Premiere: USA Nails Shares New Single 'The Sun In The Sands'
New album Feel Worse Out March 22 via One Little Independent Records
February 20, 2024
Since their debut in 2014, London quartet USA Nails have built a reputation for an intense and hot style of post hardcore and noise rock, releasing a prolific run of albums, the sixth of which arrives in 2022. At the end of next month, the band returns with their latest album, Feel Worse, their first for One Little Independent Records. Last year, they shared a pair of new singles from the album, “Feel Worse” and “On Computer Screen,” and returned last month with another new track, “Cathartic Entertainment.” Today, they share the record's fourth single, “The Sun In The Sands,” premiering early with Under the Radar.
“The Sun In The Sands” is a gritty post punk effort drenched in distortion, stabbing guitars and hard bass. The track moves forward at a relentless pace, building tension with caustic textures and screeching vocals before taking a hairpin with the explosive chorus. It's an onslaught of anarchic instrumentation and wild-eyed vocal delivery, yet the band also feels tight and propulsive, delivering the track with a surprisingly catchy undercurrent.
The band's Gareth Thomas says of the track, “It's a semi-fictional account of the estate where I live in South London and my warring neighbors who LOVE to fight and LOVE to make each other suffer. I recorded my vocals in my apartment for it and was a little worried that they would hear me yelling about it when I did it. “The Sun in the Sands” is the name of a roundabout just across town that I've been hearing about on the radio traffic reports since I was a kid. It always sounded pretty mysterious and weird to me, but I've been there as an adult and unfortunately it's quite common.”
The track also comes with an accompanying video, directed and edited by the band's drummer, Tom Brewins. “He says, 'I went to pick up the washing machine featured on our album cover and it felt like I was stepping back in time with a bunch of bulky washers and dryers from the 60s, most of which were decommissioned. My DP Conrad Magan and I came up with a plan on how to fit Gareth's head into the machine and then brainstormed other ideas to keep the music video moving. Actually, sitting in a washing machine is quite ordinary, so I wanted to turn it into something exciting, something unusual. The use of split screens, the specific lens we shot with and the way we graded the final video helped create a 60s aesthetic to match the washing machine and make the whole thing feel a bit back to time in a different world. We think it worked!”
Check out the song and video below. Feel Worse out March 22 via One Little Independent Records.
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