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COILGUNS announce European tour ahead; new album ‘Watchwinders’ due in October

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COILGUNS have announced their third full-length album, Watchwinders, as well as accompanying tour dates through Europe in support of the release. Watchwinderswill be released via Hummus Records (founded by guitarist Jona Nido) on October 25. Pre-orders are available HERE.

Watchwinders was written and recorded during one intense month-long session, with the results being an urgent and challenging suite of unpolished bursts. Watchwinders sums up the sheer pleasure of doing things the unusual way with nods to punk, noise, hardcore and more; summarising COILGUNS‘ discordant nature perfectly. Excessively low-tuned guitars, gnarly synths and eccentric vocals are carried away by obsessive drumbeats; the album serves as a complex and utopian mechanism of perpetual motion, an urgent and clever series of sketches.

Of the album title, the band says: “Watchwinders are among the most paradoxal objects humans have ever created. They are designed for rich people to store their expensive watches while not using them. Their purpose is to maintain the so-called self-winding mechanism that’s inside the watches. They’re a clear demonstration of how we keep dreaming of perpetual motion though we’re perfectly aware that it cannot be achieved. We humans are now realizing the limits of the closed system we live in. Still we seek an eternal source of growth. And we as a band are still chasing a punk ideal of self-sufficiency, though we obviously depend on fuel, vinyl and clicks.”

The accompanying tour dates will be alongside Yautja, and kick off in the UK before traversing the mainland. Full dates are below. The band comment:

“We’re stoked to be back on the road to support our third album Watchwinders. This will be the only European tour until next summer as…we have other plans for the spring. Though we were initially set to do this run on our own, a few months ago we’ve received a message on facebook from this band Yautja saying they really dug our sound and thought we could maybe tour together. A week later we had them added on the tour package and booking started because, you know, they’re AWESOME.”

More details of the album will be revealed in due course. 

Full tour dates:
08.11 – Paris (F) @ Espace b
09.11 – Sheffield (UK) @ Record Junkee
10.11 – Leeds (UK) @ Temple of Boom    
11.11 – London (UK) @ The Macbeth Of Hoxton    
12.11 – Glasgow (UK) @ Broadcast
13.11 – Manchester (UK) @ Satan’s Hollow
14.11 – Northampton (UK) @ TBA
15.11 – Utrecht (NL) @ TBA           
17.11 – Gdansk (PL) @ Ziemia
18.11 – Warsaw (PL) @ Poglos
19.11 – Krakow (PL) @ Warsztat
20.11 – Wroclaw (PL) @ DK Luksus
21.11 – Berlin (D) @ Zukunft am Ostkreuz
22.11 – Stuttgart (D) @ Ju-Ha West
23.11 – Fribourg (CH) @ Hummus Fest / Fri-Son
24.11 – Lyon (F) @ La Marquise
26.11 – Clermont-Ferrand (F) @ Raymond Bar
27.11 – Angers (F) @ Jokers Pub
28.11 – Oss (NL) @ Lollipop
29.11 – Fontaine l’Evêque (B) @ MCP Apache
30.11 – Liège (B) @ La Zone

COILGUNS is:

Louis Jucker – vocals, guitar, noises
Jona Nido – guitar
Donatien Théivent – backing vocals, synths
Luc Hess – drums

COILGUNS has been flying the flag for the DIY scene since 2011. The band counts a total of four ep’s and three full lengths in their back catalogue and their history is deeply bound to the development of guitarist Jona Nido’s own label –Hummus Records –that is home to more than seventy releases including all COILGUNSdiscography. Their music has always been recorded live and uncut, generally written and recorded on the spot. Their two last releases were 100% self-produced, engineered and mixed by the band members. Relentlessly touring europe since the release of their second LP Millennials, the band is known for raw, uncompromising and euphoric live performances.

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