SHAME Frontman CHARLIE STEEN About The Band
24 October 2025
Brussels, Belgium – Photo by Turn Up The Volume
Sounds like big fun.
Last month they released their boss 4th LP ‘Cuttroath’.
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PETREL – New Irish Post Punk Line-Up Impact Again With Their 2nd Single ‘SHAME’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
4 October 2025
Band: PETREL
Who: Formed in 2025 but built on years within Ireland’s
underground, Petrel are four frontmen in one room.
Track: SHAME
Only their 2nd single, following their
frantic debut Existing Condition.
Gerry Sheil (vocalist) “Shame is a rumination on authenticity, a hole we’ve often
found ourselves in everyday life and in our artistic work. There is a constant battle
to avoid influence or stagnation in political beliefs, relationships and in music.
The work that needs to be done to express ourselves freely, and without fear of
failure, I think is something we can all struggle with. Shame, lyrically, dives into
this internal argument in an effort to come out the other side knowing more
about how we see the world and our own creative process.”
TUTV: Lately, it feels like every single week Fontaines D.C. give birth to a new,
exhilarative Irish band. If you like your post-punk served with fervent flamboyance
and dazzling dynamism, you’ll love their noisy babies.
Petrel is one of them, actually a trained Irish 4-piece who found each other only this
year and don’t hesitate to make an instant impact with two consecutive sucker-punches. The new one Shame grabs your ears’ attention promptly.
Its breakneck speed, its pulsating drum/bass robustness, its cranky guitar salvos
and the frontman’s haunting vocals have a head-twisting repercussion and make you reach for the repeat button, pronto.
10 Best Albums Of The Month – SEPTEMBER 2025
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Band: SPRINTS
Who: Irish post-punk whirlwind, led by charismatic
voice/songwriter/guitarist Karla Chubb.
Album: ALL THAT IS OVER.
Their sophomore one, following last year’s
amazeballs debut LP Letter To Self.
Sprints about the LP: “While the world is literally burning down around us there are voices that seem hell bent on pointing the finger at anyone but those actually responsible. There’s no need to dream-up dystopia, we’re living in it. And somehow, while the world has never seemed uglier, our life has never been more beautiful.”
TUTV: Their riff-ripping quiet/loud/quiet formula works again, big time. The decisive factor for making this my fav album of the month is the cooking/boiling/bloodcurdling ebullience of the 5 last tracks. They hit you, piece by piece, hard in the face. Karla Chubb‘s hepped-up vocals rule again. Here and there her unbridled explosiveness brings young Courtney Love‘s borderline cry outs to mind. Helter-skelter.
KEY TRACKS: Something’s Gonna Happen / Pieces / Better / Coming Alive / Desire
SINGLE: Descartes
ALBUM
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Artist: BAXTER DURY
The British flamboyant singer-songwriter
from London.
Album: ALLBARONE
His 9th one.
Dury about the album: “It’s kind of a character arc that goes through the whole thing,
two personalities. It’s very critical of people, this album, whoever they are, maybe some
bloke with a moustache and sockless loafers in Shoreditch or a fat old Chiswick gangster lording it up in a really comfortable middle class part of London”
“It doesn’t sound like a Harrods hamper band made it. It doesn’t sound like a band made
it all. Which is what I wanted most of all. It’s just something that’s brand new for me. It’s
quite exciting, really.”
Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Lokerse Feesten, Belgium
TUTV: Dury does it again. Allabarone is another invitation to get up, stand up and sway your pelvis to sultry beats. Buzzing bass grooves and hip-shaking vibes have you going non-stop while he tells/whispers/sings his weird stories about weird characters. As usual, female harmonies add a sensual touch. An album to consume regularly to keep your lazy limbs vivifying. Boom boom boom!
KEY TRACKS: Allbarone / Alpha Dog / The Other Me / Mockingjay
SINGLE: Allbarone
ALBUM
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Band: Ho99o9 (pronounced Horror)
Who: Trash & crash rap-punk duo – theOGM
and Eaddy – from Newark, New Jersey.
Album: TOMORROW WE ESCAPE
Their 3rd one.
TheOGM in an interview with New Noise Maagzine: “We want to be able to grow and express our musical range and artistry, so it’s an evolved sound and a process of trying new things and not compromising. There’s so much going on in the world right now and it’s very overwhelming.
You have to sit back and realign yourself, focus, and push through. That’s on a personal level and family level. If you’re going on that political route and that’s what you’re about, you gotta go that route, but everybody has a different route.”
TUTV: You can relax for 2.22 minutes during the opening lines of I Miss Home.
From there on, non-stop louder than war pyrotechnics dominate the record.
Imagine Rage Against The Machine have a motherfucking rap-scream contest with
Body Count while the crushing crossover decibels, trash, and crash the roof.
That’s how Ho99o9 deal with our daily, suffocating, rat race. Chop, chop, chop.
Attack, attack, attack. Hit, hit, hit. Don’t escape yet, guys, let’s party hard first.
KEY TRACKS: Target Practice / Incline / Immortal / LA Riots / Godflesh
SINGLE: Incline
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Band: SHAME
Who: Sharp-cutting-punk gunslingers
from South London.
Album: CUTTTROATH
Press info: “Still in their twenties, the five childhood friends have grown exponentially, with ambitious sonic ideas and the technical chops to execute them. Having proved themselves several times over with legendary live shows and three critically acclaimed albums under their belts, Shame went into Cutthroat ready to create a new Ground Zero.”
TUTV: Without a shadow of a doubt their 2nd best following their terrific debut.
Pumped-up vocalist Charlie Steen spits and sneers again with vitriolic self-assurance, injecting the razor-edged tunes with extra firepower. London’s wackadoos smite again unashamedly with hurry-scurry tempestuousness. Abso-bloody-lutely. Get your pogo
stick out of the closet, you’ll need it.
KEY TRACKS: Cutthroat / Cowards Around / Nothing Better / Spartak / Axis Of Evil
SINGLE: Cuttroath
ALBUM
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Band: SUEDE
London’s glam rock/pop celebs orchestrated
by their never aging frontman Brett Anderson.
Album: ANTIDEPRESSANTS.
Their 10th long one.
Anderson said to Dazed: “It’s a kind of memento mori, a reminder of death.
It’s not an original thought, but let’s just say that we’re going to die, and that’s that,
but try and make the most of our time on time on Earth. There’s a bleakness to that,
but it’s actually also about embracing life – carpe diem. There’s beauty in transience.”
TUTV: On their past 3 longplayers, hefty guitars create a wall of elevating electricity
with an epic sonority. It results in more rock swagger than pop sensibility, even when
they slow down (Somewhere Between An Atom And A Star and June Rain) guitars have an overpowering impact. Only Brett Anderson melodramatic vocals can compete with them. His hypersensitive vocality is always present upfront and an instrumental factor for
Suede‘s work.
The singles (Dancing With Europeans / Trance State and Disintegrate) and the title track stand out. Their anthemic puissance hits your ears with huge fervidness. At times the band try to hard to maintain the vital potency all the way through.
Mind you, most of the songs have an adrenalizing quality. Many other bands would sell their soul to have the necessary craftsmanship to write tunes like Anderson & Co still do today. Great trash.
KEY TRACKS: Dancing With Europeans / Trance State / Disintegrate /
Antidepressants / Life Is Endless, Life Is A Moment
SINGLE: Disintegrate
ALBUM
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Band: THE IRRATIONAL LIBRARY
Who: The Irrational Library is a Dutch-American rock band with its roots
firmly planted in both the regional and international counterculture. The
Dutch-American band produces a raw, dirty groove influenced by punk,
provo and punk icons. Their poetry is packed with social criticism.
Album: THE SAYING OF IT ALL
Their 5th one.
Press info: Carrying forward their unmistakable blend of groove, grit, and spoken-word swagger, The Irrational Library once again proves they’re tuned into the heartbeat of the here and now. Their music connects yesterday, today, and tomorrow into a sound both urgent and timeless.
TUTV: The IL are back in full kick-ass form, tackling hypocrites of all sorts, who mess up society for their personal benefit. Trenchant lyricist and eloquent word-waterfall Joshua Baumgarten is the heart-and-soul in the middle, whether he screams his lungs out or just tells us what is on his worried mind.
But without the fabulous trio that back him up with their characteristic jazzy-saxy,
bluesy-punk-rock sound, it would be half fun to listen to this record. Band and frontman
are a streamlined team holding your attention with groovy and funky ease, lyrically as
well as sonically.
KEY TRACKS: Notes From The Playground / Gun To Your Head /
Truth Serum / Evidence Of Proof / Today
SINGLE: Truth Serum
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Artwork album
Band: Múm
Who: Icelandic indietronica
outfit formed in 1997.
Album: HISTORY OF SILENCE
Their first one in 12 years.
Photo: Ben Rayner / Terrorbird Media
Press info: “Vibrantly oscillating around a carefully curated palette of electronic and analogue sounds, the eight new tracks reflect the group’s continuous strive to explore sonic spaces through subtle yet gripping songwriting.”
They breathe an overall airy and intimate atmosphere, yet resonate with the structural heft of time and structured, they echo their origins from different seasons, cities, and spaces—neatly stitched together with unparalleled craftsmanship. They breathe an
overall airy and intimate atmosphere, yet resonate with the structural heft of time.”
TUTV: History Of Silence‘s strength lies in its mind-relaxing flow. It feels like an ear massage. Sweet, slo-mo synth/piano symphonies, enlivened now and then with crystalline guitar sparks transfer you to a de-stressing place, far away from the noisy reality, while heartfelt duet vocals complete the tranquil sonority. Headphone music for cold nights.
KEY TRACKS: Miss You Dance / Kill The Light / A Dry Heart Needs No Winding
SINGLE: Kill The Light
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Band: BIG THIEF
Brooklyn‘s lauded folk pop/rock band,
fronted by endearing voice Adrienne
Lenker.
Album: DOUBLE INFINITY
Stereogum says: The songs have an essential simplicity that makes it still feel accurate
to call Big Thief a folk band. A lot of that accessibility and simplicity is thanks to Lenker’s lyrics. They’re open-hearted and lovely, more so than ever, and their realness and plainness keeps them from being saccharine.
These songs are about the inexorability of passing time, the uselessness of language, and
how love and music can fill the gaps between these things we try to hold on to but never
can.”
Press Photo by Genesis Báez
TUTV: Big Thief seduce and charm once again with playful tunes. Sensitive ones, sad ones
and other related emotive ones, but always ear-pleasing ones. They don’t rock, nor do they really pop, it’s the band’s folk roots that catalyze a laid-back campfire feel. More acoustic than electrical resonance.
No unnecessary bells and whistles, no fake glamour, no studio tricks for BT. They’re
about authenticity and honesty, and Adrienne Lenker‘s voice was made for these serene and thoughtful moments. A great companion for a night in.
KEY TRACKS: Incromprehensible / Los Angeles / All Night All Day / Grandmother
SINGLE: Incromprehensible
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Band: ROBERT PLANT & SAVING GRACE
Who: The former Led Zeppelin icon and
his touring band (for 6 years now).
Album: SAVING GRACE
Mojo Magazine‘s verdict: “Birthed via a Black Country communion which saw Robert Plant and his new, largely unknown bandmates enjoy a lengthy courtship off-radar, Saving Grace feels guileless, almost serendipitous. What might happen, Plant mused, if he shipped what he’d learned from T Bone Burnett, Alison Krauss et al home and duetted on choice blues, alt-country and folk covers with Brum-born former music teacher, Suzi Dian? Across 10 intimate songs deftly ornamented by guitarists Matt Worley and Tony Kelsey and cellist Barney Morse-Brown, magic happens.”
TUTV: Mesmerizing roots music with alluring duet/alternating vocals. Plant and Dian are blessed with magnicicent voices perfectly fitting this timeless genre of traditional music.
KEY TRACKS: It’s A Beautiful Day Today / Ticket Taker / I Never Will Marry / Higher Rock
SINGLE: It’s A Beautiful Day Today
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Artist: LEXYTRON
Who: “Half Greek, half Persian and half English” – as this musician described herself
age 5 – the Manchester-born Lexy found her identity in music early on as a pianist and violinist.”
She’s now based in Auckland, New-Zealand.
Album: SOMETHING NEW
Her 2nd one.
Press info: “Following Lexytron’s genre-bending debut album ‘Something Blue’, lead singer Lexy slips into something more electronic on ‘Something New’, pairing an alternative pop rock style with sardonic wit, big choruses, and a painful honesty that has now become her trademark. The album was self-produced in Auckland and mixed and mastered by London producer Marco Meloni.”
TUTV: Dream pop, power pop, jaunty pop, guitar pop, musing pop, Lexytron let it all flow into each other, resulting in an entertaining, colorful and feelgood album that puts a big smile on your face. Her vivid vocals lift up the inherent strength of the frisky tunes.
It feels like if the young, happy mother is settled don a carefree cloud. She radiates
joviality and joi de vivre on Something New and it’s fully contagious for the listener.
KEY TRACKS: Elevator / Disco Jenny / Your Love / Another Lover / Laughing From Above
SINGLE: Disco Jenny
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JUKEBOX 2025 – Week 33 Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week
In order to not miss a beat TURN UP THE VOLUME scans the musical
horizon daily, for 10 years now, to pick ace tracks and add 5 new ones
twice per week, to the one and only JUKEBOX playlist that matters.
ALL TOGETHER
The 5 fresh ones
TRACK BY TRACK
Band: THE LIVING PINS
Who: Flaring indie duo – Carrie Clark and Pam Peltz who found each other on
the edge of the delicately ramshackle playground of the 1990s Austin (Texas)
music scene. They released their 4-track debut EP Let It Be So in 2023,
followed by some ace singles.
Track: 108
Their newest single.
Pam: “108” is like 1980s Austin, downtown around 6th St. and Lamar, when there were abandoned car dealerships and weeds growing everywhere and driveways to nowhere.
I would be walking around in the extreme heat, almost so hot I couldn’t see. But loving it,
cuz I kind of love the Texas heat, which I know is wrong.”
Carrie: ” One of the things that I love about the Texas heat is that it feels purifying.
It burns your soul clean. It’s almost like you’re going through this baptism of heat to
really feel like you’re at home in Austin. You get the baptism of cold in Barton Springs,
but the rest of the time, walking down the street, it’s a baptism of heat.”
TUTV: Expect another foot-tapping living pins cherry bomb, powered by gloriously
creaking guitars and a sing-along/hum-along chorus. Funky and groovy kick, all
day long.
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Band: LOS PALMS
Who: rock trio Adelaide, Australia who deliver a soundtrack soaked in vintage fuzz.
Their signature “desert jangle” sound, has 60s garage, spaghetti western and modern
psych influences.
Track: WAY TOO COLD
Newest single from their upcoming debut LP,
entitled Sorrows. It’s out on August 29th.
“Way Too Cold is four minutes of sunburnt ‘60s jangle, stomping choruses, and a dark psych detour before slamming back for the kill. The video rips through Los Palms’ South Australian stomping grounds, A tribute to the country towns and rugged coastlines carved into the band’s DNA.”
TUTV: Jingly jangly guitars, a galvanizing groove, vivid vocals, back-up harmonies
and a peppy chorus combine for an electrifying psychedelic thrill. The 60s were
and still are an uplifting and exciting force.
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Band: IT’S KARMA IT’S COOL
Who: Psych pop rock
outfit from Lincoln, UK
Track: 21st CENTURY MEDS
Newest single from their upcoming new,
3rd album, titled ‘One Million Suburban Sunsets‘.
Jim Styring (frontman/songwriter): “The song is about living in this modern world, doing what it takes to get by and basically survive. We all need something to get us through these troubled times, so we all self medicate. Be that with drugs (legal or otherwise), alcohol, or any addictive behavior, whatever it may be, we’re all looking for that magic ‘something’.
But the song’s not judgemental, I’m just saying ‘look, this is how society has got us all, we’re all hooked on one thing or another, numbing ourselves behind a wall of 21st century medication. Perhaps it’s time to take a step back and look at ourselves”
TUTV: 21st Medicine Meds races and rushes like today’s merciless rat race, propelled
by layers of aggressive guitars, full-energetic percussion and feverish vocals. Listen to
it 3 times in a row per day, and 6 times on Sunday. It can help you to tranquillise your insecurity about these confusing times’ insanity.
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Band: ESCAPE GOATS
Who: 3 indie noiseniks from Glasgow, Scotland who
are among us only since the early days of 2024.
Track: ROMPECABEZAS
2nd single of the year.
I had no clue what that title means. So I googled it. It’s Spanish for
thinking very hard about a problem to try to find the solution to that
thing, not always successfully, but the expression is about trying. Well,
I guess this is what the band had in mind.
“A three-minute blast, capturing the feeling of being pulled in conflicting directions,
playing on double meanings and pseudowords, paired with angular guitars and
powerful drums.”
TUTV: No songs about the birds and the bees for these fortissimo Scots.
They have an unyielding appetite for boisterous guitar rampage and capricious,
yet sticky melodiousness, sturdy drum/bass firepower and full-throated vocals.
Crackajack stroke.
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Band: MAGNETIC SKIES (London, UK)
Who: Synth-pop trio formed in 2019 with a
shared love of 80s synth-driven post-punk.
They released their debut
album Empire Falling in 2023.
Track: BACK TO LIFE
2nd shared single from their forthcoming album,
named Fragments. It’s out in November.
“‘Back To Life’ explores the tension between our deep, universal connection and the fragmentation we face in the modern world, It’s about sensing that chaos, feeling the
void, the noise, and still holding on to the hope that we can come back from the edge.
It’s a call to reconnect, to bring something broken back into wholeness.”
TUTV: Shiny synth-pop delight from start to finish. Again, the trio wrap an elevating
tune in a sphere of electronic bliss juiced with alternating, heartening harmonies.
Exhilarating piece.
“We are made of stars / we are meteor showers /
losing all control / empty out the soul.”
SHAME – British Punk Mavericks Share New Piece ‘SPARTAK’ From Their Upcoming 4th LP
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
15 August 2025
Band: shame
Who: Post-Brexshit,
guitar-addicted punks.
Track: SPARTAK
Newest single from their 4th longplayer,
titled Cutttroath and out on Sept 5th.
New album artwork
TUTV: Leader of the troops Charlie Steen gets better and better in drenching his mixed emotions in capitaving, hepped-up guitar tunes which only need one spin to get connected with.
JUKEBOX 2025 – Week 28 Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week
In order to not miss a beat TURN UP THE VOLUME scans the musical
horizon daily, for 10 years now, to pick ace tracks and add 5 new ones
twice per week, to the one and only JUKEBOX playlist that matters.
ALL TOGETHER
The 5 fresh ones
TRACK BY TRACK
Band: SHAME
Who: The searing Britpunk squad
fronted by blabbermouth Charlie Steen.
Track: QUIET LIFE
Second taster of their 4th longplayer,
titled CUTTHROAT and out on Sept 5th.
Steen: “‘Quiet Life’ is about someone in a shitty relationship. It’s about
the judgment they receive and the struggle that they have to go through,
trying to understand the conflict they face, of wanting a better life… but
being stuck.”
A sickly sticky earworm you would expect to come
from The Lathums rather than shame. Love it.
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Band: MONITORS
Who: French-British-Bosnian post-punk outfit,
formed in 2017. So far they have 2 EP’s on
their résumé.
Track: DANSE MACABRE
First single from their upcoming debut album,
titled The Madelaine Affair out 3rd October.
Thudding drums, edgy guitar riffs,
infectious dynamics, agitated vocals.
TITANIC TUNE!
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Band: BIG SPECIAL
Who: Two funky storytellers – Joe Hicklin
and Callum Moloney – from the UK.
Track: GOD SAVE THE PONY
New single from their 2nd album, named
National Average that came out of nowhere,
last Friday.
BS groove and move in a desolate disco where the fast
up-and-coming duo Getdown Services and veteran rap-poets
Sleaford Mords rehearse too.
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Band: HOME COUNTIES
Who: Vivacious indie act
from Buckinghamshire, UK.
Track: HUMDRUM
Title track of their forthcoming LP,
that will land on October 24th.
“It recalls cringing as your replay conversations in your head after
they’ve happened and the frustration of coming up with better things
to say in retrospect. It’s also about being jealous of people who talk
shit, say nothing, and still seem to come out on top.”
Post-talk frustration
wrapped in melodic
pop catchiness.
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Band: THE ROYSTON CLUB
Who: Intense indie pop-rockers
from Wrexham, Wales.
Track: CARIAD
Newest single from their upcoming, sophomore
album Songs For The Spine, coming our way
on August 8th.
Delirious power ballad.
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SHAME Take You On A Roasting Roller Coaster With Their New Razor Blade Single ‘CUTTHROAT’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
3 June 2025
British post-punks SHAME canned their 4th longplayer.
It’s titled CUTTHROAT and hit the streets on Sept 5th.
New album artwork
The first preview is the title track. Vocalist Charlie Steen leads
the aggressive troops on this roasting rollercoaster that feels at
times like having a razor blade on your throat. Brutal assault.
Hells bells. Blimey.
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CHVRCHES Frontwoman LAUREN MAYBERRY On The Dancefloor With Vigorous Solo Single ‘SHAME’
Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant
11 October 2023
Being on a hiatus with her band CHVRCHES, frontwoman LAUREN MAYBERRY
takes her firsts steps as a solo artist. Recently she did some gigs and released
her first solo song, piano ballad Are You Awake? last month.
And now she shared a second solo effort, titled SHAME.
Mayberry: “I had the idea for a while of a song that had the tagline of “what a shame”,
but in a sarcastic way. And the word “shame” having a double meaning – the shame you feel and internalize, but what a shame you feel like that and can’t change it. Looking back on a lot of my life in terms of relationships, sexuality and my sense of self in the world, there is a lot of shame associated with that.
I came into my teens in the early-mid 2000s, a time period we now regard as a bit of
a shithole in terms of gender and media messages. What was deemed “attractive” for women and girls was quite disturbing in hindsight, and that’s what went into my brain at a formative time, romanticizing bargain basement, local band boy versions of Reality Bites Ethan Hawke.
But now I know better, my wiring is still to find those things attractive on a cellular level.
I know not to want those things academically, but emotionally, romantically, sexually,
I have been trained to find those things valuable and attractive.”
Shame‘s melody has more vigour and zest than any Chrvches song I ever
heard (to be honest, not that many). Think Goldfrapp and Róisín Murphy.
Think dancefloor fuel.
Tune in.
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SHAME Frontman CHARLIE STEEN Definitely Not a TORY Fan
14 June 2023
(Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Antwerp 2022)
Loudmouth Charlie Steen of British punk rascals Shame definitely not a Tory fan
BEST EP OF APRIL 2023 – ‘SELF LOATHING SELF HELP’ By Noise Exorcists RONKER
1 May 2023
Band: RONKER
Who: 4 Belgian misfits producing a mix between Danzig-era, Misfits meets Helmet, equally influenced by the earliest of hardcore punk and 90’s guitar music and thrash metal.
EP: RONKER
2 previous released singles
and their B-sides.
“‘Self Loathing Self Help’ tells a story about depression, suicide and the ones left behind. It was therefore deliberately chosen to bundle these four numbers. The songs clearly written as a process of coming to terms with losing loved ones, while struggling mentally yourself. The artwork by American artist Grant Fuhst shows both the flattened feeling of survivors guilt and the hopelessness that is so prominently felt in contemporary society. Throughout the four-part EP, singer Jasper De Petter rattles death wishes together, urgency is the central mood during the 17-minute playing time.”
TUTV: The first two jackhammers (previous singles) are the ones that can be dangerous
for your stereo’s well-being. Frontman De Petter‘s screaming is sky-scraping. Holy smoke, that guy has four lungs. His hurly-burly howls are fueled by anger, by fear, by grief and by any state of mind that transfers one’s mind to dark places, pitch-black places that is.
Goliath and Shame are merciless post-punk drones that resonate like Canadian hard-core gang Fucked Up fronted by Kurt Cobain at his worst mental moments. Flipped-out guitars and the hammering rhythm section push the decibels over the legal limit.
Excorsism at its disturbing best.
Solid and Old Reliable have a more reflective and a quiet/Loud/quiet/Loud timbre. Think
The Murder Capital. Mind you, De Petter‘s vocal range is still intact. These two mindfuckers emphasize once more the content of the EP: the crushing power of mental turmoil and soul-destroying guilt. It feels as if Ronker are still trapped in an endless dark tunnel and there’s still not a trace of light. On the other hand, this standout EP can be the first step
to healing.
STREAM/BUY
the EP here
via Bandcamp.
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On Spotify
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(Photos by Turn Up The Volume – We Are Open Fest in Antwerp, Feb 2023)