Band: IMAGINE DRAGONS
Who: Famous pop/rock quartet from Las Vegas, Nevada
Active since 2008 / 5 studio LPs so far
The band shared a demo of a previously unheard song recorded
during the sessions of their debut album Night Visions that turned
10 today.
The accompanying animated video is an eye-catching affair.
NIGHT VISIONS is 10 today!
IMAGINE DRAGONS: Facebook
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The enormously popular (in the UK) Britpop band THE1975 launch their new, fifth
album, named Being Funny In A Foreign Language on 14 October via Dirty Hit
Album artwork
Ahead of it comes new single (the third)
I’M IN LOVE WITH YOU. A sugary pop
ditty accompanied by an impressive video.
The clip was directed by Samuel Bradley. It features
a bunch of mimes in a silent film situation, portrayed
by Matty Healy and others.
Watch/listen
THE1975: Instagram
Norwegian electronic dance tandem RÖYSKOPP are probaly the most
productive musicians of 2022. They already released two albums this year.
Profound Mysteries I (April) and Profound Mysteries II (August).
No two without three. So the pair decided to complete the trilogy
with Profound Mysteries III, out this November. Again they invited
guest artists for every track.
This time one of them is disco diva ALISON GOLDFRAPP
who injects the new dance-tastic track THE NIGHT starry-eyed
touch. It’s a house/techno odyssey for night owls.
The Norwegians call it “an orbitofrontal chorus“. A what?
Whatever, join
them is space…
Irish rock team FONTAINES D.C.
knock firmly at the door of global fame
after 3 excellent albums.
Last weekend they hit the stage at the 2022 edition of
the Reading/Leeds Festival in the UK.
The coolest moment of the show was when the band invited
a young fan, who was in front of the stage holding up a sign
asking to join the band on stage, to play guitar on their speedy
stunner Boys In The Better Land. The kid will feel like a boy in
the better land forever.
Here’s his audacious performance.
F-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c!
FONTAINES D.C. Facebook – Instagram
29 August 2022
Artwork of their ‘Bad habits’ collaboration
Pretty mental(lic). Sheffield’s clamorous metalcore noiseniks BRING ME THE HORIZON played last weekend at the Reading/Leeds festival in the UK. Once again they teamed up with megastar/songsmith ED SHEERAN (40 million followers).
Early last year BMTH joined Sheeran for a rework of his million-selling hit Bad Habits
(more than 1 billion streams on Spotify). Together they opened the Brit Awards 2022
with the track.
And they don’t get enough of each over. BMTH invited their mate for a euphoric rendition of Bad Habits at their Reading/Leeds show. Sheeran‘s rock credibility got another huge upgrade. You either love or hate him (I’m in the middle) but kudos to Bring On The Horizon who don’t care if their fans will shoot them for working with the singer-songwriter-crooner.
Anyway, this is ecstasy in motion…
27 August 2022
Artist: LEE ROGERS
Who: Singer-songwriter from the small town of Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland.
His musical inspiration was drawn from classic voices outside of the tensions in
his homeland. Bill Withers, Marc Cohen, Tom Waits, and other great ones.
Single: UNEASY LOVE
One of the highlights of his new, 2nd album Gameblood
(you can read TUTV’s review here)
Rogers about the song: “I once travelled around Australia with a beautiful woman who set me on lots of the better paths I have taken in life, but she left the planet for her next journey a while back. I later had a dream that I was in an old car we had out there, driving in the middle of nowhere, listening to the only tape we had in the car, which was the album ‘Mule Variations’ by Tom Waits. I got excited when I looked round and saw her in the passenger seat, sun-bleached hair, tanned skin, bare feet on the dashboard. She then started glitching in and out of vision, like she was going to disappear completely. I woke up gutted, went to my studio with tears in my eyes and wrote this song.”
About the video: “It wasn’t easy and seemed to give my director Jamie Neish and I the run around! However, when he came up with the idea of projectors and leaning a little into film
noir style visuals, I knew we were onto something.”
A grand voice, a romantic song and a melancholia-colored video clip combined have all it needs to send shivers down your spine. This is what this Irish songsmith does with heart and soul, here and on all the way on his new longplayer.
Listen/watch
LEE ROGERS: Facebook – Instagram
26 August 2022
(Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Pukkelpop Fest – 20 August 2022)
Band: DE STAAT
Who: Dutch wham bam droners
Albums: 6 – discography here
This is not a new song (2015), nor a new video clip, but as I saw the band performing last Saturday at the Pukkelpop Festival (Belgium) this spectacular video clip came back to mind.
Amazeballs!
DE STAAT: Facebook – Instagram
The ladies of L.A. band WARPAINT
released their 4th LP RADIATE LIKE THIS,
last May, their first in six years.
For funky tune HIPS, one of the album’s singles
they canned a video clip with director Jim Hosking.
“’Hips’ has a scuttling intensity to it. It sounds like someone desperately trying to find
something. Or at least that’s what it seemed to me. I listened to it repeatedly and kept seeing women desperately searching for each other in a seaside town. Ideas present themselves and it’s not about logic or reason, it’s about emotion. And here the emotion suggested identically dressed women finding each other in an old seaside town in England called Southend On Sea.”
Roll the tape
RADIATE LIKE THIS in full
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WARPAINT: Facebook
24 August 2022
(Photo by Andrew Rankin)
Band: MOUNT FOREL
Who: International post-punk team based in London
New single/video: CENTRALIA SCEPTICS CLUB
The single’s great artwork
This puzzling band have their 2nd album, baptized Sub Rosa Stories coming soon.
It features an uneasy group of secret symphonic modern tales. Each petal that falls
from the rose tells a story of chaos and consequence from somewhere in the world. Sounds weird, ominous and… totally cool.
Centralia Sceptics Club is a taster of what to expect.
“There’s a fire that’s been burning under the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania
for over 50 years and may continue for another 250! It started as a waste dump
fire before spreading to the coal mine under the town. Centralia used to be a town
of 1,200 people but now only a handful remain and although there’s toxic fumes
and smoke coming from cracks in the ground, the last few refuse to leave, even
after the local government offered to rehouse them!”
Musically it’s a psychedelic wall-of-electrifying-sound jam. A transcendent trip towards
a dark place. As ska icons The Specials once sang “ This town is coming like a ghost town.“. This is the idea. Eerie stuff.
The accompanying video is as spooky and puzzling as the song. Do you know the 60s hit This Wheel’s On Fire, Rolling Down The Road by Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll? That’s the spirit here…
MOUNT FOREL: Website – Facebook – Instagram
22 August 2022
Creepy metal junks SLIPKNOT from Iowa, throw a new lonplayer,
baptized THE END SO FAR at the world’s face on 30 September.
Following The Dying Song (Time To Sing) comes a second taster
named YEN. Partly a, yes, charged-up pop song, partly vintage
Slipknot roar.
A couple of weeks ago they shared new piece YEN. A slow-ticking
time bomb that detonates a couple of times. Do I hear a melody
in there? Yes, the Slipknot way.
As the knife goes in, cut across my skin, when my death begins
I wanna know that I was dying for you, I died for you
As the knife goes in, cut across my skin, when my death begins
I wanna know that I was dying for you, I died for you
Here comes leatherface…
