5 BEST ALBUMS – FEBRUARY 2025
1 March 2025
Band: AVALANCHE PARTY
Who: High-voltage outfit from Yorkshire Moors (UK),
formed by brothers Joe and Jordan Bell, vocalist and
bassist respectively.
Album: DER TRAUM UBER ALLES
Their second one.
Press info: “New album ‘Der Traum Über Alles’, is compared to their debut a more
considered, full-formed beast, its dark underbelly undoubtedly a result of it being
conceived during and after the caged-animal isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic.
TUTV: This record is a funk and punk, buzz and fuzz, move and groove jukebox.
Avalanche Party have become masterly songwriters who know exactly how to construct adrenalized knockout killers with the right combination of roasting riffs, jagged hooks, bang-on licks, powerhouse drumming, effervescent synths and sultry horns here and there.
You’ll hear echoes of Scottish celebs Franz Ferdinand, English post-punks Squid and
rowdy rockers Young Knives, but all 3 references’ new album can’t match the fireworks extravaganza of Der Traum Uber Alles.
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Band: THE MURDER CAPITAL
Who: Impassioned Irish mavericks.
Album: BLINDNESS
The Line Of Best Fit (UK) says: “The album captures the band at their most
independent, revelling in high-energy performances while embracing a broad
eclecticism.”
TUTV: The critics are divided for different reasons. My trained ears tell me that TMC
made their best work so far. Extremely passionate, feverishly absorbing and brutally honest.
Singer-songwriter James McGovern still fights his demons, still delivers soul-stirring vocals and the band still back him up with a vehement boldness. Sterling songs, sterling sound, sterling execution.
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Band: CUT THE KIDS IN HALF
Who: Boston via Rahway, NJ rock siblings Charlie and Jack Silver, named after Radiohead‘s line in Morning Bell. They bring a fresh approach to the age-old genre with songs sure to make their predecessors proud with catchy hooks and an emotional tenderness.
Album: WHAT WE BECAME
Press info: “Vignettes of struggle, loss and life come to the forefront, soundtracked by soaring guitars and sticky melodies. Heading to college in Boston, the brothers soon added guitarist Kevin Mortenson and bassist, keyboardist and trumpeter Joey Sorkin to their live trio. A group of native New Jerseyans, Cut the Kids in Half follows in the state’s storied musical tradition of raw but fine-tuned lyricism paired with gritty guitars.”
TUTV: Young, but already sounding as seasoned musicians who know exactly
how to fabricate solid pop/rock songs of high-quality. Whether they speed up,
slow down or groove in between, they grab your aural attention and hold it
from start to finish.
Acoustic and electric guitars, drums and bass, all work together as well-trained
teammates. The vocals are pretty impressive, full of vim and vigour. With this
highly promising debut these kids will become talk of the indie town quite soon.
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Band: THE LUMINEERS
Who: Lauded folk pop-rockers
from Denver, Colorado.
Album: AUTOMATIC
Their 5th longplayer.
MOJO Magazine: “The combination of Schultz’s desperately appealing voice and
Fraites’s lonesome but poppy piano still hits hard. They’re still doing things right.”
TUTV: These are ecstatic days for folk rock-pop fans with the new album from The Luminineers. The Lathums‘ 3rd one, titled Matter Does Not Define, which lands on 7th March and Mumford & Sons 5th, named Rushmere, which comes out on March 25th.
Except for anthemic, upbeat openers So Long and Asshole they entice with a series
of sepia-colored torch songs, passional musings and picturesque balladry. C’mon,
all you romantic hearts, lit some candles and enjoy the longing melodrama at play
here.
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Artist: GHOST ON TV
Who: Boston-based alternative singer-songwriter who found himself in Japan several years ago, wandering back alleys, absorbing a more spiritual sense of culture, and embracing a kind of creative balance that had previously eluded him. There, he understood the art of being quietly loud and, as he puts it bluntly, to “be impactful with less.”
Album: MISTER SILENCE
With this record, disparate elements of styles and sounds are wrapped tightly around a rock music core. And like a back alley of Tokyo, what lurks on the other side, beyond what our mind perceives, may not be what we first anticipated. When DePasquale looked beyond what was right in front of him, Ghost on TV truly found its rhythm.
DePasquale: “Some of these songs are about being tired of all the noise, and some are about getting old, losing memories, getting older and becoming wiser, standing up for yourself, being bold, and also just knowing your humbled place in the world.”
The album’s artwork is a photograph of DePasquale and a friend, backs turned, walking through Tokyo’s back alleys in search of a hidden cocktail bar, with elements of bright new technology jostling with old-school decay, reflects a scene like something out of a dystopian film, drawing us deeper into this world.
TUTV: Beneath all the distortion, sonically and vocally, there’s always a galvanizing
groove generated mostly by a busy bass, that carries the songs and infuse them with
a magnetizing hauntingness which turns the record into an eerie trip you need to repeat
a couple of spins to let it sink in. Don’t get lost in translation, people.
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