84-year-old beatle RINGO STARR can’t stop making/playing music.
Besides his 22 solo LPs (new one included) he toured for years with
his All-Star Band, which had several legend line-ups.
Back in time, in 1970, he released a sugary country album.
And Starr returns to country melancholia with his first longplayer in 6 years. LOOK UP was produced and co-written (9 out of the 11 songs) by that
other legend T Bone Burnett.
The album’s impressive guest list features Alison Krauss,
Billy Strings, Larkin Poe, Lucius, Molly Tuttle and more.
Ringo: “I’ve always loved country music. And when I asked T Bone to write me a song,
I didn’t even think at the time that it would be a country song – but of course it was, and
it was so beautiful. I had been making EPs at the time and so I thought we would do
a country EP -but when he brought me nine songs I knew we had to make an album!
And I am so glad we did. I want to thank, and send Peace & Love, to T Bone and
all the great musicians who helped make this record. It was a joy making it and
I hope it is a joy to listen to.”
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
20 October 2024
Singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist (and co-founder of electro act Animal Collective) Noah Benjamin Lennox (46), artistically known asPANDA BEAR announced the birth of his first album in 6 years, his 7th overall. It’s named Sinister Grift and will land next year, on 28th February. It’s co-produced with Animal Collective bandmate Josh “Deakin” Dibb. More info here.
Lead single DEFENSE is a slo-mo stomper
with an immediate effect on your feet/head.
Their first hit album. It peaked at #2 in the US, kept from
the top seat by Pink Floyd’s The Wall. It went triple platinum.
Pitchfork wrote: “Torpedoes-era Heartbreakers deserve to be in the conversation with the critically-adored post-Beatles studio-rats generally referred to as “power pop”: Todd Rundgren, the Raspberries, Badfinger, Dwight Twilley, the Flamin’ Groovies, and Cheap Trick…. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers made music that still befuddles critics: they were too chill to be punk, and too famous to be underdogs. Petty was too unassuming a superstar to be Springsteen, and though he was equally gnomic and cantankerous, he was far too lyrically judicious to be Dylan.” Score: 9/10.
In order to not miss a beat Turn Up The Volume scans the musical
horizon daily (doing it for years now, actually) to stay in touch with
all new things sonically great and shares the results on a weekly
basis.
FULL JUKEBOX
(380 tracks)
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The 10 new ones added this week
TRACK-BY-TRACK
Photo credit: Alex Arauz
Artist: TIBERIUS B Who: Acclaimed singer-songwriter
from London.
“The song strikes an alluring mixture of dark techno adjacent punk themes and farcical lyrics from the perspective of a right-wing podcast host grifter obsessed with the word Woke. Solidifying the group’s terminally online status, the song is accompanied by a brilliant absurdist music video made in a video game sim akin to “You’re A Wizard Harry”.
Punk woke punk here,
punk woke there,
punk woke everywhere.
Band: TV PINS Who: 5-piece from London and the West Midlands, delivering vocal harmony drenched sounds of West coast Americana with distinctively British avant-garde songwriting. They share a love of keyboard grooves and a fusion of styles from 70s Americana, classic British new wave, 60’s psychedelia and hook-laden power pop.
Press: “Set against a dystopian backdrop, ‘Bye Bye Reseda’ transports listeners to an alternate reality where the United States has become a dictatorship. In this world, the supreme leader has transformed the entire southern states into one massive golf course named after his favourite Los Angeles suburb. While the residents of Reseda are forced into servitude, working as caddies, bartenders and exotic dancers for less than minimum wage, one brave couple make their escape for the coast.”
Vibrant tune. Revved-up orchestration.
Guitar-charged power pop gem.
Scream-along chorus.
“The Graystone was a venue we used to play in Detroit back in the late 80s when I was in the Doughboys. It was always an adventure, from just getting across the border to dealing with the promoter, Cary Safarian, who everyone referred to as ‘Scary.’
“Graystone” showcases singer Pytel’s signature gravelly vocals and clever, tongue-in-cheek lyrics, all backed by slamming rhythms, punchy guitars, and rolling bass lines that drive the melodies. Pytel reflects on the inspiration behind the song, saying, “The Graystone was a venue we used to play in Detroit back in the late 80s when I was in the Doughboys. It was always an adventure, from just getting across the border to dealing with the promoter, Cary Safarian, who everyone referred to as ‘Scary.’
Artists:COCOROSIE Who: Folktronica sisters Sierra Rose Rosie”
and Bianca Leilani “Coco” Casady.
Track: LEAST I HAVE YOU
The first new song to celebrate
the siblings’ 20 years in music.
Press: The song’s musical arc mirrors the sisters’ relationship: it begins
combatively, with the sound of gun-toting guitar squalls and beats like Street Fighter punches, before leveling out into tentative euphoria,
cautiously crawling towards the ecstatic union of that chorus.
Artists: CROW BABY Who: Berlin-based duo, featuring Jean-Louise Parker and Cherilyn MacNeil,
both born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, and each a songwriter
and multi-instrumentalist with own projects.
“Hey, rein it in/ Pain again/ Rein it in / Feign, play it ok/
Play it to win, Never give in, never complain“,
“Like an anthem or a mantra, cheering themselves on as they strain to reach some unnamed success. In verse two, “rein” becomes “reign” – shrieked like a mad queen! – cheeky word play that alludes to great ambitions.”
Both sensuous and ardent guitar-pop entertainment
with crystalline vocals and a far-out climax.
Eisold about the album in an interview with New Noise Magazine: “This band
has always been a learning process and transformative. This album is special to us
because it’s the first time a single body of work has been truly collaborative in that Amy,
and I made all music, lyrics, and vocals together. I’ve never done that before and have
never had any input on vocals or lyrics in my past. Passion Depression is about the
polarity of modern-dystopia.
It’s the struggle for love in the land of strife! How do we stay humane and caring amongst the onslaught of injustice and threat? think it’s a theme that’s here to stay. When I listened back to the album after finishing it, that’s exactly what it sounded like. The little cherubs in us want to be beautiful but the scenery of the garden is very hard to trust. And I don’t want to give in. Whether it be to laziness or sedation or crippling, exhaustive isolation. It’s always a love story with Cold Cave. This one is about holding on to it when the grip gets tough.”
TUTV: What your ears get are 8 dark-synth-wave strokes by numbers. Mind you,
tremendously infectious numbers. Both familiar and retro, both spellbinding and
hypnotic. But why change a magnetic success formula.
All titillating tunes are spot-on with the New Order-esque She Reigns Down, Blackberries
and Hourglass as poppy highlights. Overall, enough material for your upcoming Halloween party at your local graveyard. Passion Depression is about the eternal fight of despair vs hope. CC offers icy, black-and-white candy for all goth/darkwave fans out there, dancing around in their batcaves. Join them.
It’s already 19 years – 21 October 2003 – since emotive singer/songwriter ELLIOTT SMITH took his own life. He was only 34. He was born in Ohama,
Nebraska in 1969, but spent most of his life in Portland, Oregon.
After playing in a few bands, he went his own way.
He recorded/released 6 LPs between 1994 and 2004.
Recorded from 2000 to 2003, and faced with multiple delays due to Smith‘s
personal problems that resulted in his death, it was released posthumously
in the UK and Europe on 18 October 2004, and in the US the following
day on 19 October.
Pitchfork said at the time: “The album is riddled with helpless proclamations and self-incriminating taunts, clanging guitars and foggy, jumbled arrangements. Like nearly all of Smith’s records, From a Basement covers his despair in sweet, perky, folk-pop kisses; and yet the album is still the saddest thing you’ll hear all year. Smith’s gloom may be romanticized into gold, but what’s ultimately most harrowing about his unhappiness is its nastiness– and that same gritty, uncompromising accuracy is also what makes his records so impossibly urgent,
so uncomfortable and desperate.” Full review here. Score: 7/10.
