Irish band Nerves are not for the faint-hearted. They use texture and volume to create vast emotional canvases of noise.

This tune is just monstrous: building from grief-filled ambience into a huge, pulverising, pounding, propulsive, cathartic cleansing of the soul.

Nerves come from the west of Ireland and make intense, emotional slabs of noise, exploring texture and restraint as ambient electronic pulses throb beneath layers of drone and fractured melody in much the same way as Mogwai, with industrial undertones of Einstürzende Neubauten and DAF.

Don’t Let Go is the final track on the band’s new EP “Iarmhaireacht” which roughly translates as “the loneliness felt at dawn.” They describe it as existing in the liminal space of a relationship’s aftermath: a scream into the void where connection once lived.

“The lyrics live in a place of total loss, but there’s something in the music that suggests hope, that maybe things can only get better from here”, says frontman Kyle Thornton. “It’s that final act of denial you make before accepting that something is really over. Or maybe a final act of defiance. It depends how you hear it.”

The EP was produced by Daniel Fox, bass guitarist in Gilla Band (fka Girl Band) and builds on the cultural excavation that Nerves began with 2024’s debut EP Glórach which translates, aptly enough, as a “loud noise”.

Nerves began as a trio of Kyle Thornton (vocals, guitar), Adam Nealon (drums) and Charlie McCarthy (bass) and now consist of Thornton, Nealon, Ryan Mortell (bass) and Eoin Keigher (guitar).