BLOC PARTY – English Indie Rockers Released Their Just Okay Album ‘ANATOMY OF A BRIEF ROMANCE’
11 September 2026
London‘s top-league indie rockers BLOC PARTY, fronted by charismatic
singer-songwriter Kele Okereke have their 7th longplayer, named
ANATOMY OF A BRIEF ROMANCE out.
Okereke wrote the record in the wake
of a more than decade-long relationship.
“Every lyric you’re hearing on this record was something that
actually happened to me. I had to tell the story, from start to
finish.”
📸 Charlie Pryor
Clash Magazine‘s verdict: “‘Anatomy Of A Brief Romance’ is a chronological account of a relationship from first glance to final goodbye. It may not be among their finest work, but ‘Anatomy Of A Brief Romance’ is surely a cathartic release for its composer and for listeners who see their own experiences reflected in it.”
TUTV: This new Bloc Party sounds like some old Bloc Party records, but not the great
ones (like the first 2) but the okay ones. Sonically, there are just not enough top-shelf tunes (except for the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed singles and a couple of other chipper ones), too many lukewarm pieces.
Lyrically, as aforementioned, all 14 songs (too many) serve to tell the story – from start
to finish – of a past Okereke relationship (so why didn’t you make it a solo one, Kele?). I always have mixed emotions about relationship albums. Does the partner like it that his/her love life goes public? What is her/his side of the story? And I’m not really interested in so many details of someone else’s romances. File this anatomy next to BC’s other just okay full-lengths.
Singles.
– COMING ON STRONGE –
– LOVE BOMBS –
– NOW WE CAN’T BE FRIENDS –
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JUKEBOX 2026 – WEEK 37 – Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week
Hello, music junkies.
Another batch of 5 new, stellar tracks has
been added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.
Turn it up.
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK BY TRACK
Band: LIARS
Who: Alt rock act fueled by its founder,
multi-instrumentalist Angus Andrew.
Track: ICE PICK, KALAMZOO
Lead single from their forthcoming 11th album, called
A Ban On Plastic Bag Bans. Out 5 March 2027.
Tracklist & more info here.
The album takes its name from an actual Michigan law that prohibits local governments from banning single-use plastic bags. After relocating to Kalamazoo in Michigan with his wife and daughter a number of years ago, Andrew was drawn into a campaign to hold a local factory to account for its use of toxic pollutants, and that experience largely inspired A Ban On Plastic Bag Bans.
TUTV: Liars are back with a big bang, big beats and a big tune.
Here comes big Andrew.
Photo by Casper De Geus
Band: BRONT
Who: Brainchild of Belgian musician Brent Pauwels,
blending lo-fi, post-punk, garage rock, and pop into
a mesmerizing concoction.
Last year, their 4-track debut EP #9 came out.
Track: BREAKFAST
Newest single.
TUTV: This madcap, head-spinning synth-guitar jam doubles your adrenalin
production from the get-go but not for long. After only 92 seconds, they pull
the plug and your brainfucking breakfast is abruptly over. No worries. Press
the repeat button, on repeat, and satisfy your sonic appetite all day long.
Hit the table here.
Band: THE BABY SEALS
Who: Garage punk trio from Cambridgeshire, UK.
They released their debut album Chaos in 2024
Track: IRENE
“Originally entitled ‘Ode To Irene’s Cunt’ (and shortened for radio friendly purposes), it draws inspiration from Le Con D’Irene, a surrealist erotic novel from 1928 by French author Louis Aragon about a man’s relationship with an imaginary vulva, whilst reflecting on how we can allow relationships and visions to be birthed and accepting unexplained unconditional connection.”
The single comes ahead of a live album, titled Live At The Portland Arms
and out on 16th October 2026. It was recorded in Cambridge when the band
were supporting Lydia Lunch. Artwork here above.
TUTV: Goosebumps from start to finish. This dark-colored, psychedelic wandering progresses like a serpent following its prey, slow and determined to attack when the moment is right. Near-whispering vocals, ominous pace, minimalistic drum-guitar instrumentation, like an Interpol jam stripped to the bone. Spine-chilling.
Dim the lights.
Band: BRITISH BIRDS
Who: Resolutely DIY outfit
from Chorley, Lancashire.
Track: SCARY MOVIES
New single from their upcoming album
named Murmurate, Oscillate’ out on
October 16th.
The song is a poignant description of band members Bobby and Emma’s grandfather,
who delighted in showing them horror films when they were kids – giving them
sneak previews of the darkness they’d come to embrace as adults.
TUTV: This straightforward, jangly footstomper arouses your limbs from the kick-off.
A persistent drum/bass tandem hits unyieldingly, with panache, all the way through,
while agitated vocals and buzzing guitars go forth and back. Striking stroke.
Start the film here.
Photo credit: Lewis Evans
Band: CAGE THE ELEPHANT
Who: The lauded and long-lasting
alt rockers from Kentucky.
Track: DYING IN REVERSE
It follows last July’s newbie
Beaches In Tennessee.
“‘Dying In Reverse’ is essentially about a fresh start or a rebirth of sorts. More in terms of death to ego, renewing the mind and heart. The journey of turning your perspective away from self in order to see more clearly through the lens of love and connect to deeper purpose.”
TUTV: 2nd single in 3 months and announcement of tour dates in 2027
hint definitely, maybe to a new album. But first, this moody groover.
BOB DYLAN – Prizewinning Album ‘LOVE AND THEFT’ Came Out 25 Years Ago Today
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
11 September 2026
Grandmaster songwriter BOB DYLAN (85) released his 31st album,
titled LOVE AND THEFT on 11 September 2001, today 25 years ago.
It peaked at #5 in the US and #3 in the UK.
The record continued Dylan‘s artistic comeback following 1997’s Time Out Of Mind.
The title of the album was apparently inspired by American historian Eric Lott‘s
1993 book Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class,
The record won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
Rolling Stone wrote: “On ‘Love and Theft’, he turns this fantasy into a stone-cold Dylan
classic. ‘Love and Theft’ takes us on a full-blown tour of American song in all its burlesque splendor, which includes, of course, Dylan’s own psychedelic mutations of the blues.
Talk about bringing it all back home: Dylan veers into country, ragtime, vaudeville, deep blues, cocktail-lounge corn, the minstrel show and the kind of rockabilly he must have bashed out with his high school band more than forty years ago. “
TUTV: My favorite singer-songwriter-performer of all-time went
back, once more, to the decades he loves the most, the 50s and 60s,
and returned with his umpteenth triumph.
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NEVER FORGETR 9/11
11 September 2026
I woke up this morning
I could barely breathe
Just an empty impression
In the bed there you used to be
I want a kiss from your lips
I want an eye for an eye
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Blood on the streets
Blood flowin’ down
I hear the blood of my blood
Cryin’ from the ground
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to the empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
On the plains of Jordan
I cut my bow from the wood
Of this tree of evil
Of this tree of good
I want a kiss from your lips
I want an eye for an eye
I woke up this morning to the empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to the empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
SYNVILLA – Swedish Weirdos Send You Into Hysteria With New Psych Injection ‘LOVE POTION NO. 666’
Daily electricity to reload your batteries
10 September 2026
Photo by Victor Cornelius
Band: SYNVILLA
Who: A multidisciplinary project, based in Gothenburg, Sweden in which music and video
art coexist within a world that feels equally threatening and seductive. The project’s music is rooted in heavy, experimental rock but refuses to settle into expectation.
They have released two albums so far.
Track: LOVE POTION 666
Newest single.
“The song blurs the line between seduction and manipulation. Beneath the menace lies
an undercurrent of black humour, a knowing wink concealed inside the hex. Hovering between ritual, satire and seduction, SYNVILLA keep one foot in the occult and the other firmly planted in mischief.”
TUTV: Blimey. This sonic wall-of-psychedelic madness will be your new favorite soundtrack for your worst nightmares. Its bombastic bravado, its frenzied vocality, and its high-voltage firepower combine for some paranoid delirium. Hypnotic, petrifying and utterly maddening cool. Stunning mindfucker.
Join the hysteria here.
NIRVANA – Titanic Slam Dunk ‘SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT’ Released 35 Years Ago Today
Top singles from the past
10 September 2026
Immortal grunge legends NIRVANA released their titanic slam-dunk single
SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT on 10 September 1991, 35 years ago today.
It peaked at #6 in the US, #7 in the UK. Having sold over 13 million
copies worldwide, it is one of the best-selling songs of all time.
Thus far, the song has gathered more than 3,075 billion streams on Spotify.
As the story goes, Kurt Cobain attempted to write “the ultimate pop song,
inspired by the soft-and-loud dynamics of the Pixies.
The title derives from a phrase written by his friend Kathleen Hanna, from
riot grrrl band Bikini Kill: “Kurt smells like Teen Spirit.” Hanna was referencing
the deodorant Teen Spirit, but Cobain misinterpreted it as a revolutionary
slogan, and the rest is loud history.
“Here we are now, entertain us”
ARAB STRAP – Scottish Trippy Electro Vets Rock Out And Calm Down On Their New Album ‘HALF-TOLD TALES’
10 September 2026
Photo by Luke Bovill
Artists: ARAB STRAP
Who: Trippy Scottish electro-pop vets, Aidan Moffat and
Malcolm Middleton (1995–2006, 2011, 2016–present).
Album: HALF-TOLD TALES
Their 9th.
UNCUT Magazine (UK): “Over Middleton’s fertile arrangements, Moffat’s
poetry offers the reassurance that good people still exist in the world.”
TUTV: It’s the Scots 3rd rad LP in 5 years, following 2021’s As Days Get Dark and 2024’s bizzarly titled I’m Totally Fine With It 👍 Don’t Give A Fuck Anymore 👍. Yep, they
have their musical hat trick in the pocket.
On Half-Told Stories, half of the tracks are designed to rock out and freak out while trying
to pogo your way around the dancefloor in your head. More and more, the long-serving duo’s mix of trippy electronics and bouncy rock undercurrents comes with pumped-up, pounding decibels, like you can experience, among other stompers, to the full extent on the 3 dumbfounding singles (hear below)
Then again, half the record contains laid-back breathers, letting poetic storyteller Moffat look out the window and reflect on all things weird whirling in his mind, with his trademark wit and dark humour.
Put everything – low and slow, fast and fervent – together and you know for a certified
fact that the Scots delivered another buzzworthy showpiece for end-of-the-year lists.
– YOU YOU YOU –
– GLAMOUR MAGIK –
– FIGHTING FOR YOU –
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GILLA BAND – Irish Chainsaw Post-Punks Release 4th LP ‘PUGNELLO’ On September 25th
10 September 2026
Band: GILLA BAND
Who: Raw Irish post-punk
chainsaws.
Album: PUGNELLO.
It’ll show up on Sept 25th.
Order info here.
Press info: “Gilla Band never know where they’re going next. For over ten years now,
the Dublin quartet have been redefining what you could loosely call “rock music” in the 21st century, influencing a wide swath of similarly forward-thinking guitar acts along the way.
In the 4 years since previous album Most Normal, each member embarked on other
artistic endeavors. All their extracurricular activity existed in parallel with the exploratory route towards Pugnello, but also informed the band as they reconvened to crystallize the album’s vision.”
Check the 3 razorblade-cutting previews we got so far.
– ALOGIA –
– PLACEHOLDER –
– GIRAFFE –