Month: January 2021

Catchy Guitar Pop Electricity From Singapore – Discover New Album ‘NATURE OF THINGS’ By SUBSONIC EYE

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28 January 2021

Band: SUBSONIC EYE
Who: Indie guitar pop band from Singapore

Album: NATURE OF THINGS – 3rd LP
Released: 15 January 2021

Info: “Coming to grips with their place in a strange world, the band finds refuge in confessional intimacy with a grounded palette that evokes the album’s namesake – nature – whilst pondering the toll of human indulgence. In a world that seems to be closing in, their sonic metamorphosis becomes a source of life-affirming refuge.

References: The Sundays, Warpaint, Magnapop, The Drums, Sleater-Kinney, Priests

Turn Up The Volume says: Expect full-hearted indie guitar electricity striving for better days to come without ignoring today’s grim reality. Jingle jangle playfulness putting a big smile on your face. Brisk melodiousness, catchy tunefulness and glimmering poppiness with Nur Wahida‘s voice injecting the songs with a hepped -up feel-good vibe, bringing The Sundays‘ heroine Harriet Wheeler to mind. A record to play throughout 2021.

Key tracks: Fruitcake / Unearth / Spiral / Cabin Fever

– FRUTCAKE –

– UNEARTH –

– SPIRAL –
(Live)

– CABIN FEVER –

Stream/buy full LP here…


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SUBSONIC EYE: Facebook

(promo photo by Christoper Sim)

No 1 Single In The UK 25 Years Ago Today – Do You Remember BABYLON ZOO?

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27 January 2021

Band: BABYLON ZOO
Who: English one-hit-wonder band
led by Jas Mann from Wolverhampton

Single: SPACEMAN
Score: Entered the UK Singles Chart at #1 on 27 Jan 1996 – 25 years ago today.
The success of the song followed its feature in a Levi’s TV commercial.

Album: The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes

Here we go…

BABYLON ZOO: Facebook

Coming Soon… New 4-Track DEAP VALLY EP

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New stuff in the pipeline…

27 January 2021

Band: DEAP VALLY (California)
Who: Two impressive queens – Lindsey Troy (guitar, vocals) and
Julie Edwards (drums and vocals) – who pump up your adrenalin
with Led Zep inspired blues-rock and (lately) with starry-eyed
humdingers. One of my 21st Century top bands.

EP: DIGITAL DREAM
Out: 26th February

Info: After their surprising, but striking collaboration with
The Flaming Lips last year, the duo now recorded 4 songs
with favorite artists: Jenny Lee from Warpaint, Jaimie Hince
from The Kills, Katie Tunstall & Peaches, Soko & Zach Dawes

Recent shared single LOOK AWAY was
Turn Up The Volume‘s Pick Of The Day.

Stream/buy here…


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DEAP VALLY: Facebook – Pre-order facilities EP


(photo by Turn Up The Volume!)

TODD RUNDGREN Released 9th Album ‘HEALING’ 40 Years Ago Today

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Back in time…

27 January 2021

Artist: TODD RUNDGEN (Philadelphia)
Age: 72 and active since 1966.

Album: HEALING – 9th (solo) LP
Released: 28 January 1981 – 40 years ago today

AllMusic: “Each song could have been a single unto itself. In this
context, they may deflate the lasting spiritual impression of the LP,
but they add musical weight, helping make the disc a fine effort.”

Stream album…

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TODD RUNDGREN: Facebook – All Albums

Smashing Guided Rock By Rolling Voices – CUB SCOUT BOWLING PINS Steam On Debut EP

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27 January 2021

CUB SCOUT BOWLING PINS (I wonder who came up with this crazy name) is not
really a new group. It’s actually a disguise for the hardest working band in the world
(they released 3 albums in 2020!) Guided By Voices.

The imperishable rockers premiered new 6-track EP HEAVEN BEATS IOWA (I wonder
who came up with such a crazy record title) a couple of days ago.

It’s a steamy jamboree of manic guitar rippers with instantly head-spinning firework
with the 60s organ fueled sickly sticky, scream-along closer as my on-repeat favorite.

Mind you, the other 5 cuts will boost your lockdown mood too. When their ear-vibrating riffs, flamboyant licks, garage-rock like hooks, and some Black Sabbath drones here and there trigger your senses you’ll don’t care about the authors’ name. Oh yeah, heated stuff!

Stream/buy the lot here…


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CUB SCOUT BOWLING PINS: Facebook – Bandcamp

While The World Rears Its Ugly Head Psychedelic Rockers THE LUCID DREAM Drop Paranoid Lead-Single From New LP

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(Photo credt: Sam Wood – via Silver PR)

British psych-rock crusaders THE LUCID DREAM revealed
that a new, their fifth, longplayer titled THE DEEP END is
coming on 2nd April.

Ahead of it the band dropped lead-single CHI-03.

Frontman Mark Emmerson says: “As a band, we nailed it within a day of rehearsals
in spring 2019, from a writer’s perspective hearing the force of the track as a 4-piece was overwhelming. Sheer Power. We said between us recently that it is surreal that the track
and samples particularly, as well as the prominent 80s hip hop influence, are based
around issues that have reared their ugly head again since.”

CHI-O3 is a jaw-dropping piece of psych-o-delic paranoia. An ongoing droning jam invading your greedy ears from the get-go, driven by a relentless drum/bass blitz with
a haunting synth going bonkers and Emmerson‘s megaphone vocals augmenting the schizophrenia of this mad race. It’s the end of the world as we know it.

Here’s the dazzling video clip…

THE LUCID DREAM: Facebook

New album THE DEEP END out 2nd April via Holy Are You Recordings

Coming… This Year – STEREOGUM’S Most Anticipated 2021 LPs

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26 January 2021

STEREOGUM published its 101(!) list of artists who’ll
release new, highly anticipated albums this year.

Turn Up The Volume picked 5 he wants definitely to hear too…

1. AS DAYS GET DARK by ARAB STRAP – 7th album

Release date: 5 March
Single: Compersion PT. 1

2. FOR THE FIRST TIME by BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD – debut LP

Release date: 5 February
Single: Track X

3. OPEN DOOR POLICY by THE HOLD STEADY – 8th full length

Release date: 19 February
Single: Heavy Covenant

4. IGNORANCE by THE WEATHER STATION

Release date: 5 February
Single: Robber

5. MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHT by FOO FIGHTERS – 10th LP

Release date: 5 February
Single: Waiting On A war

STEREOGUM‘s full 101 anticipated 2021 albums list HERE

Going Down With A Big Rap And Roll Bang – Here’s THE IRRATIONAL LIBRARY With ‘WE… ARE DOOMED’

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26 January 2021

Band: THE IRRATIONAL LIBRARY
Who: The Irrational Library is a Dutch-American rock band with its roots
firmly planted in both the regional and international counterculture. The
Dutch-American band produces a raw, dirty groove influenced by punk,
provo and punk icons. Their poetry is packed with social criticism.

References: The Minutemen, Gil Scott Heron, The Mekons, The Fall, Iggy Pop

Album: WE… ARE DOOMED
Released: 15 January 2021

Turn Up The Volume says: The rap and roll venom of Rage Against The Machine,
the fuck-you-hypocrites grimness of Black Flag, the punky saxophone of X-Ray-Spex,
the sharp poetic spit and sneer anarchy of Mark. E. Smith, the challenging spirit of an
open-minded-plainspoken-asskicking-anti-establishement-and-other-scumbags force
of doom and gloom. Sounds exactly like 2020/2021, like the end of the world as we
know it, but also like an album that’s going to be on my earphones for a long time.

Title track…

Full stream…

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Buy… here

THE IRRATIONAL LIBRARY: Bandcamp – Facebook