Isle Of Wight (UK) pop sensation WET LEG – Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers –
attracted tons of attention with their prizewinning self-titled debut LP from 2022.
A couple of weeks ago they told the world that they’ve canned LP
number two. Moisturizer arrives on July 11th. Pre-order info here.
Along with the news came the first single, smoking
rocker CATCH THESE FISTS.They played it last weekend
on The Jonathan Ross Show.
Singer-songwriter PETER FRAMPTON was born
in Kent, England on 22 April 1950. Happy 75!
He started his musical journey as a 16-year-old with 60s beat band The Herd (1965-69), moved on to Humble Pie (1969-1975, with the late Small Faces frontman Steve Marriott), and had a successful solo career afterward. In between, he worked with other artists such as George Harrison and David Bowie, who he toured with as a guitarist.
It was named Turn Up The Volume‘s best album of 2024.
TUTV:“In the past 16 years Robert Smith lost his mother, father, and brother.
All the painful experiences surrounding these impactful, indelible passings led
to this brilliant, gloomy record. One long emotionally layered lament, one that
seems to work liberating in the end.
Sonically, it resonates as if you’re part of a funeral march that progresses in slow motion,
just the way the music evolves. The most drastically soul-stirring record I heard all year, accentuating how sorrow can overwhelm and hurt one’s heart and mind. It’s a universal experience that millions, and millions of people who lost loved ones – past, present and
future – can relate to.”
SONGS OF A LOST WORLD
Yesterday the band’s orchestrator Robert Smith celebrated his 66th birthday and announced a remixed edition of that masterpiece, named Mixes Of A Lost World.
A massive collection of remixes — two discs for the standard edition, three discs
for the deluxe — by artists including Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, Chino Moreno, Mura
Masa, Mogwai, the Twilight Sad, Orbital, Daniel Avery, 65daysofstatic, and more. It
lands on June 13th.
The royalties from the album will benefit WAR CHILD UK, the charity organisation driven
by a single goal – ensuring a safe future for every child living through war. Lots of projects were/are now launched to collect funds for the young victims in the horrible Gaza war.
Robert Smith send this message to the world (yes in capitals): “JUST AFTER CHRISTMAS I WAS SENT A COUPLE OF UNSOLICITED REMIXES OF ‘SONGS OF A LOST WORLD’ TRACKS AND I REALLY LOVED THEM. THE CURE HAS A COLOURFUL HISTORY WITH ALL KINDS OF DANCE MUSIC, AND I WAS CURIOUS AS TO HOW THE WHOLE ALBUM WOULD SOUND ENTIRELY REINTERPRETED BY OTHERS.
THIS CURIOSITY RESULTED IN A FABULOUS TRIP THROUGH ALL 8 SONGS BY 24 WONDERFUL ARTISTS AND REMIXERS AND IS WAY BEYOND ANYTHING I COULD HAVE HOPED FOR. GIVING OUR RECORDING ROYALTIES FROM THE PROJECT TO WAR CHILD HELPS MAKE ‘MIXES OF A LOST WORLD’ AN EVEN MORE SPECIAL RELEASE.”
What the fuck. Why Smith wants to destroy a deeply personal and grieving record
with, mostly, ambient/dance/trip-hop remixes is beyond me. Why wreck heart-and-soul touching songs and turning them in a sort of sinister party soundtrack. The first taster by Four Tet (hear below) says it all.
I have no intention whatsoever to listen to the upcoming, insensible arty farty rubbish.
But that’s just me. It’s none of my business, of course, what Smith wants to do or not.
The one and only absolute great thing here is that all royalties will benefit War Child UK.
Daily noise that works harder than a stream of caffeine
22 April 2025
Promo press
Band: PINKSHIFT Who: Hazardous havoc 4-piece out of Baltimore. They released
their debut LP Love Me Forever in 2022, followed by 2 EPs.
With EVIL EYE they unleash their first new music of 2025.
This raucous hardcore belter focuses on our Big Brother reality where
anything said within an iPhone’s reach is being recorded and generated
for ad content or as evidence to minimize our freedoms.
Iwan Gronow (lyricist/guitarist): “People can be held back by the system, dulled down
and told to stay in their place and this is our call to climb out of the box that people put us in. Positive thinking brought me to Manchester in the first place, grew my self-belief and I’ve always tried to follow this doctrine. Feelings of being lost change to being more certain about who you are and where you are going.”
Tom Chapman (bassist and also a member of New Order) names Go To Ground as the band’s “Italo-Manc disco track… an electronic funky experiment of syncopated beats and anthemic chorus.”
TUTV: This is discotheque bliss, echoing the rhapsodic tunefulness of Pet Shop Boys and, obviously, the dancefloor thrills of New Order. Vintage electro-pop elation for 24-hour party people. Trippy, vibey and trancy.
Today 35 years ago, on 21 April 1990, the late, legendary, outspoken, controversial
and expressive Irish songstress SINEAD O’CONNOR (1966-2023) topped the US Charts with her gigantic hit NOTHING COMPARES 2 U (more than 450 million streams on Spotify).
A goosebumps ballad written by the late royal genius Prince who passed
away – as if it was, unfortunately, meant to be – 9 years ago today, in 2016.
Band: FOR NINA Who: Irish indie trio that met in college in 2023, and quickly found common ground through a shared love of alternative rock and melding contrasting musical ideas.
“The track came out of nothing really. We were just jamming out over the main riff and
then everything seemed to click and within half-an-hour we had the song. We wrote the
chorus in a way that hopefully highlights the uncertain chaos of being ‘twenty-something.
We were in a tricky place with our college course at the time and the feelings manifested themselves within the song. At least those feelings led to something good!”
TUTV:Hounds opens with a roasting riff that boggles your mind and head on the spot. Immediately followed by poised vocalist Holly Owens and before you can say “the Pope
is dead” all hell breaks loose with a whopping wall-of-drums-bashing sound explosion.
This staggering rollercoaster process repeats itself a couple of times, testing
your speakers’ flexibility. These 20-something Irish dogs make a loud and clear
mark. You know where the repeat button is.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
21 April 2025
Last weekend and the weekend before it was Coachella Festival 2025 (Coachella Valley, Indio, California) time. One of the headliners were Californian veteran punks GREEN DAY.
Watch them explode on their classic 2004 showpiece AMERICAN IDIOT (more than 1,1 billion streams
on Spotify).
