For your eyes
With their sublime third LP Skinty Fia rising Irish stars FONTAINES D.C.
went straight to the top of the UK’s album charts last April and will be in
lots of best-albums-of-2022 lists, including mine.
To keep the momentum going they just shared a video for
one of the album’s singles, the moody Roman Holiday reverie.
Roll the tape here…
SKINTY FIA
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FONTAINES D.C.: Facebook
Clips that impress your eyes
5 June 2022
Beware America, they only look nice
Band: CHAT PILE
Who: Caring noise turbo maniacs from Oklamohoma. Having lived alongside
the heaps of toxic refuse that the band derives its name from, the fatalism of
daily life in the American Midwest permeates throughout the works of Chat Pile.
New album: GOD’S COUNTRY
Out: 29 July 2022 – pre-order info here
“There’s a sick irony to how a country that extols rhetoric of individual freedom, in the same gasp, has no problem commodifying human life as if it were meat to feed the insatiable hunger of capitalism. If this is American nihilism taken to its absolute zenith, then God’s Country, the first full length record from Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is the aural embodiment of such a concept.”
First single: SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A slow-scorching volcanic discharge.
Sick hammer, sick screams,
sick guitars. Sick country.
LYRICS
And the eyes of god
Always watching
Always watching
If we could only fly away now
If we could only fly away
And live in different skins
Exist in different skins
And live in different skins
Remove all your skins
And walk in new light
And walk in cleaner light
And walk in new skin
In new light
And the eyes of God are forgiving now
So forgiving now
Blood had to be shed
In order to set things right
Hammers and grease
Haunted building
Haunted life
And all the blood
All the blood
And the fuckin sound, man
You never forget their eyes
Everyone’s head rings here
And there is no escape
No motherfucking exit
Hammers and grease
Pouding
And the sad eyes, goddamnit
And the screaming
There’s more screaming than you’d think
Everyone’s head rings here
You never forget their eyes
Hammers and grease
VIDEO
CHAT PILE: Facebook – Instagram
New album God’s Country is out 29 July through The Flenser
Band photo on top by Bayley Hanes
For your eyes
1 June 2022
Trash metal freaks GWAR released their 15th album THE NEW DARK AGES
a couple of days ago. The vile Virginia veterans still slash and smash as
the best after 38 years.
Here’s the horrific video clip for the guitar-wicked single Berserker Mode
Release the bats…
For your eyes
30 May 2022
Band: THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA
Who: London-based duo – Daphne Ang (Singapore) and
Andrea Papi (Italy) – that fills a gap in music by bringing
literature, art, and history together into a space where
rock and metal meet electronica.
New album: TRUST NO LEADERS
Out: 1st July 2022
Pre-order: here
Last week Samara and Manimal released a new piece from their forthcoming LP.
“Shaman’ narrates a journey of self-discovery into the depths of one’s psyche. Guided
by Jungian psychoanalytic theory, the song captures a personal confrontation with the unconscious in which one experiences the infinite and the energy of the universe. The song introduces the idea of attaining wholeness by uniting our inner and outer worlds.”
Turn Up The Volume wrote: Shaman progresses like a vicious viper working its way to a grandiose finale. Determined, but always wary of sudden danger. Shaman dumbfounds and flummoxes while the song’s tension intensifies and sends shivers down your spine.
They just launched a spectacularly animated video clip. As I said before
the duo has an ingenious vision when it comes to visualizing their hellraisers.
Roll the tape and get dazzled…
For your eyes
The coolest sisters in rock – KIM and KELLEY DEAL – also played in one
and the same band, outside of the other groups they were involved in.
I guess THE BREEDERS are best known for their Last Splash album (1993)
with that boiling Cannonball on. But the following album (nine years later)
Title TK wasn’t bad either and celebrated its 20th anniversary this weekend.
A good reason to have another look at the drop-dead-cool twins
and their video clip for the album’s steamy single HUFFER
THE BREEDERS: Discography
For your eyes
14 May 2022
(Serge Pizzorno – photo by Turn Up The Volume)
Two years ago flamboyant frontman Tom Meighan left KASABIAN following personal problems. The announcement came via this statement from the band: “Tom Meighan is stepping down from Kasabian by mutual consent. Tom has struggled with personal issues that have affected his behaviour for quite some time and now wants to concentrate all his energies on getting his life back on track.”
After a break of 2 years, the Leicester 4-piece is back now with songwriter
Serge Pizzorno on vocals. He sang occasionally Kasabian songs in the past.
A new album, named The Alchemist’s Euphoria
will see the day of light on 5th August. More info here.
Here’s the new trippy single SCRIPTVRE, obviously inspired
by the Beastie Boys vibe, and its flashy video clip…
KASABIAN: Facebook
Artwork of the new, upcoming album The Alchemist’s Euphoria
For your eyes
13 May 2022
Hip-hop expert and popular producer Brian Joseph Burton
aka DANGER MOUSE has a new album, called Cheat Codes
coming in August. He wrote/recorded it with his rapper buddy
BLACK THOUGHT.
The first single NO GOLD TEETH is vintage DM. Funky shit.
And the accompanying clip can cause rapid eye movement, folks.
Watch it here…
DANGER MOUSE: Discography
For your eyes
10 May 2022
Last weekend Canadian orchestra ARCADE FIRE released their
monumental 6th album WE. Their best since the awesome
2004 debut LP Funeral.
And now a video clip is dropped to visualize the sublime
single UNCONDITIONAL (LOOK OUT KID). Epictastic stuff.
Watch out, there’s a strong wind coming…
ARCADE FIRE: Website – WE on Spotify
For your eyes
7 May 2022
In celebration of 60 years of BOB DYLAN recording for Columbia Records,
the legendary video for Subterranean Homesick Blues has been reimagined
by a wide range of musicians, film makers, graphic designers and street artists.
Roll the tape…
That was cool, but I rather watch the original any day of the week…
BOB DYLAN: Website
Eye-catching videos
Drop-dead gorgeous Aussie punkette AMY TAYLOR and her SNIFFERS
have two blistering punk rock albums out, so far. Their self-titled boiling
debut LP (2019) and the red-hot follow-up Comfort To Me (2021).
A week ago the Aussie fury and her desperadoes caught
fire in front of the cameras of The Late Night Show with
a volcanic version of Hertz, one of the many highlights on
the new longplayer. And of course, all eyes are on Amyl.
Don’t drool too much, folks
AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS: Spotify – Facebook
Stream the newest album Comfort To Me via Spotify