon - L'Amalgame (CH)
12.10.24 - Nijmegen - Soulcrusher Festival (NL)
19.10.24 - Antwerp - Desert Fest (BE)
26.02.25 - Paris - Petit Bain (FR) - http://tiny.cc/Coilguns_Paris
Many more gigs to be announced.
