USA Nails

London noise-rock quartet USA Nails return with new album 'Routine Flesh', out February 12th 2027 via One Little Independent Records and SKiN GRAFT Records in North and South America.

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.

Musically, 'Routine Flesh'pushes at the edges of a sound USA Nails have spent more than a decade pulling apart and putting back together.

Distorted bass, dissonant guitars, barked and deadpan vocals and pounding rhythms remain at its core, but across the album the band stretch that vocabulary in increasingly unexpected directions.

There are moments of motorik repetition, blown-out fuzz, and wiry post-punk, alongside some of their most direct and unexpectedly tender material. The album opens with 'The Lubricant Of Self Hate', a short, bombastic blast of D-beats and discordant, whistling guitars.

Steven Hodson explains; "Lyrically the song is an ode to the social isolation that spotty, teenage boys feel. " It introduces one of the record's recurring themes: the distance between the person we might believe ourselves to be and the person our surroundings have helped create.

Family, geography, peers, politics and increasingly the digital environments people inhabit all exert their influence. 'Two Grim Choices'began with drummer Tom Brewins wanting to make a techno song.

Gareth Thomas explains: "The lyrics are about paranoia, anxiety and anti-depressants.