No Enamel : I Can’t Clarify Why I Name It Love

(Clean Expression)

DL / Streaming

Out now

Launched: 18 August, 2023

Newcastle’s No Enamel naked their fangs on new single.  

No Enamel are an artwork rock/no wave band primarily based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne who’ve been in existence since 2018, releasing quite a few singles and EPs, and have signed a take care of the Clean Expression label who’re set to launch their debut album and lead off single I Can’t Clarify (Why I Name It Love).

Their sound is sort of a neo-post-punk blended in with artwork faculty sensibilities and a nihilistic understanding sneer. On the title monitor The Fall involves thoughts instantly with the vocals heavy with a Northern sneer of chilly disdain and tedium. There’s a heavy wall of sound behind the surreal vocals, with the guitar wailing above all of it. If I heard the lyrics accurately it’s a tune in regards to the nuisance of affection.

It’s coupled with Conker Season (nice title) which begins with a jazzy bass and drum beat earlier than kicking into excessive octane with the singer like a demented dictator shouting with urgency about conkers (presumably). The guitar wanders like a recalcitrant conker on the top of a string over a beat like sleet on corrugated iron.

Total, a really attention-grabbing launch from No Enamel that augurs properly for his or her debut album.

We caught up with chief singer Sam and threw him just a few questions that he batted out of the bottom…

What essentially the most outrageous factor you’ve achieved, or that has occurred at one in all your gigs?

The syndicates notorious and daring actions are immediately forgotten by its cohort, resulting from our absolute incompetence. Though it has been sited {that a} lone pastime horse was needlessly decimated, simply previous to the approaching of spring.

You’ve simply completed recording your debut album: is it made up of songs you’ve written over time, or did you write tracks particularly for the album?

A number of of them are fairly outdated. However the majority have been written particularly for this launch and different outdated materials has now been deemed unhelpful to the syndicates trigger. After the plight of “The New Nuisance” we thought it necessary to broaden on our relationship with the perverse and strange.

What’s the music scene like within the North East in the mean time?

Expertise is in abundance, churning endlessly like a grumble of maggots. The scene is rife with those that perceive and infrequently help our trigger, accepting arms and phrases. Nice live performance halls line the walkways of our metropolis in droves. Spots like The Lubber Fiend, The Cumberland Arms, The Star And Shadow, The Cluny and The Tyne Bar. Housed inside their partitions we have now seen some implausible native expertise, in addition to just a few of the syndicate members different endeavours. Benefit from the works of Gonzo Canine, Roxy Women, Stannington, SMUJ, Wagtail, Bullion Practice, Me Misplaced Me, Louse, Smote, Swine Tax and Pink Poison, to call just a few.

You describe your self as an Artwork-Rock/No Wave band which appears to be a considerate however nihilistic description of the band. What do these descriptions of the band imply to you?

Bah, that is rudimentary piffle. Earlier than the invention of the house pc we had by no means even heard of music and have been soothed solely by the fixed whirring of gray plastic equipment. We flip to others so as to acquire perception into how we would promote our trigger, its a advertising and marketing ploy. Though we do like Yazoo.

Why Conker Season?

Innuendo. The tune particulars an account of the Manchester date of our first mini-tour with our bredren within the Richard Carlson Band, notably describing our antics in a classic pornography store and the way that was digested by our brooding wives. Not properly it appeared. It was October, and the streets of Manchester we’re lined with the rotting our bodies of fallen horse chestnuts, therefore the title.

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