USA Nails

USA Nails at The Lexington

USA Nails'noise-rock pedigree is such that, when writing this show blurb, it's almost impossible not to mention all the unreal bands these guys have been in. But resist we must, because more than a decade into this wild odyssey, USA Nails have created a body of work that stands entirely on its own two feet, and they're about to add to that body of work with their searing new record, ‘Routine Flesh’which is coming out in February via One Little Independent.

Across twelve tracks, ‘Routine Flesh’is preoccupied with mortality and the things that shape us: the bodies we inherit and watch deteriorate, the beliefs we absorb, the environments we grow up in, and the experiences that leave marks long after they have happened. Ageing, religion, healthcare, trauma, isolation, love and online radicalisation all feed into a record that asks how much control we really have over the people we become.

The circumstances in which ‘Routine Flesh’was made gave those ideas an unusually immediate musical setting. They consciously brought almost no finished material into the studio, with most of the music performed live and individual songs written and recorded from start to finish in three or four hours. Sixteen tracks emerged from the sessions before Steven and Gareth spent the autumn writing and exchanging vocals.

It is, to say the least, a singular way of making a record, and we are beyond excited to see it come to life in London for the first time at this show.