Cosmic Fall

Lest We Forget – TUTV’s 20 Best Albums Of 2024 – Today: No. 12

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We’re on our way, slowly but surely, to the end of 2025.
Instead of starting to think about this year’s best LPs,
let’s go back to 2024 and listen to TUTV’s 20 Best Albums
again and look back on what we wrote about each one
of them.

Today: No. 12

Artist: JUJU (Italy)
Brainchild of Sicilian multi-instrumentalist
and producer Gioele Valenti.

Album: APOCALYPSE IS GOD’S SPOILER


Photo by Turn Up The Volume

TUTV: Valenti is a jam champ and a groove master creating electrifying, trance-like vibrations that transfer you to the dark side of your mind, where you can freely
fantasize and explore your own psyche.

Circling Krautrock-like psychedelia is all over the place. Choir chants and spacey percussion cause a tribal atmosphere à la The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. Mind-bending and dream-triggering. As always.

SINGLE

ALBUM


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Magnetizing Psych Groove Experts JUJU Announce New Vinyl Album And Share First Trippy Single ‘COSMIC FALL’

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New striking strokes

2 February 2024

JUJU is the musical vehicle and band of Sicilian multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter and producer GIOELE VALENTI. He is also the man behind Herself, a folktronica project that involved the likes of Mercury Rev‘s frontman Jonathan Donahue, John Fallon of The Steppes and Amaury Cambuzat of Faust and Ulan Bator.

On March 15 JUJU release their new, 4th album, titled APOCALYPSE IS GOD’S SPOILER (kooky title, I love it). It will only be available on vinyl and digitally. Pre-order info HERE.

It’ll feature two exceptional guests: Chad Channing who was the first drummer of
grunge icons Nirvana and Luca Giovanardi from Italian psych combo Julie’s Haircut.


Album artwork

FIRST SINGLE: COSMIC FALL

TUTV: First things first. I’m a longtime JUJU fan (Our Mother Was A Plant still is a classic space-psych album in my book), I saw them play live a couple of times and interviewed mastermind and gentleman Gioele Valenti last March after Juju‘s gig in my hometown of Ghent. So news of new JUJU music always make my greedy ears longing to hear it.

That said, let’s talk about the LP’s first taster. Cosmic Fall is a trance-inducing
psychedelic trip vibed-up with choir chants that create a gospel-like atmosphere
and a short rap injection near the end. The ongoing Krautrock percussion dynamics
are the bongoing backbone of this magnetizing jam, while crystalline guitar sparks
float around like glimmering stars in the sky. Mind-pleasing, dream-triggering, and
mood-elevating as always. Bring on the album.

WATCH/LISTEN

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JUJU: Facebook – Instagram – Interview with TUTV