Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
4 November 2024
Notorious Canadian post-hardcore-rock line-up FUCKED UP are on a productive roll. Last year, in August, they unleashed their cooking 6th LP, named One Day. One year later, this August, number 7 Another Day made stereos feeling uncomfortable and just like that, out of the blue comes the next new one, titledSOMEDAY
A 10-track record which features several guest vocalists, such as High Vis’ Graham Sayle, Fiddlehead/Have Heart’s Pat Flynn, Rifle’s Max Williams, Julianna Riolino, and the band’s Year Of The Horse collaborator Tuka Mohammed.
In a press statement, the band says: “This record is about how far our actions and our
ideas can travel, and how we can plant consequences in the lives of other people without
even realizing it and how we can use our lives to make this a better world.”
TUTV’s ears say that Fucked Up sounds more and
more like guitar-spiralling legends Hüsker Dü.
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.
Check the 10 new rad cuts just
added to this rad 2024 playlist.
ALL TOGETHER
. TRACK BY TRACK
1. ‘Allergic Food’ by MELVINS (Montesano, Washington)
The veteran noiseniks are still hungry. On April 19 the band
unleash their 27th album, titled TARANTULA HEART.
Allergic For Food is vintage rowdy punk-rock Melvins
Post-punk indies based in Leeds, where they are active movers in the DIY scene that currently thrives in the North of England. They recorded a Marc Riley session in 2016, released their first album Mind Yr Manners in 2017.
‘You’re Just Jealous’ is the splendid title track from their
upcoming, 2nd album. Out on May 10. Pre-order info here.
5. ‘Gone Forever by GREAT HARE (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Swedish pop songsmiths describe themselves as “dreaming to stay awake.”
This new single is a sparkling mid-tempo guitar-driven meditation
with a psych resonance.
The psych rockers from down under launch their 10th LP, baptized Stung! on 21 June.
About new single (I’m Strung): “It’s about being totally pathetically stung by someone
and just having to be cool with it being unrequited. Being resilient, accepting that you
are a bit of a goose, but life goes on.”
“A new chapter in the personal journey of singer Cecilia Miradoli and guitarist/producer Max Tarenzi. An intense, contemplative, and dark work, yet not resigned, navigating through trip-hop, dream-pop, dark-wave, and electronica.”
By the Waves are a dynamic 4-piece band based in Manchester. A uniquely eclectic sprinkle of soul, dream-pop, reggae, rock & indie make their sound exciting and unforgettable in equal measure.
They bring beautifully constructed lyrics, delivered with a signature blend of falsetto melody lines and anthemic choruses, which are layered over driving rhythmic beats and groove-ridden baselines, all topped off with sun-drenched, reverb-soaked guitar lines and a pinch of synth.
This Swiss poppy shoegazers have an new EP, titled Hide and Seek, out on 19 April.
Marcie (vocalist) about the single: “Someday’ nearly didn’t make it onto the EP.
When we first played it as a band, we turned it into a dancey indie track. When it
came to recording the tune, we realised it didn’t work and left it on the sidelines.
After I first heard Mitski’s ‘Bug Like An Angel’ last summer, I picked up
my guitar and played ‘Someday’ again for the first time in months.
I realised it needed to stay the way it sounded when I first wrote it, intimate
and fragile. We recorded the song a few days later and decided to release it
after all.”
Crystalline vocals, endearing acoustic sonority, tender and romantic pearl.
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.
Check the 10 new rad cuts just
added to this rad 2024 playlist.
British indie rockers Yard Act shot to the indie top like a comet,
last year with their superb debut long-player The Overload.
They decided to keep the celebrity moment going. Their second LP, baptized
Where’s My Utopia will show up on 1 March. This new single features Kate J
Pearson on vocals.
21 tells us the complicated story of an old flame of frontman Jarred Young.
15 years and a not insignificant amount of therapy later, Young turns his gaze
back on that period of time with a sense of closure and resolution, and a degree
of compassion for his past self.
21 sounds like NYC darlings Vampire Weekend on a roll with jangly
guitars, a firm drum/bass collaboration, eager vocals, and a rad chorus.
Aphrodite is a piece from this Dutch duo’s second album Into The Realm Of Love
which lands on 8 March. “A duet written as a sort of myth”, is about a man trying
to prove his worth to a woman who Is only interested in what he can do for her.
If you never heard of 60s glam-pop duo Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazzlewood you’ll
have a crystal clear idea of those sensual stars when Donna Blue lands on your
earphones with this seductive, idyllic and alluring tune. Fanciful voices, Chris Isaak-like guitar play, and a glowing 60s Hammond-sounding organ are beautifully interwoven,
with a bittersweet pop pearl as the final result.
Last night at the Super Bowl game a Beyoncé commercial was screened announcing her new album Act II, the sequel to her 2022 album Renaissance. It’s out on March 29. And today the giga star dropped 2 new tracks, with earworm Texas Hold ‘Em as one of the two.
6. ‘All The Love We Bring’ byTHE GOODIES (San Diego)
California reggae/rock/soul band The Goodies founded/led by Justin Goodman (“Goodie”) and Zan, launched their self-titled, 6-track Debut EP last week with ‘All The Love We Bring’
as the focus track.
Goodman: “It’s a liberating song about how at the end of the day, love is really all we have to give and receive. It’s upbeat and to the point incorporating Reggae, Dub, rock, and soul. “All the Love We Bring” is a song for the people who suffer at the expense of the elite, intended to set us all free!”
Stimulating tunes like this elevating one are always welcome on my headphones, in these anxious and disturbed times. Its sunlit melodiousness, reggae vibrations, sprightly vocals and hip-shaking chorus will put a big smile on your face.
The New Zealand celebs are coming and going and coming
back again (1985–1996, 2006–2011, 2016, 2019–present).
The band’s orchestrator Neil Finn already shared a demo of this song
a couple years ago, and it’s inspired by his work with the non-profit
organization So They Can, which builds schools in Kenya and Tanzania.
“I’m hoping the song comes across without needing to know the backstory.
But it’s very much inspired by these incredible kids and their magnificence.”
HO HI is a glorious sing/hum/whistle along pop
ditty with joyful choir harmonies on the chorus.
8. ‘Silent Solitude’ by AVES feat. Markus Perttula (Finland)
This Finnish three-piece launch their debut album Transformations
on 22 March via Kieku Records.
“Being present means embracing the current moment, allowing yourself to disconnect from distractions and fully engage with what’s happening now. It involves focusing on what truly matters, letting go of unnecessary worries or minor details that might cloud your perception. Ultimately, it’s recognizing that in the grand scheme of things, many of the small stressors or concerns fade away when we prioritise the present and cherish what’s essential in our lives.”
This quixotic synth-pop piece invites you to live in the moment. Silent Solitude attracts with its ongoing dance groove, its sticky beats, and its utopian vocals. Sonic food for blue-sky daydreamers.
‘Vuja De’ flips the words “déjà vu,” delving into the essence of Lovetta’s breakup song.
It takes you on a journey of something or someone once familiar feeling strange and unfamiliar, echoing the universal ebb and flow of relationships.
This haunting tune driven by an entrancing, rotating riff and Lovetta’s emotive vocals
draw your aural attention from start to finish. Its tantalizing flow works like a magnet. Irresistible.
Blues rock tandem The Black Keys have canned their 12th LP. It’s called Ohio Players and materializes on 5 April. It’ll feature their cover of this 1968 song by the now 84-year-old soul man William Bell.
Band: THE DAMNED FEW Who: Muscular rock 4-piece
from The Netherlands
New single: SOMEDAY
It follows the torrid lead-single from their
forthcoming, self-titled debut album.
Dion Legebeke, the sultry frontwoman wrote
the song in 10 minutes while lying on a coach.
“Some songs just come out of nowhere. Sometimes life isn’t all sunshine, rainbows
and baby kittens. Sometimes life is dark, shitty, cold and empty. But if we pretend
often enough that everything will turn out okay, maybe everything will turn out okay.”
TUTV: The explosive vocal vehemence of Courtney Love and
the titanic blues-rock bombast of Led Zeppelin. Wow, right?
You betcha.
Someday is a quiet/Loud/quiet/Loud roller coaster, scraping the sky, coming
back, and thundering upwards again. Hungry guitars shift from moody vibrations to volcanic eruptions and Legebeke‘s vocal cords’ capacity blows your house’s roof off. Overwhelming stuff, dynamite execution.
