Hello, music friends! 🎶
It's Friday and time for #newtunes, a selection of fresh music from well-known and lesser-known musicians to pass the time this weekend and beyond.
Again, we have a selection of different genres, and anyone with a few minutes can support the creators by listening.
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Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - Back in the Game
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke are both established and highly productive musicians. The former is a DJ and electronic musician with a career spanning more than 30 years, nine albums, and a string of singles and remixes, while the latter is best known as the guitarist and frontman of Radiohead and Smile.
Back in the Game is their second collaborative project, and they describe it as "a progression through regression and an exploration of the value of collective cultural expression in the 21st century."
THE HELLACOPTERS - Leave A Mark
The Hellacopters are a Swedish rock band from Stockholm. They started in garage rock in 1994 and have released nine albums, the latest, Overdrive, released in January this year. They seem to have moved away from the garage and sound like a classic rock band. The guitars are like Thin Lizzy and Kiss, and the power pop choruses are like Cheap Trick.
It's OK for fans.
Chris Eckman - Laments
Chris Eckman is best known to the music community as the frontman of Seattle's iconic folk-country band, The Walkabouts. Since the band's 2015 breakup, he has pursued a solo career, releasing seven albums, most recently The Land We Knew Best in January.
Chris has lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for about ten years, so it's no surprise he's collaborating with local musicians on his latest album. The guitars and Chris's raspy, deep, and confessional vocals create a calm and peaceful soundscape, so I can only recommend anyone under pressure to stop and enjoy listening a little.
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT - Pleasuredome (feat. Dave Lombardo & Tomas Haake)
Imperial Triumphant is an American band from New York. Since 2010, they have been making avant-garde metal and mixing all kinds of things into it. Their fourteenth album, Goldstar, will be released in March this year. The song Pleasuredome announces the new album, and together with guests Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Misfits, Mr.Bungle) and Tomas Haake (Meshuggah), they have created a hyper-complex art deco extravaganza hidden behind the metal avant-garde. Recommended for followers of the genre.
Calva Louise - W.T.F
Calva Louise is an English trio from Manchester which started in 2016. BBC Radio recommends them as a band for 2025. I've known them for a few years now; melodic metal with a South American flavor (probably due to the singer, guitarist, and songwriter, who is from Venezuela), with, at times, screaming vocals, but it's pretty steady and confident.
The video for the song W.T.F. is made like a horror story and has a one-minute introduction. There is no announcement of a new album. We'll see if they manage to break through to the top.
Lawne - Mamasong
Lawne is an English duo from London. It was formed in 2019 when two friends and music enthusiasts started mixing sampled sounds of standard instruments and analog electronics. It's a new name for me. They released a couple of singles and EPs, and as they met with a positive response, their debut album, Attic, came out at the end of last year.
The piece Mamasong is the single from that album, a rich instrumental mash-up of UK jazz funk, psychedelic afro-beat, and analog electronics.
Tako Toki - Tubes
Tako Toki is a French trio from Paris. It's a new name for me. I discovered that they play original music on homemade instruments, in short, pure DIY (Do It Yourself) principle. A week ago, they released their first album, Hirsutes Parfelus, from which the song Tubes is also taken.
With tribal-sounding rhythms, ceremonial horns, and brass instruments, they create an enjoyable sound experience.
I will follow them further to see and hear how far they go.
BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN trailer
Finally, here's a trailer for Bernard MacMahon's documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin. All the band members were involved, although John Bonham, the drummer, is long deceased. Modern sound cleaning technologies were used to clean up the recordings of his voice, even though he never wanted to be interviewed.
Apart from that, the film does not introduce anything new that we do not already know and have seen. Those who have seen it say it gives a sense of the magic that drew people magnetically and en masse to this group. It will be a must-see for me.
🎶That's all for today, and enjoy your weekend with new songs!
#newtunes this year:
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If you're interested in #newtunes suggestions from the past six years, you can listen to them at these links - there are Spotify playlists for each year:
newtunes2019
newtunes2020
newtunes2021
newtunes2022
newtunes2023
newtunes2024
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