Who: Fast up-and-coming indie team from Isle of Wight,
England who hit the scene back in 2019
Members: Jess Eastwood (singer/bassist), Steph Norris (guitar), Joe Perry (guitar) and Guy Page(drummer)
Work: Last year’s striking debut LP Killjoy (stream/buy below)
Concert: Le Botanique, Brussels, 22 May 2024
This was the last gig of Coach Party‘s Euro tour, but with all the sweat they left
on the floor after about 75 minutes it felt like it was their first one. They gave all
of their hearts and souls, and all of their wholehearted energy, and all of their rad
power-pop-punk firepower to a rapturous ‘we knowall the songs’ fan audience. The
band thought nobody would show up on this out-of their home country trip. No-no.
They’re way more indie addicts (like me) around the world, than any mainstream fan would think, who scan the overwhelming amount of music that comes non-stop across their hungry ears, looking for envigorating stuff that draws their mind and spirit away, for a while, from the world’s daily competitive and exhausting rat race.
Enter Coach Party who took the stage in Brussels last night with AC/DC’s Highway To Hell steaming out of the speakers. A 30-second fist-in-the-air foreplay that set the shaky tone in an eye/ear blink.
The Isle Of Wight 4-piece embed their vision on all things human – good and bad – in an out-of-your-fucking- head sound that doubles your adrenalin production on the spot. If you never heard of CP check cast iron juggernauts such as Micro Aggression, July andWhat’s The Point In Life? (family and discovering awesome music, for me).
All towering pop melodies, punked-up and grunged-up, creating a fuzz-and-buzz state of ecstasy on and off the podium. The fact, they’re so down to earth and have all the fun in the world up there, pushes their honesty, credibility and lovability through the roof, that almost went off literally when the decibels went up, even more than before, with a final hat-trick of thundering left/right uppercuts All I Wanna Do Is Hate, Feel Like A Girl and Parasite. Wowzers! If there’s one thing they don’t do, it’s kill joy.
Well, another year has come to an end. A year stuffed with a tsunami of striking tunes
and stunning albums, as TUTV already displayed on its 2023 best-tracks and best-albums lists.
But that was just a fraction of this past year’s superb music extravaganza. Let’s go out with
a big bang. 20 Top Tunes from 20 Top Albums that made our ears go bonkers in 2023.
In order to not miss a beat Turn Up The Volume scans the musical
horizon daily (doing it for years now, actually) to stay in touch with
all new things sonically great and shares the results on a weekly
basis.
Check the 10 new rad cuts just
added to this rad 2023 playlist.
This sharp-rap-cutting Los Angeles duo released their highly acclaimed riot-gun album Mid Air last month. This 3rd single is nothing less than fucktastic, with a sickly sticky flow, a killer guitar riff and the tandem’s adrenalized vocality.
2. ‘What’s The Point In Life’ by COACH PARTY (England)
These young British punk-pop gunslingers will follow their blistering 5-track debut EP Parasite with their debut LP Killjoy on 8 September. It will surely crank up the (justified)
hype around this mean rock machine. Can’t wait to see them live (in Belgium).
The kawaii metal girls teamed up with Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello
for this new head-banging blast. Their mix of catchy metal, pop-punk melodies and
pithy/screamy vocals is a is infallible formula.
4. ‘S l o w l y, L o n g’ by VIRGINS (Belfast, Ireland)
Their 2022 debut EP Transmit A Little Heaven made it loud and
clear that these young shoegazers like to turn up amps and speed.
S l o w l y, l o n g confirms that sonic taste with layers of scintillating guitars going
everywhere fast and a swirling drummer who never backs down. And singer Rebecca
Dow‘s hallucinatory vocals add both a ghostly and sensuous feel.
Hippocandy is a railroad journey, insistent repeating rhythm and wailing blues harp,
growly voice and Rock n Roll feel guitar all adds up to a crazy mixed genre that hints
of Folk, Bluegrass, Rock, Gypsy, Industrial, hip hop and post punk.
The crazed harmonica play, the raw punk-blues pace, the bewildering
groaning/howling vocals. The ghost of Captain Beefheart is omnipresent.
VvV is the musical project of Michael Wynn. Last summer inspired him to write
this new piece, in the voice of someone who is looking for purpose, and some
sort of legacy in their life.
Not The Man is a rollicking earworm your eager ears just can’t resist.
It’s a glorious-amplified pop tune, that in a normal world, should be
a hit.
Rian is a seasoned troubadour/songwriter who likes to stir the sounds of Roots, Country and Folk into a nice pot of musical soup. Along with his band he released a new album, titled Midwest Boy.
Highlight Jim Bristol made me instantly think of Johnny Cash going to Reno, and killing
a man just to watch him die. Well, that’s what the late icon told us when he had some Folsom prison blues.
Unveiling an audacious blend of post-punk and alternative rock in a dark
and gritty sonic landscape, TV People are set to make waves in the
indie music scene with this deeply profound new single.
Die Down reflects on cyclical patterns of love, conflict, and resolution in a relationship.
It is written from the perspective of a person who feels trapped in a negative cycle in their love life, where unresolved issues repeatedly cause pain to both them and their partner despite the immense love and support that flows between them.
Expect an electrical, layered guitar-driven track that changes speed along
its moody course while heartfelt vocals going through the relationship crisis.
