Dream Nails announce new album ‘Doom Loop’
DREAM NAILS have announced a new album!
Titled Doom Loop, the upcoming album from the London-based queer feminist punks is the follow-up to 2020’s self-titled album, and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via their new home at Marshall Records.
“Doom Loop is an exploration of the repeated cycles we find ourselves in,” comments vocalist Ishmael Kirby about the upcoming new album. “From political injustice and patriarchal systems to the negative spirals of our minds. A doom loop is a crisis that starts to feed on itself. It feels like there is no escape. But there is. This album is a reflection of ourselves, the world we live in, and the one we want to create.”
“Specifically, Doom Loop delves into masculinity in its many forms,” adds drummer Lucy Katz. “The good guy, the lads at school, the narcissistic politician, the incel, the sexual predator, the police officer. It looks into gender-based oppression from childhood; how isolation can breed violence against w omen and the rhetoric that spawns incels.”
Elaborating on the themes, guitarist Anya Pearson adds, “on the album we also celebrate masculinity by telling stories about butch and trans masculine identities. We show the shared responsibility we have in fighting misogyny. Empathy is hard to find in a divided world, but we seek it out, advocate for it, and ask how far it goes.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, DREAM NAILS have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Good Guy. “It’s as if we couldn’t possibly believe there could be danger
if someone describes themselves as the good guy,” says Ishmael. “It reinforces that gender-based violence and attacks are one-off occurrences, denying our lived experiences as women and non-binary people.”
Bassist Mimi Jasson recounts, “incel terrorist Elliot Rodger killed six people in a stabbing and shooting spree in California in 2014. The final section of his manifesto, where the 22-year-old complained about not being able to get a girlfriend, Rodger declared ‘I am the true victim in all of this. I am the good guy’.”
Watch the official music video for Good Guy here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
- Good Guy
- Case
- Dismissed
- Geraniums
- Prevenge
- Monster
- Sometimes I do Get Lonely, Yeah
- She’s Cutting My Hair
- Femme Boi
- Ballpit
- Time Ain’t No Healer
Doom Loop is set for release on October 13th via Marshall Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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