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24 April 2025
Photo by Erin Plaice
Band: NERVES
Who: West-Irish indie punks. They released
their impressive 8-track debut EP Glórach
last year.
New single: DIRTY FINGERS
Kyle Thornton (frontman): “With ‘Dirty Fingers’ we wanted to come out of the gates with something that was fast, intense and sonically overwhelming… It’s the abrasive, danceable and industrial side of this band taken to its extreme, with the added vulnerability of starting a tune with just vocals, something which freaked me out enough at the time that I knew it was probably a good idea.”
Lyrically, the track wrestles with personal collapse and the slippery process of trying to rebuild – its feverish intensity reflecting a psyche at war with itself, reeling from substance-induced ruin while clawing toward redemption. “Dirty Fingers” doesn’t offer a resolution, only the desperate momentum of someone sprinting from the wreckage they helped create.
Single artwork
TUTV: Dirty Fingers is a psychotic-industrial sledgehammer, splitting your brain with
nine inch nails. It’s a nasty piece of drill punk, a maddening mindfucker. Drone, drone, drone. Deranged guitars, scary spit and sneer vocals, relentless pounding all contribute ominous amok to this horror-ific nightmare. Alert your neighbours before you press play.
Ryan Mortel (bassist and video director): “The video is about questioning if you can
truly ever leave your home, or will there always be a part of you left behind? What demons
will pursue you in order for you to accept that home is truly where your heart lies? It’s a fundamental Irish question that we all find ourselves asking in an age of mass emigration.”
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