Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
14 May 2026
New York‘s hair-rising, post-hardcore trio SHOW ME THE BODY
just revealed details of their new album, their 4th. It’s titled Alone Together and will land on July 10th.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
28 April 2026
New York‘s cast-iron trio SHOW ME THE BODY have released
their first new music of 2026 with hammer and tongs haymaker DANCE IN THE USA .
No sign yet of a 4th longplayer. Their last one Trouble The Water came out in 2022.
Julian Cashwan Pratt (frontman): “The song is about how we implore style
to survive in this reality. It’s how we embrace the struggle of ourselves, our family’s,
and those around you. It’s the dance that we all do – how we hustle, the good
and the bad things we do – just to get through it.”
[Verse 1] If there ain’t no heaven, this is hell on earth
You can tell me ways, but only mine will work
Hundred days a week, they playing their tricks on you
It’s a fools’ game, but I ain’t one to lose
[Chorus] Dance in the USA
Dance for the dues paid
Dance in the USA
Dance in the USA
[Post-Chorus] Sun shines in hell, sun shines in the city
Sun shines in the USA
Sun shines in hell, sun shines in the city
Yeah
[Verse 2] You’re either getting fucked or you’re doing some fucking too
Time to choose
Better move quick now, baby, junkie’s gotta shoot
It’s a fools’ game, but I ain’t one to lose
TUTV: May the body force be with you, America.
Start dancing, it’s time for a big change, people.
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
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ALL TOGETHER
The 5 fresh ones TRACK BY TRACK
Band:SHOW ME THE BODY Who: Post-core trio from NYC, formed
in 2009, and 3 albums so far.
Track: SABOTAGE
A cover of Beastie Boys‘ 1994 cracker.
TUTV: Fight for your right to sabotage lousy parties.
Track: WHAT IF
Piece from her upcoming 3rd full-length, called A Rupture A Canyon A Birth, out October 17th.
The song is inspired by the moment that a semi truck plowed into their broken-down tour van. Nobody in the Jane Inc. touring party was hurt in that accident, and they even played their scheduled show later that night. But everyone could’ve easily been killed, and that kind of near-death experience will do something to you. That’s the key to what if.
TUTV: Bumping EBM thrumming, shimmering synths, trippy piano touches,
and vocal outpouring. Donna Summer would like this stomper. Dress up
and hurry to the discotheque.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
9 July 2024
New York‘s cast-iron trio SHOW ME THE BODY have 3 LPs
under their belt with Trouble The Water as the most recent.
It came out in 2022.
With fresh single IT BURNS SMTB offer their first music of 2024.
It’s an industrial hammer of a track. Intimidating, aggressive
and nasty. Woo-hoo! Love it!
The Guardian: “Homage to band’s native New York welds subgenres from hardcore
to hip-hop in a cathartic release from volatile times…Shivering with tension, Trouble
The Water is an exciting and urgent call to come together and kick off – at once
a reflection of, and a cathartic release from, volatile times.”
TUTV: This dragon has several heads. A hardcore one, a metal hip-hop one,
a crossover one, a post-punk one and a melting noise pot one. The tone is
vicious, the sentiments are fired-up, the big picture is one of rebelling against
all sorts of evil that fucks up this planet. A long battle, but we have no choice.
“Trouble the Water’ is the culmination of nearly a decade of barrelling against
New York City’s structural ambivalence and indifference; an invocation to a like-
minded global community to consider the alchemy of family-building, and of
turning water to blood.”
About: “Although the title invokes the ancient alchemy Moses wielded to free and unite
Israelite peoples, ‘Trouble The Water’ refuses nostalgia or mimicry. Instead, it considers
the sublime power of the unifying physical practices that can be enacted daily, to invoke immeasurable spiritual and collective reactions.
Buoyed by moments of stinging stillness and compulsive, almost optimistic, malfunctioning rhythms, the work is literally a conjuration to dance, and move. If we are really living through the end of the world, maybe every movement we make, no matter how slight, is actually boundless and radical.”
SMTB definitely came to play
in their big bang way.
