Gareth Thomas (guitarist/co-vocalist) about the new single: “The lyrics are about
paranoia, anxiety and anti-depressants. To me, the way the track built and moved felt
like a panic attack, so I wrote the words to match.”
Video Clip “It was filmed at a venue in Charleroi in Belgium (Rockerill), that used to
be a steelworks and also in London in the subways underneath Waterloo. The buildings
that make up Rockerill are huge and impressively terrifying.
The sort of industrially dreamscaped agoraphobia that the setting induced fit with the themes in the lyrics of TGC – fear, alienation, anxiety, isolation etc.”
TUTV: 20 seconds in with pugnacious bass/drum horsepower, schizo guitars
and splenetic vocals, US Nails start attacking your startled ears and hammering
your head on repeat with nine inch nails puissance.
This industrial rock shocker steams fast-forward with rampant rage.
There’s no choice here; you need to play this to the max to experience
this juggernaut to the max.
English synth-pop celebs ERASURE, vocalist Andy Bell, and keyboardist/songwriter Vince Clarke, who co-founded Depeche Mode back in 1980, have bagged their
20th full-length.
It’s titled Radio!! Radio!! and will be launched on March 12th, 2027.
Andy Bell: “When you’re a songwriting partnership for so long, it’s very deep, kind of like a soul connection. You trust that person with your life, and because of the nature of songwriting, you just lay bare your soul. That becomes a sacred space.”
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
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Photography: James Abbott
Band: MOUTH CULTURE Who: English rockers from Leicester, mixing
grunge rock with pop-punk and melodic hooks.
Track: FOOL
Brand-new single from their debut LP, The Wire.
Out 2 April 2027. Pre-order info here
Album artwork
They’re the new KERRANG! cover story stars. Read the full interviewhere.
TUTV: Mouth Control are about feverish fervor built up with live wire and
a kind of bombastic wall-of-excessive sound; as it happens here on new
single Fool. An emo-stoner-grunge rocker with a go-getter spunk. Big belter.
These guys are going places. Wake-up and join their roaring ride.
Stewart: “I remember going to bed thinking, ‘What a wasted day,
all I’ve done is daydream.’ And from there I wrote the whole song.
I never thought it was one of my best songs. Not at all.
#1 in the US, #5 in the UK.
It was the band’s 3rd and last
No. 1 hit in America.
Artist: MY LO-FI HEART
Who: The solo project of Sheffield-based
hoarder of musical instruments, Ian Turley.
He has carved out a unique space in the indie music scene with
a hypnotic, day-dreamy, stream of consciousness drive into the
weird, wonderful chaos of love.
“It’s a track about the feeling you get when watching the person you love
as they dance, completely lost in the moment. Your bodies pulse in time
with the beats and all that matters is the music.”
TUTV: Sparkling guitar lines, bouncy bass pulsation, shiny synths
and Turley‘s near-whispering combine for both, oddly rhythmical
and body-activating vibrations. Don’t hesitate to shadowdance to
the trancey ambiance in mysterious ways.
First single from their forthcoming album, titled ‘Paint Me Skyward‘
which will follow next year. Sales of the song on Bandcamp will go to
the UK mental health charity, Mind. Buy here.
Styring: “The song (and album) is about a very troubled young man, Jeremiah,
and his struggles and battles with life. He’s definitely fallen from the tracks and is
lost. But he’s being given a second chance to put things right. Something amazing
is waiting to happen. It’s now or never for him.”
TUTV: Jeremiah is a high-energy, guitar-propelling roller that draws your aural
attention from the kick-off. Styring‘s peculiar vocals add fuel to the vivid velocity,
peaking powerfully on the buzzing chorus that sticks in an eye/ear-blink.
Infectious harbinger for the band’s upcoming album
Band: IONA SKY Who: Anglo-American pop-rock band, formed in 2023, based in Cambridgeshire, England, blending cinematic pop-rock, indie-rock
and pop-country storytelling with big hooks, atmospheric guitars
and emotionally direct songwriting.
They released their 5-track debut EP Homeschooled in
2024 followed by a second, Departure, last February.
It’s about the odd feeling when the thing you know best becomes
the thing that frightens you most. Musically it moves from held-back
verses into a big, cathartic rock chorus.
TUTV: Iona Sky don’t waste time on this rad ripper, enlivened by the charismatic
front Amazon’s keyed-up vocals. Halfway through, the flow drops with some trippy
bass play, only to recharge the batteries and reignite the snappy fuzz.
You’d better be in perfect shape to keep up with this zippy
guitar-pop stormer when the chorus blasts out of your
speakers.
Chaz has a message: “I won’t bore you with a load of AI generated waffle
about how I’m the greatest artist and this song I’m plugging is gonna change
the world, cause it probably isn’t.”
TUTV: Chaz is a witty DIY bedroom geezer who shakes and quakes
on his debut at a lazy mid-tempo pace, triggering pelvis activity. Think Getdown Services and other related UK garage acts who hip and hop
with sassy swagger.
Enjoy Drops on your coach swaying from left
to right and back. Don’t worry, be happy.
Artists: SCHAU.SCHOU Who: The collaboration between Kristopher Schau, a well-known Norwegian musician, author, and broadcaster, and Christoffer Schou
from Cahe Superstar Recordings, an independent label based
in Norway.
It features Norwegian singer-songwriter Sarah Leander
and is the first shared piece from a new, upcoming EP.
TUTV: Expect a slow-moving, soothing dream pop musing carried by reflective,
alternating vocals and at times juiced with some organ warmth. Midway, captivating
guitars join the ethereal flow, adding an unexpected sense of intensity.
Danish indie starsICEAGE, who formed in 2008 and are spearheaded by Elias Rønnenfelt released their 6th full-length, For Love Of Grace & The Hereafter, their first in 5 years, last May. It gave Rønnenfelt time to write/record/release 2 solo LPs.
The band will take the road next year to play in the US and UK/Europe.
