Turn Up The Volume picks 10 gems of favorite artists/bands
28 August 2022
From their supreme 1996 debut LP on Turn Up The Volume became a devoted,
and seeing them play a glam-tastic show for the first time in London, at the sold-out Astoria a year later I knew Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal would be big, but honestly
not as mega big as I thought. WOW! Never let them go.
Newest LP
TUTV’S 10 PLACEBO GEMS
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TOP 3 – VIDEOS
– SLAVE TO THE WAGE –
– PURE MORNING –
– 20TH CENTURY BOY –
(Smoking T. Rex cover)
America, here they come.
And on 8 November in my home country of Belgium
Spotted at W-Fest in Ostend, Belgium last Thursday
PLACEBO released their 8th album NEVER LET ME GO last week.
Part of the promotion are of course, interviews like this one with Kerrang!.
KERRANG!: “For almost three decades, Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal
have been masters of their own destiny, steering Placebo into whichever
creative waters they so choose. Now, after nine years lost at sea, the duo
have returned with Never Let Me Go, and prescient tales of loss, surveillance
and climate change.”
NME says: “The result is Placebo’s best and most consistent album since 2006’s dark, intoxicated ‘Meds’ – and might prove their most rejuvenating since 2003’s arena-filling
‘Sleeping With Ghosts’… ‘Never Let Me Go’ is a true renaissance record. It’s no ‘Metal
Machine Music’ or ‘Yeezus’, but a record that finds Placebo inspired and ready for a
new era, reinventing the rock veterans for the modern age.”
Full review here. Score 4/5.
Turn Up The Volume: Another Placebo record, another too familiar one,
another mediocre one. But as the cliché goes: another masterpiece for all
devoted fans, until the next one. I was a devoted fan… years ago.
Singles/clips: Surrounded By Spies / Try Better Next Time / Beautiful James
Last week punkette Amyl and her Sniffers dropped their second smashing
album Comfort To Me on Planet Earth with ‘Hertz‘ as one of the razzle-dazzle jackhammers.
Time for some kangaroo pogo, all you punks out there…
Brian Molko (frontman): “If the song serves to irritate the squares and the
uptight, so gleefully be it. But it remains imperative for me that each listener
discovers their own personal story within it – I really don’t want to tell you
how to feel.”
Lindsey Jordan aka Snail Mail throws her 2nd album,
titled Valentineat the world on 5th November.
Jordan: “I wanted to take as much time as possible with this record to
make sure I was happy with every detail before unleashing it unto y’all.
Referring to the process as the deepest level of catharsis and therapy I
have ever experienced would be a huge understatement. Valentine is
my child!”
Here comes Jordan‘s macabre side. Only for cannibals
(go directly to YT via the link below)…
Another rockin’ taster from Turner‘s upcoming
full-length FTHC, out 22 February 2022.
Turner: “It’s been a difficult time for a lot of people and their
mental health, myself included, and discussing that openly is
important to me, so this is a song about anxiety and the
struggles that come with that.”
This side project of former Sonic Youth queen Kim Gordon and
avant-garde guitarist Bill Nace will release its second LP in November.
The duo teamed up with Aaron Dilloway for this one.
Harakiri‘s take is a sky-touching, staggering thunder and lighting
haymaker starting off with some classical piano touches before
exploding like a furious volcano with blazing aaarrrggghhh vocals.
The band’s second LP – #7 in the UK A friend in need’s a friend indeed
A friend with weed is better
A friend with breast and all the rest
A friend who’s dressed in leather
