Swiss noise rock band Coilguns have unveiled their latest single, The Wind To Wash The Pain, marking a bold shift in their musical direction. The track highlights a more reflective and introspective tone, blending melancholic harmonium layers, timpani, and haunting melodies, which stand in sharp contrast to the band's typically intense sound.
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 be dangerous, 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."
The track focuses on the recurring cycles of emotional turmoil and the efforts to break free from it, and by way of its melodic approach and melancholic instrumentation, it serves as a poignant exploration of these persistent inner struggles.
Coilguns' anticipated upcoming album, Odd Love, is set to be released on November 22nd, 2024, through the band’s own label, Humus Records. Produced by Coilguns themselves, the album was recorded by Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City, Thrice, Ghoul) at Ocean Sound Studios. It was mixed by producer Tom Dalgety (Pixies, Ghost) and mastered by Robin Schmidt (Liam Gallagher).
“Odd Love is a way to summarise our relationship with music in itself, the overall music business and our band life,” vocalist Louis Jucker comments on the album. “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 normality 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 tear 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 our 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 tiny watchmaking city.”
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