Album Of The Week: TV Priest – Uppers 6 February, 2021
Our pick of the albums reviewed on these pages this week is Uppers, the debut from TV Priest – here’s your chance to revisit the review and check out the album via Spotify.
“Lord knows the music industry needs some positivity right now.”
“Already crippled by the pandemic, the Brexit deal leaves musicians facing a future that’s even more uncertain, being forced to drown in the bureaucracy of visas and permits before they even board the bus to perform in Europe. That’s if there’s any venues to play at.”
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The charged debut from the UK post-punks evolves from a band you think youâve heard a million times before into one you feel like youâre just getting to know.
Ultra Mono debuted at No. 1 last fall in the UK, it signaled the end of the current post-punk revival. But the sound of surly Brits armed with rich vocabularies and brawny rhythm sections is not going anywhere anytime soon. Rather, IDLESâ chart-topping coup confirmed that post-punk has evolved long past the point of needing to be revived. It isnât merely an aesthetic that fades in and out of fashion every 20 years, but a permanent feature of the rock lexicon that, like hardcore or metal, will be sustained by future generations of malcontents in perpetuity.