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Month: August 2019
CIGARETTES AFTER SEX Share New Touching Pearl – Here’s ‘HEAVENLY’…
New sonic impulses…
After their excellent self-titled 2017 debut LP main man Greg Gonzalez and his band CIGARETTES AFTER SEX now announced follow-up album, titled ‘CRY’ . It will be out
25th October. Here’s lead single ‘HEAVENLY’. A heartfelt ballad for the midnight hours.
A touching pearl. Here’s the audio clip…
CIGARETTES AFTER SEX: Facebook
MANIC STREET PREACHERS Released Their Darksome Masterpiece ‘THE HOLY BIBLE’ 25 Years Ago…
28 August 2019
Welsh legends MANIC STREET PREACHERS released their third album, masterpiece
‘THE HOLY BIBLE’ on 30 August 1994, 25 years ago. To my fan ears, this dark LP is the Manics’ most absorbing, imposing and unpolished achievement of their brilliant career.
It was the unfortunate Richey Edwards‘ last record before vanishing mysteriously. His cutting and at times very introvert, controversial and angry lyrics clearly showed that Edwards‘ demons were taking over. Musically it’s an irresistibly dynamic and terrifically edgy exploit. A solid gold magnum opus that still resonates as staggering as back then!
NME wrote: “Like most works of genuine genius, it’s a world away from anything else its creators ever set their hands to. Born as a reaction to the failure of their early bid to become a Valley Guns N’Roses, its white, seething fury at absolutely everything meant they could never go to such terrifying depths again… Musically, ‘The Holy Bible’ is incredible, the result of James Dean Bradfield’s decision to rein the band back into a shitty studio in Cardiff’s red light district. Abandoning stadium dynamics and embracing new wave, industrial, art rock and goth, the likes of ‘Faster’ and ‘Yes’ stand up as furious mutant metal hybrids.” Full review here . Score: 5/5
Three (of the many) highlights…
– REVOL –
– FASTER –
– THIS IS YESTERDAY –
(live rendition – Glastonbury 2003)
Album in full…
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MANIC STREET PREACHERS: Facebook
Passionate Noise Trio DOWN THE LEES Impresses With Single From Upcoming LP – Here’s ‘ANTISEPTIC HEART’
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
29 August 2019
Band: DOWN THE LEES
Who: A fervid noise trio from my hometown of Ghent in Belgium,
led by the wonderful Canadian Laura Lee Schultz on vocals and guitar
Pick: ‘ANTISEPTIC HEART – single from their upcoming, third LP called ‘Bury The Sun’,
out 13th September via Wagonmaniac Music. The LP is produced by veteran noise
expert Steve Albini
Score: This tense, emotional reflection has the threatening power of a bubbling volcano that can explode any second. Confused sentiments swing forth and back in a bewitching quit/Loud/quit progression with Laura Lee Schultz‘s impressive vox accentuating the profound sentiments at stake here. Heart-whole performance all the way. Capture the intensive commotion this way.
DOWN THE LEES: Facebook
New album BURY THE SUN out 13th September – pre-order via Bandcamp
Picture This…
PAUL WELLER – Cactus Club, Brugge, Belgium – 12 April 2015
(All photos by Turn Up The Volume!)
Great Song Lines From… ‘LAZYITIS’ By Manchester Legends HAPPY MONDAYS
From ‘Lazytis‘ by HAPPY MONDAYS
Here’s that groover in full…
Now that one got lazyitis
And that one go it alone
And this one go, wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah
All the way home
At my home (And I hope) I don’t come top of the class
Got no brown tongue lickin’ ass, can’t do what he’s asked
Won’t do what he’s asked
I think I did the right thing by slipping away, yeah
And the ache that’s making me ache has gone for the day
Now I’m the man that shot the boss
I pinned him down and blew his face off
I’m doing time with weirdo kind
Hustlin’ and rustlin’ and watchin’ from behind
Now that’s the man that shot the boss
He pinned him down and blew his face off
He’s doing time with weirdo kind
Hustlin’ and rustlin’ and watchin’ from behind
Now that one got lazyitis
And that one go it alone
And that one go, wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah
All the way home (x2)
From their 1998 album BUMMED – stream it on Lazytis
Still movin’ and groovin’ – coming tour dates here
IGGY POP Drops New Ambient Track From His Upcoming LP – Here’s ‘SONALI’…
New sonic impulses…
28 August 2019
Living rock legend IGGY POP announced his new album
called FREE some weeks ago. it will be out on 6th September.
Mister Pop said in a press statement: “This is an album in which other artists speak for me, but I lend my voice. I know that’s an illusion, and that freedom is only something you feel, but I have lived my life thus far in the belief that that feeling is all that is worth pursuing; all that you need – not happiness or love necessarily, but the feeling of being free. So this album just kind of happened to me, and I let it happen.”
So far the icon shared the atmospheric ‘Intro‘ of the new full length and the jazzy bass-loaded lead single ‘James Bond’. Here’s cut number three. ‘SONALI’ has a trippy and ambient feel and confirms that Pop‘s new album will be an intriguing affair. Listen here…
IGGY POP: Facebook
Pre-order facilities here.
(photo on top: from BBC Radio & TV)
American Duo HUSBANDS Surfs Harmoniously On New Single ‘MEXICO’…
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
28 August 2019
(photo: Averi Campbell)
Band: HUSBANDS
Who: A sparkling lo-fi power pop duo from Seattle/Oklahoma City
Pick: MEXICO – newest single – “an escapist fantasy love song dedicated to
the dream of moving to a coastal town: to be poor and happy together”
Score: I guess it’s summer all year long for this perky duo. They definitely sound like it. ‘Mexico‘ is a highly frisky earworm that will make your feet tap, your head spin and your mood go boom. Yep, it’s 21st Century Beach Boys time. All that matters is non-stop fun, daily sun and lots of sonic bubblegum. Get up, stand up and fight for your right to feel happy right here…
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HUSBANDS: Facebook – More stuff on Bandcamp
Purchase MEXICO via Bandcamp
THE BEACH BOYS Topped The UK Singles Chart 51 years Ago With Groovy Cracker ‘DO IT AGAIN’
Knockouts from the past…
28 August 2019
Band: The Beach Boys
Song: Do It Again
Note: It was a track of their 14th album called Friends
and their second UK Number One when it hit the top spot
on 28 August 1968, 51 years ago today
Let’s do it…
Remastered version here…
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BEACH BOYS: Facebook – Website
Unreleased JEFF BUCKLEY Material Issued To Celebrate 25th Birthday Of His ‘GRACE’ Album…
28 August 2019
Last week, on 23 August, the magnificent debut (and also his final) album ‘GRACE’ by the late great JEFF BUCKLEY turned 25. To celebrate this birthday Columbia Records issued lots of unreleased material of the stirring, regretted singer/songwriter.
First of all an unheard demo of ‘Sky Blue Skin’. A song recorded at his final
studio session on September 13th, 1996. Listen here to the intimate musing…
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Also a clip for ‘Lover, You Should’ve Come Over’, one of Grace‘s arresting
beauties with previously unseen Jeff Buckley footage. See it here…
To make the celebration complete Columbia Records put no less
than 4 live albums online via Spotify. Here are the links to stream…
Live At Wetlands, New York, 1994
Live From Seattle, 1995
Cabaret Metro, Chicago, 1995
Live At Columbia Records / Radio Hour
