PHOTO CREDITS: Andy Ford FOLLOW COILGUNS Today, (20th September 2024) Swiss noise rock band Coilguns release their brand new single ‘The Wind To Wash The Pain’. 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 don’t stray too far from their roots, ending the song with a climactic surge of distorted guitars and feedback. Watch the video for ‘The Wind To Wash The Pain’ here. Stream the track here. 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”. 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. ‘The Wind To Wash The Pain’ follows previous single ‘Generic Skincare’, both of which feature on Coilguns anticipated upcoming album ‘Odd Love’ due 22 November via the band’s own label Humus Records. Produced by Coilguns, the album was recorded by Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City, Thrice, Ghoul) at Ocean Sound Studios, mixed by Grammy-nominated producer Tom Dalgety (The Pixies, Ghost, Royal Blood) and mastered by Robin Schmidt (Liam Gallagher, The Gaslight Anthem). The resulting LP is refreshingly ambitious and pushes Coilguns sound to new levels – which is no mean feat for a band with over a decade to their name. Pre-order ‘Odd Love’ here. Much of forthcoming album ‘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. Nido wrote and prepared 14 demos to show to bandmates Hess, Jucker and Galland. They worked on the songs together but intentionally let the collection fester for weeks, even months afterwards, before revisiting and breathing new life into these works for which the meanings 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 across the ocean to free them from any technical duties and benefit from his incredible input and experience when it comes to getting the best out of a band. These three weeks were a life changing experience for both parties. “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, “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” ‘The Wind To Wash The Pain’ single artwork | 
