Quote Of The Day – JEHNNY BETH About Love
Jehnny Beth (Savages frontwoman, solo work and this year a collaborative
album with Primal Scream‘s maestro Bobby Gillespie) about love…
JEHNNY BETH
Quote Of The Day – JEHNNY BETH About The Greedy Music Industry
GILLESPIE and BETH Echo 60s Glam Duo SINATRA and HAZLEWOOD
2 July 2021
Artists: Bobby Gillespie and Jenny Beth
Who: Frontman of Primal Scream and frontwoman of Savages
Album: UTOPIAN ASHES
Released: 2 July 2021
NME: “Rock’n’rollers singing heartbroken country duets? It sounds dystopian on
paper – but this thoughtful collaboration both surprises and delivers… On paper,
‘Utopian Ashes’ sounds like an unusual – and potentially risky – endeavour. Two of
rock’n’roll’s brightest stars (one established for decades, the other still staking a
rightful claim) teaming up to record a fictionalised pre-divorce album inspired by
classic country duets is the definition of a niche undertaking…
With ‘Utopian Ashes’, Beth and Gillespie continually harness such pain – and the
strange bravery of a couple trying desperately to keep their lives together even as
things fracture around them. It’s understated, and a quietly affecting success.”
Full review here. Score: 4/5.
Turn Up The Volume: I love Bobby, I love Jehnny and I like what they’re doing
here, but I love Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood better as their heartbreakers and tearjerkers back then – in the 60s, in the unsurpassed decade of romanticism and nostalgia – sounded/sound more authentic and more natural and Nancy & Lee had (unforgettable) hit tunes which you will not find on Utopian Ashes.
Single: Remember When We ere Lovers
Full album…
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Order info: here
Together on the cover of Rolling Stone (France)
Sixties Duo Romanticism Is Back – JEHNNY BETH And BOBBY GILLESPIE Team Up For LP And Share Single
31 March 2021
Remember Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood,
Sonny and Cher all back in the sixties, when almost all songs were about eternal
amour, but also sad heartbreaks and saying somethin’ stupid like I Love You?
Today another couple of celebrities turns up and brings that universal romanticism
back. Primal Scream‘s frontman Bobby Gillespie and Savages’ emo voice Jenny Beth already met in 2015 and started working together two years later on Utopian Ashes.
A collaborative album out July 2. Order info here.
“In the same way you create characters for a novel, we’ve created characters here.
But you put yourself in it, because you’re trying to understand the human situation.
The singing has to be authentic. That’s all that matters” says Jenny Beth about
the record’s main theme.
Gillespie – who cried himself blind now and then with Primal Scream added: “When you write a song you marry the personal with the fictional and make art. I was thinking about two people living alone, together but apart, existing and suffering in a psychic malaise, who plough on because of responsibilities and commitments. It’s about the impermanence of everything — an existential fact that everyone has to face at some point in their lives.”
The lead-single REMEMBER WE WERE LOVERS is pure heart and soul music.
“I wanted to put pain back into music. I wasn’t hearing a lot of it in modern rock music” explains Bobby.
Listen here to the passionate heartbreaker,
accompanied by a melancholic black and white video…
Utopian Ashes out July 2 – order info here.
Striking 2020 Album Artwork
25 December 2020
Artist: JEHNNY BETH
Who: frontwoman of ace band Savages
Album: TO LOVE IS TO LIVE – first solo LP
Released: 12 June 2020
Artwork: The sleeve was conceived after Beth and Tom Hingston, who also
created the cover artwork of Massive Attack’s Mezzanine and Nick Cave’s Push
the Sky Away, met. Beth told him she started doing boxing workouts and that
she was fascinated by some photographs of bodybuilders and that’s how the
idea of the LP’s impressive image came about.
The music…
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BETH: Facebook
Striking 2020 Album Artwork
25 October 2020
Artist: JEHNNY BETH (frontwoman Savages)
Album: TO LOVE IS TO LIVE – debut solo LP
Released: 12 June 2020
We Will Sin Together (Live Session) By JEHNNY BETH
2 September 2020
Charismatic Savages‘ frontwoman JEHNNY BETH released her notable
and critically acclaimed debut album To Love Is To Live last June.
One of the arresting tracks is WE WILL SIN TOGETHER. A hauntingly orchestrated
reverie with a subtle, magnetic piano riff. Wistful and affecting. Beth just shared a
live rendition with a melodramatic Kate Bush touch.
Listen here…
Studio version and official video…
New album in full…
JEHNNY BETH: Facebook
Blood Sweat And Fears – First Solo Album ‘TO LOVE IS TO LIVE’ By JEHNNY BETH
24 June 2020
Artist: Jehnny Beth
Who: frontwoman of Savages, a band that matters
Album: TO LOVE IS TO LIVE
Released: 12 June 2020
Pitchfork says: “‘To Love Is To Live’ not a Savages record by another name. Beth sidelines
the grimy, distorted guitar and reaches for a more diverse palette, including strobe-like synths, downy woodwinds, and inscrutable snippets of found sound. But there are constants: ‘To Love To Live’ is rife with the same livewire intensity, the same embrace of tensions and apparent contradictions. Lyrically and musically, it vacillates between the corporeal and the ethereal, prudence and excess, softness and severity.” Full review here.
Keywords: genuine and impassioned emotions, goosebumps tension, VOICE,
dark brightness, blood sweat and fears, musical Odyssey, brilliant album artwork
Key phrase: “I used to be a human being / Now I live in the web.”
Key tracks: I Am The Man / Heroine / Innocence / We Will Sin Together /
How Could You / Human
Singles/clips…
– I AM THE MAN –
– HEROINE –
– INNOCENCE –
Full album
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JEHNNY BETH: Facebook
Order facilities here
JEHNNY BETH Launched Impressive Video Clip For ‘WE WILL SIN TOGETHER’ From Her Brand New Solo LP
Clips that will have an impact on your eyes and your ears…
Savages‘ frontwoman JEHNNY BETH released her poignant solo debut album ‘TO LOVE
IS TO LIVE‘ today and to celebrate it she launched a spectacular video clip for one of the highlights of the longplayer. WE WILL SIN TOGETHER is an intense meditation. A passionate ballad with a dark touch.
Watch the impressive clip bringing statues to life…
New album in full…
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JEHNNY BETH: Facebook
TO LOVE IS TO LIVE – available via iTunes
TURN UP THE VOLUME’S Eleven Knockout Tracks For NOVEMBER 2019…
Best eleven knockout tracks on repeat this past month…
A swirling fusion of rhapsodic rippers and cool crackerjacks,
that activated our bloodstream and our limbs this past month!
Here’s Turn Up The Volume‘s Knockout November Team!
1. ‘I’m The Man’ by JEHNNY BETH
Banging drums filled electro smack that makes you want to feel, not think…
2. ‘LA Vampire’ by BLITZ VEGA (UK)
A buzzing guitar-driven stunner with a glam touch, a dazzling chorus, and a vital roll.
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3. ‘Falter’ by EMPTY FRIEND (London, UK)
A thunderous motherrocker of a jackhammer fulminating viciously like a voracious beast.
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4. ‘Losing’ by BLACK MONSOON (The Netherlands)
A roaring steamroller fueled by maniacal riffs, weighty drums/bass, and raging vocals.
5. ‘Civilians’ by deux furieuses (London, UK)
One of the most poignant outbursts from their new album ‘My War Is Your War’…
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6. ‘Virgin Soul’ by WINDSHAKE (Swansea, UK)
A stomping ripper with a swaggering boogie-woogie blues groove. Hell yeah!
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7. ‘Sonic Difference’ by RUBBER VELVET (Wales)
A guitar loaded stonker that glows and flames resistlessly, with an infectious chorus. Top!
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8.’Hollow Spheres’ by TALKBOY (Leeds, UK)
Solid gold pop excellence reminding me of Arcade Fire‘s driving pithiness and vocal vivacity.
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9. ‘Comfort Fools’ by RAVELLAS (Wigan, UK)
A hot-blooded and burning mid-tempo rocker with a monumental chorus to scream along.
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10. ‘Electric Dreams of Tokyo’ by WHITE ELEPHANT ORCHESTRA (Los Angeles, US)
Swirling vibe, festive elation, ecstatic electro tune! Get up and shake your hips…
11. ‘Matador’ by THE HOWLERS (London, UK)
Flashing guitar-driven rocker with an overall spellbinding resonance. Flaming stroke!…
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All 11 together on Spotify…
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