Yhwh Nailgun Unveils Exclusive Playlist “Hook” to Complement Album Cover

Exclusive Playlist Launch

NME The last stars Cover Yhwh Nailgun have gathered an exclusive playlist to accompany the launch of history—check it out below.

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Weekly Talent Spotlight

Schumaneva Quartet is featured in this week’s issue (April 14) Cover, manifesting NME‘s adherence to the support of new talents around the world. Each week, an ascending artist will be presented in Cover—you can read the YHWH Nailgun profile here, written by Patrick Clark and with a photo by Marisa Bazan.

Exclusive playlist created by Yhwh Nailgun accompanies Cover. A field called “hooks,” this synthesizer curation combines tracks from artists such as Peter Shilling, Sius, Banshee, Nate Dogg, and Prefab Sprout. Listen to the complete playlist on Spotify below and on Apple Music.

Insights from Yhwh Nailgun

Landing on Cover after the release of their debut album, 45 pounds, the group spoke about their songwriting process. “Sometimes you can find that you are trying to say something without knowing what it is. This isn’t a controlled thing,” Frontman Zach Borzone said. Drummer Sam Picard added, “It feels like chicken and egg. You prescribe certain words, symbols, or something else in the music, but you don’t know what it informs.”

The New York group also expressed their disappointment at being frequently categorized as a throwback to the 70s stage without any innovation. “To me, it seems like low-hanging fruit,” Picard commented. “It’s like: ‘Well, where are you from? What’s vague about your music, and how do you look?’ And then it seems like the nearest match is damn DNA or something similar. This is the logic of AI.”

Read the full Lid history here and find out who else was on Cover here.