For your eyes only
3 Mach 2022
As announced before LIAM GALLAGHER unleashes his 3rd solo album C’MON YOU KNOW on 27 May. He premiered lead single EVERYTHING’S ELECTRIC about a month
ago and now we get to see the video clip.
In black and white…
LIAM GALLAGHER: Facebook
For your ears and eyes
11 January 2022
Band: THE BANKROBBER
Who: Italian alt-pop band led by
siblings Giacomo and Maddalena Oberti‘
The tandem revealed their newest single LEASH DIED (SHOULDN’T CRY)
last month. A first taster from their forthcoming, second, album titled
Lighters and Lovers
Turn Up The Volume wrote: The Italian band follows their intimate and tender
ballad Carry Me On with this new emotive reflection. But this shadowy dream is
more upbeat and lively although with a dark twist when a distorted ghost-like
voice takes over on the chorus. I’m pretty sure Tame Impala will like this.
As usual The Bankrobber visualize their songs with eye-catching videos.
Here’s the colors-filled clip for the new one, starring a young enigmatic
beauty. Eurythmics‘s Annie Lennox would sing ‘Who’s That Girl?‘.
Have a look, ladies and gents…
THE BANKROBBER: Facebook
30 December 2021
The Los Angeles rock Amazons DEAP VALLY – Lindsey Troy (guitar, vocals) and Julie Edwards (drums and vocals) – released their third LP called MARRIAGE (one of Turn Up The Volume’ top 10 albums of 2021) last month, with fervid firecracker MAGIC MEDICINE as the lead-single.
Deap Vally: “Magic Medicine is a song five years in the making, born in Allen Salmon’s Nashville studio, and raised in Josiah Mazzaschi’s Cave Studio back in LA. Initially, a song about being high on what-have-you (body chemistry, lab chemistry, nature’s chemistry) the lyrics have taken on a new meaning in the era of coronavirus, a moment when more than ever we need a miracle cure to make it safe to have fun and feel free again.”
Warning: the accompanying video clip will make you high.
A great reason for Turn Up The Volume to name this video
‘the best of 2021’.
Roll the tape, ladies…
Get married here…
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DEAP VALLY: Facebook
Eye-catching clips
15 December 2021
Band: IDLES
Who: Bristol punks making more
and more furor with every album
New album: CRAWLER
Their 4th longplayer
Video clip for WHEN THE LIGHTS COME ON
Joe Talbot (frontman): “A poem of light
and sound exploring the cold light of day.”
Drive into the night…
Full album…
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IDLES: Facebook
Eye-cathing clips
14 December 2021
Band: BLOC PARTY
Who: London post-punk force
from London led by Kele Okereke
Active: Since 1999 / 6 studio albums,
with Hymns (2016) as the most recent one
New album: ALPHA GAMES
Release: 29 April 2022 via BMG
New single: TRAPS
Talking about a comeback! Holy smoke! Traps is a steaming
stormer, a killer knockout, a whopping whirlwind.
And here’s the video clip…
BLOC PARTY: Facebook
New album ALPHA GAMES out 29 April 2022
Eye-catching clips
10 December 2021
Band: FUCKED UP
Who: Experimental noise explores from Toronto making
electrical hardcore waves for 20 years now / 5 studio LPs (so far).
Last May the FUCKED UP Toronto launched another part
of their Chinese Zodiac series called YEAR OF THE HORSE
containing four acts with contributions from The National’s
Matt Berninger and Julien Baker among others.
Turn Up The Volume wrote back then: “Fucked Up go on
a knock-down-and-drag-out expedition while switching from
loud to quiet and vice versa, from hardcore to prog-rock sketches,
from intimidating to relaxing, from cinematic to symphonic, from
trippy to jazzy. Totally Godspeeded-and-freaked-up.”
And they just shared a 14-minute short
film visualizing the album’s story.
Watch the horse of 2021 wandering through
the fields and the woods on its way to the night…
Stream full album…
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FUCKED UP: Instagram
(band photo: cover of ‘Epic In Minutes’ album)
Eye-catching video clips
6 December 2021
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.
About a week ago the ever-compelling tandem impressed
(again) with new single New single: THE PROPHET. A tribute
to Sylvia Plath‘s poem, Lady Lazarus, told through the eyes
of an advanced A.I robot who is “resurrected” with a destructive
super-intelligence.
Turn Up The Volume said: “This is a slow-burning torch with
hellish flare-ups of Rammstein‘s Götterdämmerung hysterics
and roaring rock riffage while Samara‘s spoken-word ode to
the legendary American confessional poet/writer Sylvia Plath
hypnotizes and magnetizes.
Meet The Prophet here…
• Music by The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara
• Video by TCOMAS STUDIO
• Music mixed and mastered by Philip Marsden
TCOMAS: Facebook
Eye-catching video clips
3 December 2021
Band: 00_ (all oh nothing)
Who: An experimental rock band with a drip-fed, magnetic
sound. A warm damage, a gleaming vocal performance, a
coordinated racket of unhinged guitar smothered in a viscous
porridge of urgent drums and bass.
Last September this Melbourne outfit unleashed
their out-of-the-box jumping CA\YPTRA album.
And Turn Up The Volume was all ears: These Aussies share the spirit and
vision of bands such as Mogwai, Black Midi and Nick Cave’s The Birthday Party.
They also muck around with electrical noise but even rawer, messier, and more
chaotic than the aforementioned noise junks. 00_ build up, break down, throw
some out-of-tune violins in, here and there to pierce your ears, and create
overall a barbed wire hullabaloo for your favorite nightmares. Fascinating.
The band has a video out now for the LP’s track clauDia.
This is how it looks when reality
and surreality have a day out
in the country together…
Stream/buy CA\YPTRA right here…
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00_: Facebook
Clips that impress ears and eyes
5 November 2021
London-based DJ CACTUSHEAD teamed up with exhilarating soul voice ROWETTA
(best known as a longtime member of Madchester gang Happy Mondays) for a swirling
old skool house stomper called LIFE’S WHAT YOU MAKE IT.
The vibrant vibes had their instant effect on my imagination as that fired-up discofloor filler hit Knock On Wood (original by Eddie Floyd) by Amii Stewart popped up in my head the moment Rowetta starts to celebrate life with her glorious power vox as mighty as the island’s mountains.
Today the duo dropped a video clip. Man oh man, I’m so jealous seeing Rowetta shake and swing and sway to the beats in sunlit Ibiza. Let’s close our eyes and pretend we’re moving our feet and hips along the Happy Monday lady. Life’s what you make it, even in your fantasy.
Shake your booty right here…
DJ CACTUSHEAD: Facebook
ROWETTA: Facebook
‘Life’s what you make it’ available on Apple Music
Clips for eyes and ears
21 October 2021
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.
After the release, last February, of their spectacular debut LP Full Spectrum,
the creative tandem launched new piece Count The Dead two weeks ago. A
song composed in protest of governments and world leaders, whose negligence
and recklessness have resulted in one of the largest ‘avoidable’ losses of lives in generations.
Turn Up The Volume wrote: A crystal-clear structured protest against greedy
political sharks and megalomaniac charlatans oppressing people for their own
devastating agendas. Again Manimal and Samara show how to fuse poignant
poetry and versatile metal genres. Manimal and Samara are sonic architects.
And here comes the visualization for the cutting indictment.
If words do not say enough these images will…
TCOMAS: Facebook