Nightshift
Homosapien
It's been three years since Glasgow musical collective Nightshift's last album ('Zöe', 2021) and aside form an odds and sods tape compilation 'Made Of The Earth,' the group has remained relatively quiet on the recorded front. Newly regrouped into a quartet, the band has readied their proper follow up to 'Zöe' and their third album 'Homosapien,' again for Chicago's Trouble In Mind Records. On 'Homosapien' the lyricist wears her heart on her sleeve, but even in the song's darkest moments, the words create a sense of hope and potential. She doesn't shy away from politics or contemporary love languages and finds humor, earnestness, and critique at every turn. Nightshift's newest songs were born out of some genuinely existential times (birth, death and love all played a very real part in the gestation of the new record). Songs like first single 'Crystal Ball,' 'Cut' and 'Side Effects' all touch upon struggle created by an ever encroaching fascist government (exacerbated by Brexit) & the effects austerity has upon their people. Other songs like 'Sure Look,' 'Phone' and 'Crush' deal with matters of the heart while 'Your Good Self' and 'Together We Roll' take on self-preservation and community. It's a great irony that the band are sculpting their most succinct and tuneful music yet from this potential chaos, but it's this unexpected quality that drives them onwards into a dizzying universe.