USA Nails

USA Nails, a noise-rock quartet from London, bring material from their album Routine Flesh to The Abbey Manchester, a Manchester venue that hosts concerts and shows.

USA Nails are a London quartet working in noise-rock. Over more than a decade they have been reshaping a sound built on warped bass lines, abrasive guitars, vocals that are either shouted or delivered flatly, and hammering drums. Routine Flesh, their new album, contains twelve tracks.

The record is concerned with mortality and the forces that shape people: the bodies we inherit and watch decline, the beliefs we absorb, the surroundings we grow up in, and experiences that leave lasting marks. Its themes include getting older, faith, medical care, past wounds, loneliness, romantic attachment and radicalisation spread through online spaces, all woven into a question about how much control we have over who we become.

Musically, the album extends that established approach with hypnotic, repetitive rhythms, blown-out fuzz and jittery post-punk, alongside some of the band's most direct and tender writing. The Abbey Manchester, in Manchester, is the setting for this performance.