Month: March 2022

Canadian One-Man Act AGATH CRIST About Life’s Struggle On Single ‘BLOOD’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

18 March 2022

Artist: AGATH CRIST
Who: The project of a Canadian
musician from Quebec.

“A time-traveling, shape-shifting, meta-force, slipping between genres and
styles while blowing up drum busses and pushing the boundaries of melody
and noise.”

New single/video: BLOOD

“We’re told to fight. We’re told to kill each other to get what we want. We’re polarised and set into a ring and prodded into engaging in bloodsport. We’re being turned into narcissists and psychopaths and our attention is being monopolised at a savage and unrelenting pace. This new single is the sound of this struggle, set against towering synthesisers and driven ever onward by Liam O’Neill [SUUNS] on drums.”

Turn Up The Volume: A poppy synth trip with a floating flow and near-whispering vocals. Both eerie and affecting, both dizzy and hypnotic with a frenetic guitar attack coming out of nowhere around the 3-minute mark. Fascinating stuff!

Catch the vibe here…

AGATH CRIST: Bandcamp – Facebook

LIAM GALLAGHER – New Studio And New Live Album Both Out On 27th May

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18 March 2022

We already knew for some time that the youngest
of the three Gallagher brothers has his 3rd solo LP
C’mon You Know out on 27 May.

Also a couple of weeks ago Liam revealed the lead-single
Everything’s Electric (co-written with foo fighter Dave Grohl)…

And now comes the news that his virtual live concert of 5 December 2020 under the banner Down By The River Thames will have a CD/Vinyl release on the same day of C’mon You Know. Yep, you can’t stop the marketing machine.

You can buy both albums together in a bundle
(also one of those recent marketing tricks).

Order info here

Kraftwerk Play Around With The Residents – Here’s New Spaced Out Album By THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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18 March 2022

Band: THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

Who: Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band
formed in London in August 1980.

Active: 1980–present / they released about a million LPs.

New album: THE MUSEUM OF HUMAN HAPPINESS

The new album was announced a couple of weeks ago with this Message:

““A cubicle for you, a cubicle for me….but not together… The Year 2020 was not a year for a band to ‘get things together in the country’, or gather in a room to write songs. This statement certainly applied to the Legendary Pink Dots with two members in The Netherlands and one in the UK. The pandemic reared its ugly head as the Dots’ criss-crossed Europe on the second stage of their 40th Anniversary Tour. Just a few days before much of Italy locked down the band was in Milan. A few days later, the destination was Cologne where they opted for a hotel in the countryside…it turned out that the resting place was one village away from the most lethal outbreak of the virus in Germany.
The tour eventually finished in a sold-out club with a worryingly low ceiling in London. There were hugs, a real feeling of togetherness with a truly lovely audience.
Then the World stopped. It was the last time The Dots were in the same room. Song writing and recording were necessarily deemed to happen in cyberspace for the rest of 2020 and 2021. As a result, the lyrics are utterly poignant, desperate, yet sometimes bearing a flash of gallows humour. The soundtrack is a purging fire. It’s a fire that still burns, and as I type this I can say I have never been so excited about the impending release of a new Dots’ album. Never mind the distance, there is a single-mindedness about “The Museum Of Human Happiness.” It’s 2022. We’ll meet again…

Turn Up The Volume: My message is simple. Listen to this pretty spaced-out record. Kraftwerk meet The Residents. Electro pioneers meet electro weirdos. Nirvana for zeoes.

Single: Hands Face Space

– HAND SFACE SPACE –

Stream/buy the album here…


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THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS: Facebook

FATHER JOHN MISTY Launches Video Clip For His Beatific Ballad ‘GOODBYE MR. BLUE’

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Eye-catching video clips

18 March 2022

Last week acclaimed American singer-songwriter FATHER JOHN MISTY
(real name: Joshua Michael Tillman) dropped a beautific ballad from his
new, fifth album, entitled Chloë And The Next 20th Century . The LP
lands on 8 April via Sub Pop

GOODBYE MR. BLUE sounds like
the ghosts of Harry Nilsson and
Bobby Goldsboro joined Misty in
the studio.

Now there’s a video for the song, shot in Bulgaria last September.
I still can’t figure out what the story is about. Can you?

FATHER JOHN MISTY: Facebook

SKIN And SKUNK ANANSIE Can’t Take You Anywhere

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New striking strokes

18 March 2022

The utterly charismatic SKIN (real name: Deborah Anne Dyer)
and her iron band SKUNK ANANSIE can finally celebrate their
25th birthday on the road.

To start the party they unleashed
boiling belter Piggy a few weeks ago.

And here’s another one to light up the festivities.
New single CAN’T TAKE YOU ANYWHERE
is a pop song disguised as a sturdy rocker.

Go for it, Skin…

When LED ZEPPELIN And BLACK SABBATH Team Up Fronted By COURTNEY LOVE You Get Hard Rockin’ Turbo THE MYSTERINES

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The album that’s on repeat today on Turn Up The Volume’s stereo

17 March 2022

Band: THE MYSTERINES
Who: Heated 4-piece Liverpool bolide

Debut album: REELING
Order info: here

NME says: ‘Reeling’ is an album that sees them grab that title – but it doesn’t
sound like they ever had any other plan… On their electrifying debut album,
the Scousers make good on their promise of becoming the UK’s next rock heroes”
Full review here. Score: 4/5.

Turn Up The Volume: Holy Moses! Just like that this roll-over-Beethoven and
hello demons-crushing and grunge injected hullabaloo LP is an undisputable
contender for my end-of-the-year top 10 albums list.

Fronted by the utterly cool and in-your-face shouting Lia Metcalfe, the Mysterines
produce an overwhelming wall-of-dont-mess-with-us sound with Led Zeppelin‘s cast
iron explosiveness (Life’s A Bitch / Hung Up / In My Head / The Bad Thing) and with
Black Sabbath‘s paranoid drones (Reeling / Dangerous).

Metcalfe‘s stupendous voice rings like the spit-and-sneer outcries of former venom
vamp Courtney Love in my ears (Old friends/Die Hard) and has the goosebumps passion
of Porridge Radio ‘s Dana Margolin (Still Call You Home / Under Your Skin). No lullabies
about the birds and the bees, life’s a bitch, and The Mysterines like it so much.

Re(a)eltastic!

Singles/clips: Hung Up / The Bad Thing / In My Head

– HUNG UP –

– THE BAD THING –

– IN MY HEAD –

Buy/stream REELING here…


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THE MYSTERINES: Facebook – Spotify