Band: WARMDUSCHER Who: Steamy post-punk-funk
gang coming out of London
New album: AT THE HOT SPOT – their 4th full lenght Out: 1 April 2022 – more info here
Bella Union (new label):“Written over a period of over a year in lockdown, At the Hotspot, produced by Joe Goddard and Al Doyle of Hot Chip, takes the raucous energy Warmduscher solidified on their critically acclaimed 2019 release Tainted Lunch, and injects it with a slightly more polished, ‘80s funk sound, kind of like stumbling home to your squatted loft after a drunken night at the local disco. It’s crunchy on the outside, smooth on the inside, and might
be the most immediately enjoyable music Warmduscher have ever graced us with.”
New single: FATSO
The second cut of the upcoming LP
Clams Baker (frontman): “It’s a song dedicated to taking the time to slow down
and sniff the roses, turn off the computer and take in the sunshine, and embrace
the battle of a sleepless day at the office from a night of beautiful carnage that
you’ll always dream about.”
Turn Up The Volume:Following in the soundsteps of legendary mega-funk-groover
Sly Stone with a 21st Century post-punk coolness and a pumped-up synthtastic puissance this London combo activates all of your muscles, your bloodstream and your appetite for behaving like a midnight rambler. This mid-tempo disco jam helps you to keep in shape at your hot spot at home, until the nightclubs reopen. It’s a Warmduscher affair, folks.
After 10 years the sisters in arms want to inject their bond with new musical challenges
to keep their marriage alive and kicking (they’ll be always alive and kicking anyway).
Their new LP called, yes, Marriage and lands on 12 November.
The first taster is a slo-mo synth-vaccinated groove with Lindsey Troy‘s fully charged
guitars all over it and Julie Edwards, as usual taking care of the solid backbone drum
beat. Troy‘s vocals and Edwards echoing voice in the back give the song an extra thrill.
Expect a slash and trash jackhammer, an angry
spit and sneer storm, a Sturm und Drang uppercut.
143 seconds of furious frustration is what you get. Retro organs
clatter like if a nightmare is just around the corner, but Domestic
thunders like he’s a determined survivor who will not go down
just like that.
I listened to the title track of this London-based singer/songwriter’s new album
about 50 times, so far. It’s a guitar-driven riff-hook-and-lick standout that cuts like
a new Swiss knife with feverish and heartfelt vocals amplifying the dumbfounded
chorus. Holy smoke.
The rock ‘n roll swagger of Eddie Cochran, the surf guitar electricity
of Link Wray, and the fervent fire of Bo Diddley. Get the punchy
picture? This rollin’ razzle-dazzle riffage will boost your mood.
London’s funk-punk gang is gearing up
for their big breakthrough album.
This first taster is a trippy bass-driven disco groove you can sway
your hips to in the morning while waking up, in the evening while
getting drunk, and during the day when you’re getting bored.
When surreality becomes reality cry outs like these pop up to translate
alienated feelings that dominate your daily life. This club of two decided
to embed their frustration into a swirling dance stunner for our doomed
generation.
Pithy, peppery, and a blacked-out chorus that sticks as primo glue.
Add glamorous vocals and a glittering full-on wall-of-sound and the
final result is a supersonic stunner.
‘It’s Critical’ by SAVING JACKIE (San Antonio, Texas)
The heated rap-rock gang from San Antonio launched
a video for the title track of their debut album.
The clip is a clear-cut message regarding life-threatening diseases.
Flamboyant frontwoman Jenny 4C Ramirez emphasizes the fight
for your life bravery while making your blood stream faster through
your veins.
These young gunslingers rushed to indie stardom with their ace jazz and prog-rock influenced debut LP For The First Time.
Isaac Wood (frontman) about this brand new song: “it’s the best song we’ve ever
written. We threw in every idea anyone had with that song. So the making of it was
a really fast, whimsical approach – like throwing all the shit at the wall and just
letting everything stick.”
A blazing rock slam about the desperate need for stable emotional stimulation.
Blustering guitars, flurried synths, hot-blooded vocals, a discharging chorus, and somewhere in the middle a thunder and lighting guitar solo to electrocute all your
mind-destroying demons. Every time you take this medicine, you’ll get a kick out of it.
If you like British turbo Royal Blood
you’ll go berserk to this cracker too.
Instantly effective pop tunes like these make me smile
from left to right and back. Shiny guitars with shoegazy
sparks, a dizzy-making rhythm, happy-go-lucky sentiments,
and seducing vocals. A song that would turn Taylor Swift
into an indie star.
A crystal-clear structured protest against greedy political sharks and
megalomaniac charlatans oppressing people for their own devastating
agendas. Again Manimal and Samara show how to fuse poignant poetry
and versatile metal genres.
The fab goth-metal gang made an album with goth heroine Chelsea Wolfe
and Cave In‘s Stephen Brodsky. The LP, titled Bloodmoon: I will soundtrack
our nightmares from November 19 on.
Here comes the first piece Blood Moon. A classic mix of deafening bombast,
theatrical doom and gloom, barking voices (except for Chelsea of course), and
hardcore torment. A perfect Halloween monster.
White continues her sound-exploring search. Here she fuses
symphonic instrumentation with deep-bass-resonating synth
turbulence. Trippy, dissonant, and even claustrophobic when
short fragments of White‘s restless breathing emerge somewhere
in there.
The ongoing pizzicato violin play adds both an airy and eerie timbre.
I have no idea what the totally silent outro with some echoes of (what
seems to be) firecrackers in the very end, is about. What I do know is
that the first thought that crossed my mind when hearing this, was: Aphex Twin is back, in disguise.
Pretty quick into the song the early days of electronic
British legends Human League and Baxter Dury‘s synth
pop sensuality (especially the female voices) popped up
on my stereo in my head.
It sounds as if this Boston tandem warns us of Big Brother’s ambition to brainwash humankind with mind-altering chemicals with this darksome, yet instantly striking
electro jam. Haunting, feverish, and gloomy are the keywords here. Best played at
night while being dazed and confused by the surreal times we experience the past
18 months.
It’s been a while since I heard an epic belter that evokes
an image on the screen in my head of a massive stadium
filled with a sea of people holding their phones up with
shining lights and scream at the top of their lungs.
This powerful love ballad will
trigger your romantic side…
Glorious independent London label THRASMOUTH RECORDS
has survived 10 years of slash & trash bash, this month.
They’re alive and kicking and will shake the pandemic world with a commemorative LP, titled TRASHMOUTH RECORDS – 10 YEARS STILL NOT DEAD. The LP will be pressed on the finest affordable, luxurious fake-gold vinyl & encompass a visual history of the label within its artwork, featuring photographs of the now-legendary Trashmouth live nights. More info to come.
Trashmouth Records, I hear you ask? Well, it’s actually a sort of psychiatrist hospital.
The (small) staff prevent (almost) lost outcasts from going to jail by giving them a chance
to make some deranged noise and put records out.
They opened the doors of their smelly basement for lots of dope(d) bands such as Fat White Family (one of the best bands of the 21st Century to my ears), Warmdüscher, Chupa Cabra, Pit Ponies, Madonnatron (I miss them), and many more other patients
Turn Up The Volume loved dearly as they helped me to ease my own mental health problems.
Anyway, the birthday festivities start here and now with London’s misfits WARMDUSCHER, the coolest mustache-fronted band on this fucked-up planet. Trashmouth remixed their kooky 2015 track YOLK BUNS USA. Check it out, folks.
Cheaper than laying on the knee
of your shrink for an hour…
TAINTED LUNCH is the fourth longplayer – undoubtedly their best – by London’s
funky post-punk combo WARMDUSCHER. This flamboyant gang of quirky miscreants produces doomed disco grooves for all outsiders, misfits, and bohemians who reject mainstream music. Saturday night fever for disco loving mavericks. Dashing stuff!
The Line Of Best Fit wrote: “The masters of madness return, with Iggy Pop and Kool Keith in tow, bringing you Warmduscher’s most hideously brilliant record yet… Tainted Lunch is an irresistible delight; once you taste it you know you can never go without it again. Seductive, inescapable, overpowering, and you might need to take a shower afterwards.”
Full review here. Score 9/10.
Who: A group of miscreants, known only by aliases, producing a sort of doomed disco grooves for all those who hate what’s played on boring radio shows and in posh clubs
right now. Having a couple of Fat White Family members on board helps to scare normal people when they walk down the streets of England’s doomed Brexit fiasco.
Sound: The band biographer and revered botanist Dr Alan Goldfarb describes the LP
as “a sample hole through which to taste another universe. A dramatic warning. A gilded aroma. It is a tale of wanton desire and limitless treachery. A tale of disillusionment, the
refusal of exploitation.” Expect some mental post funk junk for all outsiders out there
who want to freak out and shake their hips in a smelly basement. Yes, underground
fun for the wicked! Even Iggy Pop got out of his straitjacket to join Warmduscher‘s party!
Eleven Knockout Tracks on repeat this past month!
A fervid fusion of clashing crackers and boisterous bangers!
Here’s Turn Up The Volume‘s Knockout October Team…
1. ‘Hungry Baby’ by KIM GORDON (New York, NY, US)
Formidable blast with a mind-boggling impact. From new solo LP ‘‘No Home Record’.
2. ‘Couch Combover’ by GIRL BAND (Ireland)
Cutting chainsaw turbulence that’ll do your head in. From new album ‘The Talkies’.
. 3. ‘Trash Talk’ by LAZYBONES (Brighton, UK)
Unstoppable blustery ferocity that will pump up your bloodstream’s flow. Bloody hell yeah!
4. ‘Think Less’ by THANK (Leeds, UK)
A volcanic blowup build around an incessant, head-spinning, percussive bass riff. Nasty!
. 5. ‘Modern Romance’ by ANIMAL HOUSE (Brighton, UK)
A sickly sticky snorter that rushes and thunders like a high-speed train on the run…
. 6. ‘Spin’ by SILENT FORUM (Wales)
Crepitating post punk guitar stunner. Think PIL’s Keith Levene & Gang Of Four! Stunning!
7. ‘Spirit’ by RICHES (Canada)
Trippy and spaced-out rhythms and an electronic vitality creating a trance-like energy!
8. ‘Time Bomb Sounds’ by THE LOCALS (Chicago, US)
A mixed emotions corker resonating gloriously rapturous and exultantly epic. Top stroke!
9. ‘Moonlight’ by KILL CHICAGO (Canada)
Smoking groove, glowing guitars, storytelling vocals and a 88 students choir! Hallelujah!
. 10. ‘Disco Peanuts’ by WARMDUSCHER (London, UK)
Funky stomper for all misfits out there who want to freak out on a basement dance floor…
. 11. ‘Two Sense’ by THYLA (Brighton, UK)
Terrifically powerful crackerjack with a towering impact on your aural radar! Damn right!
London’s misfits WARMDUSCHER are a group of miscreants, known only by aliases, producing a sort of doomed disco grooves for all those who hate what’s played on boring radio shows and in posh clubs right now. Having a couple of Fat White Family members on board helps to scare normal people when walking down the streets of England’s dying Brexit capital.
They’re gearing up now to launch their new longplayer called ‘TAINTED LUNCH‘ on 1st November. So far they shared two funky cuts off that record. Before listening to it you should know that the band biographer and revered botanist Dr Alan Goldfarb describes the album as “a sample hole through which to taste another universe. A dramatic warning. A gilded aroma. It is a tale of wanton desire and limitless treachery. A tale of disillusionment, the refusal of exploitation.”
Okay, time now, to shake your booty, all you lost desperadoes out there…
