WHERE WE SLEEP Streams Another New Track – Here’s The Mighty-Bass-Loaded Vibe ‘THE FIRST ONE’…

Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

23 July 2018

Last month Beth Rettig, frontwoman of British electro rockers Blindness launched her solo project WHERE WE SLEEP with two appealing songs, Veins & Crawl. And here’s another new one. THE FIRST ONE is a dusky and mighty-bass-loaded reverberation, turning darker, intenser and groovier with every spin. Catch the ominous, yet inescapable fatal attraction vibe right here…

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WHERE WE SLEEP: Twitter – Facebook

(photo via Beth)

Portland’s Distorted Noise Rockers ‘AH GOD’ Strike With New Booming Track ‘V-I-I’…

Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

17 July 2018

AH GOD are a trio of noise rockers with a greedy appetite for distortion, producing “heavy art grunge and fuzzed-out psychedelia with a DIY recording ethic and heavy drum beats carried to your ears softly and sweetly on the backs of stoney guitar melodies of the utmost sensuality.” Sounds totally challenging and mind-twisting to my hungry ears.

Rowdy new track V-I-I confirms all the aforementioned promises. “A fun way of fleshing out how to become a part of the world and enjoy love, life and the whole of the human experience in the face of mental illness and existential terror.” says the band.

It’s a hefty stomper that sticks immediately. A hazy banger that infiltrates your ear-system without asking. A short but impressive reflection of the overall engrossing bravado on upcoming, third album called TIIIME.

No time to waste, test your head’s and feet’s flexibility right here…


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We are all pale flowers in a grey garden
I want mine to die sometimes, it aint big enough to keep my heart in
Wet tongue sliding out of your mouth
into the other, I get it, to get off oh I get it now

You know I would not be alive
But my V-I-I keeps me in your eyes

Roman numerals up to 77
Spray painted on the walls of my one one one true heaven
Squish the spit between your fingertips
D-I-F What’s the dif anyway? No one seems all that different

You know I would not be alive
but my V-I-I keeps me in your eyes

I tried to eat up all of your sunflowers
Didn’t really like the taste of the leaves but with the idea I was pleased
Never be a peach more than a god
Let the guilt spill out let your brain brain brain go get gone

You know I would not be alive
But my V-I-I keeps me in your eyes

AH GOD: Previous albums on Bandcamp –  Twitter – Facebook


New, third album ‘TIIIME‘ out 27 July – info & pre-order facilities right here

TURN UP THE VOLUME’S Selection Of Five Brand New MUST-HEAR Albums…

New longplayers that will have an impact on your ears and your speakers

1/ ‘The Room In The Wood’ by THE ROOM IN THE WOOD (Liverpool, UK)
The Room in the Wood is a collaborative project featuring Paul Cavanagh and Dave Jackson. The first since their band ‘The Room‘ split in 1985. The duo designed a wondrous record that sounds intriguing and pure, that feels soulful and heartwarming and reminds me, now and then, of gloomy Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen moments. Compelling songwriting.

Stream here

Available via Bandcamp and iTunes

2/ ‘You Can Run… You Can’t Hide’ by ACESKULLY (Fort Lauderdale, FL, US)
Aceskully is musical tandem Ulysses Perez and Kayce Armstrong. Their new LP is just amazing. Adventurous trips with influences by experimental legends David Bowie,
PJ Harvey
and Depeche Mode among others. Stellar mix of gripping electronics, stirring
pop dynamics and remarkable male/female singing. Tour de force in sound and vision!

Stream here

Available on iTunes

3/ ‘Room With A View’ by ECHO COURTS (North Carolina, US)
Modern-day pop balladry influenced by exquisite Americana singer/songwriters of the past. Like a 21st Century Gram Parsons with glimmering guitars, punchy melodies, striking vocals. Emotional reveries for the twilight hours. Touching, comforting and melancholic.

Stream here

Available via Bandcamp and iTunes

4/ ‘For The Rest To Rest’ by VEDA RAYS (Brooklyn, NY, US)
Ardent contemplations drenched in passionate and sparkling orchestrations. Both darksome and elevating. An amplified blend of electrifying sentiments with sonic echoes
of 80s British New Romanticism. From dreamy ballads to glowing flares. Starry-eyed!

Stream here

Available on Bandcamp

5/ ‘I, Kaleidoscope’ by BROKEN BELLOWS (USA)
The combination of colorful tunes, atmospheric synth layers,
rich arrangements and Beach Boys harmonies turns this debut
full length into an impressive and punchy pop performance. Top!

Stream here

Available on iTunes

 

RADIOHEAD – ‘Creep’ – GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL UK 2017

Smashing live performances of smashing knockouts

‘Creep’ by RADIOHEAD
Glastonbury Festival 2017

When you were here before
Couldn’t look you in the eye
You’re just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
And I wish I was special
You’re so fuckin’ special
But I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don’t belong here.
I don’t care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I’m not around
You’re so fuckin’ special
I wish I was special
But I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don’t belong here.

TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – ‘Cupid & Psyche 85’ – 2nd LP by SCRITTI POLITTI…

Remarkable albums from the past…

‘Cupid & Psyche 85’ by SCRITTI POLITTI
Released: 10 June 1985

ALL MUSIC review: “On their second album, Scritti Politti essentially was Green Gartside, who directed drummer Fred Maher, keyboardist David Gamson, and a multitude of studio musicians through a state-of-the-art, immaculately constructed set of catchy synth pop on Cupid & Psyche 85. The results are as impressive as Songs to Remember and produced the hit singles ‘Perfect Way’ and ‘Wood Beez’ (Pray Like Aretha Franklin).”
Score: 4.5/5

TURN UP THE VOLUME says: funky, reaggy, poppy, joyful, and plenty of feel-good tunes…

FAVORITE TRACK: The Word Girl

Album in full…

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SCRITTI POLITTI: Facebook – All Albums

Storming Duo NOVA TWINS Rages On New Slam ‘LOSE YOUR HEAD’…

Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

Band: NOVA TWINS (London, UK)

Who: startling female two-piece Amy Love & Georgia South

Track: LOSE YOUR HEAD – brand new single

Score: Far-out tandem Nova Twins rages like a filthy female fusion of Body Count and System Of A Down on their new nasty single. Tempestuous electro beats, fat grooves, metallic guitars, in-your-face vocals and a smashing chorus. Final result: a ruthless,
barbed wire slam dunk. Heavy stuff! Lose your head, mind and senses right here…

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NOVA TWINS: Facebook –  Twitter


Available on iTunes

SLOWDIVE Shines Sensationally At Cactus Festival In Brugge Belgium – Best Concert Of The Year (So Far)…

SLOWDIVE – Cactus Festival Brugge, Belgium – 15 July 2018

Monumental
Phenomenal
Outstanding
Magnificent
Spellbinding
Mind-boggling
Breathtaking
Astonishing
Sparkling

Fantastical

A heavenly-wall-of-supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-sound…


Divine vox…


Colorful symphonies


Awesome electro waves and psychedelic guitar jams


Dragonesque crowd


Best concert of the year, so far

If you never experienced ‘Slowdive’ here’s an idea of their magical live sound…

SLOWDIVE: Link to self-titled 2017 album – Website – Facebook

(concert pics by JL/Turn Up The Volume)

Fresh Sensual Duo ‘PRISTINE BABE’ Will Seduce You With Sweet Sugar Debut Single ‘MOONLIGHT’…

Relaxing musings for the laziest day of the week…

15 July 2018

Originally from Italy, PRISTINE BABE consider themselves “European millennials trying
to find their own way, using their magic to turn their everyday life into retro-sounding pop bangers.”
The pair just released their debut single MOONLIGHT. Singer Penelope says
the song “is about being a girl, dealing with love, goodbyes and mood swings. Laughing and crying under the moonlight. Reality is entirely dictated by my dreams and fantasies, which
keep me alive and bring colour to my world.”

Pristine Babe‘s debut is a sugar-sweet ballad with all the sparkling ingredients that
made 60s pop romanticism loved around the globe back then and still today. Heartfelt emotions wrapped in lovey-dovey orchestrations, hum along melodies and amorous candlelight tunes. And just like those sixties stars this duo looks cool and sounds cool because they were born cool. Ladies and gents here’s the 21st Century’s Nancy Sinatra
and Lee Hazlewood
. Capture the sensual vibe right here…

PRISTINE BABE: Instagram / Label: Axis Mundi Records

Belgian Electro Trash Clash Punk Duo ‘ONMENS’ Twists All Of Your Senses…

ONMENS – De Kolonie, Ghent, Belgium – 12 July 2018

ONMENS (‘Not-Human’ in English) is a diabolical Belgian two-motor generator “forged in the filth on the floor after the collapse of Belgium’s rave-generation. They set out to violently beat the party back into electronic music. With influences varying from techno over Hardcore
to noise and punk, the duo pushes buttons with their deliberately left-field sound.”

Live OMENS turns into a devilish organism that blows all of your senses from start
to finish as they proved once again last Thursday when crushing my hometown, Ghent. From the moment this exorcistic two-piece takes the stage reality becomes a thrashy hallucination. Singer Sigfried Burroughs spits, sneers, screams, shouts, steams, shakes, spins and moves like a savage serpent, like a raw power Iggy Pop, on tons of speed while hitting keys on his pc, now and then, to punk the whole shebang up to a sort of volcanic electro bewilderment. On his right guitarist Kasper Van Esbroeck produces otherworldly, deranged psych-o-delic riffs like if he is a modern-day Jimi Hendrix. Demonic, filthy, razor-sharp and totally mind-twisting. I’m sure you get my ecstatic drift and heavy appetite for this remarkable band by now. Indeed, folks, Onmens is an impressive garbage noise beast. One of the most fascinating acts around. Here’s an idea of what we got two days ago, here’s what their mental live shit is all about…

(thanks to Wouter De Sutter for this cool footage)

Some visual shots


Trash triumph


Purple haze

Create your own trance at home with their
new, excellent DOOPGROND album…


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ONMENS: Facebook


Raw power

(concert pics by JL/Turn Up The Volume!)

COURTNEY BARNETT – ‘City Looks Pretty’ – NASHVILLE TENNESSEE 2018

Smashing live performances of smashing knockouts

City Looks Pretty‘ by COURTNEY BARNETT
Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN – 5 May 2018

As always Barnett looks cool, plays cool, sings cool and rocks cool…

COURTNEY BARNETT: Website – Facebook – Twitter


City Looks Pretty‘ is on her newest album Tell Me How You Really Feel