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21 December 2024
Canadian post-hardcore-rock team FUCKED UP
were really working hard lately.
Last year came their cooking 6th LP, named One Day. Last August number 7
Another Day was launched and last November, out of the blue came the next
one, titled Someday.
And to end 2024 they just dropped a
very catchy tune named APRICOT.
Tasty
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
4 November 2024
Notorious Canadian post-hardcore-rock line-up FUCKED UP are on a productive roll. Last year, in August, they unleashed their cooking 6th LP, named One Day. One year later, this August, number 7 Another Day made stereos feeling uncomfortable and just like that, out of the blue comes the next new one, titled SOMEDAY
A 10-track record which features several guest vocalists, such as High Vis’ Graham Sayle, Fiddlehead/Have Heart’s Pat Flynn, Rifle’s Max Williams, Julianna Riolino, and the band’s Year Of The Horse collaborator Tuka Mohammed.
In a press statement, the band says: “This record is about how far our actions and our
ideas can travel, and how we can plant consequences in the lives of other people without
even realizing it and how we can use our lives to make this a better world.”
TUTV’s ears say that Fucked Up sounds more and
more like guitar-spiralling legends Hüsker Dü.
Wake up but
don’t fuck up,
people.
Every week 10 new rad tracks added
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.
FULL JUKEBOX
240 songs
The 10 new ones added this week
TRACK-BY-TRACK
Band: THE RETROGRADE
Who: Intense rock unit
from Tallahassee, Florida.
Track: WHAT CAN BE DONE
Aerosmith-like blues rocker from this hefty quartet’s
brand-new sizzling debut LP That’s The Spirit.
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Band: FUCKED UP
Who: Post-hardcore-punk
noise veterans from Toronto.
Track: ANOTHER DAY
The title track of their new, upcoming 7th album, out in
September. It’s a loud and clear celebration of cannabis.
Get high here.
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Artist: OLI BARTON
Who: High-vocal-powered
British songwriter.
Track: YOU JUST PLAYED MY MIND
The B-side of his previous single
‘It’s Over Now’‘s reissue on vinyl.
B-side? I don’t think so. This is a high-octane
stunner with an A-side quality. Touchdown.
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Band: GHOST
Who: Swedish theatrical pop-metal band fronted
by singer-songwriter, actor, and filmmaker Tobies
Jens Forge aka Papa Emeritus IV
Track: THE FUTURE IS A FOREIGN LAND
An amplified, melodic, easy-listening, power
pop tune and some glowing rockabilly echoes.
Sweet guys, sweet ghost, sweet song.
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Band: HUGE MOLASSES TANK EXPLODES
Who: Italian outfit who offer a kaleidoscopic experience,
ranging from rugged and evocative beats to dreamy
soundscapes, inspired by post-punk and psych-wave.
Track: BOW OF GOLD
Single from their upcoming 3rd full length,
named ‘III’, and coming out in September.
Psych-pop at its dreamiest best.
Harmonious and starry-eyed.
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Artist: YUNGBLUD
Who: English, flamboyant superstar
Track: BREAKDOWN
A song that deals with his mental health problems.
All proceeds go to mental health caring organisations.
Part melodic pop, part waterfall rap. Ace!
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Band: WHOLE
Who: Indie/electronic/wave
duo from Berlin.
Track: BEAST
Single and opening piece of their
brand-new album Hydra.
Both haunting and infectious
with an early Depeche Mode
sonority.
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Band: HEARSING
Who: Long-time American
musical friends.
Track: MONTAUK
Opener of the tandem’s fresh
5-track debut EP Pastoral.
Americana melancholia that triggers
your daydreaming moments.
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Artist: KIM GORDON
Who: Former Sonic Youth heroine who just
released her 2nd solo album The Collective
Track: ECPR
A new stand-alone piece that clearly was
recorded during the album sessions.
Slo-mo industrial spoken-word musing as we
get/got many on her new and first solo LP.
Linktree
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Artist: ALICE GLASS
Who: The Canadian co-founder and
former frontwoman of electronic act
Crystal Castles
Track: REMAINS
A first slice of the upcoming collaboration
with hip-hop New York musician Clip.
Sounds like a lullaby, rapped-up at times,
and recorded in a fishbowl.
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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
25 June 2024
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Last year these Canadian post-hardcore-rock crusaders
released their awe-inspiring 6th LP, named One Day.
And the creativity kept on flowing.
New album ANOTHER DAY is planned to
be released on August 9. More info here.
Album artwork
Following lead-single Stimming we get a loud and
clear celebration of the beneficial effects of cannabis.
A jagged jackhammer.
Damian Abraham (front loudmouth): “Evolving side by side for millennia,
there is no other plant on earth that we have had a deeper and more fraught
relationship with. It has provided us food, clothing, fuel, sails, rope, paper,
building material, recreational entertainment and a medicine to treat countless
ailments.
The last few decades have seen immense changes begin to take place. Years
of activism would bring about “medical marijuana” programs. Medical cannabis
would act as a thin end of the wedge for recreational legalization efforts. The new
legal markets, in turn, have brought a wave of corporatization.
While the lyrics of the song continue the story that started in “Lords Of Kensington,”
they’re also meant to be a metaphor for what’s happened to cannabis post legalization
in Canada. A regulatory framework, with eyes on profits over justice and righting past wrongs, saw an industry handed over to prohibitionists and the people that enforced it over the victims of it. This song is about the death of that faze of cannabis and a hope for whatever rising in its place being better.”
Get high here.
FU: Linktree
Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant
3 April 2024
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Last year Canadian post-hardcore-rock crusaders released their awe-inspiring 6th LP, named One Day. Afterward at their gigs they sold exclusively a 7″ single, named BEING ANNOYED.
They made the fucked up volcanic eruption available for everyone online now.
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Fucked Up: Linktree
30 December 2023
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.
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK BY TRACK
Artist: PJ HARVEY (UK)
Track: The Nether-edge
Album: I Inside The Old Year Dying
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Band: THE MURDER CAPITAL (Dublin, Ireland)
Track: Return My Head
Album: Gigi’s Recovery
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(Photo by Turn Up The Volume – The Netherlands , 2023)
Band: DREAM WIFE (UK)
Track: Leech
Album: Social Lubrication
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Band: COACH PARTY (Isle Of Wight, UK)
Track: What’s The Point In Life
Album: Killjoy
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Band: FUCKED UP (Toronto, CA)
Track: Nothing’s Immortal
Album: One Day
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Band: SWIMWEAR DEPARTMENT (Houston, Texas)
Track: We Need A Place
Album: The Poolest Of The Mall
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Band: S O R O R (Belgium)
Track: Shadow Of A Doubt
Album: New Born
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(Photo by Turn Up The Volume, Brussels, 2023)
Band: THE PSYCHOTIC MONKS (France)
Track: Crash
Album: Pink Colour Surgery
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Band: VIOLET NOX (Boston)
Track: Senzor
Album: Vortex And Voices
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(Photo by Turn Up The Volume, Belgium)
Band: PROTOMARTYR (Detroit, MI)
Track: Fulfillment Center
Album: Formal Growth In The Desert
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Band: EATING RAINBOWS (Belgium)
Track: Smile
Album: Yep Yep Yep
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Band: PHUTURE MEMORIEZ (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Track: Mouth Yellow
Album: Play Cobra
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Band: CAMLANN (Indonesia)
Track: Your Death Is My Glory
Album: Dismantle!
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Band: 100 GECS (St. Louis, US)
Track: Hollywood Baby
Album: 10,000 gecs
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Band: WARGASM (UK)
Track: Do It So Good
Album: Venom
Band: FILIBUSTER (Belgium)
Track: A Problem (In A)
Album: Quiet Part Out Loud
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Band: MILK TV (Belgium)
Track: Paint Boy
Album: Neo Geo
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Band: FERAL FIVE
Track: Truth Is The New Gold
Album: Truth Is The New Gold
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Band: MELODY FIELDS (Sweden)
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Artist: JOHN CALE (Wales)
Track: Story Of Blood
Album: Mercy
Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant
21 October 2023
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Canadian post-hardcore-rock warriors FUCKED UP had a very productive last year with no less than 4 LPs centered around the same theme, Year Of The Horse, and a couple of EPs.
And no rest for the wicked (yet). At the start of this year they had another longplayer
out, titled One Day, recorded in 24 hours, followed by a new EP and a couple of covers
And the hit team just dropped another clamorous haymaker, named SHOW FRIENDS.
Damian Abraham: “This is a song about the complex relationships people can wind up
having with music and the music business. It’s a very conditionally loving business, with all
sorts of metrics and benchmarks you need to hit to deserve love. The lyrics are me reflecting back on one of the low times in the band and realizing that I’m not really mentally cut out for this vocation. What happens when the thing you have based your life around starts eating you alive?
I wanted it to have the feel of a mid-tour fever dream, replete with: anxiety, exhaustion, temporal dysplasia, and the flood of past wrongs and wrongings. I had written the lyrics
during the One Day session but couldn’t get it to come together like it sounded in my head. Jonah and I dusted it off and hacked away at it in my basement until it felt right.”
TUTV: My ears hear the pounding explosiveness of immortal punk
icons The Clash. Frantic, fierce, fervent and wholly fucked up of course.
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Standout longplayers
27 January 2023
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Band: FUCKED UP
Who: Ominous hard-core-noise warriors from Toronto making
electrical waves for 20 years now / 6 studio albums (new one incl.)
The Canadian noiseniks were very productive last year with no less than
4 LPs centered around the same theme Year Of The Horse and a couple
of EPs.
And only one month in the new year and the hardcore maniacs
already have a new longplayer to offer, baptized ONE DAY.
Press info: “With ‘One Day’, Fucked Up have delivered one of the most energizing and intricate albums of their career, a massive-sounding record that arrives in deceptively small confines. The Canadian hardcore legends have been known for their epic scale in the past, so it might be a surprise that Fucked Up’s sixth studio album is their shortest to date, written and recorded in the confines of one literal day (hence the title). Don’t mistake size for substance, though: The band’s sound has only gotten bigger, more hard-charging, with even denser thickets of melody.”
Mike Haliechuk (guitarist): “I wanted to see what I could record in literally one day.”
Damian Abraham (vocalist) It almost felt like it might be the last time I’d ever get
to record vocals for anything.”
TUTV: It’s back to their fuckin’ roots. Raw and rough, loud and Herculian, and
at times, yes, surprisingly catchy with strings! Final result: a power-core-house
juggernaut nailed in 24 studio hours.
What a day!
5 new big ones to stay on track in the weekend
14 October 2022
British Goth-metal legends THE CULT released their 11th LP, named
Under The Midnight Sun proving they still know all the tricks in the
book to make their fans go berserk.
One of the top tracks is the single GIVE ME MERCY.
Let’s roll…
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THE CULT: Instagram
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Band: GRIMELDA
Who: 2-chump freaky noise-rock from Saskatchewan, Canada
Motto: “We literally and purposefully ripped off other rock songs
and made our own “conventional” rock anthem. The point was twofold:
rock music is dumb and everyone steals ideas but also rock ‘n roll is
FUN so who cares.”
New single: GEORGE THOROGOOD
Who: Blues rock hero from Delaware, US
“Why’s it called “George Thorogood?” Cause we’re all George Thorogood.
George is a good old rocker dude who wrote songs about rocking out so we
figured he’s a fitting subject. It’s about embracing your inner George and
saying to yourself “heck ya, I rock!”
What we need in these fucked-up times are wacko motherrockers like these
who show that punk havoc doesn’t have to be serious all the time, as long as
it played with mean, mad, and manic neurosis so we all fun in the moshpit.
GRIMELDA: Facebook
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Pat Piasecki
Band: DIABLOGATO
Who: A collaborative band where each of its four members contribute equally to the overall vision, songwriting, and storytelling. So it makes sense that as the Boston rock and roll brigade watches the world burn, an invitation is extended for everyone else to join in and drift into the “Jet Black Night” – all that’s needed is a little white noise and anesthesia.
New single: JET BLACK NIGHT
“With all the crazy in the world that we have such little control over, we are trying to
rally our fellow people into the darkness together. Because no matter how much despair and disaster we face, together we are not alone in the darkness facing it – into the ‘Jet Black Night’.”
This is a blues rock-fueled sledgehammer, a nasty mid-tempo groove
for all doomed people out there, pretty much all of us. No rest for the
wicked. If we have to go down, let’s do it together while having bad-ass
blasts like this on the stereo.
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DIABLOGATO: Facebook
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Noise Warriors FUCKED UP have a brand new William Shakespeare EP
out baptized Oberon, the king of the fairies in Shakespeare‘s comedy play
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I didn’t know the play writer was a hardcore fan.
Here’s of the 4 thunderclaps, titled MASHHIT
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FUCKED UP: Facebook
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Band: YABBA
Who: Scottish newcomers who turn up the heat
New single: GET BY
Holy smoke. What a hammer blow of a debut. For a second I thought
it was industrial psycho Al Jourgensen and his hotrod squad Ministry
who made my speekers go gaga. A reference that counts big time.
Yabba has entered Terrordome with a big bang.
Press play and
bang your head…
Also st(r)eaming on Spotify
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YABBA: Facebook
9 October 2022
Band: FUCKED UP
Who: Ominous hard-core-noise warriors from Toronto making
electrical waves for 20 years now / 5 studio albums (so far).
New EP: OBERON
Out: 7 October 2022 – order info here
Oberon is the king of the fairies in Shakespeare‘s
comedy play A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Would it be the first time that William Shakespeare is
involved in a fucked up piece of music? No idea. Maybe,
he was a hardcore fan. Who can tell
Video clip for Strix.
Stream/buy EP
here via Bandcamp.
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FUCKED UP: Facebook