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JEHNNY BETH Hammers Nine Inch Nails On 2nd Solo LP ‘YOU HEARTBREAKER YOU’

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2 September 2025


New album artwork

JEHNNY BETH, France-born, former frontwoman of female post-punk band
Savages (2011-2017), released her solo debut album Love Is To Live back in
2020. A year later, she teamed up with Primal Scream‘s maestro Bobby Gillespie
for a romantic duet longplayer, called Utopian Ashes.

And now we can get flabbergasted by her bone-chilling, second full-length,
titled You Heartbreaker You. She wrote the album with her partner and
collaborator Johnny Hostile.

Beth: “We’re living in a dark time, full of drama and barbarous tragedy.
It became clear to me that, in these times, we either learn how to scream
really well, or we learn how to whisper.”

Kerrang says: “In a time where it seems everyone wants to make noisier music as an act of defiance against an increasingly cruel world, Jehnny Beth has found a way to stand out. She’s real, she’s raw, and everything here has such a strength of spirit to it that it feels truly alive.”

TUTV: Beth translates her dark and desperate visions on our world’s horrendous state of intolerance and dirty and deadly conflicts, with a crushing and industrial wall-of-trashing post-punk record. She hammers nine inch nails for 29 brutal minutes with 9 mindfuckers.
I guess this is how an electric chair experience must feel like.

Menacing blood-and-guts percussion and her (at times) creepy vocals dominate
the louder than war brouhaha that blasts out of our speakers. Our planet is about
to collapse, Beth made a doom and gloom opus to soundtrack the catastrophe.

Singles/clips: Obsession / Broken Rib / High Resolution Sadness / No Good For People

– OBSESSION –

– BROKEN RIB –

– HIGH RESOLUTION SADNESS –

– NO GOOD FOR PEOPLE –

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French Artist FEU FOLLET Invites You To His ‘SWAMPS OF SADNESS’ – A Dark Melodrama Wave Album

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13 August 2025

Artist: FEU FOLLET
Who: The project of French post/punk, synthwave,
coldwave musician Alban Blaising.

New album: SWAMPS OF SADNESS
His 6th one.

Press info: Originally rooted in instrumental darkwave and synthwave compositions,
Feu Follet has undergone a steady transformation since his 2019 debut Le Champ Des Morts. With 2021’s Beneath The Earth, Blaising introduced vocals into his sonic landscape for the first time, inviting collaborators and blurring the lines between electronic atmosphere and emotional storytelling.

Swamps Of Sadness marks a new chapter. It dives deeper into rock-oriented terrain, while preserving the project’s signature melancholy and immersive textures. Featuring
Feu Follet’s biggest lineup of guest vocalists: Thomas Schernikau (Forced to Mode), Vlimmer, Isabelle B., Baumann, Pat Aubier, and Pierre Bastien, the album opens up Feu Follet’s sound like never before.

Layered with guitars, modular synths, psychedelic bleeps and blobs, Blaising played the drums himself for the first time. ‘Swamps of Sadness’ explores personal disorientation and fragile hope through a cinematic lens. It’s a bold, collaborative step forward that both honors and expands the project’s emotional core. Feu Follet continues to evolve without losing the haunting intimacy that defined his earlier works.

TUTV: With such a detailed and factual press statement (no exaggerations whatsoever, when it subscribes the music) I can’t add much except, of course, for what my ears tell
me, and they’re quite impressed.

They advice you to give this dark-melodrama-wave record, dominated by impassioned vocals from Blaising and his guests, surrounded by orchestral synth-scapes and notable percussion, a couple of spins to fully connect with its heart and soul and its overall, shadowy sonority.

In the end all pieces fall into place. Swamps Of Sadness, at its core is a goth-ish, gloomy,
and romantic twilight trip juiced with solid, intense tunes that stick slowly but surely in your mind.

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LUNATRAKTORS – British Outlandish Folktronica Duo Impress With Their New Must Experience Album

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21 June 2025

Artists: LUNATRAKTORS

Who: A collaboration between choreographer and percussionist Carli Jefferson (she/her)
and vocalist and researcher Clair Le Couteur (they/them) that started in 2017 with an apocalyptic question “What’s left when we’ve lost everything?“. The project strips down
folk to the basics of rhythm and voice. They’re British but live in Ireland.

Album: QUILTING POINTS: INVITATIONS AND OPEN CALLS 2019–2025

Out now on CD and digitally via Bandcamp.

The bizarre duo invite audiences into a live remix of sonic activism
and archival exploration, stitched with queer joy and resistance.

Inspired by the process of retrieving their own archival recordings from a corrupted hard drive, the duo’s fourth self-released album returns to their original obsessions: creative anachronism, the resonance of spaces, and research-based improvisation. Quilting Points stitches together seven years of experimental sound compositions, reimagined traditional songs and remixed live performances in chronological order.

Visual taster

Rooted in their self-named genre broken folk, the project examines what it means to create in response to the endless cycles of despair and injustice – to gather, despite it all, and absorb sound as vibration, as shared memory. A standout thread in this project is the duo’s ongoing commitment to trans rights and disability justice, which pulses through their music and their wider performance ethos.

TUTV: No rock, no pop, no punk, no metal, no whatever traditional genre except
for folk, then again not the traditional, familiar folk vibes, we all know. To my ears Lunatraktors make/create at times a sort of modern-day medieval music, at times outlandish near a-capella chants, at times a sort of stripped to the bone one-artist
choir gospel sound energized with spellbinding vocals.

You really should discover and experience the Lunatraktors‘ highly
intriguing sonic universe. It’s everything you (probably) never heard.

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KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD Released Their 27th Album In 15 Years With ‘PHANTOM ISLAND’

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18 June 2025

The inexhaustible prog-psych-rock squad from down under KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD have launched their 27th longplayer in 15 years with PHANTOM ISLAND.

They recorded it with an orchestra, simultaneously
with the making of their 2024 album Flight b741.

British historical keyboardist, conductor, and arranger
Chad Kelley helped them flesh out tracks that needed
more gestation.


Photo by Maclay Heriot

Stu Mackenzie: “He brings this wealth of musical awareness to his chameleon-like arrangements. We come from such different worlds. He plays Mozart and Bach and uses
the same harpsichords they did, and tunes them the exact same way. But he’s obsessed with microtonal music, too, and all this nerdy stuff like me. A lot of love and time and energy and patience and growth went into this one. ”

MOJO (British music monthly): “A dense, cosmic country, limber
astro-funk and psychedelic pop record, it might be KGATLW’s finest
to date.”

TUTV: Despite the vertiginous speed with which the Aussies release albums, they still find ways to surprise instead of copy/paste stuff all the time. This new one is recorded with a full orchestra, including a huge brass team (so it sounds, and it shows on the LP’s cover). Yet, tunewise, they’re still stuck in the psychedelic Grateful Dead 60s with dreamy Jefferson Airplane wanderings and Beach Boys harmonies. Is that a problem? Definitely not. KG & TLW will be fun forever for retro romantics.

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Never Mind HAPPY MONDAYS Here’s YOGI-G AND THE FAMILY TREE With A Party Album For Every Day Of The Week

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12 June 2025

Band: YOGI-G AND THE FAMILY TREE
Who: Happy Mondays co-founder/drummer
Gaz Whelan and friends.

This project blends his iconic Madchester groove with fresh, infectious energy,
delivering music that’s both raw and transcendent, and also features the irrepressible vocals of Rowetta making the sounds of 1990 come alive again in glorious fashion.

Album: SHOW ME THE TRUTH
Their debut.

Press info: The album is a genre-free zone, a collision of moods and styles that dovetails Whelan’s ragged, dark lyrical musings with soulful vocals and African rhythms. It’s the aural equivalent of lying in a warm bath in the middle of a snowstorm—where spaghetti western strings stretch from heaven, rubbing up against filthy electric guitars and punk gospel rhythm and rhyme. A hidden optimism weaves through its DNA, offering soul salvation
for the cynical, a safe haven from an ever-insane world.

Gaz: “Yogi-G and The Family Tree are not hippies, we give a fuller human experience that
is more devolved from the punk experience, where you never quite know if you’re going to
get a hug or a headbutt. Life is filled with peace and love but equally excitement and pain.

I got fed up waiting around to try to agree to write a new Mondays album. When it
became apparent, we couldn’t agree, I decided to do my own. I think it’s bloody great
and the support has been outstanding and for all the good ones we’ve lost along the way
like Gil Scott Heron, Tony Wilson and more recently my bandmate Paul Ryder, this is for
them and for all those who just love to get off on good music.”

TUTV: Madchester 2025? Absolutely. And why not? ‘Show Me The Truth‘ is the Happy Mondays album, that should have been the perfect follow-up to their 1990 masterpiece Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches rather than the mediocre Yes Please!. It’s an album to move your mind/hips away, for at least 40 minutes, from the daily rat race and most of all our war-devastating world.

This dance-and-turn-around-inviting record with several vocal guests, activates your adrenalin production. From happy-7-days-a-week gospel stimulants The Blind Man And
The Monkey, Shine On Brother and Show Me The Truth to groovy-orchestral musings Black Symphony, and The Return Of Apollo Creed (be ready Rocky) from the special(s) ska vibes
of The Ballad Of David Bowie to the closing sing-hum-whistle chant We The Peaceful.

Yep, there’s way more sonic versatility than on any HM longplayer. There’s no way to delete today’s grim reality, but look around and you’ll find a lot of love, peace, happiness, family and friends too. That’s the hopeful spirit that Yogi-G And The Family Tree celebrate. Join them. Embrace their soul-uplifting gusto. Shake your booty.

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‘HEART OF GOLD: THE SONGS OF NEIL YOUNG VOL. 1’ – Star-Studded Vinyl Tribute LP Now Available

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6 June 2025

A new tribute and charity album, titled
Heart Of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young Vol. 1
is available now.

The collection curated by the Cinema Music Group features covers of Young pearls,
by artists including Fiona Apple, Brandi Carlile, The Doobie Brothers, Eddie Vedder, Mumford & Sons, and many more. What began as a one-off session turned into a full-scale benefit project with Neil’s blessing.

You can purchase a vinyl copy right HERE.

Each artist on the album personally chose the song they covered, and nearly every
track was recorded in just one or two takes, giving the record an intimate, live feel.

Proceeds from the album will benefit The Bridge School Of California. An organization dedicated to the educational needs of children with speech and physical impairments. Thanks to a distribution deal with Killphonic Rights, already $100,000 has been raised.
Vol 2 and 3, will follow later. Details TBA.

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Imperishable SPARKS Brothers Released Their 28th (!) LP Today – ‘MAD!’ Stuff

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23 May 2025

The brothers Ron (79) and Russell Mael (76), known to the world as SPARKS
are around since 1966. Yes, that’s 59 years and no sign of retirement. Music
is the dominant element in their DNA. They can’t stop.

They released their 28th (!) album, named MAD! today.
The bros say “Our mantra since 1972, amplified in 2025”.

Press Info: “Most acts, by their seventh decade in the biz, would have slowed to a crawl, creakily playing their past hits on the heritage circuit and releasing nothing more than the occasional Greatest Hits collection. This is not the case for Sparks, who have triumphantly returned yet again, proving their resilience and relevance in a modern world with a fresh record and summer world tour to accompany it.”

MOJO Magazine: “Pop’s rainbow would be significantly less colourful without Sparks. Sibling rivalry’s cooperative and prolific inverse, Ron and Russell continue to concoct songs that are distinctively, resolutely Mael. On MAD!, synth-pop, art-rock and a programmed Shostakovich vibe (see paean to Californian interstate highway I-405 Rules) all feed into their skewed, self-contained universe, the arrangements as unpredictable as the subject matter.”

TUTV: Hats off to these imperishable bros stars. After all these years they’te still an entertaining force with their glam and glitter tunes. Synth-pop at its fun best. No arty
farty stuff, the Maels do it straight up and with the dash and bash of young bands.
Hail hail Sparks.

Singles: My Devotion / Downed In A Sea Of Tears / JanSport Backpack / Do Things My Own Way

– DO THINGS MY OWN WAY –

– JANSPORT BACKPACK –

– DROWNED IN A SEA OF TEARS –

– MY DEVOTION –

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Riot-Gun Rap Vet ‘CHUCK D PRESENTS ENEMY RADIO: RADIO ARMAGEDDON’

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16 May 2025

With Public Enemy rap loudmouth CHUCK D (now 64) has recorded/released
15 albums, with What You Gonna Do When The Grind Goes Down? from 2020,
as the most recent one.

Today it’s time for his 5th solo trip. And it’s named…
CHUCK D PRESENTS ENEMY RADIO: RADIO ARMAGEDDON.

Press info: ”It’s the return of the voice that never left. Chuck D delivers
a seismic broadcast of truth, rhythm, and resistance – uniting hip hop’s pioneers
and new gens alike in a fearless soundtrack for the times. It features contributions
from Daddy-O of Stetsasonic, Schoolly D, Phill Most Chill, Donald D and Jazzy Jay of the Universal Zulu Nation, 1/2 Pint, ULTRAMAG7, and Miranda Writes, plus The Impossebulls
and Blak Madeen.”

AllMusic: “Radio Armageddon is intended for an audience who has been listening to Public Enemy for most of its life, but the album continues in the group’s tradition of delivering timely, empowering messages with dense, confrontational barrages of revolutionary noise.”

TUTV: Chuck D is at his razor blade sharp best when he fulminates against the rotten powers that be. And with that egomaniacal idiot Trump back in the White House there’s
a lot to get furious about. America wasn’t as divided as it is right now because of that deranged hate-preacher who normalizes sexism, racism, and overall intolerance.

Chuck D hips and hops, raps and claps, with knife-edged rhymes and riot-gun tirades, forth and back, left and right. He turns 65 in August, but he will never shut up and mouth off when it comes to expose all sorts of injustices. With or without Public Enemy he will always speak out against the oppressors in charge.

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SUNDAY JUNKIE – Seasoned Boston Rock Duo Stir With Their Self-Titled Passionate Debut Album

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15 May 2025


Art design by Tom Martin

Band: SUNDAY JUNKIE
Who: Multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Tom Martin and drummer/percussionist Shawn Pelkey from Worcester (MA) who got together last year, whose initial creative vision expanded far beyond simple genre conventions. At its core was a sort of amalgamation of things outside a definable sphere of style and sound, and more a reflection of the personal experiences of its two members, a pair of Boston scene veterans who came together to unleash pent-up caustic tension through something new.

ALBUM: SUNDAY JUNKIE
Their self-titled debut one.

Press info: It’s a stirred Molotov cocktail of noise, a torrent of blissful agitation
that corrals digestible genre lanes of post-punk, emo, ‘90s alternative, post-hardcore
and whatever else.

Martin: “Our sound emerged purely unintentionally – it’s just a pretty faithful expression of
our influences and where we’re at in terms of writing abilities. I’ve never been a fan of trying to sound like xyz, or feel like we need to stay within certain parameters of a genre, but rather letting the songs just happen as they’re meant to.”

“For the lyrical themes on this album, I’d say it’s a pretty even split of deeply personal, introspective lyrics and then dealing with discontent in relation to the world at large. On the more personal, introspective side are songs like ‘Death Defier’ and ‘Fever Dream’ that delve into romantic relationships, and ‘Constellations’ aims to examine the dull ache of nostalgia and fleeting youth. ‘Emergencies’ hits on religious hypocrisy and the mainstream media’s constant cycle of fear often played ad nauseam.”

Pelkey: “For the most part, the songs take shape without intent. Every now and then Tom will write a track where I hear certain influences and I’ll try and nudge it in that direction. The first time I heard the ‘Vultures’ riff, it gave me a heavy Queens of the Stone Age vibe. That sense of nostalgia made it easy for me to write my parts. I’m sure that stems from the fact we share a
lot of the same influences. The ‘90s alternative vibe is definitely strong with us.”

TUTV: The record’s keyword is PASSION. Passionate tunes, passionate swagger,
passionate vocals and passionate performances. Sunday Junkie’s way of wielding, composing, and executing the good old guitar/bass/drum formula reminds me of
the unwavering authenticity of The Replacements and rock solidness of Guided by
Voices. High-quality songwriting combined with an insatiable appetite for jangly
riffage.

All 10 powerhouse songs stand tall and proud, with voltaically orchestral Band Of Horses echoes here and there. The seamless, musical chemistry between Martin and Pelkey is the driving force of this debut album that makes it sound like they already have a few under their belt. High or not, you can play and enjoy SJ any day of the week.

KEY TRACKS: Vultures / Holy Holy / Fever Dream / Emergencies / Constellations

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MODEL/ACTRIZ + Brooklyn-Based Techno Drill Machine Released Their 2nd Album ‘PIROUETTE’

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5 May 2025


Album artwork

Band: MODEL/ACTRIZ
Who: Electro act
based in Brooklyn.

Album: PIROUETTE.
Their 2nd one.

Press info: “Model/Actriz’s sophomore album Pirouette, swerves out of the maze and directly into the spotlight. Pirouette is both a natural progression and a calculated reset,
a move toward reasserting their command as artists by peeling away the smoke and
mirrors to become brighter, heavier, and more direct.

The pop thread running throughout the album allows the crowd to witness thumping
club music in the spirit of cabaret and manifest the catharsis that comes with hitting
the dancefloor.”


Promo photo by Yulissa Benitez

The Guardian (English newspaper): “Sweat-spattered New Yorkers are the stuff of adoring cult fandom. The album largely thrives on thrilling contrasts: between the band’s tendency to cacophony and the taut control with which they play; between the sweetness of the tunes and the pummelling din behind them.

Haden’s vocals somehow feel intimate and understated, even when he slips into a falsetto,
yet there’s a cocktail of emotional intensity and campy floridity in the lyrics: “I’m such a fucking bitch, girl, you don’t even know,” he purrs on Diva. “Just imagine me absolutely soaked,
dripping head to toe in Prada Sport.” Score: 4/5.

TUTV: Model/Actriz sound like a drill machine hitting non-stop with its motorik Krautrock-like battering. Old skool techno turning new skool techno. Hyperkinetic synth extravaganza with frontman Cole Haden‘s foreboding intonation on top of it.

But just when your body temperature goes up and up, semi-ballad Acid Rain sucks the fire out of the record. Not a bad song in itself, but it silences the dance dynamics at work here. Bad timing. It should have been placed at the end with the equally slow track Baton. Mind you, overall Pirouette produces all the buzz and fuzz needed to become a hit album.

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