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Coilguns Unveil First Odd Love B-Side: “Nightshifter”
From the previously unreleased companion EP Lost Love.
Coilguns are set to release “Nightshifter”, the first B-side taken from the same recording sessions as their fourth album, Odd Love (released November 22nd, 2024).
This track is the first to be unveiled from a two-song EP, Lost Love—a pair of pieces deemed too dark to appear on Odd Love.
With its frozen tempo, low tuning, and angst-drenched energy, “Nightshifter” shows Coilguns at their saddest.
The song reflects on the archetypal downside of life as a touring musician: coming home alone and exhausted after weeks on the road, losing sight of meaning. Like many of their peers, Coilguns know the toll that years of touring take on personal lives, relationships, and health.
Yet, despite its hopeless tone, the song acts as a way to exorcise and accept this aspect of their fate—a prophylactic catharsis enabling them to keep moving forward and focus on what matters most: keeping the band alive.
Carefully shaped by Californian engineer and musician Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City), these four minutes of noise embody his own recipe for Sad Dude Core: draining the pain away through sound.
Singer Louis Jucker recalls:
“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 whine a bit, embrace the despair, sleep a bit, do your laundry, and start writing new songs.”
