TURN UP THE VOLUME’s JUKEBOX 2024 – 10 New Tracks Added Every Week
Every week 10 new rad tracks added
In order to not miss a beat Turn Up The Volume scans the musical
horizon daily (doing it for years now, actually) to stay in touch with
all new things sonically great and shares the results on a weekly
basis.
FULL JUKEBOX (so far)
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The 10 new ones added this week
TRACK-BY-TRACK
Artist: WHITEY
Who: British singer-songwriter whose music has made its mark, from rock’n’roll clubs
to electronic dance floors, fashion catwalks to movie soundtracks, television to computer games, from Breaking Bad and the Sopranos to Grand Theft Auto.
He has built a strange home in the shadows between mainstream entertainment and the vanishing underground, an outsider who celebrates his outsider ethos in his work- and yet whose music is embraced by both popular and alternative culture.
Track: LITTLE PIGGIES
Piece from his new album
Mental Radio released last
month.
A lo-fi swipe at politics and corruption.
Good old retro psych-pop at its entertaining
and catchy best.
Instagram
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Band: ELBOW
Who: Manchester’s
veteran pop unit.
Track: ADRIANA AGAIN
Following this year’s new LP Audio Vertigo the band offers this new
piece, that’ll be part of an EP, slated for release sometime next year.
Oh yes, Elbow can rock out, with this
badass belter as convincing proof.
No idea who the band in the video is.
Only Guy Garvey & Co. know.
Instagram – Spotify
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Band: ROSE FATAL
Who: Fresh Irish rioters.
Track: SO MATURE
“Great art holds a mirror up to the world; exposing its many flaws,
highlighting its beauty and screams back the question we are all too
afraid to ask. It’s this dichotomy that Rose Fatale bring to this new
single.”
This barbed wire punk
juggernaut challenges
your speakers.
Red-hot stroke.
Helter skelter.
Instagram – Spotify
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(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)
Band: PRIMAL SCREAM
Who: Scottish post-punk old-timers,
led by charismatic singer-songwriter
Bobby Gillespie.
Track: LOVE AIN’T ENOUGH
Stupendous highlight of their brand-new album
Come Ahead, out today. An orchestral rock missile.
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Instagram
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Artists: STUKA
Who: Finnish electro punks
of the 41st Millenium.
Track: SUNSET OF THE CORRUPTED
First taster of their upcoming 3rd album,
named Electronic Body Metal, out early 2025.
In the song, a female voice chanting in Latin on top of
an EBM techno beat create a moody, haunting atmosphere.
Poetic lyrics tell how corruption of the soul destroys men.
Expect a head-twisting electro-manic
trip to a nightclub galaxy.
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Instagram – Spotify
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Band: DOVES
Who: English post-Britpop mavericks
who’ve been around for almost 25 years.
Track: RENEGADE
First preview of their forthcoming 6th LP, called
Constellations For The Lonely, out next year on Valentine’s Day.
“Looking at everyone’s lives over recent years, and considering the news at the moment, “Renegade” feels a lot more loaded in retrospect. We wanted to go for a dystopian feel,
thinking about Manchester itself over the next century or so. A totally imaginary thing…
Blade Runner set in our home city.”
Doves still know how to write compelling, lyrical
symphonies with a melodramatic appeal.
Instagram – Spotify
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📷 Jasmijn Slegh
Band: RATS OF RAFTS
Who: Dutch post-punk outfit who
entered the music scene in 2005.
Track: JAPANESE MEDICINE
Taster from their new, upcoming LP, titled
Deep Below that’ll land on 7 February 2025.
New album artwork
Darkwavish synths and lustrous guitar play
create a stirring Cure-esque atmosphere.
Instagram – Spotify
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Artist: CHRIS PELLNAT
Who: Musician from New York.
Track: WE ARE NOT ROBOTS
Artwork
It has a driving, energetic rock sensibility but with retro
sci-fi organ flourishes and big, fun singalong choruses.
60s psych-pop balancing somewhere
between early Pink Floyd and The Zombies.
“Sometimes I just want to be a child
Sometimes I like to get a little bit wild
Because we are not robots”
Instagram – Spotify
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Photo by Russell Whitehead
Artist: GARFIELD MAYOR
Who: Singer-songwriter crafting
heartfelt journeys to stir the soul.
Track: LIGHT THE DARK
“There’ve been times since Sony I’ve felt paralysed – like I’ve lost my voice, and can’t
honour my blessings… We’ve all got talents that define us – it’s vital we nurture them.
Light the Dark’s a call to exercise your talents no matter what… Or as Dr. King says:
‘we must keep moving’” muses Mayor”
Funky pop tune.
Steely Dan vibes.
Mixed emotions.
Emotive vocals.
Martin Luther King.
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Instagram – Spotify
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Band: LAIBACH
Who: Legendary Slovenian
avant-garde act.
Track: STRANGE FRUIT
“There’s something that’s still very radioactive about the song; it’s still relevant because race is still relevant. The impulses that Meeropol was talking about are very much still with us, on the front pages of our newspapers and across our social media every day. For us, ‘Strange Fruit’ evokes racial injustice, representing not just lynchings, but racism generally. Racism is a virus that mutates, taking on different forms as it adapts to a changing environment. Its mutation is made harder to observe by it being deeply embedded, not only in our traditions and institutions, but also in our unconscious lives.”
Minimalistic sonority.
Spooky spoken-word anger.
Fuck racism.
