Soulful Sunday

10 March 2024 – It’s Soulful Sunday!

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Imperishable.

Sunday morning brings the dawn in
It’s just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It’s just the wasted years so close behind

Watch out, the world’s behind you
There’s always someone around you who will call
It’s nothing at all

Sunday morning and I’m falling
I’ve got a feeling, I don’t want to know
Early dawning, Sunday morning (early dawning)
It’s all the streets you crossed not so long ago

Watch out, the world’s behind you
There’s always someone around you who will call
It’s nothing at all

Watch out, the world’s behind you
There’s always someone around you who will call
It’s nothing at all

Sunday morning
Sunday morning
Sunday morning
Sunday morning

MARK OLIVER EVERETT And EELS Share Familiar Lullaby ‘TIME’ From Their New Upcoming Album

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

3 March 2024

EELS launch their 15th LP, named EELS TIME! on June 7.
Pre-order info here.

The release of this album follows a busy 2023 for the Los Angeles band, where they
finally hit the road for their long-awaited Lockdown Hurricane tour of Europe and North America and brought the year to a close by marking over three decades of the group with the release of their second compilation album Eels So Good: Essential Eels, Vol.2.

First single TIME is a familiar-sounding Eels lullaby.


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EELS: Linktree

JACK ANTONOFF And BLEACHERS With New Bittersweet Piece ‘ME BEFORE YOU’ From Their Upcoming Album

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

25 February 2024


Album artwork

New Jersey singer-songwriter JACK ANTONOFF, and his band BLEACHERS celebrate their 10th birthday this year and will do it with their 4th, self-titled longplayer, on March 8th.

Ahead of it comes another, the 4th, piece titled ME BEFORE YOU. Another conspicuous
example of Antonoff ‘s craft of styling bittersweet pop tunes that lead your mind to dreamland.

BLEACHERS: Facebook – Instagram

Soulful Sunday With BIG THIEF’s Wondrous Voice ADRIANNE LENKER And Her New Solo Single ‘SADNESS AS A GIFT’

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Tunes for the laziest day of the week

21 January 2024


Album artwork

Big Thief‘s wondrous voice ADRIANNE LENKER will have her 6th
solo longplayer, named Bright Future out on 22 March via 4AD.

Following the first magnificent single Ruined, Lenker impassions
again with country folk ballad SADNESS AS A GIFT

“Once we were IN the song, somehow we just knew. No one stopped
a take. We didn’t listen back. I only listened after everybody else left.”

Enjoy.

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Soulful Sunday With TUTV’s Best LP Of 2023 – ‘HEAVY HEAVY’ By The Brilliant Scottish YOUNG FATHERS

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Music for the laziest day of the week

14 January 2024

This sizzling Scottish trio nailed it big time with their 3rd LP. Heavy Heavy is one of those rare remarkable records that arouses from start to finish, with the cliché no fillers, all killers all over it. You hear its sonic brilliance, you feel its dauntless vocality, you realise quickly that this album is special, very special.


(Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Antwerp 2023)

An undisputable first-class work where vitalizing soul, ecstatic pop melodiousness
and self-willed hip-hop come together in an organic way. A spiritual happening.

Funk-punk drunk virtuosity with astonishing vocal teamwork.


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YF: Linktree

GRANDADDY Share Another Bittersweet Reverie From Their Upcoming Album With ‘CABIN IN MY MIND’

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Musings for the laziest day of the week

3 December 2023

Californian daydreamers GRANDADDY, now centred more than ever around,
singer-songwriter Jason Lytle announced the birth of a new LP, their 6th, a few
weeks ago. It’s named BLU WAV and will come our way on 16 February 2024.
More info here.

Following lead single Watercooler we can enjoy a second new one.
Cabin In My Mind is a characteristic Grandaddy reverie with Lytle‘s
near-whispering vocals over a bittersweet and maudlin melody.

Lytle: “A while back, I was traveling with a friend, doing some shows and just riffing,
and he came up with this phrase. It made so much sense to me and had so many things
just within the title itself: shutting off and just, like, going inward. It’s fun to imagine literally
a cabin inside your mind. “I’m out of here, see ya, guys,” and you walk in the front door, shut
the door and disappear for a while. It was perfect like an old country song where the title says everything. I remembered the phrase, and it was easy for me to pick it up and just make it work.”

CABIN IN MY MIND

GRANDADDY: Instagram – Linktree

Soulful Sunday With THE NATIONAL On The Telly Playing ‘SPACE INVADER’

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

Cincinnati’s daydreamers THE NATIONAL, fronted by natural born crooner
Matt Berninger, released two LPs this year, First Two Pages of Frankenstein (April)
and Laugh Track (September).

They’re on an extensive tour right now, but made time to perform on American TV
on The Late Show, last week. They played SPACE INVADER from Laugh Track.

Enchanting.

THE NATIONAL: Instagram – All Albums

Have A Nap In La La Land With KURT VILE And His New EP ‘BACK TO THE MOON BEACH’

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19 November 2023

Former War On Drugs emo slacker KURT VILE has a
new 9-track EP out, named BACK TO MOON BEACH.

“It’s is an EP by no one’s definition but Kurt Vile’s. Clocking in at just shy of an hour, this would be a long full-length record by most any other artist’s yardstick, but for Kurt, the collection is an expression of just how deep his well of non-album material runs.”

Far Out Mag: “Vile invites us to join him on his beach on the moon. Although Back to Moon Beach sounds warm and familiar, particularly to pre-existing fans, Vile does keep that one toe firmly pointed towards the future. Compiling album rejects and covers recorded across the last four years, the record is also a demonstration of his growth and influences.”

TUTV: This new Vile record is for Vile fanatics. I usual love his drift away vibe, but here
I almost fell asleep midway. After the pretty lovely opener/single ‘Another Good Year For
The Roses‘ it’s downhill. Half of the songs are too lazy, too relaxing, too whiny.

My advice: sit down, dim the lights, relax and have a nap in la-la land.

SINGLE

EP


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KURT VILE: Facebook – Instagram

SHARON VAN ETTEN And Her New Song ‘CLOSE TO YOU’ For New TV Series ‘THE BUCCANEERS’

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

12 November 2023


Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Antwerp, Belgium, 2022

Last year grand songstress-voice SHARON VAN ETTEN, born in New Jersey
started her career in 2007. Since then she recorded/released 6 studio LPs,
with last year’s We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong as her best, so far,
to my ears.

Lately she started writing new music for films/series soundtracks.
CLOSE TO YOU is one of the 2 songs she wrote for the soundtrack
of The Buccaneers.

A drama TV series, about American society girls in England, based on the unfinished novel of the same name by American novelist Edith Wharton published posthumously in 1938. The series premiered last week on Apple TV+. Also on the soundtrack Lucius, Warpaint, Bully, and the Kills’ Alison Mosshart, and more.

CLOSE TO YOU

FULL SOUNDTRACK


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Sharon Van Etten: Instagram – Linktree

Soulful Sunday With Daydreamers GRANDADDY And Their New Sweet Musing ‘WATERCOOLER’

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29 October 2023

Californian melancholia rockers GRANDADDY, now centred more
than ever around singer-songwriter Jason Lytle announced a new LP,
their sixth. It’s named BLU WAV a will appear on 16 February 2024.
More info here.

The first single is named WATERCOOLER

LYTLE: “Most of my relationships have involved girls who worked in office settings.
This song is about the end of one, or perhaps a few, of those relationships. Listeners
will also notice the pedal steel on this track and eventually on many others from the forthcoming new album. It’s a first for Grandaddy, and I couldn’t be more thrilled
about this fact.”

First thing. I never heard a song about a watercooler.
Second thing. Lytle still writes sweet musings and his
soft voice is still instrumental for those musings.

WATCH/LISTEN

STREAM


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GRANDADDY: Instagram – Linktree – All Albums