Artists: THE PARLOR Who: A musical couple – Eric Krans and Jen O’Connor. – from Albans, New York.
Their music is the sonic corollary to what the couple is bringing to their land,
an artisanal re-imagining of an antique dream. Named after a room in the
19th-century farmhouse where they live, farm, and create.
TUTV: ‘Serpentine’ is a sonic shoegazy phantasy about the ecstatic realizations
associated with what some call the mystical experience, or unitive consciousness,
or loving presence. Hazy, featherlight, and visionary with starry-eyed vocality.
All you need for some daydreaming. Romanticism in motion.
Band: YOUNG FATHERS Who: Blood-tingling Scottish dance-funk-punk trio that made a grand entrance
on the music scene when they won the 2014 Mercury Prize (an annual music
prize awarded for the best album released in the United Kingdom) with their
debut album Dead.
New album: HEAVY HEAVY – their 4th LP Released: 3 February 2023. Order infohere.
(Press photo YF – FB)
Info: Written and recorded over the course of three years, the longest time taken
on a Young Fathers album, Heavy Heavy is a tour de force from the Edinburgh trio.
An overarching theme of being human can be felt throughout the ten-track album, exploring the feelings of euphoria and rush of emotion experienced at the end of a struggle, a sense of fulfillment as a result of the toil and hard graft that life throws at everyone. An unashamedly soulful and heartfelt album, where the drums set the
scene throughout to transport the listener to a place of celebration and awakening.
(Spectacular in Antwerp – 22 February 2023 – photo by Turn Up The Volume)
NME: “‘Heavy Heavy’ is a passionate, soulful and often mesmerising work that will stick around long past the first listen. Succinct and underpinned by a catchy melodic structure, it continues Young Fathers’ peerless run of singular albums and further cements them as one of the more unique acts to exist today.” Score: 5/5.
TUTV: This is one of those remarkable records (one every 3 months or so) that
arouses from start to finish, with the cliché no fillers, all killers all over it. You hear
its sonic brilliance, you feel its dauntless vocality, you know it’s a magnum opus.
Heavy Heavy is an undisputable first-class work where vitalizing soul, ecstatic pop melodiousness and self-willed hip-hop come together in an organic, inventive way.
Funk-drunk virtuosity with astonishing vocal teamwork.
And throughout this diamond of a longplayer a modern-day gospel choir causes
an emotive euphoria that grows on you with every spin. Final verdict: this is the
1st contender for best LP of 2023. Fact!
Singles (so far): I Saw / Tell Somebody / Geronimo
Daily noise that works faster than a gallon of caffeine
27 February 2023
Band: TIGERCUB Who: Firm indie rock trio from Brighton
New single: PLAY MY FAVORITE SONG
The second shared cut from their upcoming, 3rd LP,
baptized The Perfume Of Decay. “By far the darkest
and heaviest record we’ve made to date.” says the band.
This could easily be a new track by Queens Of The Stone Age
with its layered, bulldozing guitar vehemence and its Herculian
percussion. It’s a schizo shocker that blares like hell. Stoner rock
at its blasting best.
American singer-songwriter EUGENE started his musical journey singing in
the streets in 2015. Since then, music has taken him through over 18 countries,
allowed him to pay off his debts and allow him to concentrate on songs with
positive messaging.
(FB Eugene)
In 2023 his goal is to get to release one song per month. But he needs
a little help to do so. Join his GenieClub for a little cost of a cup of coffee.
Info here.
Eugene: “I’m recording songs that can inspire, bring us together and give
us hope for a better tomorrow. By joining the GenieFamily, you’ll help me
release more songs quicker & get a few perks in return.”
His brand new song is named HEAVEN. It’s a heart-and-soul touching pearl.
A wishfull, romantic ballad that triggers your phantasy and your daydreaming.
An acoustic guitar beauty accompanied by warm glowing trumpet fragments
and Eugne‘s longing, tender vocals shine in the middle. A record label should
sign him. Now.
One-two-three remarkable moments from remarkable bands from the past
26 February 2023
British post-punk band THE SOUND was formed by its singer-songwriter ADRIAN BORLAND in 1979 after he called it a day with his previous band The Outsiders. They emerged amidst a flood of post-punk bands like Joy
Division, The Cure, Gang Of Four, Teardrop Explodes, Bauhaus, Echo &
The Bunnymen, Magazine, and many more.
Tough competition if you want to shine. Probably one of the reasons they
operated much of their time in the shadows of the giants. But also the lack
of much-deserved support from the press and record industry, plus drug
problems and a not caring entourage turned them into one of the most
underrated bands ever.
The group broke up in 1998, leaving five albums behind. The immensely
sensible, vulnerable, and psychologically troubled Adrian Borland who
suffered from schizoaffective disorder started a solo career with more
downs than ups. Slowly but surely he sank into a deep black hole. He
took his own life in 1999, only 41. R.I.P.
1-2-3 memorable The Sound moments…
– NEW DARK AGE –
(Momentous live version)
– I CAN’T ESCAPE MYSELF –
I’m sick and I’m tired
Of reasoning;
Just want to break out,
Shake off this skin
I can’t escape myself…
Band: American/English indie hip-rap-hop-rock
outfit formed in Atlanta. Active: Since 2012 / 4 LPs (new one included)
New album: SHOOK Released: 25 February 2023.
Order info here.
The New York Times says: “Throughout the album, Algiers lashes out at injustice,
exults in its sonic mastery and insists on the life forces of solidarity and physical impact.
But it refuses to promise any consolation.” Score: 8/10.
(Press – FB Algiers)
TUTV: Algiers nail it big time with their 4th full length. Remarkably varied in sonic performance. They jump from zestful hip-rap-hop to forceful post-punk-rock, to
soulful lullabies, to arresting spoken-word protest, to ruminative gospel. 54 minutes
long, but you get sucked in Algiers’ 2023 for every second, never a dull moment. Astounding tour de force. Touchdown!
STANDOUT TRACKS: Everybody Shatters / Irreversible Damage
A Good Man / Green Iris / Cold World / Momentary.
KEY SINGLES: 73% – Irreversible Damage – I Can’t Stand It
– 73% –
– IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE –
Feat. RAGTM’s frontman Zack De La Rocha
– I CAN’T STAND IT –
Feat. Samuel T. Herring & Jae Matthews
I’ll be a pretty special one as the pair wrote a collection of bilingual duets, with both of them singing in English and Spanish and explore a variety of European music cultures.
The album began coming together in lockdown, which Simonon spent in a Mallorcan fishing village writing music and painting. As COVID-19 restrictions lifted, he began working with local musicians and busking in front of cafes in Palma. He ended up spending 18 months there and returned to London to work on his ideas further with Ayers.
Simonon“I remember how when I was in The Clash, our manager Bernie Rhodes would tell us that Andrew Loog Oldham locked Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in their kitchen. He said, ‘I’m not letting you out until you’ve written a song.’ That’s effectively what Galen and I did. We would spend every evening writing yet another song.”
First single LONELY TOWN is a sweet, little pop ditty.
Melacholic and catchy. You can sing/hum/whistle along.
LOADED (FULLY RE-LOADED EDITIONis a new vinyl box set that includes
nearly all of the music from its expansive 2015 CD reissue but comes with
nine LPs boasting stereo, mono and full-length mixes of the original album.
Demos, studio outtakes and live recordings also feature in the box
set and several tracks will be available on vinyl for the first time.
The special edition comes in foil-wrapped slipcase containing the vinyl,
a poster of the album’s cover art, and an illustrated booklet with liner notes
by Lenny Kaye that appeared in ‘Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition’.
By then John Cale and Nico had left the band
In addition to the nine LPs, the set also comes with four 7″s that
reproduce the official singles and B-sides released from ‘Loaded’.
Daily noise that works faster than a gallon of caffeine
26 February 2023
Artists: TERZO Who: Terzo is an Italian word that means ‘the third’. It represents an
additional presence that this new darkwave/shoegaze/post-rock duo, Karl Clinton and Billie Lindahln, sensed inhabiting their most creative
moments when they began working together.
It’s the duo’s cover of a 1991 song by the Celtic/world music singer-songwriter and composer Loreena McKennitt, which has a lyric lifted from the William Shakespeare
play of the same name.
Lindahl: “We had a feeling that we could make something interesting with it. Karl did
most of the instrumental work, guitars and programming, while I recorded my vocal in
one take. This song means so much to us because it was the first thing we did as a duo
and I think we just sort of understood that we could do great things together.”
TUTV: Haunting, mysterious, and ghostly. These are the keywords here. Cymbeline progresses in slow-motion with a towering multi-layered synth sound that sends shivers down your spine. The nightmarish resonance swells in tension along the way, black clouds show up in the sky, while Lindahl‘s otherwordly wailing causes goosebumps. Rousing debut!
