USA Nails announce new album ‘Feel Worse’

November 6, 2023 James Weaver

USA NAILS have announced a new album!

Titled Feel Worse, the upcoming album from the London-based noise rock/punk band is the follow-up to 2020’s Character Stop, and is scheduled to be released in March next year, via One Little Independent Records.

The upcoming album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse in Hackney, London. The upcoming album explores schadenfreude; the pleasure derived from another person’s misfortune. With this, the band use their use new material to address austerity and UK authoritarianism, consumer culture (particularly the consumption of quick fix reality TV and hyper-capitalist agendas), youth culture and bullying, and more.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; the title track Feel Worse.

Speaking about the new song, co-frontman Steve Hodson says, “Feel Worse is about laddish culture and schoolyard bullying. As youngsters, we jostle for social positioning and at times it’s at the expense of other people’s well-being. I used to say my teenage years were character building but on reflection I’d probably say they were character destroying, and those who made me feel so small through physical and emotional attacks probably don’t remember, hence the refrain ‘It’s just some words’. Maybe I should just ‘man up’ a bit. There’s a parallel in all of this I guess, and in the fact that I wrote songs about my own experiences, some of them exposing my own vulnerabilities to an audience. Ok, maybe not to the extent of my references but hey, an audience none the less.”

Watch the official music video for Feel Worse here: