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Wall-Of-Electro-Rock-Shocks – Boston Duo BIG TIME KILL Hits Hard On ‘RECOVERY’ EP

Posted on by JL

14 May 2021

Band: BIG TIME KILL
Who: A blazing electro-rock duo formed in Boston, back in 2014 by
multi-instrumentalist and producer Adam Schneider and his friend,
multi-instrumentalist Ben Caccia. Until now they made stormy waves
with their 2018 debut LP and two EPs.

New EP: RECOVERY
Press info: The new Recovery EP is a genre-twisting collection of songs exploring existential anxiety. Taking inspiration from eclectic industrial and electronic art-rock pioneers like Fad Gadget and Peter Gabriel, the album’s four tracks blend into a fever dream of melodic pop-influenced hooks, chaotic synths, orchestral flourishes, and mangled post-punk guitars.

Adam Schneider: “Like many, I unfortunately experienced a lot of heavy personal losses
this past year, and I found myself feeling very distraught with both life and music. This EP
was my way to finally reconnect with my love for music, and it’s ultimately about embracing being yourself and that it’s ok to feel weird or different than others.”

Turn Up The Volume: In a normal world Big Time Kill should be know wide and far.
Their massive wall-of-electro-rock-shock is titanic, overwhelming at times, served with
a gigantic gusto to blow roofs off dance floors. Steamy synths, manic guitars, big beats, and intense vocals. Add the tandem’s heart and soul passion and their spot-on views on humankind and you can figure out why BTK deserves to be know wide and far along with experts like NIN, LCD Soundsytem and The Prodigy among others.

Don’t be a shallow cliché, hip-shake
to your dreams, recover and restart.

Right here, right now.


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BIG TIME KILL: Facebook

Boston’s Trash Electro Rock Duo BIG TIME KILL Hits Hard With New Apocalyptic EP ‘ANXIETY’…

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1 Augustus 2019

After last year’s eruptive debut LP ‘Shock And Awe’ Boston’s electro rock duo BIG TIME KILL is back with a new EP, entitled ‘ANXIETY’. A tornado record with four trash techno steamrollers and one atmospheric, closing reflection. Thunder and lighting performances bringing high-tech noiseniks like Nine Inch Nails, Killing Joke, The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy to mind. Yes, that forceful, devilish, brutal and rebellious.

Most of us acknowledge the fucked-up times we experience today with dangerous, right-wing world leaders in charge whose only scary goal is to ‘divide and rule‘. It makes people, obviously, feel very anxious, confused and panicky. It also stimulates artists such as BIG TIME KILL to create a loud and clear soundtrack that fits this apocalyptic reality. Anyway, that’s the impact of ANXIETY on me. I guess many of you will share my point of view after hearing these doom and gloom discharges…


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BIG TIME KILL: Facebook

(photo: James Dattolo of A Curious Production)

Electro Turbo BIG TIME KILL Release Red-Hot-Blooded Debut Album ‘SHOCK AND AWE’ – Discover It Here… Track By Track

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3 October 2018

BIG TIME KILL is a blazing electro-rock duo formed in Boston, back in 2014 by multi-instrumentalist and producer Adam Schneider and his friend/multi-instrumentalist
Ben Caccia. After their 2015 debut EP the scorching tandem, influenced by industrial
noise devils such as Nine Inch Nails and Killing Joke just released their first full length entitled SHOCK AND AWE. A totally steamy body of volcanic work injected with flaming electro trash eruptions boosted by obstreperous synths, hammer-blow drum machines, diabolical guitar frenzy and Schneider‘s anxious vocals all over it. This firstborn is a gusty
beast that will have a titanic impact on your ears and your speakers. Please welcome
Adam Schneider who will tell you more, track by track, about the pair’s red-hot-blooded powerhouse…

Here’s the music…


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Here’s the breakdown track by track…

1. Carbon
“Short and sweet. Carbon‘s all about contrast and uncertainty/anxiety, which are themes that carry throughout the rest of the album.”

2. Body Talk
“I remember listening to a lot of The Stooges’ Fun House when we started working on this track. I really admire the visceral energy on that album and wanted to channel that into ‘Body Talk‘s performance.”


A stooge influence…

3. I Don’t Care Anymore
“I’m a sucker for funky beats and I always wanted to work slap guitar into a song.
This track’s about how we’re constantly bombarded with information to the point
where it all becomes white noise.”

4. DTs
“DTs is kind of like a journey where my hip-hop and progressive rock influences stick
out a little more. The title refers to Delirium Tremens which is a form of withdrawal.”

5. Don’t Need You
“We probably have 3 different completed arrangements of ‘Don’t Need You‘ that
we experimented with, and this one was the most dynamic and interesting to us
in the end. The saxophone solos are done by our friend Patrick Medina who gave
us killer performances which I then glitched and mangled in post-production.”

6. Evil
“This was the “let’s throw everything we can at this including the kitchen sink” track. Lots of mood shifting and changeups, with some great backup vocals by our friend Angelika in
the band Brighter Than A Thousands Suns. Watching the show Twin Peaks for the first
time also influenced this track’s composition and lyrics.”


From Twin Peaks to Evil…

7. Shock and Awe
“The title track was actually the last song written and completed for the album. I’m a big fan of the Bomb Squad‘s noisy sample-based production on the Public Enemy albums, and
I wanted to use those techniques to make something industrial and funky that summed
up all the ideas we were trying to capture on the album.”

8. Answer
“Another dance track mixing funk and industrial vibes together. This song is about
how we attach ourselves to different things to give our life meaning and how it can
be difficult to break away from those things, for better or worse.”

9. Echo Heart
“A lot of our songs are pretty upbeat, and Echo Heart is an experiment in slowing
things down, getting a little moodier, and seeing what happens in our writing. I still
love the shoegaze-influenced guitar sounds we got on this one, and the song’s ending
is one of my favorite moments on the album.”

10. Overload
“One of the very first songs I ever wrote for this band and it’s what we’ve usually been closing our shows with. The energy we try to pack into this song live took a lot of effort
to capture in the recording, but I think in the end we finally got it. Someone at a gig once described this track as “Ministry on speed” and I’d say that’s pretty accurate.”


Ministry on speed…

11. Failed Regeneration
“While making this album I also worked on scoring a video game, which made
me want to create something cinematic and a bit darker than unusual.”

Thank you, Adam Schneider, for all the info.
May the road rise with BIG TIME KILL!

SHOCK AND AWE is available on Bandcamp (name your price)
and iTunes – you can stream the record als on Spotify….


Photo by James Dattolo of A Curious Production

BIG TIME KILL: Website – Facebook –  Twitter

BIG TIME KILL – Boston Duo Rages Fiercely On Crazed Single ‘BODY TALK’…

Posted on by JL

12 September 2018

Band: BIG TIME TALK

Who: Duo formed in 2014 Boston-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Adam Schneider and his longtime friend/multi-instrumentalist Ben Caccia, creating visceral electronic rock built on drum machines, glitched out guitars, and funky synths inspired
by Nine Inch Nails/Killing Joke/KMFDM…

Track: BODY TALK – single from upcoming debut LP

Score: After releasing their debut EP 2015 this zippy two-piece will launch their first full length, entitled SHOCK AND AWE next month. Ahead of it here’s first single BODY TALK. An electro trash ripper driven by a powerful bass drone and injected with bloodthirsty guitars turning this raging synth smack into a gusty beast while its sticky chorus and anxious vocals augment the irresistible impact of this hair-rising stroke. Check out the
crazed heat for yourself…

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BIG TIME KILL: Website – Facebook –  Twitter


Debut LP SHOCK AND AWE out 2 October

THE LIMIÑANAS Score Big Time With Their New ‘No Fillers All Killers’ Album… SHADOW PEOPLE

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When you can’t resist new sonic vibrations, play them on…

OnRepeat

(artwork new album)

Mind-expanding French duo THE LIMIÑANAS just released their new longplayer – and to my hungry ears, without a shadow of a doubt, their best so far – SHADOW PEOPLE. No fillers, all killers. All their well-known sonic key strengths meet in harmony just brilliantly on this new LP with Marie‘s irresistible, repetitive, tribal kicks and Lionel‘s sensual guitar grooves as the non-stop throbbing heartbeat from the very ouverture to the melancholic finish. The mesmeric collaborations are spot on as usual (with New Order/Joy Division bass legend Peter Hook, psychedelia junkie Anton Newcombe / French singer/author Bertrand Belin and French actress/musician Emmanuelle Seigner) and fit the whole story perfectly.

The overall hypnotic and gloomy swagger transfer you to the cinematic glamour and twilight glitter of a film noir. Spellbinding jams infiltrate all pitch-black corners of the
dark side of your satisfied mind. This is the first truly striking record of the new year.
Dim the lights, relax, have yourself a drink, alert all of your senses and experience an avalanche of sensory trips on repeat, like me…

https://open.spotify.com/album/7efF3kKWZRqUmj0HSSjpgG?si=6_xNUG6US1usNonNZyygbw
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And to satisfy your greedy eyes too here are two visualized tracks off the album…

* SHADOW PEOPLE (title track feat. the wonderful Emmanuelle Seigner)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWdeZ4l6xtI

* ISTANBUL IS SLEEPY (featuring The Brian Jonestown Massacre‘s mastermind)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUBw9vskBIs

THE LIMIÑANAS  Facebook – Website – Twitter

(photo by TUTVi)

MONOSCOPES – Italian Psych Dream Rock Outfit Score Big Time With Their Heart-And-Soul Touching LP ‘ENCYCLOPEDIA’

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22 February 2024

Band: MONOSCOPES
Who: Italian act started by Paolo Mioni, former member of Jennifer Gentle,
spearhead of the Italian psych scene. They released their debut album
Painkillers And Wine last year.

New album: ENCYCLOPEDIA

Press info: A sequence of tracks that touch on complex themes such as the unbearability of pain (Today Today), the helplessness one feels when faced with a god who sends a flood to destroy the world (The Maker), the feeling of regretting the past (The Green Bed), love as an obsession (You’re Gonna Be Mine). In between there are also glimpses of optimism, such as Hey Atlas, which invites the listener (or the singer?) not to carry all the weight of the world on our shoulders like the titular character, or the jazzy This Silly Night, in which a relationship becomes the only way to escape the ugliness of the outside world.

The album moves from the psychedelic rock with pop overtones of The Electric Muse to the noise ride of You’re Gonna Be Mine, from the nocturnal atmospheres of A Quiet Life to the Velvet Underground-influenced garage pop of It’s A Shame About You. In between there are noise, melody, harmonic and rhythmic experimentation (above all the alternating odd and even times in The Green Bed), and a resurgence of the middle eight, so dear to The Beatles, as an important element of the song form. In Endcyclopedia one hears echoes of the noisy spirituals of Spiritualized, of the more apocalyptic side of PJ Harvey, of the power pop of Big Star, but also of R.E.M. and the melodic quest of the unforgettable LA’s.”

TUTV: What can I add to this accurately detailed press release? I’ll add this. Monoscopes made an ideal record for the midnight hours, for the moments you want to escape from our daily rat race and lose yourself in your thoughts of choice.

Heavy-hearted lullaby pearls such as ‘The Electric Muse (I Wanna Know Why?)’, Hey Atlas and The Things You Want To Hide should be hits in a normal world. Imagine the moody musings of Evan Dando (The Lemonheads) interwoven with the shadowy electricity of NYC’s celebs Interpol.

And when they turn up the temperature and the amps, now and then, like on top-tier tracks ‘It’s A Shame About You’ and ‘Quite Life‘ you feel the mixed emotions coming through your speakers making their way to your heart and to your soul. In my world, this is a grand 2024 album. It should be in yours too.

– THE ELECTRIC MUSE (I WANNA KNOW WHY) –

– STREAM ALBUM –

– BUY ALBUM –


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Monoscopes: Instagram – Facebook

SPRINTS – Irish High-Voltage Punk Turbine Scores Big Time With Standout Debut Album ‘LETTER TO SELF’

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Ace longplayers

5 January 2024


Press photo

Band: SPRINTS
Who: Irish soon-to-be-the-talk-of-the-town
post-punk turbine.

Album: LETTER TO SELF
Order info: here.


Album artwork

NME: “This memorable and arrestingly bleak debut LP feels like a loud announcement of a striking new band… noise-rock ripe with melodrama. The sense of catharsis that defines ‘Letter To Self’ is formidable and powerful. This is a dynamic album that is reflective of the muddled world we find ourselves in – delivered with a fortifying sense of honesty from an essential emerging band.” Full review here. Score: 5/5.

TUTV: Today 5 January is only the first official album release day of 2024 and we already get a RAD one. These Irish indies burst with tremendous vehemence and sharp-teethed gusto. Their high-voltage jackhammers trash and slash along their build-up/break-down course. Breathtaking hullabaloo.

Schizo guitars, unrestrained bass/drum forcefulness, and Karla Chubb‘s borderline vocals combine for exorcistic flare-ups. At times, Chubb‘s unbridled intensity brings Courtney Love‘s maddening cry-outs to mind. As I said, breathtaking hullabaloo. And the cliché no fillers, all killers can’t be more accurate here. Can’t wait to see them explode next month
on stage in Antwerp.

SINGLES/CLIPS: Up And Comer / Adore Adore Adore / Shadow Of A Doubt / Heavy

– UP AND COMER –

– ADORE ADORE ADORE –

– SHADOW OF A DOUBT –

– HEAVY –

STREAM ALBUM


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EURO TOUR

SPRINTS: Facebook – Instagram –

THE WAEVE Impressed Big Time At LOKERSE FEESTEN In BELGIUM

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10 August 2023

British alt-dream-pop-rock duo THE WAEVE – featuring Graham Coxon (Blur’s guitarist)
and songstress Rose Elinor Dougall launched, last February, one of the most compelling albums of the year with their Self-Titled Debut LP.

A multi-faceted, versatile opus with different sonic textures for different moods and matching vocal performances by both. Coxon‘s bedazzling saxophone, Dougall’s subtle piano play and strings create warm moments on the slow ones and all cylinders are turned for the fast ones. As the cliché says, “it’s a grower” that slowly but surely gets under your skin. Stream it below.

Last Monday the duo played with their band at Lokerse Feesten Festival in Belgium.
They were sandwiched between Siouxsie and Placebo, who I’ve seen several times before.

So, as planned, I left Siouxsie‘ (awful) show (always out of tune) to see The Waeve‘s gig in full. Great choice (as I excepted). They grabbed our aural attention from the kick-off and played 7 songs out of the short 8-track set, coming from that glorious LP.

They started smoothly with jazzy humdingers ‘Can I Call You’, ‘Over And Over’, Drowning, ‘Undine‘Sleepwalking‘, and coloured with smooth saxophone play by Coxen and Dougall‘s fitting, sensuous voice, shiny synth touches and cool dance moves.

With 3 to go, all burners went on, the amount of decibels grew (manic drummer!), and the duet vocals got really ardent and intense. The Waeve band rocked big time with dynamite crackers Kill Me Again (my fav), Someone Up There and Something Pretty (not on the album).

Unfortunately it was all over in an eye/ear blink, actually 50 minutes. As we all know time flies when you’re having fun. Many spectators looked hypnotized and as I could grab the setlist, several approached me to take a photo of it. The Waeve made lots of new fans that night. Deservedly so. Afterward I went to see Placebo, but it felt like I had seen enough while revisiting the Waeve experience on the screen in my mind. I left after a half hour while Kill Me Again was playing in my head.

STREAM ALBUM


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PÏCTURE THIS


Tambourine girl


Manic drummer


Woo-hoo man (the day after)


Piano girl


“While my violin gently weeps”


Setlist

(Live photos by Turn Up The Volume)

SWIMWEAR DEPARTEMENT – Join These Punky Houston Madcaps’ Hot Summertime Pool Party

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Standout albums

6 August 2023

Band: SWIMWEAR DEPARTMENT
Who: 4 kooky indies from Houston

“We play rock and roll exclusively about swimming
pools and shopping malls. It’s conceptual.”

New album: THE POOLEST OF THE MALL.

“It’s their sophomore LP. Recorded with Grammy-winning producer Steve Christensen.
The 10 tracks discuss only two topics: swimming pools and shopping malls. Although
the themes initially appear whimsical or even trivial on the surface, Swimwear Department skillfully sculpts experiences laden with emotional depth and profundity.”

“Several of the new songs are purely silly. There are elements of the B-52s,
Beastie Boys, The Strokes, and The Dead Milkmen in their sound – but absurdity is still
truth, even if it’s coming through a distorted theremin. This daring dance between the sober and the ridiculous is mirrored visually in the album’s cover art – a striking diptych conceived by Rebecca Elise Cook that draws inspiration both from the recorded material and “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by iconic painter Hieronymus Bosch.”

Let’s go. It’s hot. It’s SO HOT!
Summertime hot, air conditioner’s broke
Get up to the mall
And do the Cool Mall Stroll

Below, a word about the band.

TUTV: The summer is not over until it’s over. Enter Swimwear Department and their new jump-up-and-down pool party soundtrack. Expect bouncy, brisk, and bold stuff you can hip-and-hop to like a kangaroo on E. Think postDevo-punk weirdness combined with rap-rant Beastie Boys lunacy translated in 10 instantly infectious tunes (except for coming down closer Memall). If you’re a punk surfer, this is your kind of stimulant to brave the waves.

They spice up all the excitement with schizo 70s-organ glow, non-stop pumping bass turbulence, steadfast drum hits, agitated guitar fragments and an expressive vocalist sneering a bit like The Fall‘s late legend Mark E. Smith used to do for a living. Frequently
all-together-now chants pop up, which you want to be a part of. Sounds like big fun, right? You betcha.

I’m quite sure that British hype Yard Act listened a lot
to SD before writing/recording their debut album.

Get up, stand up
and fight for your right
to party in a bath-suit.

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SD: Facebook – Instagram

Best EP Of March 2023 – Rap Poet JODIE LANGFORD With ‘CHAOS OF TIME’

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1 April 2023

Artist: JODIE LANGFORD
Who: Swirling wordsmith from
the Hull / East Yorkshire (UK) area.

EP: CHAOS OF TIME

Turn Up The Volume has his eyes and ears on this kick-ass hip-rap-hop poet for a while. Actually, since her stupendous debut single I Miss It. Why? Her human openmindedness, her critical, head-on outspokenness, her faster-than-a-riot-gun ranting, and her sharp daily life observations. And last but not least the fact she embedded all I just mentioned in head-spinning and hyperkinetic tunes.

Now that you know all that let’s get to the EP. Thematically Langford explores the complexities of her own mental health and deals with feelings like obsession, heartbreak, anger and despair. Unfortunately many young people – worldwide – can connect with these emotionally debilitating issues.

Let’s have a track-by-track breakdown
with the author herself.

– CHAOS OF TIME –

Jodie: “Its incessant nature is inspired by Underworld’s Born Slippy,
I wanted it to feel like a stream of consciousness with an unsettling
undertone to it”.

TUTV: It resonates as if the Chem Bros are taking
care of the breakbeats… in fast-forward modus.


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– HEARTBROKEN –

Jodie: “We’d sit in the darkness looking out at sea, slagging off boys, listen to
cringe-worthy sad songs & bawl our eyes out. Before heading back, we’d look
each other in the eye, laugh & then snap out of it. It’s about owning your emotions,
feeling OK with vulnerability & how that in turn makes you stronger”.

TUTV: Aphex Twin having fun? Sounds like.


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– CATCHING X’S –

Jodie: “The song tackles the subject of growing up with a warped sense of what a relationship really entails. I’ve had a difficult, almost non-existent relationship with my father leaving me feeling unwanted. After years of heartache & reflection, I now know that he does love me & this is a cry for him to prove that”.

TUTV: A slo-mo moment of reflection with subtle
piano touches. Gripping and heavy-hearted.


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– TAKE YOUR MONEY –

Initially inspired by M.I.A.’s Paper Planes about Sri Lanka’s government oppression of the Tamils, Take Your Money challenges the UK’s big decision makers & how they oppress the less fortunate for their own gain through a lyric about defunding of the NHS & how those who can’t afford private healthcare are left to suffer.


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– NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH –

Jodie: “It captures how I discovered mankind’s blossoming imperfections & why
I shouldn’t punish myself for not having the same qualities as others, like intelligence, appearance or social skills etc. I can often be my own bully which really messes with
the judgment behind some of my life decisions”.

TUTV: Be who you are.


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– I (STILL) MISS IT –

A Jodie remix of her debut single, about the time
when trying to get back on her feet after the lockdown.

TUTV: Don’t miss Jodie Langford. She’s special


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FULL EP on Spotify.

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JODIE LANGFORD: Twitter – Instagram