Who: Five young noisy indie gunslingers from Perth, Scotland
Pick: ALL DOLLED UP – Turn Up The Volume‘s favorite track from
the band’s debut EP ‘Thrill Of The Chase‘.
Score: This stormy ripper thrills terrifically from its first swaggering beat to its flamboyant finale. Big banging drums, hurry-scurry guitars, nasty bass, edged vocals and a scream & shout along chorus that sticks as first-rate glue. That’s the buzzing way this cutting team brings you a stirred up love song. Get the razor-sharp intensity here…
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
12 November 2018
Band: SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
Album: THE SCREAM – debut longplayer
Released: 13 November 1978 – 40 years ago
ALL MUSIC review: “After building up an intense live reputation and a rabid fan base,
Siouxsie and the Banshees almost had to debut with a stunner, which they did, “Hong Kong Garden” taking care of things on the singles front and The Scream on the full-length. Matched with a downright creepy cover and a fair enough early producing effort from Steve Lillywhite, well before he found gated drum sounds, it’s a fine balance of the early band’s talents. Siouxsie Sioux herself shows the distinct, commanding voice and lyrical meditations on fractured lives and situations that would win her well-deserved attention over the years.” – Full review here – Score: 4/5
TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: Most controversial, bizarre and weirdly attractive debut punk album I experienced. Voodoo-like stuff and black magic. Dazzling!
TOP TRACKS: Carcass / Jigsaw Feeling / Helter Skelter
From Grand Rapids, Michigan here are sultry garage blues rockers THE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS having a blast on their new fiery single HANG ON. A devil-may-care steamroller that thunders from the very first chord way down to the howling finale.
An ongoing drumfire cadence that energizes every single nerve in your body. A rollicking beast injected here and there with crazed guitar riffs and sultry organ sequences while agitated vocals oil the whipped up frame of mind constantly. What a blistering ripper this is, growling like a rioting act of rebellion against complacency. C’mon, all you motherrockers out there, get up and act. Hang on right here…
Every week Turn Up The Volume! jumps into the past! Relive 25 Crackers and 3 Top Albums per year/per week. Here’s another firework year to remember: 1979.
After the highly infectious ‘How I Faked The Moon Landing‘ single back in July, Welsh rockers SILENT FORUM are back with a new one from their upcoming debut LP. ROBOT
is about a disgruntled office worker and sounds like he/she is about to have a nervous breakdown, but one you can go gaga to. Absolutely, this fresh stroke rattles and rumbles in a way you’ll have no control over your body anymore. The funky combination of early Talking Heads rush and Big Country guitars inject Robot with a stimulant dose of adrenalin enough to activate your bloodstream and make you jump on your desk for a caffeine-induced dance. Check the heat out right here…
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
9 November 2018
Band: X-RAY SPEX
Album: GERMFREE ADOLESCENTS – the band’s debut LP
Released: 10 November 1978 – 40 years ago
ALL MUSIC review: “Perhaps the most utopian aspect of the U.K. punk scene was that it offered creative, articulate young people the opportunity to express themselves, and to kick
up an exuberantly noisy racket in the process. X-Ray Spex certainly came from this wing of the movement, the brainchild of two female schoolmates who re-christened themselves Poly Styrene and Lora Logic. X-Ray Spex was far from the only female-centered British punk act, but they were arguably the best, combining exuberant energy with a cohesive worldview courtesy of singer and songwriter Poly Styrene. As her nom de punk hinted, Styrene was obsessed with the artificiality she saw permeating Britain’s consumer society, linking synthetic goods with a sort of processed, manufactured humanity. Styrene’s frantic claustrophobia permeates the record, as she rails in her distinctively quavering yowl against the alienation she feels preventing her from discovering her true self.” – Full review here – Score: 4/5
TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: To my ears and eyes frontwoman Poly Styrene – born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said – was one of the most genuine, outspoken, creative and honest DIY artists of the era. Not like the many media punks stars we all know/knew, but a great individual with a unique talent and style. May she rest in peace.
TOP TRACKS: The Day The World Turned Day-Glo / Identity / I’m A Poseur
From Berlin here’s, out of the blue, moony dream pop quartet called JANIS. They just released their debut single ‘A MOMENT OF WEAKNESS‘. A reflective, intimate musing
about trying to hold on onto life in times when it seems to slip away. Its delicate mood,
its melodic serenity and its vocal magnificence will make you silent and wonder. Take a moment and lose your thoughts right here…
. I´ve found out that shaving my head
Is better than cutting my wrist
Than trying to understand
The mess in which I now exist
I´ve found out that being awake
Is almost the same as asleep
I wonder how long it will take
To sink into the deep
Why is it that I’m bound to fail?
To break everything that I touch?
Why are all the colors so pale?
And every word hurts so much?
Is there anybody out there
Who feels the same way I do?
I there anybody who cares?
I need you
A light in the darkness
I´ll see that I am not alone
Somebody will put their hand into mine
I hope that I still won´t be gone
London‘s rip-roaring force TOKYO TABOO is back with a big fierce bang! After their explosive debut album 6th Street Psychosis, the gloriously kooky duo are about to
unleash their, Los Angeles recorded, follow-up longplayer. Ahead of its launch here’s
brand new scorching single NO PLEASURE ONLY PAIN.
A cooking mid-tempo banger ‘about the animal attraction you feel for someone even when you know they will only cause you pain.’ This new flaming killer stroke moves like a vicious serpent ready to jump you any given moment. Its ongoing head-splitting beat hammers from start to finish. Ophidian frontwoman Dolly Daggerz’s vox resonates both horny and hungry, like an insatiable coyote looking for its daily prey and electrical sidekick Mickey Danger creates doomed Black Sabbath-like riffs that’ll give you a hairsplitting electric chair experience. Get their booming drift, all you drooling freaks out there? Feel the burning pain right here…
