The Psychotic Monks

Goodbye 2023! 20 Top Tunes From 20 Top Albums Of The Past 12 Months

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30 December 2023

Well, another year has come to an end. A year stuffed with a tsunami of striking tunes
and stunning albums, as TUTV already displayed on its 2023 best-tracks and best-albums lists.

But that was just a fraction of this past year’s superb music extravaganza. Let’s go out with
a big bang. 20 Top Tunes from 20 Top Albums that made our ears go bonkers in 2023.

ALL TOGETHER


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TRACK BY TRACK

Artist: PJ HARVEY (UK)

Track: The Nether-edge
Album: I Inside The Old Year Dying

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Band: THE MURDER CAPITAL (Dublin, Ireland)

Track: Return My Head
Album: Gigi’s Recovery

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Band: DREAM WIFE (UK)

Track: Leech
Album: Social Lubrication

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Band: COACH PARTY (Isle Of Wight, UK)

Track: What’s The Point In Life
Album: Killjoy

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Band: FUCKED UP (Toronto, CA)

Track: Nothing’s Immortal
Album: One Day


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Band: SWIMWEAR DEPARTMENT (Houston, Texas)

Track: We Need A Place
Album: The Poolest Of The Mall


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Band: S O R O R (Belgium)

Track: Shadow Of A Doubt
Album: New Born


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Band: THE PSYCHOTIC MONKS (France)

Track: Crash
Album: Pink Colour Surgery

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Band: VIOLET NOX (Boston)

Track: Senzor
Album: Vortex And Voices

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Band: PROTOMARTYR (Detroit, MI)

Track: Fulfillment Center
Album: Formal Growth In The Desert


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Band: EATING RAINBOWS (Belgium)

Track: Smile
Album: Yep Yep Yep


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Band: PHUTURE MEMORIEZ (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Track: Mouth Yellow
Album: Play Cobra


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Band: CAMLANN (Indonesia)

Track: Your Death Is My Glory
Album: Dismantle!

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Band: 100 GECS (St. Louis, US)

Track: Hollywood Baby
Album: 10,000 gecs

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Band: WARGASM (UK)

Track: Do It So Good
Album: Venom

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Band: FILIBUSTER (Belgium)

Track: A Problem (In A)
Album: Quiet Part Out Loud


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Band: MILK TV (Belgium)

Track: Paint Boy
Album: Neo Geo


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Band: FERAL FIVE

Track: Truth Is The New Gold
Album: Truth Is The New Gold

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Band: MELODY FIELDS (Sweden)

Track: Rave On
Album: 1901


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Artist: JOHN CALE (Wales)

Track: Story Of Blood
Album: Mercy

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SUMMER PARTY PLAYLIST Part 3 With 20 Top Thrills

Posted on by JL

7 July 2023

Turn up the heat,
move your feet, and
feel your heart beat.

It’s PART 3 of Turn Up The Volume‘s yearly hot summer
playlists. A mix of adrenalin-infused dance/groove/rock
fireworks and some moony musings to end the party
when the sun comes up.

ARTISTS/BANDS

POPPY (2023)

ORBITAL & SLEAFORD MODS (2023)
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ANIKA (2021)


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PRINCE (2021)


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BOB VYLAN (2022)


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THE IRRATIONAL LIBRARY (2021)


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GLYTSH (2022)


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THE PSYCHOTIC MONKS (2023)


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BODEGA (2021)


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NUXX VOMICA (2023)


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OSCAR MIC


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PINS (2020)


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THE KILLS (2003)

THE LIMANAS & PETER HOOK (2016)

CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH (2005)


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SUEP


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DYAN VALDES (2023)


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COURTNEY BARNETT (2021)


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JULIANA EYE (2023)

KASABIAN (2023
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ALL TOGETHER


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We’ll be back next week

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A Modern-Day Post-Punk Götterdämmerung Experience With Trance Crusaders THE PSYCHOTIC MONKS In Brussels

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THE PSYCHOTIC MONKS – Botanique, Brussels – 20 March 2023

French post-psych-punk crusaders THE PSYCHOTIC MONKS,
formed in 2015. They released their new, third and stupefying
album, named PINK COLOUR SURGERY last February.

Vicious Circle Records introduced it as follows: “Their 3rd album, Pink Color Surgery, produced by Daniel Fox of the group Gilla Band and composed in part by a work of improvisations finally comes to us as an act of resistance to the ambient violence. Disconcerting at first sight, this new opus operates in the dark a surgery of ethics which is fleshed out in pink for a stunning metamorphosis. Pink Color Surgery is like the hidden room of a house we have never entered and the possibility of feeling good there is not excluded.”

Last night the Monks hit the stage in Brussels and dragged the flabbergasted crowd into
the puzzling psyche of their new ominous record. PM are trance priests. They take you on a mindboggling rollercoaster, on a modern-day Götterdämmerung odyssey with a melting pot of dark disco-punk, enigmatic psychedelic distortion, pitch-black gloominess, brain-breaking grooves, and alternating vocals by all four members. With The Psychotic Monks Doomsday will be a party-hard gathering.

And this will be the perfect soundtrack.

Buy/stream here.


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Vinyl format also available via Vicious Circle Records

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Concert photos by Turn Up The Volume

Brain-Breaking Doomsday Psychedelia – French Force THE PSYCHOTIC MONKS Drop Single ‘ISOLATION’

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Daily fuel to load your batteries


(photo: Clara Marguerat)

French psychedelic force THE PSYCHOTIC MONKS, formed in 2015,
unleash their new, second longplayer PRIVATE MEANING FIRST this
Friday, 27th November.

The LP was recorded in near-total isolation in the French countryside
where they deliberately created a claustrophobic environment, resulting
in a tense atmosphere that can be heard throughout the album.

Early October they shared the pitch-black, storming lead-single Closure.

Today the band dropped another piece, titled ISOLATION, clearly made to have a brain-breaking impact. No birds and bees fairy tales for these far-out bohemians. Expect a sort of ominous Texas Chainsaw Massacre jam. A Doomsday trip moving like a nasty serpent on its destructive way. A hypnotizing Krautrock trash and slash discharge going forth and back. You have been warned.

Shiver here…

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This live version is pretty dazzling too…

And here the eye-catching short film for crushing lead-single CLOSER…

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PRIVATE MEANING FIRST out 27th November via Fat Cat Records

(Artwork by Charlotte Clément)

A Hypnotizing Rollercoaster From Paris – Discover… THE PSYCHOTIC MONKS

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Havoc that thrills us in a way we want to scream out loud…

shoutout

Please welcome from Paris, France: THE PSYCHOTIC MONKS. This amazing gang will release their debut LP ‘Silence Slowly and Madly Shines’ on 21 April. Single IT’S GONE
will give you an idea of their deranged mental state. It’s a quiet/LOUD/quiet/LOUD
stoner rock roller coaster. Haunting and menacing from start to finish. I don’t know
what abbey these French monks come from but living locked up surely messed up
their heads. Ace! Play this sonic madness very loud and lose yourself completely!…


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