Lest We Forget

Lest We Forget – TUTV’s 20 Best Albums Of 2024 – Today: No. 1

Posted on by JL

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. 1

Band: THE CURE

Album: SONGS OF A LOST WORLD
The Goth Gods’ 14th LP, their first
in 16 years.

Orchestrator Robert Smith about
their supreme new opus.

TUTV: In the past 16 years Robert Smith lost his mother, father, and brother.
All these painful events led to this extraordinarily touching record. It’s one
long, emotionally layered lament that works liberating in the end.

Strong sentiments of heartache, grief, and sadness are omnipresent, but you
hear and feel frequently that Smith has accepted humankind’s inevitable destiny.
Live and die. Life and death.

Sonically, it feels like if you’re part of a funeral march that progresses in slow
motion. Almost every song starts with a long instrumental intro of waves of
mourning synths and weeping guitars, and every time when Smith‘s feverish
voice joins in, the sense of tristesse augments wondrously heavy-hearted.
5-star masterpiece!

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Lest We Forget – TUTV’s 20 Best Albums Of 2024 – Today: No. 8

Posted on by JL

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. 8 

Artist: JEEN (Toronto, CA)
Canadian songstress.

Album: GOLD CONTROL
Her 4th one.

TUTV: The three main elements that make this album special are Jeen’s remarkable
voice, her high-quality songwriting expertise, and the heart-and-soul passion that streams throughout it. Whether Jeen rocks out, muses, or swings moods, she always holds your aural attention.

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Lest We Forget – TUTV’s 20 Best Albums Of 2024 – Today: No. 14

Posted on by JL

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. 14

Band: FONTAINES D.C.

Album: ROMANCE
Their 4th LP

Pitchfork: “On its fourth album, the Irish group trades steely post-punk for stadium-sized
alt rock with a hefty dose of Y2K nostalgia. It’s an unexpected shift, but they handle it with panache.”

TUTV: The young Dubliners have become first-class songwriters (which they already
proved with confident style on previous LP Skinty Fia– still my favourite one). Frontman Grian Chatten‘s lyrics show (again) his observative view on this modern-day, confused world and how it affects his inner-self.

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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Lest We Forget – TUTV’s 20 Best Albums Of 2024 – Today: No. 15

Posted on by JL

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. 15

Band: AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS (Australia)

Album: CARTOON DARKNESS
Their 3rd one.

Pitchfork: “A defensive, chip-on-shoulder tone dominates the Australian punks’
third album, threatening to overshadow their freaky experimental flourishes and
newfound melodic sophistication.”

Turn Up The Volume: Old skool punk ‘n’ roll? Absolutely. Any good? You betcha!
Amyl and her loud buddies made another roasting riff-manic-monster of a hell fucking
hell yeah record. Pogo madness is back. Sturm un drang from start to finish. HOLY MOLY!

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Lest We Forget – TUTV’s 20 Best Albums Of 2024 – Today: No. 16

Posted on by JL

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 I wrote about each one
of them.

Today: No. 16

Band: THE SMILE
Sort of supergroup featuring 2 radioheads, Thom
Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and drummer Tom Skinner.

Album: CUTOUTS.
Their 3rd LP in just 2 years
(Radiohead 8 in 31 years).

Pitchfork said: “The Radiohead spinoff’s looser, funkier second album in nine months is a thrilling testament to the near-telepathic chemistry the three musicians have spent the last three years developing. It offers a grim prophecy that could refer to any number of world-historical crises. We’re all going to be dirt in the ground soon enough. Might as well hurry
up and make another record.”

TUTV: By far their best to my ears. On the previous 2, they tried too hard
to not sound like Radiohead (which they did frequently anyway) and did it with
too many redundant orchestrations, too many unnecessary layers and a bit of
arty farty structures here and there.

Mind you these are good LPs but on this one they keep it far more simple resulting
in 10 very compelling pieces of mesmerizing music. Trippy fast ones alternate with slow
reflective doom and gloom ones and throughout the arrangements are subtle, direct and most entertaining with Thom Yorke sounding, yes, at ease, not forcing his compassionate voice/vocals. Bingo.

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Lest We Forget – TUTV’s 20 Best Albums Of 2024 – Today: No. 17

Posted on by JL

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 I wrote about each one
of them.

Today: No. 17

Artist: RICHARD HAWLEY (Sheffield, UK)
Album: In This City They Call You Love
His 10th

MOJO (British music monthly: “Hawley delivers more Steel City romance and Memphis
twang on his new album. He continues to enchant on hymn to his hometown. He has long repurposed the spirit of ’50s and ’60s balladry with style and great affection, his quiff, tailoring and fondness for the lonesome twang of a Gretsch guitar badges of nostalgic allegiance.”


Press photo by 📸: Dean Chalkley

TUTV: Nostalgia is the keyword all over this fully hearty record. As we already know
for a long time Hawley is a romantic at heart who’s in love with his city Sheffield since
he was a child. It’s more than just his hometown.

It’s the place where he experienced all things good and bad, happy and sad. It leads
to yearning reflections, fanciful daydreams and wistful meditations. With his soft and warm voice and nighttime stories, the late great Roy Orbison comes to mind on
several occasions.

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Lest We Forget – TUTV’s 20 Best Albums Of 2024 – Today: No. 18

Posted on by JL

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 I wrote about each one
of them.

Today: No. 18

Artists: DEAD ANYWAY
British duo combining the dark lyricism of Kate Arnold
against the music and soundscapes of Marc Symonds.

Album: TOUGH LISTEN

TUYV: Slow/mid-tempo/fast trip-hop tunes are wrapped in layers of
distortion and feedback, creating an eerie and at times sinister ambiance.

Massive Attack, Tricky, Arab Strap and Mike Skinner’s The Streets
and Laurie Anderson‘s latest opus Amelia come to mind.

DA resonates as EBM for people who come alive when the darkness sets in, far away
from our 24/7 suffocating life and the world’s destructive nature as we experience now, again.

Kate Arnold‘s spoken word stories evolve on waves of chilling synth soundscapes that actually ease one’s confused mind (mine, for sure) and transfer you to your space of imaginativeness. Trance massage it is. You’ll feel alive anyway.

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Lest We Forget – TUTV’s 20 Best Albums Of 2024 – Today: No. 19

Posted on by JL

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 I wrote about each one
of them.

Today: No. 19

Band: LIP CRITIC
Mental electro-punks from NY
Album: Hex Dealer

“The singular mixture of classic punk/hardcore and electronic styles result in 12 frantic
tracks of postmodern pop for the genreless future. Painted with a broad pallet of only
the most extreme hues of emotion, each track is marked by a distinctive danceable mania.”

TUTV: Let your head kicked in with schizophrenic sledgehammers for illegal raves in batcaves where dropouts, misfits, loners, eccentrics, bohos, and other related outsiders gather to move in mysterious ways, far away from the normal world.


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