Best Albums Of The Month

5 Best Albums Of The Month – AUGUST 2024

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2 September 2024


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Band: NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Album: WILD GOD
The 13th one.

Cave: “There’s no fucking around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves
you. I love that about it. I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me. It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a master plan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played
them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”


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Rolling Stone says: “Here’s a sense of abandon and play to Wild God that’s infectious. Produced by Cave and long-time collaborator Warren Ellis, the record continues their
constant conversation, confidently proclaiming that better times are ahead.”

TUTV: Cave is the God of melodramatic balladry. Now here’s a God I can believe in. Again he shows why he’s one of the best ever crooners in the universe. And lyrically it feels as if, after so many devastating, painful years, with the surreal loss of two sons, he lets sparks of light back in his life. God bless Nick Cave.

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Artist: JACK WHITE
Album: NO NAME
His 6th solo one.

Uncut Magazine said: “On No Name, he’s done something special on his own terms,
delighted and surprised his audience, and provided one of the great rock moments of
the year.”

TUTV: White returns to his punk blues roots of the early days. Swipe after swipe,
blue stripe after blue stripe, kick after kick, clap after clap. A total of 13 thunder
strokes. High-wired electricity. Dope record.

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Band: FONTAINES D.C.
Album: ROMANCE
4th LP

NME said: “Knockout, spiritual songs for the end of time The ever-evolving five-piece enter a new phase of transformation on their arresting fourth album – their most considered and intricately crafted work yet.”

TUTV: The Irishmen have become high-quality songwriters (which they already proved on previous LP Skinty Fia– – still my favourite one). Frontman Grian Chatten‘s lyrics show (again) his observative view on the modern, gloomy world and how it affects him emotionally.

This is not their masterpiece yet to my ears, but it’s only a matter of
time that they will come up with a longplayer that will blow us all away.

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Band: KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
Album: FLIGHT b741

Their 26th album in 14 years!!!


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The Guardian (British newspaper): “A cheerfully rocking album about global collapse”.

TUTV: After 25 albums, it sounds as if the prolific Aussies decided to simply rock out
for a change, and they do it with striking 70s-inspired juggernauts with sultry harmonica-blues echoes here and there. Conventional guitar solos pop up in every track. Listen quickly to the record, if not they will have another one out before you press play.

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Band: OSEES
Album: SORCS80
Their umpteenth one.


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AllMusic said: “Punk without guitars has been done before — everything has. Few have done it with the blend of skill, imagination, and flat-out commitment that Osees exhibit on SORCS 80.”

TUTV: For the first time Osees general John Dwyer has incorporated layers of synths in
the band’s sonic, head over heels turmoil. Don’t expect top-notch tunes. This LP is about bulldozing for 38 minutes with punk velocity and schizophrenic electronics and I like it.

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5 BEST ALBUMS OF THE MONTH – JULY 2024

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2 August 2024

Band: KASABIAN
Who: Veteran rockers from Leicester, UK.
One of the best bands of the past 25 years,
on record and on stage, in my book.

Album: HAPPENINGS
Their 8th one, also their
8th number one in the UK.

TUTV: Since former frontman Tom Meighan left the group in 2020, Kasabian‘s wild drugs-fueled hedonistic days are over. Well, sort of. Yes, all 10 songs are disco-dance spiced stompers, but not the Taylor Swift way. Many decibels and pyrotechnics are still involved like on Call, How Far Will You Go, and Hello of It.

Half of the tracks are tailor-made for big festivals, stadiums, and other mammoth happenings where fans want to forget the daily rat race for a while. As Serge puts
it : “Art, for me, is relaxation – I panic when I’m not doing it.”.

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Band: EX-HYENA (Boston, MA)
Who: The musical project of Bo Barringer and Reuben Bettsak that started in 2020, surfacing through the haze of a global pandemic and illuminated by the city’s darkest corners.

Album: A KISS OF THE MIND,
Their 3rd one.

Press info: A Kiss of the Mind skillfully captures the trademark Ex-Hyena combination of dark electronic, post-punk attitude mixed with the moody aura of the underground ‘80s
and a future-noir vision. But the record finds the project exploring a wider sonic landscape, with sprinkles of synth-pop, shoegaze, industrial, psychedelic, soul, trip-hop, Britpop, and more filtered through the Ex-Hyena sound lens, where heavy beats and razorsharp synths cascade through a hall of mirrors underneath a dual vocal melody attack.

Bettsak: “These songs are a bit longer and more expansive than the previous songs. There
was a bit more experimentation, and throwing lots of styles into the fold. I think we operate better when we don’t set any strict rules on genres, etc. We let the music, and songs guide us.”

TUTV: Once again Ex-Heyna take you on an EBM journey through the Apocalyptic war
times we live in. Surely, you can dance, move and groove to their new trippy pieces of orchestral manoeuvres in the dark, but the shadowy tone and timbre of this new record resonate like a fitting soundtrack for the ongoing disturbing turmoil we experience.

Expect a versatile mix of ambient vibes, wayward dynamics à la Aphex Twin, and early Human League eurhythmics all served with a twilight vocality. No rest for the wicked. We also need dance music in grim times. Enter A Kiss Of The Mind.


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Artist: JOHNNY CASH
Album: SONGWRITER

The late great country icon JOHNNY CASH recorded
an LP’s worth of self-penned songs in 1993 that weren’t
released until now.

TUTV: It’s always an aural pleasure to hear Cash‘s heart-and-soul warming
Americana voice. Whether it’s a romantic ballad, a jaunty country tune or a
(rare) rocker his vocals/phrasing both stir and calm down my mind.

All 11 songs at play here are definitely no leftovers from some studio sessions.
Each track charms and endears. Imagine sitting on a swing chair on a cosy porch surrounded by green trees and a soft sun, with a bottle of red wine at hand and
the masterly Songwriter Johnny Cash as your musical friend.


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Band: LOSSLINE
Who: Manchester-based singer/songwriter tandem, Jack and Adam,
who look around, inside and outside, every day and write songs about
it, mostly sad songs.

New album: LOSSLINE

“Our third album came about through us changing the way we write. Lots of the songs
were written as instrumentals and then the vocals were thought about afterwards. We
still write as a duo but we’re in the same room less and less.

In terms of themes it draws a lot from our day to day experiences. Feeling like we’re getting
a bit old to be going out. Finding the daily grind to be wearing us down. The joys and difficulties of having children. We drew a lot of inspiration from the work of Bill Ryder Jones who uses melody and time changes beautifully to create really strong emotional songs.”

TUTV: These two Manchester songwriters make you reach for your favorite drink,
make you dim the lights, make you go and sit down in your lazy chair, and make
you relax to melancholic, day-and-night-dreams with sepia-colored candlelight
vocals, but this time it happens a bit less than before. Mind you, they do not
start to rock out like mad.

On Again they resonate like weirdo Mark Oliver Everett and his band Eels and on
standout pearls I Can’t See Pass Monday, Heavy Rain and Sticking Point they cause goosebumps with affecting choir-like orchestrations, inspired as they say by intimate songsmith Bill Ryder-Jones, co-founder of Liverpool‘s romantic musers The Coral.

Listen to his heavy-hearted gem This Can’t Go On and you’ll know what they and
I mean. And as I mentioned before famous crooners The National and the softest
moments of The War On Drugs are floating around here and there too on this
splendid Lossline album 3.

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Artists: POEJI
Who: German drummer Simon Popp and jazz-loving, Mongolia-born singer/musician Enji. Both were/are involved in several solo, as well as collaborative projects.

Album: NANT

The first result of their collaboration. Nant is music without borders or constraints, translated in various languages, such as the Slovenian word for ‘sing’ or the rough Japanese translation to ‘poetry’, whilst the album title is an old Welsh word for a stream or a valley. Parts of Enji’s vocals on the record are sung in her native Mongolian, whilst Simon Popp explores melody via various tuned percussion from around the world. They have created a truly universal album, pulling inspiration from German avant-garde, dub, downtempo and musique concrete.

Popp: “Nant is our shared exploration, merging our diverse backgrounds into an unconventional yet distinctive soundscape. It’s a deeply personal journey through
unique, atmospheric sounds that unite our individual worlds.”

Enji: “If this record takes you to places where you encounter “a quiet inner speech,” “unexpected messages,” or thoughts of “nothing to say, let the music speak,” then perhaps that’s precisely what we’ve been aiming for.”

TUTV: I never heard of both artists before, but I’m thrilled that I discovered them recently.
The fruit of their first musical partnership is special, nothing to do with the modern-day mainstream music.

Two things came to mind while listening to Nant for the first time. The title of Simon
and Garfunkel‘s majestic 1965 hit Sound Of Silence and the superb, romantic 2003
movie Lost In Translation.

Meditation, relaxation, peacefulness, atmospheric inventiveness and mind-massage
are the keywords here. Nant is an ideal sonic companion for soothing evenings, far
away from the busy reality we experience every single day.

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5 BEST ALBUMS Of The Month – JUNE 2024

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29 June 2024

Band: THE MYSTERINES
Album: AFRAID OF TOMORROWS
The Scoucers 2nd one

Lia Metcalfe (vocalist/guitarist/songwriter): “I think it’s easy to look back and feel
judgmental about your younger self, but we’re past that now,” We feel like we know
who we are as a band.”

Louder Than War says: “It’s everything and so much more than you would expect
as the band’s maelstrom of creative energy extends their sonic boundaries deeper
into new, darker and unchartered corners of your mind.”,


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TUTV: The charismatic Lia Metcalfe‘s singular voice, both anxious and soul-stirring,
is all over this awe-inspiring new record. So instrumental for the band’s sound that resonates more poignant, gloomier and spine-chilling than on their debut.

It fits Metcalfe‘s introspective reflections on her turbulent past terrifically well,
with haunting and goosebumps-causing songs that have an imposing impact.

Jagged riffs fly all over the place and the charged intensity at play here creates
a doom-laden atmosphere. So far, I returned the most to the two closing candlelight ballads (Inside A Matchbox / So Long) and the acoustic, folky campfire chant Afraid Of Tomorrows with Metcalfe sparkling in the shadows.

There’s always a light shining at the end of the Mysterines tunnel.
The four Scousers are gearing up for a triumphant future.

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Artist: JOHN CALE
Album: POPtical Illusion

UNCUT Mag says: “He returns in double-quick time with more selections from
his 80-song lockdown splurge, but this time in a gentler, almost uplifting mood.
Radical optimism rather suits him.”
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TUTV: This is the Welshman‘s 18th solo LP, only 18 months after the previous one, named Mercy. Cale is still facing his demons as he did on Mercy but here it sounds as if he knows how to beat them.

The layered-synths atmosphere and the rich orchestrations resonate more sanguine here and there, like on Davies And Wales, How We See The Light , and All To Good , songs you can hum along. and hypnotizing single Shark-Shark you can move and groove to.

But the overall tone still is pensive and meditative, no traditional rock ‘n’ roll for Cale,
with past/present reflections like on Calling You Out, Edge Of Reason, Setting Fires and the closing piano ballad There Will Be No River. At 82 his voice hasn’t aged whatsoever, still instrumental and a indispensable factor in his arrestingly crafted work. Remarkable.

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Artist: ALAN VEGA (1938-2016)
Album: INSURRECTION

Another previously unreleased album following the splendid 2021 Mutator LP.

Liz Lamere (Vega’s widow and collaborator): “Insurrection was created in the time
period around 1997/98, after Mutator and prior to Vega’s 1999 release of 2007 and
captures the intense energy of NYC in the 90s rife with crime, killing, hate, fascism,
racism, and moral bankruptcy. You can hear the tortured souls floating through this
album.”

Pitchfork: “Unearthing 11 lost recordings from the late ’90s, the Suicide co-founder’s
newest posthumous release frames him as a doomsday prophet of the information age.
This newest collection is an oppressive, nauseating roller-coaster ride. Once you get off,
you’ll want to do it again.”

TUTV: Uncanny percussion, ghostly vocals, other-worldly vibes, jagged jams, capricious synth loops. It’s Alan Vega alright with another lost treasure. Modern day art from last century, showing once again that Vega was a musical visionary, an absorbing noise crusader, and a doom and gloom prophet.

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Band: SPAMMERHEADS
Duo from Valencia, Spain
Album: DISCLAIMER

Press info: “Spammerheads reaffirm their predilection for industrial sounds, firmly in line with old school ebm, but consolidating a sound that they have already made their own. Disclaimer is a forceful work, with frenetic energy, where the tracks hit with intensity, fun, black humour and a desire to make the dancefloor move through powerful rhythmic sequences, thick and decisive bass lines wrapped in memorable melodies.

As has become a trademark of the band, in Disclaimer the vocals and lyrics lead us
through different states, passing through fury, emergency, dissatisfaction and bad blood, to culminate with the last track of the album in a better place.”


It takes two tango, it takes two Spammerheads to techno

TUTV: Looking for your 24-hour Ibiza beach party soundtrack? Here ls the ones.
Disclaimer offers you a salvo of EBM dance-floor uplifters. Imagine Chemical Brothers producing their intoxicating bloc rockin’ beats and Nine Inch
Nails adding industrial thunder and lighting hammering with Trent Reznor spewing his lyrics.

The Spanish duo deal with all sorts of bad signs of this time as we know it.
Let’s shake them all off mind-hypnotizing and body-activating electro master blasters.

It takes only two to tango,
it only takes two spammerheads to techno.


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Artist: RICHARD HAWLEY (Sheffield, UK)
Album: IN THIS CITY THEY CALL YOU LOVE

NME:“The songwriter captures a sense of aching beauty through vivid odes to
the characters and architectural quirks of his hometown. His ninth LP, ‘In This City
They Call You Love’, elegantly represents what it means to be so entwined with one’s
locale; even in a place rich with musical history, Hawley remains a singular figure
for the way in which this fascination has permeated his songwriting.”


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TUTV: Romanticism is written all over this sepia-colored record. As we already know
for a long time Hawley is a romantic at heart who’s in love with his city Sheffield since
he was a child. It feels/sounds like it’s more than just his hometown.

It’s the place where he experienced all things good and bad, happy and sad. It leads to melancholic musings, gripping daydreams and wistful reflections. With his soft-heartened voice and late-night lullabies, the late great Roy Orbison comes to mind on several occasions. A candlelight pearl.

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5 BEST ALBUMS OF THE MONTH – APRIL 2024

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29 April 2024

Band: THE BLACK KEYS (Akron, Ohio)
Album: OHIO PLAYERS – their 12th

TUTV: Surprise. The Black Keys made an album that features lots of bright pop tunes and some light blues ones. The licks/riffs and hooks, about a thousand of course, haven’t that BK’s raw and rough edge as we are used to. It’s all about feel-good, easy-going, and most entertaining tunes. It makes me feel happy and relaxed.

The overall sonority leans more towards power guitar pop (slow, mid-tempo and only
a couple of fast ones), maybe that’s Beck‘s vibes influence, who is present on half of the songs. They also invited befriended rappers Lil Noid and Juicy J and some other celebs.

I never thought that the tandem would come up after 23 years (yes, twenty-three years!) with a different sounding, coherent longplayer, without ignoring their blues roots that is. Ohio Players will be the album that I’ll play more than their whole catalogue together.
14 songs, 44 minutes with an accurate cliché ‘all killers, no fillers.’

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Band: METZ (Ottawa, Canada)
Album: UP ON GRAVITY HILL – their 5th

TUTV: ‘Up On Gravity Hill’ blows your mind, your psyche, and your ears
for 34 thunderous minutes of razor-blade wall-of-sound exorcism. Vintage
chainsaw voltage (No Reservation/Love Comes Crashing, Entwined (Street Light
Buzz), Never Still Again and the ace anti-advertising ballyhoo sledgehammer
’99’), a mean drum/bass machine throughout, and Edkins‘ mixed emotions
cry outs combine for a rough helter-skelter ride.

No arty farty BS for them, no special effects. All cylinders, all burners. It’s only
on the gripping mid-tempo closing reflection that the trio slow down a bit but
still make your stereo tremble. A great ending to another great record.

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Band: FAT WHITE FAMILY (London, UK)
Album: FORGIVENESS IS YOURS – 4th LP

TUTV: Gone are the days of rock to shock with pathetic songs such as the one about
Nazi propaganda chief Goebbels and Lebensraum. Also gone is musical orchestrator Saul Adamczewski who left the band amidst the recording sessions (not the first time he went through the exit).

Less drugs and less hedonism led to more focus on the songwriting/music, which
got better and better over the years and results now in their best full length.

Almost all tracks are ongoing electronica-infused vibes (Polygamy Is Only For The Chief / Feed The Horse) and addictive jams with poetic frontman Lias Saoudi telling/singing lots of enigmatic and absurd stories showing again how extensive his vocabulary is (The Archivist, Today You Become Man).

Here and there he’s the crooner he loves to be (Religion For One / You Can’t Face It). Sonically the record, enriched with lots of spot-on details (flutes, backing choir vocals, piano) is ingenious and crackerjack. A winner.

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Band: VIRGINS (Ireland)
Album: NOTHING HURT AND ANYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL – debut

TUTV: Virgins take you on a flight at supersonic speed way up into the sky above the clouds, where reality becomes surreality, where layers of seventh heaven shoegaze symphonies blast from the plane’s speakers. For 40 phantasy-stimulating minutes, you’ll forget all about what happens down there, on our dramatically disturbed planet.


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We need to escape it all, now and then to stay sane, and that’s when these Belfast daydreamers are a great option to connect with. Layers of glowing guitars, hallucinatory vocals and an overall lyrical sonority will trigger your fantasies and will make you feel
going high(er) forgetting all about the daily, mind-boggling rat race.

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Band: THE LIBERTINES (London, UK)
Album: ALL QUIET ON THE EASTERN ESPLANADE

TUTV: After the turbulence, chaos, and drugs addictions (especially Doherty) of the early years, the side-projects, solo records, and getting clean and healthy the Libs are back, again. They’re not the boys in the band of yesteryear, they’re now grown-up men who
enjoy a stable life and are still obsessed by making music.

Compared to their first two tempestuous and jarring indie punk LPs they mellowed naturally. Older and wiser. But Doherty/Barat are still terrific songwriters, assisted here
by John Hassall/Gary Powell, with Doherty as the 5-star one.

They still rock with vivacious punch (Run Run Run / Of Shit / Mustangs / Be Young ), they
still know how to seduce with captivating, romantic ballads (Shiver / Night Of The Hunter / Baron’s Claw), and Doherty/Barat still are soul-stirring vocalists.

Not one dull moment, not one dull song. They became notable, experienced musicians who left their hedonistic lifestyle behind themselves for several years now. They sound clean, healthy and happy (lots of laughter between songs, especially at the end of closer Songs They Never Play On The Radio) all the way through and it feels very fine.

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5 BEST ALBUMS OF THE MONTH – MARCH 2024

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ROCKMAKER by THE DANDY WARHOLS

Portland‘s groove junks fabricated their 10th LP with Rockmaker.

“The hitmakers celebrate their 30th year together with a sprinkle of glitter on their grime. Accompanied by guests Debbie Harry, Slash, and Pixies’ Frank Black, The Dandy Warhols wrangle paranoia, untangle anxious discontent, and lust after life while the dance grooves go deeper, heady drones get weirder, and riffage fit for bong rips hammers. Rockmaker is the Dandy‘s clearest statement yet, at no sacrifice to their outré leanings. This is the sound of outsider alt-psych fixtures looking in as the walls come down.”

Courtney Taylor-Taylor (frontman): Overall, Rockmaker is the manifestation
of our desire to hear a record of heavy raw punk and metal guitar riffs, but it has
its own alley.”

Stellar single Danzig With Myself

TUTV: As a long-time fan I like the smell of a new Warhols album all day long.
Rockmaker has, overall, a dark psychedelic timbre and a twilight tone with
industrial rock drones all over it. The distortion mixer and eerie stories take
them to a pretty obscure territory where the sun isn’t invited.

Mind you, Portland‘s trailblazers still are, first and foremost, a mean riff-loaded groove machine with an instant impact on your hips, sounding as if it was recorded in a batcave, with Trent Reznor taking care of the production, rather than in a conventional studio with
a sane engineer.

As we know, heroin is so passé, but it looks like the band will have a feel-good summer
of hate-filled with alcohol, marijuana, (lou) weed, cocaine, nicotine, LSD, and mushrooms.
All summer’s (il)legal raves will start and end with Rockmaker. Welcome to the Dandy Warhols‘ psychedelic Terrordome. Be ready for a wild ride.

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GOLD CONTROL by JEEN (Toronto, CA)

“Hazy, heady, hedonistic and hopeful – Gold Control is Jeen’s fourth album this decade.
The luminous ten tracker glides along the same trajectory as its predecessors while maintaining its own identity. Grunge. Garage. Psych-rock. Punk. Tinges of Shoegaze.
Her influences continue to shine as she crafts them into her own vehicle with ease. Jeen joined creative forces once again with long-time collaborator Canadian indie musician and producer Ian Blurton who has taken the role of co-producer on her last five albums.”

Masterstroke single Just Shadows

TUTV: The three main elements that make this album special are Jeen’s remarkable
voice, her high-quality songwriting expertise, and the heart-and-soul passion that streams throughout the record. Whether Jeen rocks out, muses, or swings moods, she always holds your aural attention.

The cliché is accurate here, ‘no fillers, all killers’. 10 intoxicating, 10 solid gold songs.
This first-rate longplayer should get at least the same attention as Sheryl Crow‘s
new one.

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‘Liam Gallagher – John Squire’ by LIAM GALLAGHER / JOHN SQUIRE


Daft album artwork designed by John Squire

Super Manchester duo and long-time friends Liam Gallagher and The Stone Roses‘
guitar hero JOHN SQUIRE got together and canned this collaborative longplayer.

Liam: “I think John’s a top songwriter. Everyone always bangs on about him as a guitarist,
but he’s a top songwriter too, man, no two ways about it as far as I’m concerned. There’s not enough of his music out there, whether it’s with the Roses or himself. It’s good to see him back writing songs and fucking good ones. The melodies are mega and then the guitars are a given. But I think even when you take all the fucking guitars off, you can play the songs all on acoustic and they’ll all still blow your mind.”

TUTV: This is a lazy psych-blues album made by two lazy rock stars that sounds as if they made it about 30 years ago. Most tunes could be leftovers from The Stone Roses‘ 2nd and final 1994 LP Second Coming, the one on which Squire played his guitar exactly the way Jimmy Page did in Led Zeppelin for years. And Liam is Liam. Arms together on his back and letting his pipes do the talking. The two Manchester heroes just did what they wanted to do, making an album together, no more, no less. But I can’t stop playing it.

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APOCALYPSE IS GOD’S SPOILER by JUJU (Italy)

JuJu is the brainchild of Sicilian multi-instrumentalist and producer Gioele Valenti.

“With ‘Apocalypse Is God’s Spolier‘, JuJu once again redefines the game. This album not only signifies an evolution from their established sound but also marks a return to their roots and a more pronounced embrace of “Western” imagery. The new LP embraces that blend of western Post Punk, Shoegaze, Darkwave, Industrial, Synth-pop and then anchors it to the Tribal and Occult Psych elements of JuJu‘s origins.”


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Standout single Cosmic Fall

TUTV: Valenti is a jam champ and a groove master creating electrifying, trance-like vibrations that transfer you to the dark side of your mind where you can freely fantasize and explore your own psyche. Circling Krautrock-like psychedelia is all over this new record. Choir chants and spacey percussion cause a tribal atmosphere à la The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. Mind-bending, dream-triggering, and soul-stirring as always. Another top mission accomplished.

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TRANSFORMATIONS by AVES (Finland)

“Helsinki-based outfit Aves (Eino, Juntti, and Antti) release their immersive new album, Transformations. This record has been a long time coming and the band sees it as the amalgamation of the members’ personal journeys. Dealing with mental health and addiction as well as inner healing and transformation, the album offers a profound yet joyous expression of freedom and change. The new album features collaborations with Icelandic artist JFDR and Danish singer Lydmor, known for her powerful performances.”

Splendid single Germ Of The Ocean

TUTV: If you’re an ardent Tama Impala fan and you can’t wait for their new album (last
one, The Slow Rush, dates from 2020) you really need to disover this ear-gratifying record packed with synth-infused, silver-lined and shimmering musings, all served with starry-eyed harmonies and magnific orchestrations. The mixed-emotions songs float in the air and are there for you to grab, embrace and enjoy. Dream-pop bliss at its magnetic best. No need to hurry, mister Kevin Parker, we have Aves.

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