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JEFF TWEEDY Has His New Triple Album ‘TWILIGHT OVERRIDE’ Out

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28 September 2025


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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.

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PÔT-POT – Indie Psych Quartet Explored The Past And Returned With Their Magnetizing Debut Album ‘WARSAW 480 KM’

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25 September 2025


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Band: PÔT-POT
Who: Irish/Portuguese quintet who infuse the propulsive grooves of krautrock
with a phosphorescent psych-rock radiance, all underscored by harmonium drones, hypnotic male-female vocal harmonies, and deep layers of rough-hewn texture.

Album: WARSAW 480 KM
Their debut.

Press info: “Evolved primarily from demos by multi-instrumentalist and lead vocalist Mark Waldron-Hyden during a period of grief and personal upheaval, the album came to life through a series of live, full-band studio sessions that document an exceptional array of talents, unified in an embrace of raw catharsis with a sweetly sinister edge. A defining element of ‘Warsaw 480km’ is its impressive range of influences and atmospheric topographies.

Waldron-Hyden about the record: “I wrote the first batch of songs while not really living in one place, so I think they have a kind of transient feel to them – developing them with the band helped me process an era in which I was emotionally freewheeling, so they remind me equally of the beautiful experience we shared as a creative unit and the difficult times that inspired them.”

“Ollie [Oliver Smith] and Sara [Sara Leslie] are experts at getting the most out of one pedal, a shitty amp, and a guitar they borrowed, a result of innate talent and years of experience; they use some modulation for dronier passages, but it’s their playing styles and understanding of ‘the vibe’ that are the secret ingredients.” This kind of intuitive connection and collaboration is incredibly rare, and with these ten pieces, pôt-pot accomplish something truly rapturous as they alchemize deep pain into a luminous reverie.”

TUTV: PÔT-POT are definitely psych rock fanatics. They explored the past, took notes and shaped a debut record that interprets their vision on the timeless genre. No, it’s certainly not a copy/paste job.

You will hear magnetizing echoes from legendary luminaries such as The Velvet Underground, Can and Love and modern era bands such as Black Angels, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols.

Warsaw 480km is stuffed with far-out Krautrock-like jams, hypnotizing riffs, kinetic rhythms, multi-layered jangly guitar layers, hallucinatory wanderings and psyched-out grooves. It’s an overall extravagant piece of trance-inducing work. Not many debut
albums have that mind-bending impact. Top-tier accomplishment.

KEY TRACKS: 22° Halo / WRSW / I AM! / The Lights Are On

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MUM – Icelandic Daydreamers Massage Your Mind And Your Ears With New Album ‘HISTORY OF SILENCE’

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21 September 2025


Artwork album

Band: Múm
Who: Icelandic indietronica
outfit formed in 1997.

Album: History Of Silence
Their first one in 12 years.


Photo: Ben Rayner / Terrorbird Media

Flood Magazine (Los Angeles): “The fractured nature of the record is nothing new for
the Icelandic band, of course. For a quarter century now, they’ve been weaving together elements of indie-folk, electronica, and ambient dream pop on a grand scale typically
reserved for post-rock.

With their peers and fellow countrymen Sigur Rós as an obvious point of reference,
the music they created during their initial decade or so of output feels equally primed
for soundtrack placement within just about any dramatic film genre. As History of Silence reminds us, though, these songs already contain a world within them without
complementing any screenplay.”

TUTV: History Of Silence‘s strength lies in its mind-relaxing impact. It feels like an ear massage. Sweet, slo-mo synth/piano symphonies, enlivened now and then with crystalline guitar sparks transfer you to a de-stressing place, far away from the noisy reality, while heartfelt duet vocals complete the tranquil sonority. Headphone music for the midnight hours.


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BAXTER DURY Released His 9th LP ‘ALLBARONE’ Filled With Buzzing Bass Grooves And Hip-Shaking Vibes

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17 September 2025

British, intriguing songsmith BAXTER DURY has
his 9th full-length baptized ALLBARONE out.

Dury about the album: “It’s kind of a character arc that goes through the whole thing,
two personalities. It’s very critical of people, this album, whoever they are, maybe some
bloke with a moustache and sockless loafers in Shoreditch or a fat old Chiswick gangster lording it up in a really comfortable middle class part of London”

“I don’t want to say it’s contemporary. Because I sound like a cunt using that word.
But it does sound really contemporary. It doesn’t sound like a Harrods hamper band
made it. It doesn’t sound like a band made it all. Which is what I wanted most of all.
It’s just something that’s brand new for me. It’s quite exciting, really.”


Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Lokerse Feesten, Belgium

The Quietus writes: “The self-proclaimed Nylon Panther is back and this time he’s shown
up with a wingman. It wouldn’t be the first time he’s worked with an electronically-inclined accomplice. This time around, Grammy and Academy Award winning record producer Paul Epworth is at the controls, and the meeting of minds between a pair of West London geezers makes for Dury’s most cohesive adventure since Prince of Tears.

Allbarone, then, is arguably the rawest and truest manifestation of Baxter Dury yet. Having a hype man suits him musically, and in a funny sort of way, Epworth’s presence seems to offer some moral support as well.”

TUTV: Dury does it again. Allabarone is another invitation to get up, stand up and sway your pelvis to sultry beats. Buzzing bass grooves and hip-shaking vibes have you going non-stop while he tells/whispers/sings his weird stories about weird characters.

He applies his formula throughout the full record, just a bit too
much, but it’s unquestionably an album to taste on a regular basis.

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Ho99o9 – Trash & Crash Punks Rage Against The Daily Rat Race Machine With New LP ‘TOMORROW WE ESCAPE’

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13 September 2025


Press photo by Nick Fancher

Band: Ho99o9 (pronounced Horror)
Who: Trashing rap-punk duo – theOGM and Eaddy – from Newark, New Jersey.
They released, so far, two albums United States of Horror (2019), Skin (2022)
and last year’s mixtape Territory: Turf Talk, Vol II .

Now they have full-length number three, called TOMORROW WE ESCAPE out.

TheOGM in an interview with New Noise Maagzine: “On this record, it’s a sound that has grown as we’ve grown as people and us finding new ways of making music. Some bands are just legendary and popular for what they did at that time, and we don’t want to stay put in that box and become this one sound. We want to be able to grow and express our musical range and artistry, so it’s an evolved sound and [a process] of trying new things and not compromising.”

“There’s so much going on in the world right now and it’s very overwhelming. You have to sit back and realign yourself, focus, and push through. That’s on a personal level and family level. If you’re going [on] that political route and that’s what you’re about, you gotta go that route,
but everybody has a different route.”


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We’re all human beings and we all go through different stages of emotions every day. A family member could have passed, you’re going to a party with friends, or you’re at a show raving. It’s [all] walks of life and we’re going through things in our personal lives that other people can relate to. We want to give the listenrers a “light at the end of the tunnel.” “We just have to be focused enough to get there.”

TUTV: You can relax for 2.22 minutes during the opening lines of I Miss Home. From
there on, the louder than war sledgehammers start to mess up your speakers. Imagine Rage Against The Machine have a motherfucking rap-scream contest with Body Count
while the crushing crossover decibels, trash and crash the roof.

That’s how Ho99o9 deals with our daily, suffocating, rat race. Chop, chop, chop.
Attack, attack, attack. Hit, hit, hit. Don’t escape yet, guys, let’s party hard first.

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GORILLAZ Canned Their 9th LP ‘THE MOUNTAIN’ – Hear First Single ‘THE HAPPY DICTATOR’ Feat. SPARKS

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12 September 2025

Virtual pop band GORILLAZ, the brainchild of Blur’s Damon Albarn and comic book artist Jamie Hewlett celebrate the 25th anniversary of their mega successful project this year.

A great timing to announce a new album. The Mountain is
their 9th and will see the day of light next year, on 20th March.

The lead single THE HAPPY DICTATOR features pop vets Sparks.

Catchy. Vibey. Infectious.
Dancey. Hooky. TUNE!

2026

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DAVID BYRNE Takes You On A Merry-Go-Round With New Solo Album ‘WHO IS THE SKY?’

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8 September 2025

Former chief talking head DAVID BYRNE
has his 9th solo LP, titled Who Is The Sly?
out.

Byrne: “Someone I know said, ‘David, you use the word ‘everybody’ a lot.’ I suppose
I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it.Everybody
lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares at the ceiling. Everybody’s wearing everybody
else’s shoes, which not everybody does, but I have done.

I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way balanced
by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, especially at the end, when
St. Vincent and I are doing a lot of hollering and singing together. Music can do that,
hold opposites simultaneously. I realized that when singing with Robyn earlier this
year. Her songs are often sad, but the music is joyous.”


Photo by: Ahmed Klink / Costume by: Tom Van der Borght

“At my age, at least for me, there’s a ‘don’t give a shit about what people think’ attitude
that kicks in. ”I can step outside my comfort zone with the knowledge that I kind of know
who I am by now and sort of know what I’m doing. That said, every new set of songs, every song even, is a new adventure. There’s always a bit of, ‘how do I work this?’ I’ve found that not every collaboration works, but often when they do, it’s because I’m able to clearly impart what it is I’m trying to do. They hopefully get that, and as a result, we’re now joined together heading to the same unknown place.”

TUTV: Well, I can’t add much to what the man said. He takes us on his merry-go-round. Probably his most upbeat longplayer ever. Lots of groovin’ and movin’, flamenco echoes and Mexican trumpets. Sonically, he entertains with frisky tunes and melancholic lullabies.

Lyrically, as usual, he comes up bizarre stories and bizarre song titles such as
My Appartment Is My Friend, A Door Called No and I Hear The Buddha At A Cocktail Party.
My fav tracks: Everybody Laughs, When We Are Singing, that Buddha Song and The Avant Garde.”

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BIG THIEF Invite You To Their Laid-Back Campfire With Their 6th LP ‘DOUBLE INFINITY’

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6 September 2025

Brooklyn‘s lauded folk pop/rock band BIG THIEF launch their 6th full length,
titled DOUBLE INFINITY. It follows the 3-year-old, 20-song strong longplayer
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You.

Stereogum says: The songs have an essential simplicity that makes it still feel accurate
to call Big Thief a folk band. A lot of that accessibility and simplicity is thanks to Lenker’s lyrics. They’re open-hearted and lovely, more so than ever, and their realness and plainness keeps them from being saccharine.

These songs are about the inexorability of passing time, the uselessness of language, and
how love and music can fill the gaps between these things we try to hold on to but never
can.”


Press Photo by Genesis Báez

TUTV: Big Thief seduce and charm once again with relaxing tunes. Sensitive ones, sad ones
and other related emotive ones, but always ear-pleasing ones. They don’t rock, nor do they really pop, it’s the band’s folk background that gives all soothings songs here, a laid-back campfire feel. More acoustic than electrical resonance.

No unnecessary bells and whistles, no fake glamour, no studio tricks for BT. They’re about authentic reveries and musings, and Adrienne Lenker‘s voice was made for these serene and reflective moments. A great companion for a night in.

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SUEDE Fuel Your Adrenaline Production With New Album ‘ANTIDEPRESSANTS’

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5 September 2025

London’s glam rock/pop celebs SUEDE orchestrated by their never aging
frontman Brett Anderson, have their 10th LP, baptized ANTIDEPRESSANTS
out today.

Press info: “The album is a milestone achievement that sees the band at the top of their game. It follows the success of their critically acclaimed ninth UK Top 10 album Autofiction, released in September 2022, which charted at No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart and was their highest-charting release in over 20 years.”

Uncut Magazine (British music monthly) “Antidepressants is the most unhinged,
intoxicating Suede album since Coming Up, and boasts the best first side of a goth
album since the Banshees’ Juju.”


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TUTV: On their last albums, guitars dominate way more than on their first 3/4 ones, creating a wall of elevating electricity with an epic sonority. It results in more rock swagger than pop sensibility, even when they slow down (Somewhere Between An Atom And A Star and June Rain) guitars have an overpowering impact. Only Brett Anderson melodramatic
can compete with them. His hypersensitive vocality is always present upfront and an instrumental factor for Suede‘s glamorous aura.

And the songs themselves? The singles (Dancing With Europeans / Trance State and Disintegrate) and the title track stand out. Their anthemic puissance hits your ears with huge fervidness. The other 7 songs try to have the very same impact but try too hard
to do so.

Mind you, most of them have an adrenalizing quality, but not enough to make the whole album a 5-star one. Yet, many other bands would sell their soul to have the necessary craftsmanship to write tunes like Anderson & Co still do today.

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ASH – Northern Irish Guitar Rock Vets Release Their 9th Album In October

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3 September 2025

Northern Irish guitar rockers ASH had a successful run between
1996 and 2007 with 5 albums. It took them 18 years to come back
and make 3 more.

A few weeks ago the news came in that the trio have canned #9.
It’s called Ad Astra and it’ll land on October 3rd. At the same time
they shared two tracks with Give Me Back My World and Jump
The Line and here come another pair.

A jangly The Smiths-like tune titled WHICH ONE YOU WANT?,
and FUN PEOPLE, a full of beans rocket featuring Blur‘s guitarist
Graham Coxen.

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