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Month: March 2019
INTERPOL Shares New Cut ‘THE WEEKEND’ From Upcoming 5-Track EP…
Brand new sonic impulses…
28 March 2019
Somewhat unexpected New York’s gloomy rockers INTERPOL shared a new single,
called Fine Mess last January. Today they announced that the song is actually the title track of an upcoming 5-track EP and simultaneously they dropped a second piece thereof. THE WEEKEND is vintage Interpol electricity. Check it out here…
INTERPOL Website – Facebook –
FINE MESS EP out 17th May – All info here
THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH After The Breakup With His Lover… ‘I’M A STRANGER NOW’
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
28 March 2019
Wholehearted Swedish singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson aka THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH will issue his first album in four years, entitled I LOVE YOU. ‘IT’S A FEVER DREAM’
“Making the album I was thinking a lot about the lenses we view our lives through, and that,
for some reason, our worst tendencies seem to be carried out so loudly, while our best can go unnoticed. I’ve come to realize that some of the most powerful, most inspiring moments in my life have been the most subtle and that so often the thing that deserves my attention, is trying the least to get it”, said Matsson in a press statement. The LP will be out on 19th April.
Here’s the second single off the album. On ‘I’M A STRANGER NOW‘ he tries to come to grips with growing apart from his lover. “Now so deep into the forest with my Swedish little heart/ I am nowhere near your sunset it’s so quiet after all/ And I’m a stranger now, I’m a stranger now” he grieves at the end. Gripping sadness. Touching sentiments. Here’s
the audio clip…
THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH: Facebook
CAGE THE ELEPHANT Drops Another Cut From New LP – Here’s ‘NIGHT RUNNING’ Featuring BECK…
Brand new sonic impulses…
Kentucky rockers CAGE THE ELEPHANT release their fifth full length, titled SOCIAL CUES next month. After sharing two tracks already: post breakup lead single Ready To Let Go and ripper House Of Glass here’s another new cut featuring BECK. His presence is quite clear. NIGHT RUNNING has that typical Beckesque dance beat. Here’s the audio clip…
CAGE THE ELEPHANT: Website – Facebook
New album SOCIAL CUES out 19th April – pre-order facilities here
HISTORY – 28 March 1981 – Here’s BLONDIE…
28 March 2019
BLONDIE scored their fourth No 1 in the US with RAPTURE on 28 March 1981.
The sort of funky disco pop song you still hear these days too. It appeared on
their fifth studio album Autoamerican. Dance with Debbie here…
Darksome Post-Punk Romantics SUNFLOWER Blossom At Night…
SUNFLOWER – BarBroos Ghent, Belgium – 26 March 2019
One of the most intriguing bands on the flourishing alternative music scene in Belgium
are darksome romantics SUNFLOWER. I suspect them from having stolen all the post-punk and new wave albums of their parents, then listened to all that marvelous vinyl on repeat, got obsessed and decided to form a band themselves and create their own sonic mysticism. After two years of working in progress, the quintet released their debut record last month. THE SPIDERS WE CAUGHT is a glowing 5-track trip into Sunflower‘s emotional world. Imagine The Cure‘s gloomiest guitar lines, The Banshees melodic weirdness, Mogwai‘s quiet.loud.quiet impact and a soul-stirring frontman with a hot-blooded vox. What you then get is a poignant roller coaster track like this. Here’s HEROIN…
Last Tuesday the group played my hometown Ghent and confirmed everything what was already written about them. I witnessed five musicians who get really quick into a puzzling zone of emotive intensity and impassioned devotion and play as if this was their last gig. Although it was dark up there on stage, you could see and feel this team’s vital excitation.
Their electrifying songs transfer you to a melancholic twilight where reality looks confused and disorderly. Their wayward melodies are wrapped in captivating sound constructions that hold your attention non-stop while singer Brent De Wulf is the screaming heart of this special act on a special mission. A striking performance it was.
Here’s their newest excellent single KOSMONAUT I …
Picture this…
Aaaarrrghhhh….
Emotive intensity…
Group excorcism…
Setlist…
Stream/buy THE SPIDERS WE CAUGHT here…
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SUNFLOWER: Facebook
(All concert pics by Turn Up The Volume!)
‘Do You Love Me’ By NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Released 25 Years Ago…
Sonic knockouts from the past…
28 March 2019
‘Do You Love Me‘ by NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
One of his most haunting and powerful songs, from his eight LP
Let Love In, was released as a single on 28 March 1994, 25 years
ago today. B-sides: ‘Cassiels Song‘ and ‘Sail Away‘.
Here’s that diamond…
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: Facebook – Website
KEVIN MORBY Shares Another Track From New LP – Here’s Wondrous Ballad… ‘NOTHING SACRED/ALL THINGS WILD’
Brand new sonic impulses…
Singer-songwriter KEVIN MORBY will release his fifth, double conceptual, album
titled OH MY GOD next April. After sharing lead single No Halo last month here’s
another new piece. ‘NOTHING SACRED/ALL THINGS WILD’ is a wondrous ballad,
a moody reflection about being young and growing up, about life and death. Here’s
the accompanying, puzzling video clip…
KEVIN MORBY: Facebook
New (double) album OH MY GOD out 29th April – All info here
Danish Pop Collective THE MILLENNIALS Scores With New Firework Single ‘THE DIVIDE’…
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
27 March 2019
(photo: Line Westerboe)
Band: THE MILLENNIALS
Who: A quintet from Copenhagen, Denmark “striving to tell the untold stories
camouflaged beneath the polished surface of their own generation. A generation
often portrayed as demanding, spoilt and as taking their privileged lives for granted”.
Track: THE DIVIDE – first single from upcoming EP ‘Building The Divide‘. The song is
about “the distance and loneliness experienced when looking at the world through the lens
of social media, being bombarded with other people’s success and seemingly perfect lives.”
Score: ‘The Divide‘ is splendiferous pop firework. Terrifically catchy and non-stop rapturous. A truly dynamic blend of vivacious guitars, invigorating melodiousness,
vivifying vocals and an ecstatic chorus that intensifies your body temperature and
speeds up your adrenalin’s stream. C’mon ignore your smartphone for a while, here’s
some real excitement…
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THE MILLENNIALS: Facebook – Instagram
PRIMAL SCREAM – Fourth LP ‘GIVE OUT BUT DON’T GIVE UP’ Came Out 25 Years Ago…
Great albums from the past…
27 March 2019
Band: PRIMAL SCREAM
Album: GIVE OUT BUT DON’T GIVE UP – the band’s fourth album
Released: 28 March 1994 – 25 years ago
BBC Music wrote: “Hanging with George Clinton – he contributes to the title track – and
being produced by southern soul legend Tom Dowd and Black Crowes co-conspirator George Drakoulias was a step on from their rave rebirth. Denise Johnson, who was now officially part
of the Scream’s orbit, had a turn with Free, but it was a mere glimmer of what heights had been previously achieved. Guitars were back in, and the ongoing Stones fascination was omnipotent… but some of the band had decided to get into hard drugs, and an ensuing US tour with Depeche Mode that nearly killed them… By rights, the Primals should’ve owned 1994, but ‘Parklife’ and ‘Definitely Maybe’ came along and suddenly having a confederate flag on your cover when everyone else is waving union jacks smacked of a band in need of a rethink.”
Full review here.
TURN UP THE VOLUME!‘s three favorite tracks: Rocks / Jailbird / Big Jet Plane
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– JAILBIRD –
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PRIMAL SCREAM: Website – Facebook – Discography
