#Janine Shilstone

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BABYMETAL and VUKOVI in Wolverhampton, UK (29/11/2023).

📸 Bridie Cummings

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My favourite lines - NULA (VUKOVI).

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Vukovi Drop New Single & Video For 'Mercy Kill'

Vukovi have shared a massive new single and video for ‘Mercy Kill’. The band recently signed with SharpTone Records and released the single ‘Creep Heat’, which was their first release since their ‘Nula’ record in October last 2022. Today they’re back with yet another banger, which arrives with a fittingly brilliant video directed by vocalist Janine Shilstone and Zac Pinchin.  Discussing the…

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SLO is comparing my OCD to an abusive relationship. You have a warped outlook on what healthy behaviour is. You forget what it’s like living a normal life. It has this god like status that makes you believe you wouldn’t survive if it was ever to leave you. You have a toxic reliance on it and in your eyes that condones reckless behaviour.

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New mashup! L.A. D.I. C.L.A.U.D.I.A. - A VUKOVI mashup

I got challenged to make a mashup where audio from both songs are playing at all times. These songs are perfect! C.L.A.U.D.I.A. is my one of my favourites off their new album, Fall Better, and the videos are super funky to work with. Hope you enjoy!

Songs used:

La Di Da - VUKOVI

C.L.A.U.D.I.A. - VUKOVI

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Would've been seeing @vukoviband live today.... so yet again I drew them instead! They released by far the best album of 2020 so far and I am living for it (was gonna draw a proper background this time but managed to corrupt the drawing file?? So another quick gradient it is)

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Vukovi. Slam Dunk Midlands, 2017

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Bridie Cummings on Instagram, 30/11/2023.

And that was three nights with BABYMETAL over in a flash. Two nights left with @vukoviband in Glasgow 🖤

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My favourite lines - NULA (VUKOVI).

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SURGE - Vukovi ‘Vukovi’

Review by Jasleen Dhindsa

Release Date: 10th March, 2017

Rating: 5/5

For fans of: Tonight Alive, Young Guns, Against The Current

For seven years, fans of the Scottish rockers Vukovi have been awaiting a debut from the four piece, and finally their wishes have been granted; all in a solid twelve track full length.

Vukovi’s self titled debut is a perfect reflection of the band’s eclecticism, filled with a range of ear splitting riffs that are so heavy they spin you further and further into the abyss of the dark nature that fills some of their lyrics, all the way to melodic electronic rock anthems, carried by powerful synths. This album really does have it all.

But it’s not gimmicky, which is a relief. When a band try and fit too much in an album, it’s obvious and becomes overwhelming; the songs feel lost. With this record, each song feels as though it has been carefully crafted within every inch of itself - there’s no room for mediocrity. 

Kicking things off is the heaviest track on the album ‘La Di Da’, which is filled with garagey hooks that creep and explode into a ferocious chorus. ‘And He Lost His Mind’ is the sonic version of a roller coaster - it injects a huge dose of mind bendingly fast pop punk into the equation, and features head banging ‘woahs’ at the chorus. ‘Weirdo’ is an indie pop rock ballad that filters through into ‘Target Practice’, misleading listeners with its mathcore breakdown at the start of the track. That’s about as heavy as it gets, and the song quickly turns into an escalating guitar driven dance floor anthem.

The tracks continue in their dancey and melodic nature, and really culminate on ‘I’m Wired’ - the most personal track to vocalist Janine Shilstone, a song that runs on spacey synths and whirring guitars. Lead single from the record ‘Animal’ brings the album back into heavier territory, and following is the sharp tongued ‘Boy George’, a Don Broco tinged track with a shit tonne more attitude.

All in all, this is one hell of a debut. Vukovi have proved themselves as real shining stars of the new breed of British rock, joining in all their influences and feelings from within and projecting them into an unremitting twelve track release. This is well and truly them in all their versatile, dance and hard rock glory, and it’ll only bring them to bigger and brighter places.

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READ OUR INTERVIEW WITH VOCALIST JANINE SHILSTONE IN OUR LATEST ZINE #ICYMI007 HERE

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Album of the Week: Fall Better by Vukovi

In the advent of big new album releases, it was good to see the return of Scottish pop rock outfit Vukovi with their daring and raucous sophomore record, Fall Better. Having halved in size since their impressive self-titled debut, going from a quartet to a duo, Vukovi sound completely re-energised here, delivering big rock riffs, pulsating acid-drenched synths and plenty of noise.

Janine Shilstone’s impressive vocals can sometimes get lost amongst this, but when the singer can be found centre stage the album really soars. Bold, experimental and eclectic, if you have 35 minutes spare this week Fall Better is a fun listen.

Best tracks: Play with Me Cos I Can Take It, I’m Sorry, White Lies

Tracks of the Week:

Julia, Take Your Man Home by Wolf Parade – The undisputed highlight of the Canadian art-rock outifit’s new album Thin Mind, Julia, Take Your Man Home is nothing short of a masterpiece. Dramatic and infectious lyrics, stirring guitar melodies and dancefloor-ready keyboards, there is so much packed into the track’s tight four and a half minutes. Highly recommend this one, featured above.

Me & You Together Song by The 1975 – Who knows what to expect from The 1975’s fourth album at this stage. So far we’ve had the confrontational, in-your-face punk of People, the chilled-out EDM vibes of the reflective Frail State of Mind, and now the warm pop rock of Me & You Together song. Anticipation for Notes on a Conditional Form is building nicely.

Baby by Four Tet – With a new album announced for March, electronic pioneer Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, delivered his first taster track this week with Baby, a delightful old-school garage number featuring none other than Ellie Goulding.

Simmer by Hayley Williams – The exciting first solo single from the Paramore frontwoman is an understated slice of shimmering pop, in the vein of Christine & The Queens.

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Album Review: ‘Fall Better’ - VUKOVI

‘Welcome user 1-7-3-5-9 The content you have selected contains: Strong language, dark themes and some dirty fucking riffs…’

Oh boy, does it ever.

From the first 40 seconds onward, VUKOVI’s Fall Better is a bumpy and unforgiving ride, stripping back the bright and sparky polish of the Glaswegian duo’s 2017 self-titled debut to expose fresh wounds.

First single ‘C.L.A.U.D.I.A.’ doesn’t hold back, unleashing a torrent of riffs as Janine Shilstone gets involved in disturbing tug of war with a ‘Disgusting shit stain’ who’s ‘Enticing the lovely girls.’ ‘All That Candy’ is not nearly as sweet as it suggests, a slice of glam rock melodrama that sees the frontwoman at war with her own mind, written in the wake of her OCD diagnosis. On ‘Violent Minds,’ she channels her inner Harley Quinn, pleading ‘I can't let go from your tortured soul/It's you, daddy’ as cyber-powered riffs ultimately spell doom. ‘Behave,’ however, is the ugly aftermath, Shilstone gripping on for dear life as she cries ‘I want you to love me, and I want you to stay,’ resigned to a dark fate. ‘Play With Me Cos I Can Take It,’ meanwhile, takes rapid-fire rock to the club as a tale of manipulation plays out on the dancefloor.

Though a harrowing journey, Fall Better also offers up some bittersweet moments.

‘Aura’ is sparkling optimism dedicated to the band’s ‘beautiful army of weirdos,’ ‘I’m Sorry’ repentant long after things have grown sour for Shilstone and a former friend, while ‘Where Are You’ aches with youthful longing, producing the kind of nostalgic rock ballad you would’ve stumbled upon back in the early-mid 00s on an Avril Lavigne or Paramore record.

By album’s end, Shilstone wonders ‘Is it just me or are we serious?/Do we love the things that might kill us?,’ her fear and anxiety coming full circle as she takes on the audio equivalent of a final boss. Though she may not fully win the battle, the vocalist proves triumphant somewhat as her powerful vocal tears through the rock arcade aesthetic, no doubt ready to fight another day.

Fall Better is a hurricane of sheer, venomous fury, an exciting anomaly in a world currently saturated with Top 40 pop. It’s good, old-fashioned rock packed into one tight, cohesive record, one with very few lulls (‘White Lies’ is passable, but incorporating trap beats makes it feel like a bit of a cheap pop grab). 

VUKOVI’s second album is a brutal catharsis, but an incredible one. With an arsenal of ‘dirty fucking riffs at the helm, this duo is a force to be reckoned with…

- Bianca B.

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Big Happy Birthday to my fellow demon slayer and creator of dark crafts. Show her some love! 💛 📸: Tom Martin

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Scottish band VUKOVI release new single 'Behave'

Ayrshire, Scotland based band VUKOVI have just released their new single 'Behave'. A ferocious statement of intent, new single 'Behave' follows the band's latest single 'C.L.A.U.D.I.A' . Powerful and fast-paced, ‘Behave’ hits you like a sucker punch. Speaking on the release of new single 'Behave', singer Janine Shilstone said: "'This definitely feels like the start of a new era for VUKOVI. 'Behave' is about struggling to deal with too much, or indeed too little of someone, or something, depending on your perspective. It's about challenging the situations we put ourselves in, written in the form of a frank letter to ones self".