COILGUNS: New album “Odd Love” OUT on 22 November – New single / video “Generic Skincare”
COILGUNS will be releasing their new album “Odd Love” on 22 November 2024 via Humus records. Composed, arranged and produced by the band, “Odd Love” was 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). The album will be available on CD, vinyl and digital (Pre-orders available here).
COILGUNS are unveiling their new video/single ‘Generic Skincare’, a post-hardcore anthem and centrepiece of the forthcoming album, which should delight fans of Refused, At The Drive-In, Converge, The Mars Volta, Chat Pile or Touché Amoré. The band have also announced their participation at the forthcoming Soulcrusher Festival (NL) and Desert Fest (BE).
Official video the single ‘Generic Skincare’ (available now) – Directed by Raphaël Piguet:
About Generic Skincare, the third single from the album Odd Love, due out in November: Coilguns set the stage for their next chapter with the release of their explosive new single, ‘Generic Skincare’. This track is a high-octane journey that merges ferocious drumming with their signature bone-rattling guitar riffs, layered with clean vocals and infectious choruses that mark a bold departure from their previous work. True to their spirit of defying expectations, Coilguns weaves in heavy synths and a raw, unfiltered energy that challenges the norms of punk and noise-rock. ‘Generic Skincare’ is not just a song, but a statement—a testament to the band’s fearless evolution while staying rooted in the intensity that has always defined them. Accompanied by one of their rare official music video, this release offers a visceral taste of what’s to come, as Coilguns break new ground without losing their uncompromising edge.
Liner notes of the band: «This band has become our family and our purpose in life. We hope we will get the chance to grow old only if we’re able to wake up every morning to play music together and share some cool band time like always. We sometimes feel old in a young body, or young in an old body, but none of this seems to matter that much when we have a guitar or a drumstick in our hands. So whatever comes, we’re ready for it, as long as we stick to our tourbus.»
Credits (Musicians) for the single: Kevin Galland – Synth, Backing Vocals • Luc Hess – Drums, Percussion • Louis Jucker – Vocals, Additional Guitars • Jonathan Nido – Guitars, Backing Vocals
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…
Band biography: 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.
Concerts at Soulcrusher (NL) and Desert Fest (BE) 12.09.24 Dudingen – Bad Bonn (CH) 04.10.24 Yverdon – L’Amalgame (CH) 12.10.24 – Nijmegen – Soulcrusher Festival (nl) 19.10.24 – Antwerp – Desert Fest (BE)
