Band: WET LEG Who: Showy Isle of Wight team featuring
with Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers
As announced a couple of weeks ago the hipsters announced the upcoming
birth of their new, 2nd LP. It’s named Moisturizer and will see the day of light
on July 11th. Pre-order info here.
Teasdale: “We focused on: ‘Is this going to be fun to play live?’
It was very natural that we would write the second record together.”
New album artwork
Following first booming banger single Catch These Fists
WL just unleashed a 2nd one, an equally booming banger,
titled CPR.
New visual presence, new sound. Less guitar pop euphoria (so far).
Both disco-beats infused belters are destined to make the masses
go up and down like kangaroos on their upcoming, massive tour.
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. JUNE – EURO/UK
6th – Primavera Sound, Barcelona, Spain 14th – NOS Primavera Sound, Porto, Portugal 21st – Hurricane Festival, Scheessel, GER 22nd – Southside Festival, Neuhausen ob Eck, GER 27th – Glastonbury Festival, Shepton Mallet UK
JULY – EURO/UK
2nd – Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Danmark 4th – Rock Werchter, Werchter, Belgium 5th – Down the Rabbit Hole Festival, Beuningen, The Netherlands 6th – Festival Beauregard, Herouville Saint-Clair, France 9TH – Pryzm, Kingston, UK 11th – TRNSMT, Glasgow, Scotland 15th – I-Days Milan, Milan w/ Olivia Rodrigo, Italy 16th – Acieloaperto Festival, Cesena, Italy 21st – Chalk, Brighton, UK 22nd – Coventry Empire, Coventry, UK 23rd – Foundry, Sheffield, UK
AUGUST – EURO/UK
1st – All Together Now, Waterford, UK 3rd – Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire, UK 7th – Oya Festival, Oslo, Norway 8th – Way Out West, Gothenburg, Sweden 10th – Boardmasters Festival, Newquay, Wales 15th – Green Man Festival, Crickhowell, Wales 17th – Cabaret Vert Festival, Charleville-Mézières, France
SEPTEMBER – US
1st – Paramount Theatre, Seattle 2nd – Paramount Theatre, Seattle 3rd – Malkin Bowl, Vancouver 5th – Revolution Hall, Portland 6th – Revolution Hall, Portland 9th – First Avenue, Minneapolis 10th – The Salted Shed (outdoors), Chicago 12th – History, Toronto 13th – Mtelus, Montreal 14th – Roadrunner, Boston 15th – Franklin Music Hall, Philadelphia 17th – Summer Stage in Central Park, New York 18th – Brooklyn Paramount, New York 19th – 9:30 Club, Washington 21st – Shakey Knees Festival, Atlanta 23rd – Rolling Stone’s Gather No Moss @ Marathon Music Works, Nashville 28th – Ohana Music Festival, Dana Point 30th – Fox Theatre, Oakland
OCTOBER – US/EURO
1st – Fox Theatre, Oakland 3rd – Arizona Financial Theatre, Phoenix 5th – Austin City Limits, Austin 7th – The Criterion, Oklahoma City 12th – Austin City Limits, Austin 14th – The Lowbrow Palace, El Paso 17th – Greek Theatre, Los Angeles 27th – L’Olympia, Paris, France 28th – Le Transbordeur, Lyon, France 31st – New Fall Festival, Düsseldorf, Germany
Isle Of Wight (UK) pop sensation WET LEG – Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers –
attracted tons of attention with their prizewinning self-titled debut LP from 2022.
A couple of weeks ago they told the world that they’ve canned LP
number two. Moisturizer arrives on July 11th. Pre-order info here.
Along with the news came the first single, smoking
rocker CATCH THESE FISTS.They played it last weekend
on The Jonathan Ross Show.
Darkwave Goths DEPECHE MODE released their 15th full-length,
named Memento Mori last March. The first LP without original member
Andy Fletcher who passed away last May – only 60 – following an aortic
dissection.
A month later the moody Wagging Tongue track was released as a
single, accompanied by an eye-catching Anton Corbijn directed video.
And now DM shared 8 remixes of the song. One is by British guitar-pop sensation WET LEG who turned Wagging Tongue into a psychedelic nightclub stomper.
Only a week ago Isle of Wight sensation WET LEG won 2 Grammy Awards and yesterday they also received 2 Brit Awards – Best New Artist and Group Of The Year – thanks to their stoked debut LP. Guitar pop ardency.
Well, sometimes the Grammy Awards pick great non-corporte artists.
Yesterday night Isle of Wight‘s guitar pop sensation WET LEG won no less
than 3 Grammys. For Best Alternative Album (their 2022 self-titled debut), for
Best Alternative Music Performance with the LP’s super-duper single Chaise
Longue and for Best New Artist.
The other nominees in the category Alternative Album were Arcade Fire’s ‘WE’,
Big Thief’s ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You’, Björk’s ‘Fossora’, and
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ ‘Cool It Down’.
Can’t stop going crazy to this WET LEG performance at Glastonbury Festival
last year when they played their by now classic cracker CHAISE LONGUE
(already almost 40 million streams on Spotify) with a huge audience choir.
Mommy, daddy, look at me
I went to school and I got a degree
All my friends call it “the big D”
I went to school and I got the big D
I got the big D
I got the big D
I got the big D
I went to school and I got the big D
The British music and culture website/magazine (one of Turn Up The Volume‘s favorite sources) that focuses mainly on alternative music, arts, books and movies for 12 years now, revealed their TOP 10 of BEST SONGS OF 2022.
1. ‘The Only Way I Can Love You’ by SUEDE (London, UK)
1. ‘Twitchin’ in The Kitchen’ byWARMDUSCHER (London)
This punky-funky disco corker is the perfect pick-me-up tune for all the wacky
weirdos who are always in the kitchen at parties waiting for free drinks and waiting
for Warmduscher to come in and kick their lazy asses. Big stroke, big chorus, big fun!
The Scottish dance-funk-punk trio YOUNG FATHERS launch
their 5th LP called HEAVY HEAVY on 3 February.
Ahead of hit came this ridiculously sticky stunner I SAW.
A master blaster that makes your blood stream faster
through your veins. The addition of a choir in the back
works on the spot.
This London post-punk team unleashed their 2nd scorching album Beware Believers, last April. One of TUTV’s best full-lengths of 2022.
Slowly Separate is a schizo sonic serpent generating a mind-blowing backwash
while chainsaw guitars turn up the decibels to an illegal peak, and vox-in-the-middle James Fox rages and blazes through his teeth.
The by now legendary passion rockers from Cincinnati, Ohio with mastermind Greg Dulli leading the troops. Their new 10th LP How Do You Burn? was voted Best Album Of 2022 on Turn Up The Volume.
I’ll Make You See God was the lead single. A sturdy steamroller, a red-hot-heated juggernaut, an unstoppable cannonball going everywhere fast. Manic blitzkrieg
guitars, ruthless drum/bass attacks, Greg Dulli‘s rush of blood vocality, and a brutal
finish. Flabbergasting.
Dulli: “That’s one of the hardest rock songs we’ve ever done.
It was written and performed on sheer adrenalin.”
This frenetic Brit force hit big time with their dazzling
debut album The Great Regression last March.
Single I Am Kate Moss is a cast-iron brainbreaker. It’s a poignant, biting, and
anxious uppercut. I’m pretty sure Moss would love this hit-and-run drone when
it would hit her ears. She is, after all, the Femme Punk Fatale of fashion.
The Prophet progresses like a vicious viper sliding to its prey until a horrific explosion strikes you in the face. Next is a titanic bass riff that keeps the roller coaster turning with scary speed. This flabbergasting monster is part of their 2nd notable longplayer Trust No Leaders.
About: “As a story or metaphor, we are all ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ – made up of
other people’s opinions and parts that don’t belong to us. That we were born
perfect but people, in their own conditioning, come along and can make us feel
undesirable/inadequate/the monster. But we can choose to be real instead.”
This is without a shadow the best debut single of 2022.
A towering tune going low, high and back. A sickly sticky pop gem wrapped in
a big-boisterous wall-of-sound. And up front, Sianna Lafferty‘s phenomenal voice
causes goosebumps when she reaches for the sky on the chorus. The ardency of Porridge Radio comes to mind.
“I am not what you want me to be
Uncle Sam won’t even point at me
Even the eyes of the Virgin Mary wall
hanging won’t even stare at me.”
Kill Me Again, one of three pieces shared so far, is an infectious groove
propelled by a pounding synth/bass riff, spiced with Coxon on saxophone
and mesmerizing (duet) vocals. Splendid stuff. Bring on the LP.
This power pop sensation impressed big time with their self-titled debut album. The outstanding dingle Chaise Longue – catchy, funny and witty caused choirs of thousands of sing-along people at festivals this past summer as I experienced myself, not at Glastonbury (below), but in Belgium at Hear!Hear! fest.
After releasing her sterling debut LP last year, songstress Ilayda Cicek and her band
came back this year for a series of riveting concerts (I saw 5 of them) and this sublime single. Her passion, her vivaciousness and vocal fervency push this electrifying pearl
way up to the stars.
Where We Sleep is the alter ego of Beth Rettig,
former front force of electro-rock band Blindness
On this boiling groover Rethig rants non-stop with anger and frustration.
A nasty bass riff is the backbone here, while layers of menacing guitar
electricity augment this ripper’s rowdy roll.
A crystal clear statement, a menacing projectile.
“They Don’t Want The Truth / They Just Want The Power”
12. ‘Nothing Good Comes Easy’ by DEAD LEVEE (Canada)
What a wowzer! This uplifting motherrocker boosts your state of mind with
fired-up dynamism from the get-go. Rapid-fire rawk and roll riffs switch on
a fervent feel of euphoria. It did it in the past, it does it in the present and
it will do it in the future.
Despite all the BS we have to endure (pandemic, Ukraine, natural disasters,
and other threats) it’s never too late to get back on track and why not start
with 4 and a half minutes of heart-warming guitar-fueled boogie-woogie
that triggers hope and assurance.
Stoogefather IGGY POP still wants to be your dog.
He has his new – 19th – LP, named Every Loser
lands out next week, on 6 January.
Lead-single was the perfect harbinger. A motherfucker of a punk bomb
featuring an all-star band including Watt, Guns N’ Roses‘ Duff McKagan
and Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Chad Smith.
I’m in a frenzy
Fucking prick
I’m in a frenzy
Goddamn dick
It’s been two years since these Scottish hound dogs made
my speakers tremble with their furious Johnny single.
But on their steamy comeback stomper they still have the same barnstorming groove and move drive. Something Good is a nasty rip-roaring-riff jackhammer,
annex agitated vocals, rotating in your head in an ear-blink. Think NYC’s darlings Interpol playing The Fall. Something good? Way better, something ace!
Geordie Greep (vocalist, guitar): “Almost everything I write is from a true thing, something
I experienced and exaggerated and wrote down. I don’t believe in Hell, but all that old world folly is great for songs, I’ve always loved movies and anything else with a depiction of Hell.”
A screwy zig-zagging haymaker it is.
From their head-spinning 3rd LP Hellfire.
“A paean to taking your foot off the gas and letting things slide, or a warning of the perils of procrastination, perhaps? It’s hard to tell whether ‘Mañana’ is meant to serve as a confessional regarding Domestic’s own perceived lack of willpower, or a celebration of idleness. It could be either of these things; and that’s one of its many joys.”.
A sirens intro, David Bowie‘s saxophone, and steel drums straight from Trinidad. Sounds like an exotic swing and shake ditty is coming up. No folks, it’s a lazy rap-sody you can play the morning after a booze marathon to get up and sober up, slowly.
Soul voice Clare Gillet takes care of the chirpy chorus.
These Welshmen released their new excellent album Druids and Bards
displaying mastermind Scott Marsden high-quality songwriting.
This impassioned hard-luck story is my fav cut. It grows slowly but surely into a soul-stirring and mesmerising heartbreaker with an epic finale. Glowing guitars, a steady drumbeat, and mixed-emotions vocals all come together for a poignant performance.
‘Love Is Cruel / The Hurt Within’. You can feel it.
This wholly charismatic and fast up-and-coming darkwave duo mixes Gothic Depeche Mode beats, with sonic Human League echoes, bass-synth-riffs à la German legends D.A.F. and spice it all up with spooky vocals. And it looks like 2023 will even be bigger than 2022.
After their eponymous bonkers debut EP (2020) followed by some staggering singles,
the high-decibels tandem nail it with another sucker punch. Leader is a funk-punk riff ripsnorter that kicks forth and back before a freakish guitar outbreak slashes and
trashes its way to the end.
Watch out for the pigman,
he looks like a meme in disguise.
“It’s a warning, an unflinching assessment of the vastness and insignificance of this
life, is precisely counterbalanced by their lesson, which models the resilience that this understanding demands. ‘Demolition Row’ is persistent, concise, and alarmingly physical.”
This blustery belter is vintage Metz. Full blast ahead. The track
featured on a split 7” with London-based group Adult Life.
From Dylan’s Desolation Row
to Metz’s Demolition Row…
Once I learned that this startling belter is about the horrible exploitation of human
beings by ferocious money sharks this jagged jackhammer blew my mind even harder than I heard it the first time before knowing about the band’s inspiration for this slam.
Expect rabid guitars, doom-and-gloom vocals, and frantic
twists and turns until the chaotic finale. Post-punk at
its razorblade best.
Jeen: “It’s about letting yourself drift in the flow of everything and hanging on as hard as you can to what makes the shitty parts more tolerable…I was thinking of that Hunter S. Thompson quote, “buy the ticket, take the ride.” It was written in April 2021, which was a rough part of last year for me. I needed to write something that reminded me to tread lightly, to forget about the heaviness of everything.
After only one spin, my ears told me that Chemical Emotion is an bewitching pop doozy. Jeen‘s emotive voice bewitches right away, the mid-tempo cadence emphasizes the meditative reflection perfectly, the compelling chorus brings Alanis Morissette to mind, and overall the orchestral sonority and the layered harmonies lead to a thrilling triumph.
Oscar Mic wrote this song after witnessing the horrific violence of
psycho Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine on the news. All proceeds of
the song weent to Save The Children’s Ukraine Appeal.
We Are Ukrainian is a vivid hp-rap-pop anthem featuring steel drums
and timpani balancing somewhere between Roots Manuva and Mr. Scruff.
“Fleeing people running scared, so tell me Where’s the justice? Our leaders say they care,
tell me can you trust this? Urban warfare, your home’s done and dusted, Aiming at the
public, they wouldn’t? They just did,”
I saw them myself in Belgium last August, but this version
is way better than the one I witnessed. But hey, you can’t
beat a sign-along audience of 70.000.
Where: KNEBWORTH (UK) Liam‘s massive and biblical concert at the historic
(rock) field confirmed once more that our kid still is
the man for the masses.
