Coilguns' self-sufficient riffing engine ticks like a swiss watch. Right
in the middle of their Millennials tour, the band has gathered enough
time and life points to craft their loudest record to date. Locked all
by themselves in a studio for a month - without a single note written
prior to setting up their gear - they have put together an urgent and
challenging suite of unpolished bursts.
Watchwinders sums up the sheer
pleasure of doing things the unusual way. These 12 songs are raw as
noise and messy as punk though carefully organized in a daring and
flawless sequence. Excessively low-tuned guitars, gnarly synths and
eccentric vocals are carried away by Luc Hess obsessive drumbeats. The
whole functions as a complex and utopian mechanism of perpetual motion,
an urgent and clever serie of sketches of how to merge good ideas into a
fascinating mess.