With a truly original vocal delivery, raw guitar and bass riffs, and post punk aesthetics, Eyesore & the Jinx successfully channel the feeling of anxiety into No More Nails. Read our discussion below!
Describe your sound in 3 words
Itchy, flakey, scalp.
Tell us a few things about your single No more Nails and your upcoming debut album. What is the main idea behind it?
The album is called ‘Jitterbug’. It was recorded in Summer 2022 with Daniel Fox from Gilla Band, in a little studio on the border of Cheshire.
We didn’t really have a theme in mind, when writing the album but there’s a thread of songs that run through it that focuses on control, or lack thereof, particularly in relation to the human body.
‘No More Nails’ is one of those songs. It’s about using your body to map complex internal processes. More specifically it’s about being so anxious you bite your finger nails until they bleed. Something that I do a lot of.
Most iconic guitar/bass riff you wish you had composed yourselves?
I would have quite liked to have written something that’s both iconic but also kind of irritating. For some reason the riff to ‘Age of Consent’ by New Order springs to mind here.
Great to see that you plan to release your album in vinyl format. What is your favourite album of the past year? Also, do people still listen to full albums?
I think 2023’s been a really good year so far for new music. I’ve enjoyed the latest efforts from Protomartyr and Sleaford Mods and there seems to have been a fair few great debuts already this year from Benefits and Mandy, Indiana in particular.
I hope people still listen to albums because we’ve just spent a small fortune recording and pressing one.
What do you love/hate about Liverpool?
I love how it consistently punches above its weight for a city of its size. Strictly speaking, given its population size it has no business producing the volume and quality of musicians and athletes that it does.
With that though, a certain brand of scouse exceptionalism has emerged in the last few years that assumes things are innately better because they’re scouse which is just bollocks, and needs binning.
What would be the tagline to the sitcom of your life?
Nearly, but not quite.
What is the story behind your name?
It came about from hours of tediously flinging words at one another. We all have our own interpretation of what it means and why we stuck with those particular words.
For me, the eyesore aspect of it is about the subject matter of the songs which tends to be fairly bleak and the jinx is more to do with the humour that we try to look at these subjects with.
The rest of the band would probably argue it was nothing more than the best of a bad bunch, which is also fair and quite accurate.
What is the most successful lie in the history?
Not really sure I understand the question here, but if it’s about conspiracy theories, then they’re not for me. In fact, you can add the rise of conspiracy theorists to things I hate about Liverpool.
Thank you!
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