Nightshift share "Phone" single from new album, out 26th July on Trouble in Mind
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New album, Homosapien due 26th July on Trouble in Mind
UK Live Dates inc. Tour in December & London Headline Show
Glasgow musical collective NIGHTSHIFT return with their third album Homosapien, due 26th July on Chicago’s Trouble In Mind Records.
Today, they share a second single from the record, "Phone", featuring Ray Aggs on fiddle and premiering on Stereogum. Primary vocalist & keyboardist Eothen Stern says of the song:
"[I'm] kind of channeling Robyn with separating the words phonetically on her Honey album. Having my ex and former long term partner of 9 years play on the track with the two instruments singled out at the end like call and response felt important and like a phone call. Or like a reprise. Used to hear Ray play fiddle in the flat all the time so it was a nice echo of that instrument presence and absence. Also has a bit of a chamber orchestra and the recent trend of putting more generic pop music to soloed out strings."
Nightshift - Phone
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Album preorder: https://nightshiftgroup.bandcamp.com/album/homosapien
Three years on from their last full-length Zöe, Nightshift have experienced a line-up shift, with drummer Chris White (Spinning Coin) now on guitar.
Primary vocalist & keyboardist Eothen Stern (also of 2 Ply)’s lyrical gifts illuminate the group’s output with an optimistic urgency that is unmatched. On Homosapien she wears her heart on her sleeve, refusing to shy away from politics or contemporary love languages and finding humor, earnestness, and critique at every turn.
Homosapien is packed with hooks big and small woven through a tapestry of rhythm-forward song poems. It brings their woozy, hypnotic post-punk into focus with musical vignettes filled with empathetic reflections that find joy in the small wonders of the natural universe and beyond.
Live Dates:
Friday 21st June - Glad Cafe, Glasgow w/ Lewsberg + Blue Kanues
Saturday 10th August - Album Launch at Mono, Glasgow w/ Susannah Stark + Town Center
Sunday 1st September - Psyche Fest Edinburgh at The Queen's Hall & Summerhall
Saturday 7th December - Venue TBA, Newcastle
Sunday 8th December - The Lexington, London
Monday 9th December - JT Soar, Nottingham
Tuesday 10th December - The Peer Hat, Manchester
Tickets and info: https://nightshift.band/
Now 5 years deep in existence, Glasgow's NIGHTSHIFT continue to surf the dazzling plains of their collective reality via an almost elemental take on music and friendship. With their latest offering 'Homosapien', a noticeable alteration has taken place since the band's debut LP 'Zöe'.
Chris White (Spinning Coin) now picks up the guitar instead of drums (his previous role in the band) providing a whole new dimension to their sound. His distinctive playing delivers a countrified energy that is central to the album, leading the song structures into more succinct and colorful places, matching the upbeat and playful nature the band has always drawn strength from, only more so now under his stylish approach.
The kinetic drumming of Rob Alexander (Tarantula/Radio Banter) allows for a second new development in the band dynamic. Replacing Chris (his longtime friend from childhood) is no mean feat. Thankfully his drumming is an avalanche of skillful technique with a glorious abandon that swerves it away from the academic and absolutely into a wild and tactile performance that lifts the sound and finalizes a metamorphosis for the group.
Still at the beating heart of proceedings is Eothen Stern (also of 2 Ply). Her incredible vocalisms, keyboard, percussion, and lyrical gifts illuminate the group's output with an optimistic urgency that is unmatched. On 'Homosapien' she wears her heart on her sleeve in places, but even in the song's darkest moments, the words create a sense of hope and potential that is synonymous with Eothen as a person. She doesn't shy away from politics or contemporary love languages and finds humor, earnestness, and critique at every turn.
Andrew Robert Doig continues to play bass (Dancer/Robert Sotelo) and provides occasional lead vocals.
With these newest songs born out of some genuinely existential times (birth, death and love all played a very real part in the gestation of the new record) it's a great irony that Nightshift are sculpting their most succinct and tuneful music yet from this potential chaos, but it's this unexpected quality that drives them onwards into a dizzying universe.
Songs like first single “Crystal Ball”, “Cut” & “Side Effects” all touch upon the struggle created by an ever encroaching fascist government (brought about by Brexit) & the effects austerity has upon their people. Other songs like “Sure Look”, “Phone” & “Crush” deal with matters of the heart while “Your Good Self” & “Together We Roll” take on self-preservation & community.
Friend & colleague Ray Aggs (Shopping, R.AGGS) also contributes fiddle to “Sure Look” & “Phone”.
'Homosapien' is out on July 26th, 2024 via Chicago label Trouble In Mind Records.
Preorder Homosapien
https://nightshiftgroup.bandcamp.com/album/homosapien
Tracklisting:
1. Crystal Ball
2. Sure Look
3. Together We Roll
4. S.U.V.
5. Your Good Self
6. Cut
7. Side Effects
8. Phone
9. Y.T. Tutorial
10. Mellow Baby
11. Crush
