The Durutti Column

10 BEST ALBUMS OF THE MONTH – AUGUST 2026

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Band: HOLY COVES

Who: Ardent Welsh indie outfit, fronted
by singer-songwriter Scott Marsden.

Album: HIRAETH
Welsh for ‘longing‘.
Their 4th.

TUTV: Hiraeth is a genuinely soul-stirring and brutally honest record.

Singer-songwriter/guitarist Scott Marsden recalls his past demons and finds comfort
in the beauty of his beloved Wales, its compelling history and the making of this new formidable album. He’s an emotive storyteller, blessed with a heartwarming voice that
fits his self-exploratory quest in every respect, spiritually and musically.

This is unquestionably the band’s most coherent, engrossing, and complete work,
excelling on every level and showing the cathartic power of music, once again. Mind
you, their previous work is more than noteworthy, but Hiraeth‘s full-blown execution makes it a grand achievement to cherish for a long time.

One of the best indie guitar rock-pop albums of the
year. A milestone for the Welshmen. Hands down.

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Band: GETDOWN SERVICES

Who: Wacky disco-rap-punk duo
from Bristol, UK

Album: MASSIVE CHAMPION.
Their sophomore one.


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TUTV: They go up, they get down. Up again. Down again. At first I was confused by the
by now pretty famous indie duo’s changing sonic moods breaking down the record’s
flow.

Lullabies, rock outs, moony mid-tempo reflections. One tune they put you in a soothing modus with a lullaby. The next tune they plug in their amps for a couple of pelvis-shaking firecrackers. Then it goes back to life-reflecting/watching thoughts, daily reveries, existentialist questions, and some depressing moments. Quite something else than
their non-stop groovy fiesta debut.

But I didn’t give up, as I felt some sort of connection anyway, and I kept on listening,
and it all started to make sense. This record’s emotional fluctuations, musically, vocally
and lyrically, became one full Getdown Services picture/experience that sticks seamlessly
in the end. Big score.

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Band: WESTSIDE COWBOY

Who: Highly promising indies from Manchester, UK. They released
their skilful post-punk debut EP So Much Country ‘Till We Get There
last January.

Album: IT GOES ON
Their debut.

TUTV: These young Mancunians nail it big time with this crackerjack debut. Their ramshackle post-punk fieriness is startling. Its jittery, hypnotic, speedy, repetitive riffing rippers, spirited with Geese-resonating duet vocals combine for a wayward, thrilling
record. A wowzers way to start your journey.

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Band: THE AFGHAN WHIGS

Who: Cincinnati‘s rock bigshots, celebrating
their 40th anniversary this year.

Album: SOFT CONTROL
Their 10th.

TUTV: The Afghan Whigs catalog is strikingly notable for its mad keen fervidness,
true-blue authenticity, at times its dark emotionality, and its sonic brilliance.
Soft Control has all those substantial characteristics.

Greg Dulli is one of the greatest guitar-rock songwriters and blessed with a terrific
voice. Lyrically, he digs deep down again with inner-soul-searching quests. After four
decades, The Whigs are alive and kicking once again. Respect!

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Band: KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD

Who: The tireless Australian psych-prog-rockers

Album: ALIEN METAL
They just released their 28th LP in 14 years.
They must be the hardest-working band on
this planet.


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TUTV: It’s a pretty unusual record for the riff junks from down under, as they have thrown their guitars through the window and surprise with a full electronic opus. They go back to the British 90s techno raves.

Alien Metal resonates as if KG&TLW locked themselves up for a couple
of weeks playing Underworld, The Prodigy and Leftfield records on repeat.

Expect an incessant tsunami of hyperkinetic beats, mind-blowing electro
Krautrock madness, and deformed vocal flashes. Full blast forward without
breaks. Not one moment to have a much-needed breather. E-cstatic.

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Band: MODERATE REBELS

Who: London-based collective with a fluid membership, active since 2016,
who value expressing their ideas and feelings simply and directly, sometimes uber minimally, over any flash displays of musical skills. There have been Scottish, English, Australian and Irish members at various points.

Album: CHASE THE LOSSES (NOTICE THE FEELINGS)
The 5th one.

MR: “Building better worlds…what could possibly go wrong?…history always shows that giving
a government as much ‘authority’ over citizens as it would like, works out really well…it’s best practice to treat everyone like a potential criminal…total surveillance makes you free. So, here’s a new happy go lucky MR album for 2026.”

TUTV: It feels like the alarming ghost of visionary novellist/poet/journalist George Orwell is roaming about this record, attracting attention to his 1949 dystopian book Nineteen Eighty-Four once again.

Sonically, these rebels run, run, run like The Velvet Underground in their early days when they looked/played like the last gloom and doom band on earth. Strangely similar (and vice versa) to the debut LP by British young post-punk gunslingers (see/hear above). Then, why the fuck is the mainstream press not talking about this stunning record as they do abundantly about Westside Cowboy?

Whatever, MR constructed a must-hear, dazzling-puzzling
Götterdämmerung rock opus for your twilight hours.

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Band: MAN/WOMAN/CHAINSAW

Who: Unadulterated indies
from London, UK.

Album: CANNONBALL.
Their debut.


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TUTV: Man/Woman/Chainsaw join the (new) generation of new Brit-post-punk artilleries that started sometime post Brex-shit, with innovative bands such as Black Midi (already gone), Black Country New Road, Squid, Ditz, Bdrmm and newcomers Modern Woman, Westside Cowboy, Mary In The Junkyard, and My New Band Believe.

They have one thing in common: looking for new musical angels, exciting ideas
and unconventional soundscapes, within the broad rock-pop-punk universe,
without being arty farty.

M/W/C does it now for the first time with this debut LP. Whimsical, chopped-up song structures, spine-tingling melodiousness, two perfervid vocalists, nightmarish stories, mood-changing violins and confusing orchestrations. Everything in place to score a bodacious firstborn. Have a bloodcurdling trip.

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Band: THE DURUTTI COLUMN

Who: Post-punk project of Manchester-born, experimental singer-songwriter-guitarist Vincent Gerard “Vini” Reilly (now 72). The band’s name refers to the Durruti Column,
an anarchist military unit in the Spanish Civil War, named after Buenaventura Durruti.

Album: RENASCENT.
His 28th.


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TUTV: This is a soothing, ambient Eno-like soundtrack for a melodramatic movie.
Reilly offers cinematic, dreamy soundscapes, rather than conventional song structures.
His singular, crystalline, finger-picking guitar playing style commands the aural tone throughout.

7 out of the 11 tracks are instrumentals. Caoilfhionn Rose sings on 3, Lucas Elliot
on one, and Reilly stirs with vulnerable vocals on the album’s best piece, the wondrous musing Scammer. Give Renascent a couple of spins; once you’re connected with The Durutti Column‘s imaginative and blue-sky world, you’ll enjoy a very gratifying record.

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Band: OPUS KINK

Who: Razor-edged, funked-up, sax-and-trumpet-infused
collective from Brighton (UK) fronted by their charismatic
voice/songwriter Angus Rodgers.

Album: THE SWEET GOODBYE
Their debut.


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TUTV: 10 years since they formed this London indie collective unleashed their debut LP, following their attention-grabbing 7-track debut EP My Eyes, Brother! from 2022.

A brassy, funky and punky-jazzy party record, stuffed with pelvis-wobbling grooves and Angus Rodgers‘ bossy vocals pushing his abstract stories up front. OP blend, effortlessly vaudeville, ska and mariachi elements in heart-stopping and invigorating dynamics.

Move. Move. Move.

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Artist: BRANDON FLOWERS

Who: The charismatic Californian
frontman of The Killers

The LP is recorded in Nashville, the mecca of country music, with some renowned
country musicians. Rooted in his formative childhood years in the small town of Nephi, Utah, the timeless sonic approach proves to be the ideal home for Flowers’ most personal and vulnerable songwriting yet.

TUTV: When Flowers works solo, he regularly delves into his youth, coming up
with both sad and happy memories. He doesn’t trash anything whatsoever here.
He drenches his melancholic stories in bittersweet country tunes.

A bit sugary here and there, but nevertheless, the overall musical radiance
is very charming and entertaining. Music for daydreaming moments.

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THE DURUTTI COLUMN – Woolgatherer VINI REILLY Has New Ambient And Cinematic LP ‘RENASCENT’ Out

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10 August 2026


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Band: THE DURUTTI COLUMN

Who: Post-punk project of Manchester-born, experimental singer-songwriter-guitarist Vincent Gerard “Vini” Reilly (now 72). The band’s name refers to the Durruti Column,
an anarchist military unit in the Spanish Civil War, named after Buenaventura Durruti.

Album: RENASCENT.
His 28th.

Press info: “This album marks the long-awaited return of legendary
Manchester outfit The Durutti Column, their first new studio album
in over 15 years.

Around the guitar work of Vini Reilly, the album plays between sonic atmospherics and structure: warm ambient washes, piano, beats and guest vocal turns by a new generation (Caoilfhionn Rose). Both contemporary and otherworldly.”

MOJO magazine writes: “Listening to the music of Vini Reilly is a process of divine adjustment, a blissful adaptation to a unique sonic environment that feels simultaneously of the past and future but never the present.

Renascent combines luminescent indie pastoralism with ghostly flamenco shadows
and vocal samples that summon dancefloor ghosts of the Haçienda, but also push
forward into new realms with the juddering Afro-futurism of Your Shadow At Evening
and the Beckettian unravelling of Scammer.”

TUTV: This is a soothing, ambient Eno-like soundtrack for a melodramatic movie.
Reilly offers cinematic, dreamy soundscapes, rather than conventional song structures.
His singular, crystalline, finger-picking guitar playing style commands the aural tone throughout.

7 out of the 11 tracks are instrumentals. Caoilfhionn Rose sings on 3, Lucas Elliot
on one, and Reilly stirs with vulnerable vocals on the album’s best piece, the wondrous musing Scammer. Give Renascent a couple of spins, once you’re connected with The Durutti Column‘s imaginative and blue-sky world, you’ll enjoy a very gratifying record.

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20 BEST TRACKS OF THE MONTH – JULY 2026

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The tunes that impressed Turn Up The Volume’s ears the most this past month

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Band: CHALK
Who: Electro junks
from Belfast, Ireland.

Last March they released their
earthshaking debut LP Crystalpunk.

Track: GET FUCKED
A song they finished just after
the album’s recording sessions.

TUTV: Get Fucked sounds like a crushing hammer drill.
A supersonic stroke. A banging bomb. A fucked-up
fireball. Eh… sorry I’m getting out of breath.

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Band: GARBAGEBARBIE
Who: 4-piece that has carved a space for themselves in Los Angeles’ DIY scene, gaining a reputation for hosting rowdy and oftentimes free, themed shows. Combining elements of Britpop, glam, punk, French disco, and garage rock, garbagebarbie’s confrontational racket refuses to be confined by genre.

Track: PUNK
Single from their
upcoming debut LP.

Dan Karasev (drummer): “The song holds up a mirror to ourselves. It pokes fun at the LA bar scene which even though we can make fun of, it doesn’t change the fact that we are still in that scene. “


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TUTV: Prepare your eardrums for a punked-up motherrocker, a savage haymaker,
a sped-up barnstormer. The unyielding harshness increases with every second and
every time the clamorous chorus kicks in, it’s all hands on deck.

WTF! Zoinks! Mental!

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Band: TRÄŠHBAG
Who: Hefty Irish duo from Dublin (where everyone seems to in a band lately).
They spent time playing in numerous bands together or standing in for each
other in various bands. They produce a volatile blend of visceral punk rock
and post-punk.

Track: MY WHITE VAN
Debut single.

TUTV: OMG! These two nice-looking guys aren’t that nice on record.
They smash, clash and trash with their white van. All hell breaks loose from the outset.
This noxious sledgehammer does your poor head in with non-stop industrial-punk slams.

Wham bloody wham bam! Throw some agitated vocals in the mix and
the volcanic eruption is complete. By far, best debut single of June.

“The white van is all powered by diesel, baby!”


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Band: THE FLESHTONES
Who: Garage rock veterans from Queens, NY.
They released a huge number of LPs, studio
and live ones.

Track: FLOAT YOUR SHOWBOAT

Peter Zaremba (frontman): “It’s about ‘wet-blankets’ in situations
where people should be enjoying life. Basically a positive message
behind the snarky tone. Have some fun. And Goa was great.”

TUTV: Expect a sassy slice of heavy-duty knock-out rock ‘n’ garage roll.
These vivid vets still know all the revved-up tricks to set your speakers
on fire.

Absobloodylutely!

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Band: SUEDE
Who: London‘s glamorous pop/rock prodigies who
released their 10th LP, named Antidepressants,
last year, in September.

Track: SHARPENING KNIFES
One of the 5 bonus songs on
the LP’s deluxe edition.

TUTV: Best of the 5. Exhilarative Suede fuel.


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Band: TV PINS
Who: Indie five-piece based across London and the West Midlands.
They blend prog-pop, new wave, and Americana influences with a
distinctly British alt-rock songwriting sensibility – pairing 70s-inspired
vocal harmonies with a sharp, 90s-influenced energy.

They released their debut album Aircutter in 2024.

Track: VERSION OF LOVE
Cut from their forthcoming
self-released EP.

Grace Hinks (LGBTQ+ vocalist): “To me, it’s about accepting and standing up to
those who don’t embrace all forms of love – romantic, aromantic, and especially
queer joy. It’s about celebrating that openly.”

TUTV: Version Of Love is a perky pop pearl that promptly activates your dance-hungry
body. A sparkling guitar riff, summery vibes, warm-hearted melodiousness, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed vocals, and an infectious tunefulness come together to soundtrack an
all-inclusive love gathering.

John Lennon was right all along ‘All You Need Is Love’.
This way for cloud-nine, people, next to that vibrant
rainbow.

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Band: BRICKHOUSE
Who: Fresh hit team from Manchester that evokes the uncompromising static
of The Jesus and Mary Chain and the measured rebellion of The Velvet Underground.

Track: ANGEL EYES

Sharp (vocalist/guitarist/songwriter): “Angel Eyes is, at its core, about being haunted.
Not in the supernatural sense, but rather the persistent melancholy. The lingering of
memories after losing a lover and being unsure as to how to help yourself let go and
be released from the curse of seeing someone in everybody else you meet.”

TUTV: Welcome to Brickhouse‘s remarkable debut belter. Angel Eyes is a psych-infused steamroller, going back-and-forth, motorized by alarming guitars, a pounding beat, jittery vocals, and a trenchant chorus that keeps coming back to haunt you with force – think
The Velvet Underground ripper ‘Run Run Run‘, but slower.

Intoxicating.

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Band: PAPER TIGERS
Who: Noisy indie alt-rock trio
from Boston & Iceland.

Track: GO OUT
Their first music in 3 years.

“‘Go Out’ is essentially from the perspective of an anti-social individual in
a relationship with a social butterfly. Basically, the older we get the more we
enjoy staying home and we’re tired of apologizing for it.”

TUTV: Full of vim and vigour guitar pop at its riveting best. Big intro, big sound, big melody, very big chorus. Got up this morning with the wrong leg? Put this enlivening tune on your headphones (on repeat), go out and embrace the day.

Now. Here.

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Artists: ARAB STRAP
Who: Trippy Scottish electro-pop vets, Aidan Moffat and
Malcolm Middleton (1995–2006, 2011, 2016–present).

Track: GLAMOUR MAGICK
Newest single from their new full-length
Half-Told Tales, their 9th, out Sept 4th.

TUTV: Age doesn’t matter for these Scottish vets.
They still kick ass with uplifting flair and verve.

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Band: HAIR CONTROL
Who: Canadian art-pop duo.

Track: SEEING IN THE DARK
2nd single from their debut album, named
Electric Pleasure, out October 30.

“Originally inspired by a dream melody that arrived complete with the phrase “We The Ugly People,” recalling the classic Leonard Cohen line, “we are ugly but we have the music” as well as Pulp’s “Common People,” the chorus lyric drew from this sly sense of solidarity.

Drawing influence from the spiritual yearning and melodic immediacy of classic mid-’70s power pop, particularly Dwight Twilley Band’s “Looking for the Magic,” “Seeing In The Dark” emerged as a celebration of collective connection and shared resilience.”

TUTV: From the kick-off, with its thudding drum/bass beat intro, your eager ears know that Seeing In The Dark is a vivacious and vigorous guitar pop feat. Brisk duet vocals intensify the kicky vibe. A sonic trill for common people like you and me.

Let’s roll.

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Band: DOGHOUSE ROSE
Who: 5 hepped-up rockers
based in Toronto.

Track: IT GETS WORSE
New piece from their forthcoming 3rd album, called
Born To Break Even. Out July 31. Tracklist and order
info here.

TUTV: Full blast forward from square one. It Gets Worse fires on all riff-charging cylinders. Vivid vocals lead the compulsive troops who’re bucked up by about a hundred guitars and a choleric drummer.

Think Blink-182 fronted by supercool rock chick Avril Lavigne. And when the
terrifically catchy chorus comes on like a comet without brakes, it’s all getting
better.

Blimey!

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Band: GUSH
Who: Frantic Belfast 4-piece who released their cooking
5-track debut EP Exposure Therapy in 2024.

Track: CONSTANCE
New single.

TUTV: Courtney Love is back with her band Hole. Well, not really, but
there’s definitely a sonic and attitude connection with this roasting Irish
engine. Constance rocks you off your socks in just under 3 minutes.

They race with high-voltage speed from the blitz start on, gas-powered by furious
guitars, a raving mad drummer and Chelsea Andrews‘s spiteful vocals. WTF! Fasten
your seatbelts. Gush turns you upside down with this torrid turbocharger.

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Band: THE GOODS
Who: Power pop outfit
from Oakland, California.

Track: SUMMER’S ALMOST GONE
Single from their forthcoming album, titled Goodbye Summertime.
Out September 16th. More info here.

“Now is all we have. The present is slipping away, the
future isn’t guaranteed, so what are we waiting for?”

TUTV: Expect a brisklt paced and jangly earworm electrified by a flood of jangly riffs, with melancholic vocals floating all over it. Think The Drums and Tame Impala teaming up in the studio together. No brakes, no breaks. We all know we live in chaotic, bodeful times, so
I propose we play this bracing gem on repeat and extend the careless, summer feel.

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Band: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Who: Stoner rock bigshots fronted
by architect Josh Homme

Track: EASY STREET.

Homme: “It’s kind of a funny song. It’s like hitting your funny bone, where it’s funny because
it hurts and it hurts because it’s funny. You’re serious, but it’s funny. We made it the way you’d make a demo. No click track, mistakes left in. It speeds up, it slows down, the claps aren’t great, but they’re not bad, and a bad clap adds this human thing you can’t fake.”

TUTV: Certainly another kind of feel-good summer hit than the one from 2000. No bragging about taking a ton of drugs here. No macho riffs. No astronomic power speed. Easy Street is an acoustic pop nugget. Infectiously melodic, spiced with duet vocals here and there. Let the freaks and the birds sing.

Beautiful.

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Band: ELEPHANT STONE
Who: Acclaimed psych outfit fronted by Rishi Dhir, a songwriter and sitarist who
has spent twenty years blurring the lines between Western psych-pop and Indian
classical.

Track: I GOT A PILL
Single from the band’s new upcoming LP, baptized Asha.
It’ll come our way on August 26th.


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TUTV: Weird intro, weird end. But in between we get an organ-flavoured and lively guitar psych-pop gem. An energizing and hopped-up foot stomper. Elephant Stone know, for a long time, how to groove and move exhaustively, how to please your aural appetite for galvanizing gems. Take this pill three times per day and shake your booty.


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Artist: RELUCTANT BOB & THE LONELY LOVERS
Who: The musical moniker of singer-songwriter Robert Baker.

Track: CARRY ON WITHOUT ME

“The song introduces us to a possibly unreliable narrator who is nearing the end of the road and is saying goodbye. The song was recorded live at Black Mountain Studios in Co. Louth and captures the energy of the band’s live performances.”

TUTV: Eels have a new album out soon. This is one of the instantly recognisable tracks. Well, it easily could be. Carry On Without Me‘s funky flow, lazy vocals, relaxing ambiance, breezy sparkling guitar glow and perky duet vocals on the contagious chorus lift this song
to E’s magnetic level.

Press play.
Enjoy.

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Track: I’M YOURS
Single from his new 15th full-length
Different When It’s Silent.

TUTV: Chilling masterstroke. Spine-tingling, enigmatic,
and bursting on the prodigious chorus. Mind-blowing.

It’s all yours.


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Band: THE DURUTTI COLUMN
Who: Post-punk project of Manchester-born, experimental singer-songwriter-guitarist Vincent Gerard “Vini” Reilly (now 72). The band’s name refers to the Durruti Column,
an anarchist military unit in the Spanish Civil War, named after Buenaventura Durruti.

Track: SCAMMER
New piece from their upcoming 28th full-length,
called Renascent, out on July 31st. Order info here.

TUTV: Reilly‘s vulnerable voice carries this both melancholic and spellbinding musing designed with warm background synths and shiny guitar sparks. Just beautiful, really beautiful. Can’t wait to hear the comeback album.

Enticing.

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Credit: Eels

Band: EELS
Who: Singer-songwriter
Mark Oliver Everett‘s combo.

Track: I’M ON STANDBY
Newest single from new album, their 16th, named
Cookie Happened. It’ll land on October 16th.

“If you’re lucky you have a friend you’re always there
for and vice versa. Bitch, I’ve always got time for you.”

TUTV: Vintage Eels musing. Simple, but
efficacious straight away and sickly sticky.

Go E!

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New album artwork – photo by Travis Shinn

Artists: TWIN TEMPLE
Who: Los Angeles-based spouses who
describe their music as Satanic Doo Wop.

The pair will launch their new, 3rd album, named
Doomed Lovers on October 9th. More info here.

Track: DOOMED LOVERS.
The first single & title track of
the upcoming full-length.

60s teardrop love melancholia.
Think Nancy Sinatra and Brenda Lee.

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THE DURUTTI COLUMN Return After 15 Years With New Spellbinding Musing ‘SCAMMER’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

8 July 2026

Band: THE DURUTTI COLUMN
Who: Post-punk project of Manchester-born, experimental singer-songwriter-guitarist Vincent Gerard “Vini” Reilly (now 72). The band’s name referres to the Durruti Column,
an anarchist military unit in the Spanish Civil War, named after Buenaventura Durruti.

Track: SCAMMER
New piece from their upcoming 28th full-length,
called Renascent, out on July 31st. Order info here.

Press info about the LP: “This album marks the long-awaited return of legendary Manchester outfit The Durutti Column, their first new studio album in over 15 years.

Around the guitar work of Vini Reilly, the album plays between sonic atmospherics and structure: warm ambient washes, piano, beats and guest vocal turns by a new generation (Caoilfhionn Rose). Both contemporary and otherworldly.

TUTV: Reilly‘s vulnerable voice carries this both melancholic and spellbinding musing designed with warm background synths and shiny guitar sparks. Just beautiful, really beautiful. Can’t wait to hear the comeback album.

Listen.

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Happy 70 To THE DURUTTI COLUMN Mastermind VINI REILLY

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4 August 2023

Vincent Gerard “Vini” Reilly was born
on 4 August 1953 in Blackley, Manchester.

Happy 70.

Before he started his musical career, he was a pretty good footballer who almost
made it to the glorious Manchester City‘s team. He formed The Durutti Column in
1978. The band’s name referred to the Durruti Column, an anarchist military unit
in the Spanish Civil War, named after Buenaventura Durruti.

The late great Tony Wilson, who always had a nose for particularly skilled
talent (Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, Happy Mondays and more) signed
them as his very first act on his legendary Factory Records label.


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His unique guitar talent and work got huge appreciation by big-name artists.
Sound wizard Brian Eno named DC’s second LP LC his all-time favourite and
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ John Frusciante said Reilly is “the best guitarist in the world”.

A couple of weeks ago he gave his first interview in years, talking
to British newspaper The Guardian. You can read it here.


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THE DURUTTI COLUMN – Deluxe Edition Of 1994 LP ‘SEX & DEATH’ Out Now

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7 May 2021

Band: THE DURUTTI COLUMN (Manchester)
Who: The project and band of guitarist Vini Reilly (67)
who started his still ongoing career in 1978.

Big fans…
Brian Eno ‘s all-time favorite album is TDC‘s 2nd LP LC (1981)
RHCP‘s guitarist John Frusciante: “Reilly is the best guitarist in the world.”

Vini Reilly himself: “People say the Durutti Column is this or that. I don’t care,
so long as we make good music. There’s screaming feedback on some tracks,
heavy metal guitar, Spanish picking. It’s not just this ethereal trip. Don’t listen
to the form, never listen to the form. Listen to the content.”


On the cover of The Wire – 1995

Album: SEX & DEATH – originally released in 1995
via Factory Records – the band’s 11th LP

Select (British music magazine) wrote at the time:
The perfect easy listening album for 1994″

Info: The writing and recording of Sex And Death closed an uncertain
period for Reilly and the group following the collapse of Factory Records
in 1992. Factory founder Tony Wilson remained in post as manager of the
band, but Sex And Death would be the band’s last album with producer
Stephen Street, famed for his work with Morrissey, The Smiths and Blur.

Deluxe Edition: Expanded 2xLP and 2xCD edition.
Newly remastered with several bonus tracks.
Released: 23 April 2021 via Factory Benelux
Order info: here.

Stream full original LP here…

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