Odd Love by Coilguns
« Odd Love is a way to summarize our relationship with music in itself, the overall music business and our band life. We're amazed how long this band has lasted so far and the importance is 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 ou 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. » - Louis Jucker
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...
Tracklist
| 1. | We Missed the Parade | 3:38 |
| 2. | Placeholders | 4:21 |
| 3. | Generic Skincare | 3:33 |
| 4. | Black Chyme | 4:41 |
| 5. | Bandwagoning | 4:42 |
| 6. | Caravel | 4:21 |
| 7. | Venetian Blinds | 3:59 |
| 8. | Featherweight | 6:25 |
| 9. | The Wind to Wash the Pain | 3:59 |
| 10. | Bunker Vaults (Intro) | 1:07 |
| 11. | Bunker Vaults | 7:24 |
Credits
Kevin Galland – Bass, Synth, Backing Vocals
Luc Hess – Drums, Percussion
Louis Jucker – Main Vocals, Additional Guitars
Jonathan Nido – Guitars, Backing Vocals
written, arranged and produced by Coilguns
Recorded June 2022 by Scott Evans at Ocean Sound – Giske, NO
Mixed April 2023 by Tom Dalgety
Mastered April 2023 by Robin Schmidt
Management: Melanie Duperrex and Simon Füllemann for AISA Music
