There’s fuck all ordinary about Coilguns. An offshoot of the 2008 – 2013 line-up of shapeshifting German prog collective The Ocean, the mission was originally to create fast, simple music to counterpoint that band’s legendarily expansive offerings. Their name is a reference to the ‘Gauss rifle’: a device capable of firing lethal projectiles using electromagnets rather than gunpowder. Nominal hometown La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, one of the highest-altitude settlements in Europe, and home to some of history’s greatest watchmakers. Over a decade in, much has already been made of the machine-tooled precision and skull-splitting power of their hardcore-inflected noise rock. Many have called them musicians with heads in the clouds. Bu...