It’s the closing track from their recently released
6-track EP, titled Maybe I Like The Misery.
Nathan (frontman): “The song was written whilst everyone everywhere was working from home. The detriments of that way of life informed the lyrics of the song quite heavily. Working
9 to 5 from your bedroom 5 days a week, feeling like you’re just wasting away in front of a computer screen. That was what inspired the online work presentation music video concept, playing with the quirky distractions and ridiculousness that came with everything going online during covid. The video is a bit of a contrast to the themes in the song but we wanted to do something quite playful and less serious with this one as a bit of tonic to all the heaviness of
the lyrical themes.”
TUTV: Can’t Live Twice is a Herculean emo slam dunk. It wouldn’t be out of place
on a Fall Out Boy album. TET match the muscular American stars’ explosive energy, afire ardency and gung-ho vocality. The massive wall of insane guitar riffs and Brobdingnagian chorus blast out of your ravaged stereo while you bang your head against your bedroom door and your neighbours call the police. Holy smoke!
‘This was a song I wrote about 10-11 years ago about the first and last time I tried acid.
So I found out later on that the acid strip I took was actually 10 hits of acid and I tripped
for 14 hours so you can imagine how scary it really was.’
TUTV: If you dig new hip-metal-hop sensation Nova Twins you’ll dig Gonzalez too. Trippin‘ starts punky funky and explodes with metallic vehemence when the chorus
breaks through the wall and all hell starts to repeat itself.
Trip it up here.
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Artist: NASMORE Who: Experimental composer, songwriter,
and music producer from Canada.
Track: WELCOME TO HELL featuring Neil Taylor (Tears For Fears / Robbie Williams) and vocalist La Strange.
nasmore: “Some songs make you cry, and some songs you skip forward, and then there are songs that immerse you into their world, putting a sarcastic smile on your face and dragging your mind to visit dark places—like Hell, for example. Just for a day? Stay in a hotel situated by the burning sea of lava with a nice view of torture and punishment. Most of us humans do not require a reservation. Just come pick your nightmare, and we will serve it to you cooked to perfection. No matter what your plans are, you are always Welcome to the Hell”
TUTV: Who wouldn’t want to have a peek into hell to know what the fuzz and buzz
is about that fired-up place. nasmore and his accomplices Neil Taylor and spooky vox La Strange obviously have been there and offer us to guide us through the Inferno. If the tour is as eccentrically thrilling as their turbulent welcome stomper I’m in. So should you.
Track: WEAR ME DOWN
From the upcoming 5-track EP Maybe I Like The Misery. out Feb 3rd.
“‘Maybe I Like The Misery’touches on the bedrocks many have come to expect
from the Ten Eighty sound, but that’s not to say it isn’t without its surprises. This
is Ten Eighty Trees pushing the alt rock envelope, evolving into a leaner, more
streamlined beast all whilst maintaining the staple intensity and intoxicating
song writing style.”
TUTV: A tower of titanic guitar vigorousness combined with
out-of-your-mind vocals scrapes the sky with zealous dynamism.
Wowzers.
Check in.
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On first hearing, my ears told me that Swedish pop collective I’m From Barcelona
are back in town with a new psych pop choir chant. My ears were wrong regarding the performer/artist, but totally right about the instant aural impact of this far-out tune.
“The lyrics aren’t about what I personally believe. Everywhere I look people
are spouting their beliefs while contradicting themselves in the same breath.
The world has become so polarizing and I wanted this song to encapsulate
that energy.”
TUTV: Has the world gone mad? Absolutely, for several years now. And with
the recent pandemic, new wars and megalomaniac politicians, there will not a
light be shining at the end of the very long tunnel, for some time. Huffmann processes similar observations into this new melodramatic and riveting cry out with his standout voice as the driving force. Score!
Nathan (singer/guitarist): “It’s about my experiences with PTSD. I had a pretty horrific accident about 4 years ago and really struggled with sleep deprivation in the aftermath.
I would feel like I was on red alert, unable to switch off and agitated by even the slightest
sound when I was trying to relax. It was such a tough repercussion and put a lot of stress
on my life and relationships. Writing Fear of Falling was my own personal therapy as I
worked through understanding what was happening to me.”
Score: What an emotional outburst! What a towering ebullition! You actually can
feel the passion, the discharge, and the heave-ho at play here accentuated by the
high-pressure vocals exploding in a sky-high chorus. The immense intensity is off the charts. Add metallic guitar flashes and a pumping beat and what you get is a blaring
belter that catapults all the inner demons through the roof. Bang-on!
