IMAGE OF THE DAY – Sunday 28 September 2025
Month: September 2025
JEFF TWEEDY Has His New Triple Album ‘TWILIGHT OVERRIDE’ Out
28 September 2025
Album cover
57-year-old songsmith JEFF TWEEDY has always been a very productive musician
from his early days on with Uncle Tupelo (1987-1994), then of course with Wilco,
13 albums so far, and solo.
Last Friday he unveiled his new solo LP, actually a triple-one with no less
than 30 songs (yep, very productive). It’s titled TWILIGHT OVERRIDE.
Stereogum says: “Here we have 30(!) new songs, a document of inspiration overflowing.
For the casual listener, it’s intimidating, maybe even exhausting. However, if you have love
for Tweedy’s music in your heart, if you’ve had your taste imprinted by his weary rasp and expansive sonic vision, if multiple eras of your life have been soundtracked by Wilco, how
can you be anything but grateful for such an outpouring?”
Topdrawer single / Glorious title
TUTV: Tweedy does here what he does best, mixing seamlessly country rock, classic rock,
warm-hearted balladry, romantic lullabies, and musing reflections. As all fans know, he has
a great storytelling voice, taking his work to a most entertaining level.
But 30 songs are way too much to hold my attention, mainly because several songs
are variations of other songs, which leads to listening fatigue (for my ears that is). So
I reduced the triple LP to my fav 12 songs and get myself a notable Tweedy album.
TUTV ALBUM
FULL ALBUM
5 Classic Albums Released Today On 28 September In…
– 28 September 1976 –
Artist: STEVIE WONDER
The soul legend started his supreme
career in 1961. He’s 75 now.
Album: SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE
His 12th LP, a double one.
#1 in the US, #2 in the UK.
The record was viewed as a guided tour through a wide range of musical styles and the life and feelings of the artist. It included recollections of childhood, of first love and lost love. It contained songs about faith and love among all peoples and songs about social justice for the poor and downtrodden.
SINGLE
ALBUM
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– 28 September 1987 –
Band: PIXIES
1986–1993, 2004–present
Album: COME ON PILGRIM
Their (mini) debut LP.
Spin Magazine said afterward: “The band may sound tentative, but the building
blocks are here. The soft/loud song structures that were the then-future sound of
alternative rock.”
STREAM
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– 28 September 1987 –
Band: THE SMITHS
1982–1987
Album: STRANGEWAYS, HERE WE COME
Their 4th and final one.
AllMusic wrote: “A subtly shaded and skilled album, one boasting a fuller
production than before. It offers a summation of the group’s considerable
strengths.”
SINGLE
ALBUM
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– 28 September 1998 –
Artist: PJ HARVEY
1988-present.
Album: IS THIS DESIRE?
Her 4th one. No. 17 in the UK.
Q Magazine: “One of the most artfully truncated missives
of bleakness and pain to have emerged since the dawn of CD.”
SINGLE
ALBUM
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– 28 September 2004 –
Artist: BRIAN WILSON
The late Beach Boy virtuoso
passed away last June, aged 82.
Album: SMILE
His 5th solo one.
It features all-new recordings of music that he had originally created
for an unfinished album by The Beach Boys that he abandoned in 1967.
Rolling Stone said: “What elevates the songs into something approaching
a utopian vision is Wilson’s orchestrations: brief bridge melodies, youthful
harmonies and an enthralling profusion of instrumental colors.”
SINGLE
ALBUM
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Canadian Americana Songsmith MATTHEW RYAN JACOBS Cherishes The Moment On New Track ‘EMPTY ROOMS’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
28 September 2025
Artist: MATTHEW RYAN JACOBS
Who: Singer/songwriter from Kitchener Waterloo Ontario, CA. He started out playing
in rock and alternative bands throughout Ontario in the 2000s. In 2019 he made the
move to focus on his solo career. He blends elements of folk, delta blues, soul, and
rock. He released his debut EP Living In Between in 2021.
Track: EMPTY ROOMS
“The idea behind “Empty Rooms” started out as me trying to write a happy song, but it ended up a little darker in the end. I was looking at my life and being grateful that most of my family and people close to me are still around and healthy; and trying to be in the moment now because it won’t always be like this. That’s the line, “time may tell, but it will always take”, it’s inevitable.”
TUTV: Americana at its enrapturing best. The acoustic, pondering melancholia
of the intro transits into a full, electrically orchestrated zestfulness that boosts
the song in an eye/ear blink.
Living in the moment, amidst your beloved ones, family and friends, is the key to experiencing a joie de vivre for being here. Jacobs‘ soul-stirring voice carries Empty Roomsall the way. Think Tom Petty, John Mellencamp and Jeff Tweedy. Let’s go straight
to the light at the end of the tunnel and enjoy life.
Lest We Forget – TUTV’s 20 Best Albums Of 2024 – Today: No. 7
We’re on our way, slowly but surely, to the end of 2025.
Instead of starting to think about this year’s best LPs,
let’s go back to 2024 and listen to TUTV’s 20 Best Albums
again and look back on what we wrote about each one
of them.
Today: No. 7
Band: THE BLACK KEYS (Ohio, US)
Dan Auerbach (guitar, vocals) and Patrick Carney (drums)
Album: OHIO PLAYERS
Their 12th.
TUTV: The star duo made an album with lots of bright pop tunes and some blues light
ones. The licks/riffs and hooks – about a thousand – haven’t that BK’s raw and rough edge as we are used to, but I don’t miss it whatsoever.
The overall sonority leans more towards power guitar pop (slow, mid-tempo and only
a couple of fast ones). I never thought that the tandem would come up after 23 (!) years with a pretty different sounding, coherent longplayer, without ignoring their blues roots that is. I played Ohio Players more than their whole catalog together. Say no more.
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ALBUM
Belgian Rock Vets TRIGGERFINGER Still Turn Up The Heat – Hear New Single ‘STARS’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
27 September 2025
Band: TRIGGERFINGER
Who: Belgian rock vets Ruben Block and Mario Goossens
who started as a trio in 1998 So far they have released
5 albums.
They just unleashed their brand-new single STARS.
An archetypal finger on the trigger sledgehammer.
Bunnymen Voice/Face IAN McCULLOCH About His Obsession For DAVID BOWIE
26 September 2025
(photo by Turn Up The Volume)
Bowie is a hero for McCulloch, not just for one day.
Next year the Liverpool heroes go on a ‘The Very Best’ tour in the UK.
MILES KANE Returns With New T.REX Echoing Single ‘WITHOUT YOU’
New striking strokes
27 September 2025
MILES KANE is a traditional rocker/popper
at heart. And he’s very good at it.
The Brit has his 6th full-length, baptized
Sunlight In The Shadows ready for release
on October 17th.
He wrote all songs with blues rock tandem The Black Keys.
With WiITHOUT YOU Kane serves the record’s 4th single.
Marc Bolan‘s T.Rex glam rock grooviness moves all over it.
All 4 singles
NEIL YOUNG Released His Melancholic 28th Album ‘PRAIRIE WIND’ 20 Years Ago Today
27 September 2025
Living legend NEIL YOUNG released his 28th longplayer
PRAIRIE WIND today 20 years ago, on 27 September 2005.
An acoustic-based record reminiscent of his earlier albums Harvest and Harvest Moon.
The album’s songs find Young pondering his own mortality, as he was undergoing treatment for an aneurysm during the album’s production.
Songs were also inspired by the extended illness of his father, Canadian sportswriter and novelist Scott Young, who passed a few weeks after the album was completed. The LP is dedicated in part to the elder Young.
It peaked at #11 in the US and #22 in the UK.
Pitchfork wrote: “That voice, alternately gentle and strident, tender and outraged,
has held up surprisingly well, gaining gritty authority with age. His few cracks and
wrinkles just reinforce the sense of wistful nostalgia that suffuses Prairie Wind as
well as almost all his other folk-rock albums since Harvest Moon, if not since
Harvest.”
Vintage Young melancholia.
TAME IMPALA’s Brainchild KEVIN PARKER Makes You Dance Again With New Single ‘DRACULA’
New striking strokes
27 September 2025
New album artwork
Aussie band TAME IMPALA‘s brainchild Kevin Parker will launch
their 5th album, named Deadbeat that will land on October 17th.
The man gave us 2 tasters so far, and here’s number 3.
DRACULA is unmistakable TI. Disco beats, throbbing
dance ambience, breezy melody and helium vocals.
Gold dust for all Tame Impala fans (not me).
“The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre/ The night is almost over,
I still don’t know where you are/The shadows, yeah, they keep me pretty like a movie
star/ Daylight makes me feel like Dracula,”
All 3 singles
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