Abrasive, adventurous, and artfully unhinged.
Forget Switzerland’s clichés of neutrality, chocolate, and clockwork predictability — Coilguns are here to dismantle them all with ‘Odd Love’, a snarling, intelligent, genre-defying fourth album that places the band firmly among the most innovative forces in contemporary heavy music.
For the reminder : Coilguns — formed about 15 years ago as an offshoot of prog-metal titans The Ocean — began as a rebellion: fast, fierce, no-bullshit music. Over the past decade, they’ve quietly built one of noise rock’s most consistently bold discographies. With Odd Love, they don’t just refine their signature chaos — they challenge and transcend it. The band emerged as a raw, visceral antidote: faster, leaner, and unafraid to provoke.
Now, the Swiss quartet channels the chaotic spirit of KEN Mode, Birds In Row, The Armed, and their alma mater The Ocean into something unmistakably theirs — a feral blend of hardcore, prog, post-metal, and punk that’s as meticulously structured as it is gloriously unpredictable.
From the blistering opener “We Missed The Parade” to the anthemic, groove-laden “Generic Skincare,” the album pulses with kinetic ambition. Whistling melodies, jazzy drum patterns, gothic swells, and out-of-tune pianos form a sonic terrain that’s as weird as it is coherent. Vocalist Louis Jucker swings between snarling screams and haunted whispers, anchoring songs that morph effortlessly from Refused-style agit-punk to Neurosis-esque catharsis.
Guitarist and founder Jona Nido’s pandemic-penned riffs form the album’s backbone, while Luc Hess’s drumming is nothing short of masterful — intricate, dynamic, and foundational to every wild twist and turn. Standouts like “Venetian Blinds” and the cinematic closer “Bunker Vaults” showcase Coilguns’ uncanny ability to build, collapse, and reassemble song structures with surgical intent.
More melodic and « accessible » than past records — yet uncompromising in their DIY ethic and abrasive core — ‘Odd Love’ marks a true evolution. The songs are shorter, the structure tighter, but the impact deeper. No filler. No vanity. Just invention, intent, and emotional voltage.
In a genre often numbed by nostalgia and noise for noise’s sake, Coilguns cut a different path. ‘Odd Love’ – released via the band’s own imprint Humus Records (Impure Wilhelmina, Nostromo, Unfold, etc.) – isn’t just another album — it’s a declaration. A masterclass in controlled chaos, boundless creativity, and intensity that lingers long after the final feedback fades.
Odd Love doesn’t play by the rules — it rewrites them in feedback and fury.
