Nightshifter from Lost Love by Coilguns
This frozen-tempo, low-tuned angst-drenched track shows Coilguns at their saddest. They share their experience of the archetypal downside of life as a touring musician: returning home alone and tired after weeks on the road, losing sight of the meaning of it all. Like many of their peers, they are familiar with the toll that a career in a band takes on personal lives, relationships, and health. Despite its hopeless vibe, this song is intended as a way to exorcise and accept this aspect of their fate, allowing them to move forward. A kind of prophylactic catharsis to help them to keep focusing on what matters most: keeping the band rolling.
Carefully produced by Californian engineer and musician Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City), these four minutes of noise are a perfect example of what Evans's own "Sad Dude Core" recipe is good for: draining the pain away.
As singer Louis Jucker says:
“Anyone who has been on tour has experienced this at least once: the tour is over, it's late at night, you're standing in front of your apartment door trying to find your keys in a bag full of stench. No one's home and your fridge is empty, except maybe for that poor limp carrot you forgot there when you left. Better wine a bit, embrace the despair, sleep a bit, do your laundry and start writing new songs".
Tracklist
| 1. | Nightshifter | 4:11 |
Lyrics
Came home with a desperate feel
And empty heart
Nothing was worth the trip back
Slept hard on the kitchen’s cold floor tiles
For days of weeks
That know no nights
Nothing was worth the trip back
Unbalanced deep talks, betrayals
Nesting behind our window flaps
Will we ever get to see light
On a half eclipse, cloud shaded night
Nothing was worth the trip back
Came home with a desperate feel
And empty heart
Nothing was worth the trip back
Slept hard on the kitchen’s cold floor tiles
For days of weeks
That know no nights
Nothing was worth the trip
Nothing was worth the trip
Nothing was worth the trip
Nothing was worth the trip back
Credits
• written, arranged and produced by Coilguns
• Recorded June 2022 by Scott Evans at Ocean Sound – Giske, NO
• Mixed January 2025 by Scott Evans
• Mastered January 2025 by Magnus Lindberg
