New Albums 2022

It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll But We Like It – ‘OOCHYA!’ By Welsh Darlings STEREOPHONICS

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New longplayers

11 March 2022

Band: STEREOPHONICS
Who: Veteran rockers from Wales
Active: Since 1992 / 12 studio LPs
(new one included)

New album: OOCHYA!
Released: 4 March 2022 – order info here

Info: “The brand new studio album features 15 tracks. As Stereophonics celebrate
25 years as one of the UK’s most loved bands, with Oochya! Kelly Jones continues to
cement his place amongst the great British songwriters. Having now achieved seven
number 1 albums and 8.5 million albums sold in the UK alone, Stereophonics stand
as undeniable giants of British Music.”

The Guardian says: “As ever, the best songs hit a reliably sweet spot between the
emotional and the anthemic. They’re past their best nowadays, but this is a decent
effort after a quarter of a century.” Score: 3/5.

Turn Up The Volume: A pretty vivid mix of muscled jackhammers and power ballads. Nothing new but nothing bad. It’s only rock’ n roll but we like it, don’t we? Well, I do.

Singles/clips:

– DO YA FEEL MY LOVE –

– HANGING ON YOUR HINGES –

– FOREVER –

STEREOPHONICS: Facebook

Here’s the full album…

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STEREOPHONICS: Facebook – All Albums

Canadian Indie Pop Romantics BASEMENT REVOLVER Enrapture With 2nd Album ‘EMBODY’

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New released longplayers

10 March 2022

Band: BASEMENT REVOLVER
Who: Indie outfit crafting both noisy and graceful shoegaze-esque
tracks out of their hometown of Hamilton, Ontario since 2016

“Their sophomore LP, Embody, is explicit about these new ideas and new thoughts,
addressing them with a deeper sound and crisper production to adroitly express the
complexity of the world. It is an album of friendship, of working out identity together and making deeply personal art. Coming out in the middle of pandemic means that embodiment has to take new forms, and this album is one of those ways forward. This record, with its complex sonic landscape, sometimes lush and sometimes stark, is of a piece with their earlier work, but it’s deeper and more self-aware. Embody is the sound of freedom, especially in the midst of such pain, both locally and globally. Trading tracks virtually, missing the camaraderie of weekly rehearsals, and the isolation of that means that the album is full of hopeful waiting: to tour, of course, but also to engage these new understandings together, on the road.”

Turn Up The Volume: The most striking instrument on the album is the angelic voice of songwriter Chrisy Hurn. Just phenomenal. To my avid ears, she may join the female vocal likes of stars such as Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, The Sundays’ Harriet Wheeler, Belly‘s Tanya Donelly, and Mazzy Star‘s Hope Sandoval. Yes that good, that magical. Check ballad beauties Slow / Blackhole / Storm / Tired and my two favorites Skin and Long Way and you’ll hear why Chrisy’s voice is the band’s shining star. And when they rock out (Be Okay / Dissolve / Tunnel Vision) multi-layered shoegaze guitars take over and create a burning wall-of-sound that blows you away.

Overall this high-quality second LP encourages young people to be confident to be themselves, to be proud of who they are, and proud of how they look. It’s a vulnerable
and heartwarming, a passional and human, a tender and longing piece of work for heart and soul. Hats off.

Singles/clips: Circles / Skin / Transatlantic / Tunnel Vision

– SKIN –

– TRANSATLANTIC –

– TUNNEL VISION –

Buy/stream Embody here…


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BASEMENT REVOLVER: Facebook

(Images via Auteur Research PR)

THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA – New Album ‘TRUST NO LEADERS’ Lands 1st Of July

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4 March 2022


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Band: THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA

Who: London-based duo – Daphne Ang (Singapore) and
Andrea Papi (Italy) – that fills a gap in music by bringing
literature, art, and history together into a space where
rock and metal meet electronica.

New album: TRUST NO LEADERS
Out: 1st July 2022
Pre-order: here

The duo’s sophomore LP lands about 15 months after their remarkable debut
LP Full Spectrum. The best debut album of 2021 in Turn Up The Volume‘s book.
Review and track-by-track breakdown here.

Singles (so far): Count The Dead / Nothing But Dust / The Prophet

– COUNT THE DEAD –

– NOTHING BUT DUST –

– THE PROPHET –

THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA: Facebook – Website

New Albums 2022 – Robust Rockers ONE WEST WEST Release Their Debut Album Next Month

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15 February 2022

Band: ONE FLEW WEST
Who: Robust rockers from Longmont, Colorado

Debut album: THE BLUR
Out: 25 March 2022 via Smart Punk Records

What to expect: Rousing riff-rock robustness, high-powered tunes, high-octane vocals and scream-along choruses. Think of Green Day’s fireworks, Weezer’s no-nonsense buzz and Blink-182’s speedy storming. All you need to accelerate your bloodstream and go totally apeshit.

Three tasters to warm up.

– THE BLUR –

– HOLES IN MY JEANS –

– HOPELESS –

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ONE FLEW WEST: Facebook – Instagram

(band photo via WTFpublicity)

NEW ALBUMS in 2022 – ‘ALPHA GAMES’ By BLOC PARTY In April

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27 January 2022

Band: BLOC PARTY
Who: London post-punk force
from London led by Kele Okereke
Active: Since 1999 / 6 studio albums,
with Hymns (2016) as the most recent one

New album: ALPHA GAMES
Release: 29 April 2022 via BMG

Okereke: “Alpha Games was conceived on the road,
playing in front of amazing crowds on our last tour
and then brought to life with the fire and the frustrations
of 2020.”


(photo by Wunmi Onibudo)

Singles (so far shared): Traps / The Girls Are Fighting

– TRAPS –

– THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING –

BLOC PARTY: Facebook

New Albums 2022 – ‘ANGEL IN REALTIME’ By Avid Aussie Rockers GANG OF YOUTHS

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26 January 2022

Band: GANG OF YOUTHS
Who: Indie star rockers from Sydney, AUS
Active: Since 2011 / 3rd LP coming up

New album: ANGEL IN REALTIME
Release: 25 February 2022 – order info here

Info: “The album is about the life and legacy of Dave’s father, indigenous identity, death, grief and God. And also the Angel, Islington. Although the album is eclectic – influences range from American minimalism and contemporary classical, to drawing upon the legacy of Britain’s alternative/indie scenes, from drum ‘n’ bass to the most transcendent moments of Britpop – it’s equally rooted in Le’aupepe’s Samoan heritage, with the majority of tracks featuring samples from David Fanshawe’s recordings of indigenous music from the Polynesian islands and the wider South Pacific. ‘angel in realtime’ also features contributions from a cast of talented Pasifika and Māori vocalists and instrumentalists.” (Rough Trade)

Singles/clips (shared so far)…

– IN THE WAKE OF YOUR LEAVE –

– THE MAN HIMSELF –

– TEND THE GARDEN –

GANG OF YOUTHS: Facebook

2022 Tour (I know, very small print)

New Albums In 2022 – In March Arrives ‘TORPEDO’ By Welsh Rockers FEEDER

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24 January 2022

Band: FEEDER
Who: Welsh rockers who started their journey in 1994
and produced 11 studio albums (including the new one)

New album: TORPEDO
Release: 18 March 2022 via Big Teeth Music
Order info: here

Singles/clips (shared so far): Torpedo / Magpie / Wall Of Silence

– TORPEDO –

– MAGPIE –

– WALL OF SILENCE –

FEEDER: Facebook

New Albums – A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Next Month With 6th Longplayer ‘SEE THROUGH YOU’

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22 January 2022

Band: A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
Who: Infamous psych-noiseniks from Brooklyn, NY
led by founder/mastermind Oliver Ackermann
Active: Since 2003 / 6 LPs (new one included)

New album: SEE THROUGH YOU
Out: 4th February via Dedstrange Records

Info (via Rough Trade): “A Place to Bury Strangers defund post-punk orthodoxy with the most audacious and varied songwriting of their career on their sixth album, See Through You, out on Oliver Ackermann’s label, Dedstrange. Following up on 2021’s highly acclaimed Hologram EP delivers an overclocked set of futuristic electronic punk music encoded with punishing industrial rhythms, swirling voltage-starved guitars and unclassifiable auditory annihilation. Across thirteen tracks recorded in seclusion throughout the nihilistic absurdity of the coronavirus pandemic, See Through You is proof-positive that the group hailed as “The Loudest Band in New York” is still finding new ways to push the needle deeper in the red.”

New single: I’M HURT – 3rd shared piece of the LP

Enjoy some lockdown paranoia…

Check all 3 shared singles on Bandcamp…


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Hello Europe…

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS: Facebook

New Albums 2022 – ‘EVERYTHING WAS FOREVER’ By (British) Anthemic Rockers SEA POWER

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19 January 2022

Band: SEA POWER (Reading/Brighton, UK)

Who: Socially engaged indie pop-rockers who started their journey back in 2003.
In the very beginning, they operated as British Air Power, but changed it quickly to
British Sea Power. But last summer the band announced another name change,
dropping ‘British‘.


(photo by Turn Up The Volume)

Why? They told The Guardian: “It was the combination of “British” and “Power” that
no longer worked for us. We imagined a youngster at a European festival in the 21st
century looking at the programme and seeing a band name including the word “Hungarian”
or “Russian” alongside “Power”. It would likely send your mind in a certain direction – quite possibly to the isolationist, adversarial nationalism that has recently taken a hold around the world. We’ve always wanted to be an internationalist band – as heralded in our track Waving Flags, a song of pan-European idealism.”

Along came the news of a new longplayer – their seventh full length – five years after
the sterling The Dancers Inherit The Party, which, in a normal world, would have been
a massive hit LP. Anthemic tunes, rich sound, sharp observations on politics, on our neglected environment, on people’s crumbling togetherness, and on life in general…
oh, before I forget this: go see them play live if you have the opportunity, and you’ll
have a glowing experience. Trust me, I saw them several times.

The new one, titled EVERYTHING WAS FOREVER
lands on 11 February. Pre-order info here.

Singles/clips: Two Fingers / Folly / Lakemand Echo

– TWO FINGERS –

– FOLLY –

– LAKELAND ECHO –

SEA POWER: Facebook – All Albums

Pre-order info here

TANGERINE DREAM Honor Their Original Mastermind EDGAR FROESE With New Upcoming LP ‘RAUM’

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16 January 2022

Band: TANGERINE DREAM

Who: German electronic band, formed in 1967 by mastermind Edgar Froese.
The line-up changed frequently over the years with Froese as the only continuous
member until his death in 2015. Present line-up: Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko
Yamane, and Paul Frick.
Active: 1967-present / over more than 100 LPs


The early days (Edgar Froese on the right)

New album: RAUM
Out: 25th February 2022

Info: “Composed and produced with full access to Edgar Froese’s Cubase arrangements (and Otari Tape Archive with recordings from 1977-2013). Raum is the band’s second studio album after the passing of the founder Edgar Froese in 2015. With deep respect for the sound of the previous five decades, this record continues in the ever-evolving pathway of Tangerine Dream.”

Singles: Raum / You’re Always On Time

– RAUM –

– YOU’RE ALWAYS ON TIME –

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TANGERINE DREAM: Facebook