The Horrors

TURN UP THE VOLUME’s JUKEBOX 2024 – 10 New Tracks Added Every Week

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Every week 10 new rad tracks added

In order to not miss a beat Turn Up The Volume scans the musical
horizon daily (doing it for years now, actually) to stay in touch with
all new things sonically great and shares the results on a weekly
basis.

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The 10 new ones added this week

TRACK-BY-TRACK

Band: THE HORRORS
Who: Dark-synth-wavers
from Southend-on-Sea, UK.

Track: THE SILENCE THAT REMAINS

The first single from their upcoming 6th LP, called
NIGHT LIFE. It comes out in March next year.

Expect an other-worldly, synth-layered hallucination.

Instagram – UK Tour Dates
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Band: READ THE ROOM
Who: Alt-rock outfit from Norwich, UK which debuted
last year with their 5-track EP A Place Like No Other.

Track: AGGRAVATE ME

The new single is laced with anthemic vocal hook-lines,
riff-driven grooves and punk spirited modern rock overtones.

Kick-ass haymaker!

Instagram – Spotify
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Band: MARTIAL ARTS
Who: Neighbourhood noise
nuisances from Manchester.

Track: TRIUMPH

Jim Marson (singer/lyricist): “’Triumph’ is a rallying cry for anyone who feels stifled by
societal pressures. It’s an exploration of the tension between personal desires and the pressures of society. Societal norms can suffocate the younger generation, many of whom can feel out of place in a world that demands conformity. It questions the true cost of such conformity to our own potential and values.”

Angry guitar/bass-manic ripper
inflamed with anxious vocals.

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Band: MAXÏMO PARK
Who: Veteran indie rockers
from Newcastle on Tyne, UK.

Track: THE PATH I CHOOSE
From their 8th LP, titled Stream Of Life.

A titillating tune that’ll make your day.


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Band: BIKELANE
Who: Five indies from Oslo, Norway.
FFO: The Strokes, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand.

Track: IT IS WHAT IT IS
From their upcoming debut album
Surrogate Activities, out on October 18th.


Album artwork

Grooy and addictive with
a huge chorus and a bonkers
guitar solo.


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Band: SLEEK TEETH
Who: Synth-pop duo
from Los Angeles.

Track: OPERATING
Piece from their brand-new
self-titled debut EP, out today.

The start made me instantly think of German fromer electro duo
D.A.F. (Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft), then it progresses
more like a Hot Chip twister with ghostly vocals. Puzzling cut.


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Band: THE CURE
Who: The English goth gods who
have been around for ages.

Track: ALONE
First single from their 14th longplayer, the first in 16 years,
baptized Songs Of A Lost World. It’s out November 1st.

An almost 7-minute funeral march, a slowly progressing lament,
layered with mourning synths. Smith only starts singing halfway
and augments the sombre atmosphere all the way through.

Instagram – Spotify
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(Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Antwerp, 23 August 2024)

Band: SLEATER-KINNEY
Who: Post-punk heroines
from Olympia, Washington.

Track: THIS TIME

Last January S-K released their 11th LP with Little Rope.
A deluxe edition arrive soon with this quite smooth piece
as one of the bonus tracks.


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Artist: TORIA RICHINGS
Who: Americana songstress
from Sidney, Australia.

Track: COBOWY’S AND MOONSHINE
Tunr from her new 6-track EP Bend And Break.

A vintage country tearjerker.
Melancholic, yearning, sepia-colored
and with moony vocals up front.


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Band: THE KILLS
Who: Singer Alison Mosshart and
guitarist Jamie Hince.

Track: MY GIRLS MY GIRLS
Last weekend they launched an acoustic 5-track EP,
called with one Billie Eilish cover and non-electric version
of 4 songs from last year’s God Games LP

This pearl is my favourite one.
How can you not love Mosshart‘s
room-filling, heart and soul voice.


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THE HORRORS – British Darkwave Mavericks Return With Synth-Layered Twilight Dream ‘THE SILENCE THAT REMAINS’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

2 October 2024

It’s almost unbelievable that British darkwave mavericks
THE HORRORS will celebrate their 20th birthday as a band
next year.

So far they released 5 notable albums.
You can check them on Spotify.

With NIGHT LIFE the 4-piece announced the upcoming arrival of their
first new LP in 7 years. It will land next year, on March 21st. More info here.


New album artwork

Press statement: Their most industrial, uncompromising output yet. Whilst the end results have changed, however, at their core has always been the same unbending commitment and bloody-minded allegiance to the cause. The Horrors are not and will never be a band that approach the job lightly. They’re musicians who’ll funnel everything they are into the process, at the expense of health, wealth and sometimes sanity. And so, whilst sixth album Night Life sees the band once more shapeshift into a new form, with a new sonic outlook and – this time – a new line up, in some ways The Horrors are still as they ever were.”

Lead single THE SILENCE THAT REMAINS floats sonically, somewhere between
Joy Division (could be Peter Hook on bass) and early Editors. The song is about a 3am insomnia walk through the city, retracing your steps and putting the past to bed.

It swells in vehemence every time when the other-worldly synth-layered chorus
lights up. Faris Badwan still sings as he’s in a twilight zone of his own. The new
keyboardist Amelia Kidd assist him on vocals now and then. Welcome back (can’t
wait to see you live again).

WATCH/LISTEN

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Instagram – UK Tour Dates

On Repeat Since 2009 – British Post-Punks THE HORRORS With Hypnotizing Krautrocker ‘SEA WITHIN A SEA’

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31 May 2024

British post-punks THE HORRORS from Southend-on-Sea had their biggest
moment, so far, with their 2nd LP Primary Colors that came out in 2009.
It put them on the European indie map.

The track I always go back to is the almost 8-minute
closer SEA WITHIN A SEA (more than 12 million streams
on Spotify, half of which are mine. Just kidding).

It’s a repetitive, addictive, and hypnotizing synth-Kraut-rock trip that goes
on like forever and ever and puts you slowly but surely in a trance.

3 LPs and two EPs followed, but no sign of musical life since 2021.

THE HORRORS – Industrial Electroshocks With New EP ‘AGAINST THE BLADE’

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New striking strokes

11 November 2021

Band: THE HORRORS
Who: Post-punk rockers from Southend-on-Sea, UK
Active: Since 2005 / 5 studio LPs so far

New EP: AGAINST THE BLADE
Released: 5 November 2021

Faris Badwan (frontman): “The EP is a further descent into chaos.
It’s about the freedom that comes with abandoning all hope, giving
up control, and accepting that you will always be at odds with the
world around you”.

Three brutal, rough and rowdy industrial
electroshocks. Nine Inch Nails on acid.

Video clip for the title track…

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The three shocks on Spotify…

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THE HORRORS: Website

THE HORRORS Released Debut Single ‘SHEENA IS A PARASITE’ 15 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past…

12 April 2021

Band: THE HORRORS (Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England)
Who: One of the most fascinating and cool-as-fuck post-punk
bands of the 21st Century / 5 longplayers (so far).

Single: SHEENA IS A PARASITE
Released: 10 April 2006 – 15 years ago
Album: STRANGE HOUSE

Sorry Sheena, you’re not a punk rocker anymore…

THE HORRORS: Facebook

Furious Firestarters – THE HORRORS Rock And Shock On New 3-Track EP ‘LOUT’

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New sonic impulses…

13 March 2021

It’s been four years since British synth-krautrockers THE HORRORS
impressed my greedy ears with their synth-tastic, fifth LP titled V.

But their back now with a new, bone-breaking 3-track EP called LOUT.
Three furious firestarters fueled by the techno punk flamboyance of
The Prodigy and the blistering industrial shock rock power of NIN.
Mental stuff! Spectacular return!

Roll the tape…

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THE HORRORS: Facebook

BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 5 Knockout Albums Turning 10 In 2021

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1. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM THE VACCINES? by THE VACCINES

Released: 11 March 2011 – debut LP
NME said: “By fusing elements of US pop-punk (the Ramones – not Blink 182), chillwave
(they too are obsessed with reverb) and classic good-time pop’n’roll (The Strokes, primetime Libs/KOL), The Vaccines have recorded an album that – if things continue to go their way – should serve to give British rock music a much-needed jolt in the arm.”

Stream here

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2. SKYING by THE HORRORS

Released: 11 July 2011 – third LP
Pitchfork said: “While they may have started out as all glittering surfaces, the Horrors have evolved into a dependable band making wide-reaching rock music. Whether a calculated retreat or just a natural maturation, the Horrors have found a sound more content with background and atmosphere, and it suits them nicely.”

Stream here…

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3. NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS

Released: 17 October 2011 – self-titled debut LP
The Daily Mirror: “High Flying Birds is the best collection
of Noel Gallagher tunes since his Morning Glory days.”

Stream here…

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4. LET ENGLAND SHAKE by PJ HARVEY

Released: 14 February 2011 – eight LP
AllMusic said: “Let England Shake’s’ songs, touching on the disastrous World War I naval strike that left more than 30,000 English soldiers dead. Her musical allusions are just as fascinating and pointed. Its complexities make it one of Harvey’s most powerful works.”

Stream here…

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5. SUCK IT AND SEE by ARCTIC MONKEYS

Released: 6 June 2011 – fourth LP
NME said: “Suck It and See’, then, is the band’s ‘Rubber Soul’. Much like how The Beatles spent the early part of their career penned in by commercial expectations, they broke out and proved they were much more than novelty love songs on their experimental, but concise sixth album.”

Stream here…

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BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 5 Awesome Singles Turning 10 In 2021

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1. THE WORDS THAT MAKETH MURDER by PJ HARVEY

Rolling Stone: “Fairly peppy for a PJ Harvey song about murder.”
Released: 6 February 2011
Album: Let England Shake

Press play here…

2. IF YOU WANNA by THE VACCINES (UK)

NME: “They’ve really nailed it. The ending is heartstoppingly heavy.”
Released: 23 May 2011
Album: What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?

Let’s roll…

3. STILL LIFE by THE HORRORS (UK)

Pitchfork: “An appealing bucolic stupor.”
Released: 5 July 2011
Album: Skying

Listen here…

4. ICE CREAM by BATTLES (USA)

The Guardian: “Avant-garde music can be fun.”
Released: 23 May 2011
Album: Glos Drop

Tune in here…

5. I TOLD YOU ONCE by HOWLER (US)

Sputnik Music: “Listen to that track once and
that tune will be jangling round your head all day.”
Released: 1 August 2011
EP: This One’s Different

Check it out…

‘Primary Colours’ – Second Album by THE HORRORS – Released In 2009…

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Old and new albums to make your day…

13 February 2020

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Band: The Horrors (UK)

Album: Primary Colours – their second LP

Released: 21 April 2009

Score: It peaked at #25 in the UK and was NME’s ‘album of the year’

AllMusic wrote: “Though their debut LP ‘Strange House’s final tracks suggested that the band was looking for ways to expand on its resurrection of freakbeat and garage rock, very little suggested that its next album would be the triple point where goth, post-punk, and shoegaze met… At its best, it shows that the Horrors can do far more than what anyone expected from them.“. Full review Score here – Score: 4/5

Turn Up The Volume: This is the album that put The Horrors on the alt-rock map. Compared to their punkish debut LP Strange House  the band made a 360° turn
sonically, like a 21st century Krautrock orchestra with tons of synthscapes and
several far-out top tunes

The singles: Sea Within a Sea / Who Can Say / Mirror’s Image

– SEA WITHIN A SEA –
(Just brilliant. Their best track ever)

– WHO CAN SAY –

– MIRROR’S IMAGE –

Album in full…

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THE HORRORS: Facebook

5 Glorious Albums Turning… 10 In 2019

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Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…

Here come Five Glorious Albums, selected
by Turn Up The Volume turning 10 in 2019!

– 1. ‘Primary Colours’ by THE HORRORS –

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– 2. ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ by MANIC STREET PREACHERS

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– 3. ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’ by KASABIAN –

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– 4. ‘It’s Blitz’ by YEAH YEAH YEAHS –

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– 5. xx by THE XX