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TURN UP THE VOLUME’s 20 BEST ALBUMS OF 2025

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Band: THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS
Who: Buzzing indies from
Montreal, Canada.

Album: AGAIN
Their 2nd one.

NME: ‘Again’feels like Belair Lips Bomb
are auditioning to be the biggest band
in the world.”

TUTV: Just one spin and I knew this LP was a winner. Ace tune, after ace tune, after
ace tune. Guitar pop at its most move ‘n groove exciting. In the middle, vocalist and
guitarist Maisie Everett draws all attention. Wonderful voice, striking performance.

She’s backed by a well-oiled rock turbo. Hype or not, these
revved-up Aussies are going places, all around the globe
that is.

SINGLE

ALBUM


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Band: DITZ
Who: Unbridled post-punks
from Brighton, UK.

Album: NEVER EXHALE
Follow-up to their astonishing debut
The Great Regression from 2022.

Press info: “The album explores themes of unnecessary hatred and
division. It’s political, but ultimately personal. More Genet or Kafka
than Orwell or Huxley.

TUTV: Without a shadow of a doubt, the perfect soundtrack for Doomsday.
Sledgehammer after sledgehammer, drone after drone, brainfucker after
brainfucker. Always tension in the air.

Any track would work in a zombie horror movie. And we know all
about horror, right? Just take a look outside the window, and you
see a lot of it. For free.

Cal Francis‘s spoken word performances are bone-chilling. Their primal screams
send shivers down the spine. Lyrically, they operate in a space where reality and
surreality meet. No room for birds and bees.


Cal Francis – Pukkelpop Fest 2025 – Photo by TUTV

Never Exhale is an other-worldly Götterdämmerung experience.
It smells like something is alive and kicking here. No regression,
only progression.

Inhale them.

KEY SINGLE

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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. Their sucker-punches hit you, piece by piece, hard in the teeth while Karla Chubb‘s hepped-up vocals rule again. Here and there, her unbridled explosiveness brings young Courtney Love‘s borderline cry-outs to mind. Only the 6 last cooking/boiling/bloodcurdling haymakers
are already worth a full album.

KEY SINGLE

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Band: LAMBRINI GIRLS
Who: Two razorblade riot girrrrlzz – vox/guitarist Phoebe Lunny
and bassist Lilly Macieira – from Brighton (UK), with an insatiable
appetite for mass moshpits.

Album: WHO LET THE DOGS OUT
Their debut LP.


Photo by Turn Up The Volume

NME said: “Lambrini Girls prove punk is alive and kicking. They’re unapologetically amplifying chaos, calling out societal wrongs, and daring us all to feel something. This record is loud, raw, and impossible to ignore.”

TUTV:

Faster than a Formula One Ferrari.
Louder than a supersonic jet.
Punkier than any punks around.

Trashing. Crashing. Slashing.
Hellish. Demonic. Manicial.

11 knockouts. 11 killers. 11 hits.
11 Molotov cocktails. 11 bulls-eyes.

Bitchy. Boiling. Blasting.
Chaotic. Mental. Queer.
Bonkers. Berserk. Banging.

Massive bass buzz.
Schizo guitar riffs.

100 sneers. 100 spits.
100 rants. 100 bursts.
100 shits. 100 fuck-offs.

Middle-finger to all LGBTQ-haters.
To hell with all greedy capitalists.
Kick Brex-shit in the nationalistic ass.

KEY SINGLE

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Band: THE WATERBOYS
Who: The Scottish veteran pop-rock-folk band
orchestrated by singer-songwriter Mike Scott.

ALBUM: LIFE, DEATH AND DENNIS HOPPER

Press info: Inspired entirely by the life and mythos of actor Dennis Hopper, Mike Scott
and The Waterboys created this expansive album as tribute to one of American popular culture’s most compelling public figures.

TUTV: This a remarkable piece of work. It could be the soundtrack for a yet to be made
Dennis Hopper documentary. Hats off to Mike Scott for his boldness, imaginativeness, and ingenuity to score this musical movie, constructed marvellously with its sonically cinematic versatility.

Pop, rock, blues, country, bar-room jazz, and musing balladry take turns and puzzle
a most coherent and highly entertaining whole together, spiced with magnificent vocal contributions by Fiona Apple, Steve Earle and others. Never a dull moment with its varied stream of entertaining songs and Scott‘s awe-inspiring vocality throughout.

KEY SINGLE

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Band: HEISA
Who: 3 Belgian post-punk crusaders.

Album: TROIS

TUTV: Trois is one of the most balanced, the most arousing and the most vitalizing
noise rock records I heard in a very long time. Heisa grab you by the throat for 40 wicked minutes, and you won’t protest for one second. The cliché all killers, no fillers is so accurate here.

No arty farty tricks, no unnecessary overdubs, no useless volume exaggerations.
The production is flawless, and is an instrumental factor for the overall organic
resonance of this expressive exploit.

KEY SINGLE

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Band: MCLUSKY
Who: The renowned Welsh post-punk noiseniks
featuring Andrew Falkous, as known as hysterical
frontman of Future Of The Left.

Album: THE WORLD IS STILL HERE AND SO ARE WE
Their 4th.


Press photo by Damien Sayell

TUTV: Loudmouths Andrew Falkous and Damien Sayell still spit and sneer their 4 lungs
out and rip politicians to shreds while they wield their razor-sharp axes. Chainsaw guitars everywhere, backed by a hellacious drum/bass duo. And they’re still maddening masters when it comes to search and destroy punk havoc.

KEY SINGLE

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Band: WHOLES
Who: A fresh, rowdy hit team led by Belgian
musical chameleon Wolf Vanwymeersch,

Album: A MASS IN THE WATER.

Press info: An intense and raw reflection
of grief, trauma, and the desire for healing.

‘A Mass In The Water’ roughly describes the last day of Wolf Vanwymeersch‘s father,
who took his own life during a psychotic episode. The album balances between
mockery, anger, powerlessness, grief, understanding, compassion, and love.

TUTV: It’s both a scary and flabbergasting opus that takes a lot of courage to make and share with the world. The album’s ominous dynamics, distorted vocals, and riff-roasting razzmatazz resonate like if you are listening to the soundtrack of a modern day horror movie.

Vanwymeersch and Wholes created their own Dante’s Inferno.
Bloodcurdling, pitch-black, and bone-chilling. Helter-skelter.

KEY SINGLE

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Artist: HEAD ON STONE
Who: The solo project of Belgian songstress
Nele Janssen, frontwoman of post-punk turbo
Peuk.

Album: STONY BEDS
Debut LP

TUTV: Nele Janssen bewitches with her crystalline voice and enchanting piano play. Intimate, passional and heartfelt. From a Peuk scream to a solo whisper. A beautiful,
soul-stirring record that silences you from start to finish.

Eleven bittersweet reveries for the midnight hours. Stony Beds is an ideal companion
for cold winter nights, while relaxing with dimmed light on your couch and your favourite drink at hand.

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Band: THE NEW EVES
Who: Must hear/see indies from Brighton (where everybody is in a band).
They cruise from folk to punk, using, besides traditional instruments (guitar,
bass and drums) also cello, flute, violin and other classical gear.


Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Brussels

Album: THE NEW EVE IS RISING.
Their debut.

NME: “A record that mines the unpredictable free-spiritedness of freak
folk, the loose, louche nature of rock’n’roll and the no-rules attitude of punk.”

TUTV: Eccentricity is the new normal. Poetic, medieval music is among us.
The New Eves are something special, really special. Next to drum/bass/guitar
they use more untraditional instruments such as cello, flute, violin and other
classical music gear.

At their core, musically, they’re a folk punk rock band, an outlandish one, that is.
One of those that play gloriously out of tune at times, enthuse up with splendacious chants and have your bewildering attention for the full 40 baffling minutes. One of
the most innovative full-lengths of the year. Hands down.

KEY SINGLE

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Band: AVALANCHE PARTY
Who: High-voltage outfit from Yorkshire Moors (UK),
formed by Joe and Jordan Bell, vocalist and bassist
respectively.

Album: DER TRAUM UBER ALLES
Their second one.

TUTV: TAP funk and punk, buzz and fuzz, move and groove on this voltaic
record. They shoot a series of titanic tunes from their hips with a hair-raising
impact.

Avalanche Party have become masterly songwriters who know exactly how to construct adrenalized knockout killers with the right combination of roasting riffs, jagged hooks, bang-on licks, powerhouse drumming, effervescent synths and sultry horns here and there. Stupendous record.

KEY SINGLE

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Band: WOLF ALICE
Who: Lauded British guitar pop quartet, fronted
by the charismatic vocalist Ellie Rowsell.

New album: THE CLEARING
Their 4th.

TUTV: With The Clearing,  the changing, musical process since their debut LP is complete. It’s now more ELLIE + THE WOLF (yes, FLORENCE + THE MACHINE territory) than before. Pop music in all its seducing and alluring ways. It’ll make them superstars in and outside the UK.

KEY SINGLE

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Artist: BLACK VIIOLET
Who: Alter-ego of American garage punk ‘n’ roll
turbo The Darts‘ front Amazon Nicole Laurenne.

Album: AFTER YOU
Her debut.

Laurenne: “The songs were written in the style of vintage jazz standards, but are then drenched with Rhodes piano and sparkling horn parts, with upright bass and triphop beats holding down a groovy, downtempo feel underneath. The vocals are the polar opposite of my garage rock sound in The Darts – in Black Viiolet, I am quietly telling you secrets in the dark.

TUTV: After You is delectable music for the midnight hours that massages
your ears for 40 minutes. The most sensual record I heard in a long time.
It transfers you to a place where you can dream away, far from today’s
depressing outside world.

SINGLE

ALBUM

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Artist: PREWN
Who: The moniker of Massachusetts‘ born, LA-based chilling
singer-songwriter Izzy Hagerup. She released her debut album
Through The Window in 2023.

New Album: SYSTEM
Her 2nd one.

Hagerup: “I need to tap into my grief and sadness and stuff because it’s there. And when
you don’t live in it then you’re just numb. You can’t see the beauty and you are running from
the pain. It’s this Groundhog Day feeling. I feel that’s the antithesis to art, love, and connection, and giving a shit about the world.”

TUTV: The combination of creepy violins, ominous cello shadow play, and last but
not least Hagerup‘s wailing voice dominate this record causing bone-chilling sensations.

Her laments evoke moments of uncomfortableness, but her grip is so overwhelming
that you just can’t get away of her sonic exorcism. Like watching a traumatic thriller
you can’t escape from without knowing the end of the story.

SINGLE

ALBUM


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Band: SPAMMERHEADS
Who: Techno tandem
from Valencia, Spain.

Album: THE MIRE CHRONICLES

Press Info: “This album, was born from the difficult experience of the floods that hit Valencia on October 29, 2024. During this time, the duo lost part of their studio and actively participated in the cleanup efforts in their city.

The Valencian duo offers six tracks (plus two digital bonus tracks) to remind us that despite
the difficulties we may face, we must always fight to get ahead, get back on our feet, and not
be swept away by the current.”

TUTV: Eight titanic techno thrills, eight 90s inspired trance tunes. Think Chemical Brothers, The Orb and The Prodigy. The pair’s Mire Chronicles have a hammering impact on their post-drama demons. At the end of the traumatic tunnel there’s a Spammerheads light that
illuminates a healing future.

SINGLE

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Band: THE LEMONHEADS
Who: Veteran tunesmith
Evan Dando and his crew.

Album: LOVE CHANT
Their first in 19 years,
their 11th overall.

TUTV: Dando has resurrected himself and his band gloriously. Now and then he touches turbulent memories from the past and does some soul-searching again, but you can feel he’s truly happy, healthy and excited to be here in great artistic shape. A welcome reaffirmation of The Lemonheads‘ riveting pop mastery.

KEY SINGLE

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Artist: PETER DOHERTY
The notorious Libertine.

Album: FELT BETTER ALIVE
His 3rd solo one.

TUTV: Writing songs is Doherty‘s oxygen. He has music running through his veins.
Enter this new solo album. A collection of daily life tunes that puts a smile on your
face. The man entertains, charms and shows his inspiring skills once again. It’s clear
that the French air stimulates his productivity. Poetry in motion.

KEY SINGLE

ALBUM


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Artist: MARK STEWART
Who: One of the most adventurous/inventive/original post-punk & dub artists/performers
ever. He was a founding member of genre-bending new wave group The Pop Group and released lots of solo and collaborative records. Unfortunately, he passed away 2 years ago,
only 62.

As a prolific solo artist, he scored 7 LPs, collaborated with countless
other artists, and caused poignant waves with his Mafia outfit.

Album: THE FATEFUL SYMMETRY
His 8th solo LP, released posthumously
by Mute Records.


Album artwork

TUTV: Stewart expresses again his mixed emotions about humanity and its messy planet. Both pessimistic and optimistic reflections, but always with sparks of hope. Musically, it’s
a very accessible pop work with several crooning musings.

His characteristic, captivating voice, both heartrending and heartwarming at the same time, feels so real, so close, and as always, engaged and genuine. Mark Stewart was one
of a kind and will always be in my book.

KEY SINGLE

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Band: NEIL YOUNG and the THE CHROME HEARTS .

Album: TALKIN TO THE TREES.

TUTV Talkin To The Trees brings Young‘s 1975 masterwork Tonight’s The Night instantly
to mind, sonically that is. Raw and rough, as if the LP was recorded live in one take, in
a garage with lots of echo and plenty of ramshackle guitars, buzzing electricity and
Young‘s characteristic, ardent vocals. Very familiar, very entertaining.

It’s vintage Young, musically and thematically, wondering about the world’s future, warning for environmental pollution dramas, difficult times to come for our children, and the need of a big positive change.

KEY SINGLE

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Artists: BRIAN ENO and BEATIE WOLFE

They met in 2022 at the SXSW festival. They met again while exhibiting visual
and conceptual art pieces in London and began recording together early
last year.

Album: LIMINAL
The duo’s third in only 5 months.
Talking about a fertile collaboration

TUTV: I always loved and embraced Eno‘s sonic ambient paintings, his chimerical and fanciful synth symphonies with its calming impact and starry-eyed radiance. Liminal is another Eno opus I added to my headphone music playlist for psychological relaxation.

An invitation to ease your mind and ears in their
phantasmagorical universe. A record to cherish.

SINGLE

ALBUM


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TURN UP THE VOLUME – 40 BEST TRACKS OF 2025

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TRACK-BY-TRACK

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Band: THE HIVES

Who: The Swedish punk kingpins
who run amok since 1993.

Track: THE HIVES FOREVER, FOREVER THE HIVES

The title track from their 7th full-length,
which hit the streets last August.

TUTV: And it goes like this.

The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives
The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives
The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives

Tune! Tune! Tune!
Catchy as fookin’ hell.

Oemotståndlig sång

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Band: OPUS KINK (Brighton, UK)

Who: Razor-edged, funked-up, sax-and-trumpet infused
noizzz collective fronted by their charismatic frontman
Angus Rodgers.

Track: I’M A PRETTY SHOWBOY

Angus Rogers (frontman): “Rock and roll music for the empty and stunning.
A song about contempt, appetite, impotence and self-preservation through
gyration. Enjoy superficially with your body and send the reeling mind on
to hell.”

TUTV: Wham Bam! Yeah Yeah! Go Go! Oh my Oh My! Razzle Dazzle!
This is the kind of adrenaline-pumping thrills I wait impatiently for
every single day.

Get up, stand up, and fight
for your right to show off.

Badass

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Band: THE SLOW READERS CLUB

Who: Alt-pop rockers
from Manchester, UK.

Track: BOY SO BLUE
Single from their notable 7th album,
Out Of A Dream, released last March.

“‘Although it’s a big, joyous dance track, it’s about hiding deep emotional pain and trauma and how hedonistic coping mechanisms, like drugs, alcohol, and womanizing, are just temporary distractions.”

TUTV: This is what amazing pop-ular music is all about. Big melody, big emotions, big orchestration. Euphorically sticky as first-class glue despite its dramatic ‘real life‘ story. Aftermath soul-searching can work cathartically.

24 Carat pop

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Band: KID KAPICHI

Who: Party punk rockers from Hastings, UK.
So far, they have canned 3 longplayers.

Track: STAINLESS STEEL

KK in infectious punk overdrive.
Shaky-tastic from the get-go.
Swirl like a whirligig, people.

Boogielicious

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Band: SPRINTS

Who: Irish post-punk whirlwind, led by charismatic
voice/songwriter/guitarist Karla Chubb.

Track: BETTER
Along with Something’s Gonna Happen, my top fav track
on their brand new, second LP, called All That Is Over.

TUTV: Every time I play this pure punk-rock gem, I feel way better.
It’s striking swagger, superb groove, passionate duet vocals, and
high-strung guitar play mesmerize.

Transfixing

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Band: PANIC SHACK

Who: 4 pop punkettes from Wales. In 2022 they
released their 6-track debut EP Baby Shack.

Track: GIRL BAND STARTER PACK
Single from stellar self-titled debut LP.

TUTV: These utterly cool Welsh Amazons
drive you bonkers with this insane punk ‘n’ roll
uppercut.

Kick-ass band, kick-ass attitude, kick-ass blast.

Party! Party! Party!

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Artist: PREWN

Who: The moniker of Massachusetts‘ chilling singer-songwriter
Izzy Hagerup. She released her debut album Through The Window
in 2023.

Track: SYSTEM
First new piece and title track from her
2nd LP, coming our way on October 3rd.

Hagerup: “When I wrote ‘System’ I was supposed to be present and alive
and gracious and happy. But somehow I couldn’t escape my own internal
fears and depression that can follow me wherever I go.”

TUTV: What a brilliant torch song. Weeping guitars come and go while
Hagerup‘s heart-stopping vocals cause goosebumps. And what a fuming
finale.

Spine-tingling

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Band: WHOLES

Who: A fresh, rowdy hit team led by Belgian
musical chameleon Wolf Vanwymeersch.

Track: MODERN DAY DRAMA
Single from their bone-chilling debut album
A Mass In The Water, dealing with the suicide
of Wolf‘s father.

TUTV: Its ominous mid-tempo dynamics, its distorted vocals, and its riff-psychotic razzmatazz resonate as if you are listening to the scary theme song of a horror movie.

At the 2.30 minute mark, all hell breaks loose.
From a whisper to a scream. From planet Earth
to Dante‘s Inferno.

Surreal


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Band: DITZ

Who: Post-punk turbo
from Brighton, UK

Track: FOUR
One of the highlights from their
brill 2nd LP Never Exhale

TUTV: Ditz operate in a very dark place. Sonically, as well as lyrically.
In the middle Cal Francis barks at the moon, while dense drones
infiltrate your shocked ears. Inhale, exhale.

Petrifying


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📷 Mats Verschueren

Band: WIJF. (WIFE. in English)

Who: Hungry hit team from Belgium
ready to take on the world.

Track: LIAR
From their debut EP Alter Ego.


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TUTV: This 4-piece grab you by the throat from the kick-off and never lose their firm grip, while vociferous vocalist Marie De Graeve‘s has a crushing impact on your petrified stereo. Liar is a titanic motherrocker that pulverizes the Richter scale in just 250 seconds. Queens Of The Stone Age, Deftones and Black Sabbath come to mind.

Paranoic


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Band: CHALK

Who: Three earthshaking
misfits from Belfast, Ireland.

Track: AFRAID
Piece from 3rd EP,
titled Conditions III.

TUTV: OMG! What a riot-gun banger. These Irishmen create suffocating havoc with
a maddening mix of nasty racket that brings illegal-decibels-producing bands such as
NIN and Metz to my cooking mind.

Manicial

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Band: PUNCHBAG

Who: A new brother-sister party duo, from South London colliding the
raw unfiltered energy of punk, with the overflowing ecstasy of pop.

Track: I’M NOT YOUR PUNCHBAG
From their debut EP.

TUTV: Ecstasy. Elation. Euphoria. Exhilaration. This electro smack makes
you bounce and jump on your pogo-stick. They punch you in the teeth
without asking, while having fervent fun.

KO

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Band: HEISA

Who: Belgian noise rock trio whose sound draws influences from bands such
as Black Midi, Tool, Battles, and Swans, blending dissonance with a strong sense
of identity.

Track: NANDOR
Piece from their ace
3rd album Trois.

TUTV: What the fuck! From the very kick-off, chainsaw guitars do your
brain in. Electric chair electricity throughout. No way to escape. Neurotic
vocals complete this blitzkrieg assault.

Flabbergasting

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Press photo by Damien Sayell

Band: MCLUSKY

Who: The renowned Welsh post-punk noiseniks
featuring Andrew Falkous, as known as hysterical
frontman of Future Of The Left.

Track: CHEKHOV’S GUNS

One of the singles of their earth-shaking 4th LP
The World Is Still Here And So Are We.

TUTV: As usual, Andrew Falkous screams
his 4 lungs out while spitting absurd lyrics.

Chop. Chop. Chop.


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Band: DOWN THE LEES
Who: The post-rock noise project of seasoned Canadian
singer/songwriter/guitarist Laura Lee Schultz. DTL released
3 notable albums, so far.

They have canned a live movie
now, titled This Is How It Feels.

Track: MIDI DORIC
First single. A song that deals with the
isolation and depression of the pandemic.

TUTV: A characteristic DTL thunderstorm, cranked up by blustery bass lines,
monstrous guitar riffs, Herculean drumming, Schultz‘s sky-scraping vocals and
a volcanic finale. One of the best noizz rock bands around.

Jawdropping

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Artist: PEACHES

Who: The fabulous/controversial/notorious performer/producer and
feminist/gay activist born Merrill Nisker 58 years ago in Toronto, Canada.

Track: FUCK YOUR FACE
Cut from her upcoming 7th album, her first in
10 years. It’s named No Lube So Rude and will
come out on 20 Feb 2026.

TUTV: Don’t expect Peaches to write and sing songs about
the birds and the bees, and even if she did, it would be horny
stuff too.

Mirror on the wall, who’s the hottest disco queen of them all?

Peaches

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Artist: BAXTER DURY

Who: The dandy songsmith,
still wearing a suit (no tie).

Track: ALLBARONE
The title track from his
8th titillating dance LP.

TUTV: This disco knockout can fill
a dancefloor in an eye/ear blink.

Sassy

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Press photo by Cole Yearwood

Artist: FANCLUBWALLET

Who: Canadian guitar pop outfit led
by songstress Hannah Judge from
Ottawa, Canada.

Track: COTTON MOUTH
From her 2nd full-length,
called Living While Dying.

TUTV: This sickly sticky riff earworm
drives you crazy. Head-twisting stonker.

Hyperkinetic

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Band: YOGI-G AND THE FAMILY TREE

Who: Happy Mondays co-founder/drummer
Gaz Whelan and friends.

Track: THE BLIND MAN AND THE MONKEY
A highlight from their terrific debut album,
titled Show Me The Truth.

TUTV: Madchester 2025? Absolutely. Never mind the Happy
Mondays, here come Yogi-G And The Family Tree (what a name).

E-cstatic


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Press photo by Danny Clinch

Band: ARCADE FIRE
Who: The famous pop-rock
collective from Canada.

Track: YEAR OF THE SNAKE
One of the singles from their
7th LP, titled Pink Elephant.

TUTV: It’s a sublime, crystalline pop nugget, with its hypnotizing guitar riff,
the non-stop drum beat and the intertwined, spellbinding vocals of Win Butler
and his spouse, Régine Chassagne.

Sterling

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Band: KASABIAN
Who: British star rockers from Leicester. One of the best bands
of the past 25 years on record and on stage, in my book.

Track: HIPPIE SUNSHINE.
Lead single from their forthcoming
9th LP. Details TBA.

TUTV: Expect a mega vitalizing, disco-charged haymaker.
Since co-founder/songwriter/frontman Serge Pizzorno pulls
all the band’s strings, he provides dynamite tunes you can
throw 24-hour parties with.

Hip-hip hurray

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Artist: MARK STEWART

Who: One of the most adventurous/inventive/original post-punk & dub artists/performers
ever. He was a founding member of genre-bending new wave group The Pop Group and released lots of solo and collaborative records. Unfortunately, he passed away 2 years ago,
only 62.

Track: MEMORY OF YOU
Single from Stewart‘s solo album The Fateful Symmetry,
which was completed early 2023, not long before his passing.

TUTV: Haunting, synth-symphonic and bang-tastic,
with Mark‘s characteristically energetic voice on top.

Soul-stirring

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New album artwork

Band: PULP

Track: SPIKE ISLAND
Piece from their first LP in
24 years, called More.

TUTV: A vintage, mid-tempo, pop stimulant with
a grandiose chorus. More pulp for common
people.

“I was born to perform.”

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Band: HOLY COVES

Who: Welsh mavericks, fronted by singer-songwriter
Scott Marsden, with 3 albums on their résumé and
#4 is waiting in the pipeline.

Track: FALLING DOWN

First single from their forthcoming 4th full-length, their
first in 4 years, slated for release in September 2026.

TUTV: Holy Coves are back, and they don’t waste time. It’s full steam ahead from
the get-go. Eager guitars and sinewy drumming inject this sweltering steamroller with
a flaming briskness that causes a kinetic reverberation, while Marsden emotive vocals accentuate the song’s sad sentiments.

Toptier

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Artists: GANS

Who: 2-piece from Birmingham (UK) – Euan Woodman (drums/vocals) and Tom Rhodes (bass/vocals) – born in late 2023 over a shared love of noise, literature and late night shebeens. They write music about love and hate. They’re good for your soul.

New Single: I THINK I LIKE YOU

TUTV: Warning. This insanely groovy punk blast will bulldoze all over your shocked speakers. Expect a superheated funky firestorm that attacks the Richter scale with a shattering impact. A manically jagged jackhammer it is. Trust me, you’ll think you like them, VERY MUCH, while you bang your head into your fridge’s door.

Go nuts

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Band: KLÄMP

Who: A collective with members scattered across the UK and the Netherlands.
This group, now comprising seven members, has its roots in a trio that expanded
over the past four years.

New track: WET LEATHER
Piece from their sophomore
LP Total Technik.

TUTV: Kraut-rock and roll with an intoxicating force. A wall-of-guitar-pyrotechnics rollercoaster. An overpowering tempest of rambunctious riffs. Voltaic psychedelia
at its spine-chilling best, bombarding your ears the way you like it.

Mind-bending


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Artist: LIFE COACH

Who: The musical project of singer-songwriter-poet Jamie Cameron. Hailing from
the Scottish Borders, the music blends lo-fi beats, synths and guitars with spoken word lyrics in which he discusses subjects ranging from politics and premonitions to self help culture, and a modern society obsessed with economic thinking.

Track: SQUADDIES IN HAIR NETS
Highlight from his 2nd full-length
A Love Letter To Your Yearning Heart.

TUTV: This rattling rap ‘n’ punk roll crackerjack swings forth and back, left
and right and Jamie Cameron’s full of vim and vigour word-flow activates all
of your insatiable limbs before he relaxes towards the synthy end. Kinetic throb.
Hands up for the coach.

Exhilarating


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Band: SUN MAHSENE

Who: Irish psych-rock team who released their lauded
debut album A Place We’ve Never Been last year.

Track: LIFE IS JOY

TUTV: A nasty bass riff motorizes this rollicking psych jam that seems to go on
like forever, and when the powerhouse chorus kicks in, your ears are instantly
overwhelmed. Life Is Joy is one of those riff-crazy haymakers that stick after just

Exuberant


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Photo: Emma Chitty | Graphics: Mike Raymond

Band: NRVS

Who: Mysterious trio with an inimitable take on
humanity’s downward spiral into a dysfunctional
entropic existence. They unleashed their punk-groovy
debut EP Like You last year.

Track: FREE

TUTV: This arresting, melancholic song is heart-rending. Its bluesy guitar
radiance, its bass-beat-heavy cadence, and despondent vocals get under
your skin. Its melodic catchiness has irresistible written all over it.

Gripping

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Photo by Graham Noble

Band: DECLAN WELSH AND THE DECADENT WEST

Who: Post-rock-punk combo from Scotland.
So far they have recorded/released two
albums.

Track: CAREFREE

TUTV: A razzle-dazzle steamroller that gets under your skin faster
than you can say “this is bloody superb”. Its insane, mind-bending
course doubles your serotonin production on the spot.

Blimey

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Artist: NEIL YOUNG And The CHROME HEARTS

Track: LET’S ROLL AGAIN
From their LP Talkin To The Trees.

“If you’re a fascist, then get a Tesla.”

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Artist: CMAT

Track: THE JAMIE OLIVER PETROL STATION
From her 3rd album, named Euro-Country.

TUTV: A vocal tour de force that
blows me away every time I play it.

Wowzers

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Artists: ANDY BELL and DEBBIE HARRY

Track: HEART’S A LIAR
From his new album,
named Ten Crows.

Disco delight

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Band: THE NEW EVES

Who: Must hear/see indies from Brighton (where everybody is in a band).
They cruise from folk to punk, using, besides traditional instruments (guitar,
bass and drums) also cello, flute, violin and other classical gear.

Track: COW SONG
From their rad debut full-length
called The New Eve Rising.

Moo-tastic

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Band: SLEAFORD MODS

Track: THE GOOD LIFE
From their upcoming LP,
called The Demise Of Planet X

Rap rush

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Photo by Isabella Martinez

Band: PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS

Track: THE REAL CONTRA BAND
Piece from their new full-length
Carpe Diem, Moonman.

TUTV: This motherrocker of a song shows no mercy whatsoever.
From the get-go, PPC go full steam ahead and never look back

Hallelujah!

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Press photo

Band: SUEDE

Track: DISINTEGRATE
A single from their LP #10.
named Antidepressants.

TUTV: Suede age in glamorous style with frontman
Brett Anderson giving it all, just like in the early days.

Astounding

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Promo photo

Band: MY FIRST TIME

Who: Fast-rising indie
rebels from Bristol, UK.

Track: SIPPY CUP

TUTV: These young wolves bulldoze their way through the daily
bullshit we have to endure with a knife between their teeth. Sippy Cup
is a bruising, full of vim and vigor, uppercut hitting where it hurts.

Sucker-punch

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Band: THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS

Who: Buzzing indies
from Montreal, Canada.

Track: HEY YOU
Single from their tremendous
second album Again.

TUTV: Guitar pop at its most exultant, with the wonderful vocalist/guitarist
Maisie Everet fronting a fast-up-and-coming quartet from down under.

Delirious

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Band: WET LEG

Track: DAVINA McCALL
Highlight from their sophomore
full-length, named Moisturizer.

Groove/move.

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10 BEST ALBUMS OF THE MONTH – OCTOBER 2025

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Band: THE LEMONHEADS
Who: The notorious singer-songwriter
Evan Dando‘s band for almost four
decades now.

Album: LOVE CHANT

Their 11th one. The first with new music since 2006. In between
the band released a couple of albums with covers of Dando‘s
favorite songs.

Press info: “It’s a record that sounds both fresh and familiar: rooted in the hallmarks
of The Lemonheads’ best work, yet expanded by years of lived experience
and new surroundings.”

Mojo Magazine says: “Love Chant might be described as scrappy, vulnerable and
heartfelt, but it is also loose, exuberant and animated in a manner that seems faithful
to who Dando is today.”

TUTV: Clean Dando has obviously refound his 90s appetite for creating
enthralling pop music and he eagerly wants it to share with us from the
get-go.

Dando has resurrected himself and his band gloriously. Now and then he touches turbulent memories from the past and does some soul-searching again, but you
can feel he’s truly happy, healthy and excited to be here in great artistic shape.

Not one dull moment. Mind you, it’s not a masterpiece, rather
a welcome reaffirmation of The Lemonheads‘ riveting pop
mastery.

KEY SINGLE

ALBUM

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Band: SPAMMERHEADS
Who: Techno tandem
from Valencia, Spain.

Press Info: “The latest album by Spammerheads, was born from the difficult
experience of the floods that hit Valencia on October 29, 2024. During this time,
the duo lost part of their studio and actively participated in the cleanup efforts
in their city.

This was an experience filled with a mix of emotions—shock, helplessness, fury, resistance, solidarity, and resilience, among others that shaped what may be their
best work to date. Written as a chronicle, the album explores the personal and
collective states of people affected by tragedies or catastrophes.

TUTV: It sounds like if the Spanish electroclash duo decided to process last
year’s devastating floods drama in their hometown Valencia with new music.
Their intentions resulted in this new notable LP stuffed with eight titanic
techno thrills.

Eight 90s inspired trance tunes. Think Chem Bros, The Orb and The Prodigy.
Yes, EDM has become a timeless musical outlet genre that puts you in a
mind-bending trance, far away from the shambolic reality.

The pair’s Mire Chronicles have a hammering impact on their post-drama demons.
To hell with them. At the end of the traumatic tunnel there’s a Spammerheads light
that illuminates a healing future.

SINGLE

ALBUM

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Artist: PREWN
Who: The moniker of Massachusetts-born, LA-based chilling
singer-songwriter Izzy Hagerup. She released her debut album
Through The Window in 2023.

New Album: SYSTEM
Her 2nd one.

Stereogum said:”System begins by oscillating between numbing ease of the modern
world and the fight-or-flight response that each new day in a world of crumbling institutions brings. But by the album’s end, Hagerup finds resolve in humanity.”

Hagerup: “I need to tap into my grief and sadness and stuff because it’s there. And when
you don’t live in it then you’re just numb. You can’t see the beauty and you are running from
the pain. It’s this Groundhog Day feeling. I feel that’s the antithesis to art, love, and connection, and giving a shit about the world.”

TUTV: Most songs are written from “twisted and sociopathic perspectives” during late-night bedroom sessions, says Hagerup. And you can feel what that did to System. Freaky at times, off-centre now and then, psychotic here and there.

The combination of creepy violins, ominous cello shadow play, and last but not least Hagerup‘s wailing voice dominate this record causing bone-chilling sensations. Her
laments evoke moments of uncomfortableness, but her grip is so overwhelming that
you just can’t get away of her sonic exorcism. Like watching a bloodcurdling thriller you can’t escape from without knowing the end of the story.

SINGLE
One of the best
of 2025 to my ears.
Masterly stroke.

ALBUM

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Band: IT’S KARMA IT’S COOL
Who: Psych pop rock outfit from Lincoln (UK),
led by singer-songwriter Jim Styring.

Album: ONE MILLION SUBURBAN SUNSETS
Their 4th, insipred by living in this modern world,
and what it means to be alive in the 21st century.

Louder Than War says: “From Lincoln, fourth album from a band who burst
the confines of the genre they are best known for. It’s Karma It’s Cool are now
a proper contemporary rock band in search of an audience who want big anthemic
tunes, stadium-sized angst that somehow lifts you out of a generational mid-life
crisis.” 

Jim Styring (singer-songwriter) said to Louder Than War: “I always leave lyrics open to interpretation. It’s more important what the listener believes than what I had in mind when
I wrote them.

These so called ‘experts’ telling us that rock and roll is dead and buried. As long as we, as humans, have emotions, songwriters will continue to write, bands will continue to form, our music will continue to thrive. Basically, if you believe in something , don’t let anyone put you down.”

TUTV: The Brits have enriched their already psychedelic sound with early R.E.M.’s sinewy
jangliness and Michael Stipe‘s poignant vocality. It’s without a shadow of a doubt their most arresting opus so far. Frontman Jim Styring reflections on this turbulent and grim century are sign’s of the times.

It’s the end of the world, as we know it, but IKIC, and many of us, do not feel fine. But as long as impassioned and unequivocal records like this one are made there will always be a hopeful light shining at the end of the dark tunnel. It’s called cool karma.

Highlights: Crashability / 21st Century Meds / Serotonin /
Sidewalk Flowers / Paper Tigers / Swans

KEY SINGLE

ALBUM

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Band: OF MONSTERS AND MEN
Who: Icelandic indie folk/rock outfit
formed in Garðabær in 2010.

Album: ALL IS LOVE AND PAIN IN THE MOUSE PARADE

Press info: “The title and beating heart of Icelandic collective Of Monsters
And Men’s fourth album hits a lot closer to home than you’d expect. A tapestry
of stories, moments, and conversations, the album explores how love and pain
intertwine.”

AllMusic says: “Hitting on the highs and lows of life, the Icelandic quintet stick close to
their established sound: touching and tender indie folk anthems that play on earnestness
and innocence.”

TUTV: This is what melancholic, folk-inspired splendour is about. Galvanically
crafted songs that touch heart and soul. Rainbow-colored reveries about daily
life put to bewitching music with a leading role for beatific piano play amidst
enticing orchestrations and idyllically alternating and duet vocals.

Think Scottish romantics Belle & Sebastian. This is the kind of
gratifying records to cherish and embrace when your mind
wants/needs a break from the outside world.

Mesmerizing, just mesmerizing.

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6. Lovin’ You by RICHARD ASHCROFT

TUTV: As an ardent Richard Ashcroft/The Verve fan a new RA full-length feels
like a conveted present a 10-year-old was waiting for. But (there’s always
a but) this one leaves me with mixed emotions.

Mind you, 5 tracks (Lover / Heavy News / I’m A Rebel / Crimson Fire ) out of the 10
are arresting tunes, but the other 5 miss the needed divertissement to make it a full commandable record. Lovin You‘ misses Ashcroft‘s epic touch and magical resonance.
No classics such as The Drugs Don’t Work, This Is How It Feels, Sonnet, Lucky Man or (of course) Bittersweet Symphony here.

Considering his illustrious work from the past, it’s hard to come up with first-class
material time and time again that achieves a similar heart-and-soul stirring glamourness. On the other hand, many singer-songwriters would have Lovin’ You on their résumé. And that says a lot about Ashcroft‘s unmistakable strength as a singer-songwriter.

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7. Liminal by BRIAN ENO and songstress BEATIE WOLFE

Who: The ambient sound wizard and songstress.

TUTV: I always loved and embraced Eno‘s sonic ambient paintings, his chimerical and fanciful synth symphonies with its calming impact and starry-eyed radiance. Liminal is another opus I have added to my headphone music playlist for physical relaxation.

Again songstress Beautie Wolfe‘s angelic voice is so complementary with Eno‘s euphonic wanderings. Third collaboration in 5 months. Third invitation to ease your mind and ears in their phantasmagorial universe. A record to cherish in the coming months.

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8. All Systems Are Lying by SOULWAX

Who: the Belgian brothers David and Stephen Dewaele‘s band for 30 years now,
is only one of the siblings’ diverse projects. They DJed the world around as 2manydjs,
had their own Radio Soulwax, and produced/remixed countless other artists.

TUTV: Soulwax excel here with a kaleidoscopic sonic amalgam that connects Kraftwerk‘s otherworldly euphoniousness and The Orb‘s ambient dynamics and at times Cabaret Voltaire‘s experimental capriciousness

The record’s arresting strength, to my ears, is it’s underlying poppiness. Half of
the album is stuffed with pop tunes, enwrapped in the bros’ electronic universe.

It’s not pure techno, not pure dance, not really EBM, rather a versatile, chameleon-like
kind of synth-layered album that sparkles and effervesces non-stop and they aren’t afraid
of tackling the powers that be, the systems that are after your soul.

The siblings got it right: “It’s a rock record without guitars”.

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9. I’m Nice Now by UPCHUCK


Album artwork

Who: High-voltage punks
from Atlanta, Georgia.

TUTV: When young punks play old skool punk you get bands like Upchuck. Their sharp-teethed tenacity, perseverance and hardihood bring 80s angry dogs Dead Kennedys and Black Flag to mind. The message is more important than the racket they all produce. As millions of Americans do, Upchuck also feel trapped by the tyrannical regime in the White House.

Their cathartic music helps them to ventilate all the shit they’re confronted with every single day. Ty Segall‘s production is spot on. I’m sure he took them to a filthy basement somewhere and created an out-of-tune sound that resonates exactly like these Atlanta bohos want to express themselves. Raw, rough, and real. The Upchuck revolution starts here.


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10. Worldwide by SNÕÕPER

Who: Nashville‘s kamikaze pop punk combo

TUTV: Suppose the mailman has delivered you
the LP this morning, and you ride a car to go to work.

PLAY IT during breakfast, but check your
pulse before you get in your car.

DON’T PLAY IT in the car, ’cause you’ll surpass the speed limit within
30 seconds, which is not a good thing when the lights are turning red.

PLAY IT during your lunch break, and challenge your
co-workers to a roller skate race through the office.

STOP PLAYING IT when your boss catches you, doing a
series of somersaults, forth and back, over your desk.

Yes, track #9 is a Beatles cover.

PLAY IT when you’re in the bathroom, it can
be useful for your activity in there.

DON’T PLAY IT on the way home, you have
already wrecked your car in the morning.

PLAY IT on repeat when you get home and pretend you’re
a kamikaze pilot or, that’s big fun too, a pit bull on acid.

ALBUM


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PREWN – Singular American Singer-Songwriter Has Her New Bone-Chilling Album ‘SYSTEM’ Out Now

Posted on by JL

13 October 2025

Artist: PREWN
Who: The moniker of Massachusetts‘ born, LA-based chilling
singer-songwriter Izzy Hagerup. She released her debut album
Through The Window in 2023.

New Album: SYSTEM
Her 2nd one.

Stereogum:”System begins by oscillating between numbing ease of the modern world
and the fight-or-flight response that each new day in a world of crumbling institutions brings. But by the album’s end, Hagerup finds resolve in humanity.”

Hagerup: “I need to tap into my grief and sadness and stuff because it’s there. And when
you don’t live in it then you’re just numb. You can’t see the beauty and you are running from
the pain. It’s this Groundhog Day feeling. I feel that’s the antithesis to art, love, and connection, and giving a shit about the world.”

TUTV: Most songs are written from “twisted and sociopathic perspectives” during late-night bedroom sessions, says Hagerup. And you can feel what that did to System. Freaky at times, off-centre now and then, psychotic here and there.

The combination of creepy violins, ominous cello shadow play, and last but not least Hagerup‘s wailing voice dominate this record causing bone-chilling sensations. Her
laments evoke moments of Uncomfortableness, but her grip is so overwhelming that you just can’t get away of her sonic exorcism. Like watching a bloodcurdling thriller you can’t escape from without knowing the end of the story.

SINGLE
One of the best
of 2025 to my ears.
Masterly stroke.

ALBUM


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Instagram – Album On Spotify

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20 BEST TRACKS OF THE MONTH – AUGUST 2025

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ALL TOGETHER


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TRACK BY TRACK

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Artist: PREWN
Who: The moniker of Massachusetts‘ chilling singer-songwriter
Izzy Hagerup. She released her debut album Through The Window
in 2023.

Track: SYSTEM
First new piece and title track from her
2nd LP, coming our way on October 3rd.

TUTV: What a brilliant torch song. Feverish tension all the way, drawing you into a mesmerizing trance you want to last like forever. Weeping guitars come and go while Hagerup‘s heart-stopping vocals are immensely soul-stirring and a galvanic guitar solo causes a spine-tingling finale.

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Band: KID KAPICHI
Who: From 4 to 2 party punk rockers from Hastings, UK.
They have, so far, 3 albums on their résumé, so far, with
last year’s There Goes The Neighbourhood as the most
recent one.

Track: STAINLESS STEEL

TUTV: KK in boogielicious overdrive. Funky-tastic as
hell from the get-go. Get up, stand up and sway yourself
dizzy.

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Band: THE HIVES
Who: Sweden‘s longtime punk kings
fronted by loudmouth Howlin’ Pelle .

Track: THE HIVES FOREVER, FOREVER THE HIVES
The title track from their brand-new 7th full length.

TUTV: By far the best steamroller on their new record, spiced
with a swirling sing-scream along chorus. Pelle 4ever.

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New album artwork

Artist: JEHNNY BETH,
Who: France-born, former frontwoman of
female post-punk band Savages (2011-2017).

Track: HIGH RESOLUTION SADNESS
Single from her brand-new, 2nd solo LP,
named You Heartbreaker You.

TUTV: Beth said she wanted to make a LOUD record. And she
definitely did. High Resolution Sadness is one hell of a brain-breaking,
industrial sledgehammer example. Hyperkinetic drums, clashing and
crashing percussion and creepy vocals. Bang-on!

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📷 Mats Verschueren

Band: WIJF. (WIFE. in English)
Who: Hungry hit team from Belgium,
ready to take on the world.

Track:LIAR
Only their 2nd single, following last
year’s unhinged debut Hysterical.


Single artwork

TUTV: The 4-piece grab you by the throat from the kick-off and never lose their firm grip. Liar is a titanic motherrocker that pulverizes the Richter scale in just 250 seconds. Queens Of The Stone Age would label this jiving juggernaut a ‘song for the deaf‘.

Vociferous vocalist Marie De Graeve is seemingly on an exorcistic trip again.
Her one-of-a-kind vocal cords have a ruthless impact on your petrified stereo.
Helter-skelter. Hail! Hail!


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Photo by Lexie Alley

Band: AFI (abbreviation for A Fire Inside)
Who: Weathered high-volume veteran rockers from
Ukiah, California who started to turn up the sonic heat
in 1991.

Track: BEHIND THE CLOCK
First single from their forthcoming 12th LP,
entitled Silver Bleeds The Black Sun… .

TUTV: Vintage 80s Gothwavish fireworks
The clock is ticking, folks. Don’t miss a second.

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Promo pic

Artist: BAMBIE THUG
Who: Moniker for Irish screamo diva Cuntry Ray Robinson. A self-described queer,
‘ouija popstar’, who uses the non-binary personal pronouns they and them. She
released her cacophonous debut LP Cathexis in 2023.

Track: REDRUM
Her brand new single.

“It’s political, it’s anti-war, it’s a ‘rebel cry’ for the LGBTQIA community and for everyone
who is fed up with living in this disconnected world. All I can offer to these turbulent times
is my art and hope it wakes people up.”

TUTV: Deafening. Earth-shaking.
Towering vocals. Nuclear drones.

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Band: SNÕÕPER
Who: Nashville‘s kamikaze pop punk combo SNÕÕPER shook the world
2 years ago, with their rapid-fire debut LP Super Sn​õ​õ​per. 14 songs in
22 minutes, like in the good old Ramones days.

Last June, they dropped a 4-track EP, titled Unknown Caller.

Track: GUARD DOG.
New piece from their upcoming, sophomore album,
titled Worldwide. it will see the day of light on Oct 3rd
via Jack White’s Third Man Records.


Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Brussels, May 18, 2025

TUTV: If this supersonic punk missile won’t wake
you up, I don’t know what will. Get up on your pogo
stick and bounce like a ping pong ball.

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Press photo by Dean Karr

Artists: ARTHUR BUCK
Who: R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and
singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur.

Track: SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN
First single from their 2nd, collaborative
longplayer, landing on October 3rd.

TUTV: Muscular tune. It sounds like if a full
orchestra is at work. Bluesy, rocky, kicky.
A full-hearted feat.

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Band: OASIS
Who: You know who.

Track: LITTLE BY LITTLE
Live version of their 2002 single from their
Heathen Chemistry album recorded in
Wembley, London on August 2nd.

Ever been part of a choir of 80,000 people?


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Band: THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS
Who: Australian indies
who got together in 2017.

Track: HEY YOU
New single from their upcoming 2nd LP,
called Again, out on October 31st.

TUTV: A titillating tune that thrives on high-speed guitar riffs, a fast-track
drum beat, sharply-etched vocals and last but not least, a stream of adrenalin.

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Artist: VINCE BELLO
Who: Oshawa-based indie singer-songwriter rocker Vince Bello shared his newest single “Small Town Princess”, on Friday, August 8th, the title track of his upcoming EP of the same name, releasing in November 2025.

Track: SMALL TOWN PRINCESS
The title track of his upcoming EP,
that will land in November 2025.

A bold new chapter for Bello – one that captures the push and pull
between chasing your dreams and remembering where you came from.

TUTV: This instantly sticking guitar-synth pop earworm puts a smile on your face right away. Its bewitching and delighting flow gets you hooked after one spin. Sonic pearl.


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Band: P T R N S
Who: Up-and-coming power pop
4-piece from Bangor, Ireland.

Track: MARY JANE
Only their 3rd single.

The song distills the previous years’ experience and truly steps into themselves and their sound as a band. The song brings together the band’s vast array of influences pulling from the emo-pop of Paramore to the indie hip sway groove of Two Door Cinema Club to the post-hardcore energy of Movements.

TUTV: Layers of shoegazy guitars, a steadfast beat, intense and
highly impassionate, alternating vocals combine for a captivating
and febrile jam. Wowzers.

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Band: SOULWAX
Who: Belgian brothers David and Stephen Dewaele‘s outfit for 30 years
now, next to their other projects. They DJed the world around as 2manydjs,
had their own Radio Soulwax, and produced/remixed countless other artists.

Track: NEW EARTH TIME
New piece from their 6th Soulwax full-lenght, titled
All Systems Are Lying, out on October 17th.

TUTV: Boom. Boom. Boom.
Groove. Bliep. Groove. Bliep.
Make your move, folks.

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Press Photo by Genesis Báez

Band: BIG THIEF
Who: The much applauded indie
folk act from Brooklyn, NY.

Track: LOS ANGELES
Single from upcoming, 6th longplayer, baptized
Double Infinity, out this Friday, September 5.

TUTV: Beautiful, endearing, enticing.
Big Thief make me feel happy.

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Artist: ANT THOMAZ
Who: Glasgow-based singer-songwriter who
blends folk, soul, pop, and his Louisiana roots.

Track: FEET ON THE GROUND

A heartfelt tribute to real love, written with
his wife and creative partner, Frances.

TUTV: Winsome love songs like this one are so welcome in these intolerant times,
so we won’t forget there are also great things happening every day when love is
involved. Feet On The Ground has an irresistible funky bass groove and is juiced with
a soulful orchestration.

Add Thomaz‘s warmhearted voice, and the inspiring, sonic
picture is complete. Jaunty tune, frolicsome vibe, feel-good
sentiments.


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Artist: RONNIE WOOD
Who: One of the greatest guitarist ever.
Of course, best known as a longtime
Rolling Stone.

Track: MOTHER OF PEARL
A new one he worte and added to his upcoming
Fearless: Anthology 1965-2025, out Sept 26.

Simple, cacthy, cheery.
rockin’ and rollin’. TUNE.

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Band: MY MORNING JACKET
Who: Louisville‘s veteran rockers who will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their fourth full-length, called Z on October 4th. The day before, they will release a deluxe anniversary.


Artwork Z

Track: WHERE TO BEGIN
A previously unreleased song from
the anniversary album Z.

TUTV: A ballad that breathes melancholia at its most gripping,
with warm pedal steel play. One of the most heart-and-soul touching reveries
I heard all year long.

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Photo Credit: Meg Moon

Band: THE BEACHES
Who: All female Canadian
revved-up pop combo.

Track: LESBIAN OF THE YEAR
Single from their brand new, 3rd LP,
titled No Hard Feelings.

Leandra Earl (guitars, keyboards, songwriter) “It’s about the shame I felt coming out later in life and the pressure of trying to live up to ‘Lesbian Of The Year,’ a title given to me by my sweet fans. I feel regret for not knowing myself sooner, but this song is also about the journey of self discovery & sexual identity and accepting that everyone is on their own timeline and we’ll get there when we get there.”

TUTV: This stirring reverie has a 60s romantic retro feel, both
ardent and cathartic, carried by emotive vocals. Gorgeous.

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Band: WOLF ALICE
Who: Lauded British guitar pop quartet, fronted
by the charismatic vocalist Ellie Rowsell.

Track: PLAY IY OUT
From their new, 4th album The Clearing.

TUTV: One of the most enthralling lullabies of the year.
with Ellie Rowsell‘s crystaline voice starring in the middle.


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PREWN – Intriguing Massachusetts Songstress Puzzles With New Preview ‘DIRTY DOG’ From Her Upcoming 2nd LP

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

26 August 2025


Photo by Harry Wohl

Artist: PREWN
Who: The moniker of Massachusetts‘ intriguing singer-songwriter
Izzy Hagerup. She released her debut album Through The Window
in 2023.

Track: DIRTY DOG
The second preview, following the top-hole title track
from her sophomore full-length, slated for release on
October 3rd.

Hagerup: “‘Dirty Dog’ is a song that lives in the nightmarish dreamscape
of the unconscious, a place of fear and fearlessness, freudian and a little evil.
The song is about a self-serving man who’s abandoned his needy mother and
comes crawling back when it’s a little too late.”

TUTV: Dirty Dog makes me think of Kim Gordon‘s recent solo work.
Industrial-related, enigmatic, but rougher in execution. A nightmarish
stroll.

WATCH

STREAM/BUY


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PREWN – Feverish American Songstress IZZY HAGERUP Impresses Magically With Brilliant Torch Song ‘SYSTEM’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

5 August 2025

Artist: PREWN
Who: The moniker of Massachusetts‘ chilling singer-songwriter
Izzy Hagerup. She released her debut album Through The Window
in 2023.

Track: SYSTEM
First new piece and title track from her
2nd LP, coming our way on October 3rd.

Hagerup: “When I wrote ‘System’ I was supposed to be present and alive
and gracious and happy. But somehow I couldn’t escape my own internal
fears and depression that can follow me wherever I go.”

TUTV: What a brilliant torch song. Feverish tension all the way, drawing you into a mesmerizing trance you want to last like forever. Weeping guitars come and go while Hagerup‘s heart-stopping vocals (Big Thief‘s Adrienne Lenker, Sharon Van Etten and Wolf Alice‘s Ellie Rowsell all rolled into one) are immensely soul-stirring and a galvanic guitar
solo causes a spine-tingling finale.

I played System five times in a row and it got better and better. It will be an on-repeat nugget for a long time. Goodness gracious. Wake up, people, here’s one of the most captivating songs of 2025.

WATCH

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