
Swiss noise-rock collective Coilguns have announced the release of their fifth studio album, Everything We Love, We Destroy, due out November 6 via Humus Records, and revealed the video for its title track.
Following recent singles “Peace Trader” and “Carbon Magic,”“Everything We Love, We Destroy” goes straight into the heart of the new record: urgent music for increasingly urgent times, channelling frustration, anger and uncertainty into Coilguns’ unmistakable collision of punk, hardcore and ecstatic noise-rock.
Written to mark the tenth anniversary of the Paris Climate Accords, the title track confronts the growing distance between the promises made a decade ago and the reality of the world today.
The band comments: “It’s been more than a decade now that our countries have agreed on a deal they’re not respecting. We wrote this paradoxical yet simple song to mark the tenth anniversary of the Paris Climate Accords. Why are we not able to act accordingly on our promises? Why are we always destroying what we love? How can 2026 be the actual future of 2016?”
The accompanying stop-motion video was created by Nathan Jucker,brother of Coilguns vocalist Louis Jucker, using Jessica Vaucher’s handmade artwork as its foundation. A literal red thread runs through the film, becoming a symbol of the fragile hope that something can still be repaired amid the destruction.
As the band explains: “We like to hold on to the optimistic, almost utopian idea that, faced with the destruction modernity seems determined to complete, a little red thread of love might still be enough to stitch the pieces back together. It’s naïve, sure, but it helps us face reality without giving up. We hope it leaves people with a little hope and the energy to keep fighting.”
