Bauhaus‘ post-punk Goth icon PETER MURPHY (now 67) made a surprising return last November with a goosebumps power pop ballad duet, named Let The Flowers Grow
withBoy George
Now he’s back on his own with a new fantastic,
booming discotheque banger called SWOON.
The first piece from his upcoming 10th solo LP, his first in 11 years. It’s baptized Silver Shade and lands on May 9th. It’s produced by renowned producer Youth (Pink Floyd,
The Verve, Crowded House, member of Killing Joke, The Orb, The Firemen w/Paul McCartney).
Jodie: “How It Is, the recurring tale of getting messy with your mates to escape from the standard 9 to 5 working life. This track celebrates the poor life choices made after deciding to go for a drink with your friends/colleagues and the chaos and amusement experienced along the way. It actually came off the back of a spoken word piece I was recording, Baddie heard a catchy phrase that he turned into a chorus and encouraged me to write around that theme. and How It Is was born. “
Turn Up The Volume: It’s only Langford‘s third single after the flood-rap
lockdown-reflection on her debut I Miss It, followed by punky steamroller TV Or Not TV.
The new one is a mid-tempo clap-along groover with an instantaneous swaying
impact on your hips. Could be the ideal remedy when trying to get out of bed after
a 48-hour weekend revelry and shake your hangover off. Sheeny synths, hip-hopper Marx‘s jaunty contribution, and the zestful chorus, it all comes together seamlessly.
Who: 90S’s grunge and Britpop inspired three-piece featuring Gemma Clarke, Danny Collins and Aaron Forde. Their first three
released singles Sober, Favourite Thing and Royalty national
and international radio play.
Danny Collins (vox/guitar): ‘Electric Candle Light is a futuristic analogue nostalgia
fuelled track all about those nights where you seem to fall into a time lapse and wish
for those past better days.”
Turn Up The Volume: Classic rock ‘n roll with a 20th Century fuzz and buzz
vigour. Flaming guitars, heavily pounding drums, and clamorous vocals.
After the electrical intro, a rip-roaring guitar riff storms all the way on this
steaming sledgehammer. If Aerosmith was a punk band they would probably
sound like this. Heavy cracker!
Artist: DREW FIVE Who: A composer who scored for independent movies and
written for installations and dance. He’s also half of electro
dance pop duo Feral Five.
Turn Up The Volume: Close your eyes, relax and imagine you’re floating
into space where Spiritualized‘s mastermind Jason Pierce lives, while playing
this hallucinatory ambient trip on your headphones. This electronic starlight
instrumental spiced with glimmering guitar play now and then, is an ideal
companion for your odyssey to la-la land where reality looks so much
different as on our stricken planet.
Fly to the dark side of the moon
for this great tune in the sky.
Band: FOXX BODIES (Los Angeles) Who: Actually a sort of an accident. Bailey Moses, Adam Bucholz, and Matt Vanek
came together in their shared home when their singer Bella Vanek asked everyone
to play loud music she could scream over after she began unpacking her newly-
recognized childhood abuse.
NEW ALBUM: VIXEN Release: 5 November 2021 – order info here
“On Vixen, Vanek makes her trauma sound dangerously intriguing, singing about her
life in such a startling and honest way that it makes you examine your own ideas of
mental illness, gender, and trauma. Marry that with Moses’ salty, surfy licks, Bucholz’s
elaborate fills, [Matt] Vanek’s infectious baselines, and it’s all over. The four desert punks
meld together to bring a magnetic, dramatic air to each song, delivering romping punk
and the occasional piercing scream.”
BELLA VANEK: “When I am feeling happy and optimistic, it is so fun to sing and scream
and it gives me energy. On a bad day, I weep while singing this song and my stomach hurts
and the screaming feels like every piece of me leaving my body. It sounds so dramatic, but
I swear this song could fit into any moment of my life and be relevant.”
Turn Up The Volume: Foxy front lady Vanek spits and sneers and screams louder
than any Riot Grrl ever did. Her vocal range is beyond normal. On this slo-mo surfy
slam daunk she and her turbulent band swing from left to right and back with brutal
force and blustery bloody-mindedness. Wanna fight your demons? Be a bad kid and
yell your lungs to pieces. It helps for Bella.
I’ve been a bad kid.
My mom tells me I’m wrong;
don’t think she knows yet.
I’ve been a bad kid.
I want to tell you you’re wrong,
but I don’t know shit.
Score: An epic ballad with Ellie Rowsell‘s breathtaking voice
as the heroine in the middle. I’ll make it simple and clear:
one of the best singles of 2021. Fact!
Firm Swiss rockers ANNIE TAYLOR already caused stormy waves before with some striking singles and a solid EP (check their Bandcampto hear it all). The foursome is gearing up now to unleash their debut LP sometime soon. And here’s the lead single. ’17 DAYS’ An angry filled first-rate contagious ripper with fronwoman Gini Jungi counting the days someone messed with her. Multiple guitar layers inject the track with a stream of heated electricity and the aroused chorus has a five star glue quality! Bingo!
