Band: SILK Who: The musical project of Irish guitarist/songwriter Michael Smyth of former shoegazers Virgins.
Track: AURALUX
The title track from the upcoming mini-album debut,
out on May 7th. Tracklist and pre-order info here.
Lyrically, the song cuts across themes of loss and
acceptance, catharsis via volume and reverb.
Album artwork
TUTV: Shoegaze at its transcendental best. After a fuzzy intro, your ears get engulfed by a wide-ranging flood of galvanic guitars, dragging you into a whirlpool of six-string electricity with a melodramatic and bombastic resonance, while Smyth‘s velvety vocals hover all over the voltaic storm. One of his best compositions to date.
Band: PUNCHBAG Who: A new electrifying brother-sister duo, from South London colliding the raw unfiltered energy of punk, with the overflowing ecstasy of pop. With fierce tempos and ferocious energy, their music is an explosively cathartic release of raw intensity and unapologetic fun.
TUTV: If you start your musical escapade with this kind of steaming synth-pop
stormer, it won’t take long before you will be the new talk of the town. Punchbag
go nuts on their first left/right uppercut, motorized by a hopped-up electro engine.
Nightclub exultation for party animals. And if you don’t like
this burst of exuberance, you know what do to. FUCK IT.
Band: ISABELLA STRANGE Who: 4 hungry indie Scots who came together during lockdown.
The group’s moniker comes from the name of an ancestor from
the 1700s, of guitarist/vocalist Kira Wolfe-Murray.
TUTV: Fiery riot grrrl Wolfe-Murray leads the troops on this blazing roller coaster
debut that bounces forth and back with a sinewy swagger. She gets sassy support
from her three partners in crime while she, herself, comes up with some razorblade
guitar riffs and a crushing chorus completes the steamy sonic picture.
Matt Brannon (bandleader) It’s about that painful disconnection in a relationship—when someone is living a double life but refuses to admit it, even after it’s over. The song started with that personal story but grew into something much bigger, reflecting on the tension between authenticity and secrecy”.
TUTV: Get up, stand up and fight for your right to shake your booty.
Some Freak Le Chic riffs, echoes from New YorkCity‘s indie legends The Rapture and energetic vocals will trigger your craziest dance
moves.
Artist: RIVAL QUEENS Who: The solo project of British guitarist Sally-Anne Hickman
who has played as a session and live guitarist with many bands
over the years.
Offering a message of unity and understanding, it’s the first track to be
shared from her upcoming debut EP Crown and Conquer. Think L7 and Hole.
TUTV: Not Your Enemy swings forth and back with a sucker-punch chorus fighting
its way up front for several times. Hickman‘s intimidating phrasing makes her message crystal clear. You don’t want to have her as your enemy.
Smyth: “I constantly feel like I am rushing towards the inevitable infinite oblivion. Further exacerbated by the marking of years spent circling the sun. To that end, it’s important that
I fill the time remaining with joyous, creative acts. The sharing of ideas is an essential part
of that, which brings us to Silk.”
TUTV: It sounds as if Silk tries to produce as many electrical shoegaze layers as legendary
experts My Bloody Valentine used to fabricate. A huge tidal wave of guitar vibrancy creates a transcendental resonance, and camouflages the hazy vocals. Faze drags you into a spacey place where you have never been. Yes, very intriguing indeed.
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 that matters.
For a couple of years now TUTV added 10 new tracks every 7 days.
This year we will put 5 new ones in the Jukebox twice a week.
Band: HEISA Who: Belgian LOUD rock trio whose sound draws influences from bands such as Black Midi, Tool, Battles and Swans, blending dissonance with a strong sense of identity. Their music balances chaos and control, mixing unsettling atmospheres with hypnotic rhythms and sharp distortion.
Track: FLOWERS
2nd single from the band’s third LP
‘TROIS’, landing on March 208th.
Heisa hit hard again. Flowers is a slow
progressing outburst of earsplitting noizz turmoil.
Schizophrenic guitars, bashing drums, and spooky
vocals conspire to mess up your head.
Band: SUNDAY JUNKIE Who: Alt pop duo from Worchester, MA
who came together last year.
Track: HOLY, HOLY
Piece from their debut album,
due out sometime later this year.
Tom Martin (vocalist) : “I had issues with drinking in the past, and the lyrics on ‘Holy, Holy’ pretty heavily revolve around using alcohol as a means of self-medicating and ignoring a larger, underlying issue,” Martin adds. “It can be pretty insidious when it seems to provide relief, but the toll it’s taking is more evident to those around you and they just hope you can eventually see it too. The line ‘Honey on our tongues / Sucking on the rind’ is more of a reference to having everything at your fingertips, not realizing it, and choosing to throw it away instead.”
Fiery vocals.
Ablaze emotions.
Expressive electricity.
Amplified pop tune.
“Its pure shoegaze, molten guitars drenched in dreamy chorus and reverb, all whirring over impossibly dense fuzz, vocals buried in the mix serve as an additional instrument more than the message. Mimicking the minimal lyrics to the song, the sound of Silk
exists in the purgatory state of half awake-half dreaming.”
Lose yourself in this ocean of accumulating
guitars and its hallucinatory resonance.
