You know that feeling when you discover a new
band and they basically knock you on your ass, rewind to March 2012 and by the
luck of happenstance I discovered Swiss chaotic hardcore post whatever you want
to call it sludge titans Coilguns and
their hugely impressed debut EP “Stadia Rods”, a 6 song set all the more bewildering
by the fact it was recorded by the band (a then three piece) live in one take
with little or no overdubs, it was a hugely impressive debut and left a lasting
mark upon me. Fast forward a year and
the band would issue debut full length “Commuters”
via Pelagic Records, an album with its frequent twists and turns, both
confused and enthralled me in equal
measure, resulting in a record that unfolded
over time and one that with repeated sessions unveiled yet more intricacies and
hidden moments of wonder amongst the chaos.
Well, after 5 long years Coilguns are back with
new album “Millennials”, which
is set for release via their own imprint Hummus Records
on 23rd March. “Millennials” is
a violent and over-the-top distorted record, born in a completely saturated
scene and the band are ready to deliver a statement, that this isn’t a band to
messed with and is one to take notice of in 2018.
“Millennials” was written and recorded in January 2016 by
the band, self-engineered on the inside of the desperate monoculture landscapes
of central Germany. What is a breathless, lo-fi and lo-tuned epileptic record
that roughly questions their own behavior as partially conscious citizens of a
scary weird and exciting globalized music world.
The band commented, "We have this manic
habit of using crazy sounding Wikipedia article titles as track names, just to
blur our traces and look smart I guess. It always creates a funny gap in between
the song's lyrical content and its final title. Our favorite on this album is
clearly "spectrogram", one can easily guess why." You
can check out the exclusive and stellar
album title track “Millenials” below
and preorders are available here
