TUTV: Get your ears and eyes ready for a 12-minute psych-prog-rock
space journey to the 60s and back. Don’t worry if you start to hallucinate,
it’s part of the hypnotic trip.
Visual artist Shane Swank animated video will get you eight miles high.
Band: MONOSCOPES Who: Italian act started by Paolo Mioni, former member
of Jennifer Gentle, spearhead of the Italian psych scene.
Last January Monoscopes launched their second LP, called Endcyclopedia.
A most compelling piece of work. Check TUTV‘s jubilant review here.
Now they shared an eye-catching, sort of hallucinatory, psychedelic video clip
for YOU’RE GONNA BE MINE. One of the highlights off the album. Bewitching
and spellbinding with layers of captivating guitar lines creating a wall-of-sparkling
sound and with Mioni‘s yearning vocals adding a feverish vibe.
Artists: ARROWS OF ATHENA (Boston, MA) Who: Boston-based duo – multi-instrumentalist/producer Scott Lerner and vocalist/lyricist Jac-Lyn Gibson – who craft a distinct sound on their own terms, bridging usually disparate ends of the pop and rock spectrum for an illuminated sound of big dance beats, heavy riffs, and melodic intensity.
Jac-Lyn Gibson: “I wanted to tell the story of what a family goes through when faced with a terminal diagnosis and the journey it takes you on. Unfortunately, I think a lot of our listeners have gone through a similar situation or can at least relate to receiving devastating news about a loved one. I think everyone has a Gary and although it’s a tragic story, I didn’t want him to be forgotten. Music is very healing and this one really helped me to process what he was going through and how my sister’s family was processing this heavy blow. It really shook our family.”
TUTV: Insanity is the opener of AOA’s notable guitar-pop juiced debut LP The Ghost Archives that came out in April (you can stream/buy it below).
It’s both a haunting and evocative burst with a poignant impact as if they
want to channel their sorrow and pain, following the loss of a beloved one,
with a liberating cryout.
If I didn’t know better, I would have been be certain
that Garbage‘s wonderful Shirley Manson is the vocalist
The new accompanying video is a visual, animated spectacle.
“On All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade, the quartet of unlikely lads have gathered from their new-found homes in France, Denmark, Margate and London to solder a strongest-ever internal bond, and scale new creative heights resulting in the best music of their extraordinary career so far.”
Along with the news came the first single, titled RUN RUN RUN. A sickly sticky runner. A vintage Libs anthem.
London‘s explosive indie rockers their new single DEPLETED.
The follow-up to their critically praised 4-track EP not all men.
“The song explores certain realities of motherhood. There is a pressure placed upon women to savour every aspect of motherhood, even though the reality of non-stop mental and physical hardship often leads many mothers to burn out. Despite this, it’s a subject that is still regarded as taboo, with society placing unrealistic expectations on mothers who ’should just be happy’”.
Turn Up The Volume made it Pick Of The Day and wrote: Hungry guitars start this jagged jackhammer, then make way for avid vocalist EM’s dynamizing discharge and go high-strung all together, annex battering drums, on the sharp-edged and blustery chorus.”
Josh Homme to NME: “We made something that sounds as brutal as it feels to
be alive right now. I think on this [part of the] journey there’s no armour left. It’s
only about walking deeper into the darkness. That’s the way it should be.”
Now for one of the singles, the bluesy banger NEGATIVE SPACE
QOTSA shared an eye-catching, animated video clip.
Last year, passionate Welsh indie rockers HOLY COVES released one
of the best LPs to Turn Up The Volume‘s ears with their 3rd one, titled DRUIDS AND BARDS. You can stream it below on Spotify.
“A striking work of top-notch tunes that get under your skin slowly but surely until you
see/hear the whole picture and realize that this is one of the most gripping albums of 2022, definitely in my book. Spiritually, the record is inspired by Welsh ancient history and will have two sequels in the future. Musically it’s pure indie guitar pop/rock delivered with panache, determination and love with the songs author’s voice as the zealous force in the middle”
One of the standout tracks and new single – the 4th in
a series of 5 – on the record is openerAWAY WE GO.
A solid gold anthem with a titanic vocal chorus.
The band now just shared a brand-new video for
it that looks like a tribute to their beloved island.
“It’s a real look into life on Holy Island, Anglesey!”
It was created by award winning Ukrainian filmmaker Taras Merenkov and filmed by Jason Griffith.
