Now Playing – GORILLAZ
26 October 2020
Band: GORILLAZ featuring a long list of famous guests
Album: SONG MACHINE, SEASON ONE: STRANGE TIMEZ
Released: 23 October 2020
Month: October 2020
JAPAN Released Fourth Album ‘GENTLEMEN TAKE POLAROIDS’ 40 Years Ago
26 October 2020
Band: JAPAN (South-London)
Active: 1974–1982, 1989–1991
Album: Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Released: 24 October 1980 – 40 years ago
AllMusic/Ned Raggett wrote: “Gentlemen Take Polaroids’ was unquestionably
the album in which Japan truly found its own unique voice and aesthetic approach.
The glam influences still hung heavy, particularly from Roxy Music, but now the band
found itself starting to affect others in turn… musically, meanwhile, the swooning, hyper
elegant Euro-disco sheen of Quiet Life was polished to an even finer edge throughout.”
Full review here. Score: 4/5.
David Sylvian (mastermind): “During the lifetime of Japan
I became very neurotic, very paranoid.”
Turn Up The Volume: From adolescent sex to adult sex.
Full album…
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JAPAN: All Albums
THE LEMONHEADS – The 30th Anniversary Edition Of ‘LOVEY’ Album Out Now!
26 October 2020
Fire Records released the earlier announced
Deluxe 30th Anniversary Edition of The Lemonheads‘
album LOVEY last Friday.
A 2xLP/CD Deluxe Book with expanded liner notes and unseen
photos. The definitive document of Evan Dando’s first steps
towards the mainstream.
Content in detail…
▪ Remastered 30th Anniversary Edition Double LP & Bookback CD
▪ Both Formats In Perfectly Bound Books Includes Liner Notes
& Exclusive Unseen Photographs
▪ Includes a Legendary 8 Track 1991 session for Triple J.
Available for the first time and re-mixed and re-mastered
from the original tapes
▪ ‘Lovey’ includes the classic cover of Gram Parsons
‘Brass Buttons’
and fan favourites ‘Half The Time’ and ‘Stove’
▪ ‘Live At The Wireless’ includes a cover of Big Star’s ‘Nighttime’
Here’s the original
LOVEY album…
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THE LEMONHEADS: Facebook
Striking 2020 Album Artwork
Manchester Punks THE BATTERY FARM Storm Again With New Alarming Single ‘MAGGOT LINE’
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
26 October 2020
MAGGOT LINE is the fifth single by blaze and rage
punks THE BATTERY FARM out of Manchester.
It’s a serrated razor-sharp hammer blow “about the climate crisis
and the economical apartheid that will occur as a result of it, which
will ultimately enable the rich to have the resources to shield themselves
from the worst effects of climate breakdown while the poor are left to suffer.”
It’s also the lead single from their
debut EP Endless Unstoppable Pain,
out 27th November.
From the first boiling riffs on it’s full steam ahead with layers of
scorching guitars, a merciless drum beat, and red-hot fulminating
spits and sneers. Like the 1-2-3-4 Ramones‘ blitzkrieg craziness, but
nastier and with twice as many decibels. An alarming 2020 warning!
“We all gonna die and it’s all our fault.”
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Also on Spotify…
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THE BATTERY FARM: Facebook
Italian Synth Act COMMON FLAWS Covers SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
26 October 2020
Giacomo Oberti, the fontman and songwriter of sparkling Italian guitar/synth
pop combo The Bankrobber goes disco. With his fresh project Common Flaws
he aims at the dance floor.
The first effort is a cover of Happy House, a darkish single by goth queen Siouxsie and her Banshees. The song was released 40 years ago, on 8 March 1980 and featured on their Kaleidoscope album.
With an ongoing deep bass beat Common Flaws gives the already vibrant rhythm of Happy House a 90s techno resonance. The sampled, female vocals come from the 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill with Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant.
This is the happy house
We’re happy here in the happy house
To forget ourselves and pretend all’s well
There is no hell, ooh-ooh
Watch the cool clip here and feel the vibe …
COMMON FLAWS: Facebook
Happy 40 ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
25 October 2020
Striking 2020 Album Artwork
25 October 2020
Artist: JEHNNY BETH (frontwoman Savages)
Album: TO LOVE IS TO LIVE – debut solo LP
Released: 12 June 2020
Glam Legends ROXY MUSIC Released Fifth LP ‘SIREN’ 45 Years Ago
25 October 2020
Band: ROXY MUSIC
Active: 1970–1976, 1978–1983, 2001–2011
Album: SIREN – fifth LP
Released: 24 October 1975 – 45 years ago
AllMusic wrote: “Abandoning the intoxicating blend of art rock and glam-pop that distinguished Stranded and Country Life, Roxy Music concentrate on Bryan Ferry’s suave, charming crooner persona for the elegantly modern ‘Siren’… Roxy embrace dance and unabashed pop on Siren, weaving them into their sleek, arty sound…The end result is captivating.” Score: 5/5.
Bryan Ferry: “Women? I have no idea. I don’t know anything about
women at all. They’re a complete mystery to me.”
Turn Up The Volume: All who tried to copy Roxy’s look, sound
and album artwork failed. Yep, a unique band.
Singles/clips: Love Is The Drug / Both Ends Burning
– LOVE IS THE DRUG –
– BOTH ENDS BURNING –
Full album…
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ROXY MUSIC: Facebook
Heart-To-Heart Jewel – Here’s ‘SMOKE’ By EASTER ISLAND
Reveries for the laziest day of the week…
25 October 2020
Band: EASTER ISLAND
Who: Dream pop combo from Athens, GA
with members in various cities around the country.
Track: SMOKE – from the band’s sophomore album, out December 11.
Score: Sit down, relax, close your eyes, and dream away to this heart-to-heart
ballad. Starry-eyed vocals, glimmering guitar lines à la Interpol and a moody War
On Drugs feel transfers you to la-la land. Ravishing and bonny euphony. A sweet
sonic jewel.
We run a race to find out, fuck the prince and shout loud
There’s smoke in your clothes, and change in your bed,
and I’m wide awake now
You know what’s in my mind
You know what’s in my mind
The video highlights Athens during the era of social distancing
You can also stream/buy here…
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EASTER ISLAND: Facebook
(promo photo via Noisy Ghost PR)