2 September 2024

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Band: NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Album: WILD GOD
The 13th one.

Cave: “There’s no fucking around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves
you. I love that about it. I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me. It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a master plan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played
them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”

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Rolling Stone says: “Here’s a sense of abandon and play to Wild God that’s infectious. Produced by Cave and long-time collaborator Warren Ellis, the record continues their
constant conversation, confidently proclaiming that better times are ahead.”

TUTV: Cave is the God of melodramatic balladry. Now here’s a God I can believe in. Again he shows why he’s one of the best ever crooners in the universe. And lyrically it feels as if, after so many devastating, painful years, with the surreal loss of two sons, he lets sparks of light back in his life. God bless Nick Cave.

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Artist: JACK WHITE
Album: NO NAME
His 6th solo one.

Uncut Magazine said: “On No Name, he’s done something special on his own terms,
delighted and surprised his audience, and provided one of the great rock moments of
the year.”

TUTV: White returns to his punk blues roots of the early days. Swipe after swipe,
blue stripe after blue stripe, kick after kick, clap after clap. A total of 13 thunder
strokes. High-wired electricity. Dope record.

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Band: FONTAINES D.C.
Album: ROMANCE
4th LP

NME said: “Knockout, spiritual songs for the end of time The ever-evolving five-piece enter a new phase of transformation on their arresting fourth album – their most considered and intricately crafted work yet.”

TUTV: The Irishmen have become high-quality songwriters (which they already proved on previous LP Skinty Fia– – still my favourite one). Frontman Grian Chatten‘s lyrics show (again) his observative view on the modern, gloomy world and how it affects him emotionally.

This is not their masterpiece yet to my ears, but it’s only a matter of
time that they will come up with a longplayer that will blow us all away.

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Band: KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
Album: FLIGHT b741

Their 26th album in 14 years!!!

Photo by Maclay Heriot

The Guardian (British newspaper): “A cheerfully rocking album about global collapse”.

TUTV: After 25 albums, it sounds as if the prolific Aussies decided to simply rock out
for a change, and they do it with striking 70s-inspired juggernauts with sultry harmonica-blues echoes here and there. Conventional guitar solos pop up in every track. Listen quickly to the record, if not they will have another one out before you press play.

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Band: OSEES
Album: SORCS80
Their umpteenth one.

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AllMusic said: “Punk without guitars has been done before — everything has. Few have done it with the blend of skill, imagination, and flat-out commitment that Osees exhibit on SORCS 80.”

TUTV: For the first time Osees general John Dwyer has incorporated layers of synths in
the band’s sonic, head over heels turmoil. Don’t expect top-notch tunes. This LP is about bulldozing for 38 minutes with punk velocity and schizophrenic electronics and I like it.

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