Never mind the editorial bit at the top or what we said the last time, you’ve read all this already, just jump down to the music. Exact same thing again today, another five (or so) slices of musical things that can do all the talking themselves and however you slice it and of course it was the price of fish and here comes the introduction to the latest Five Music Things feature thing. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? Do we need to do the editorial bit again? Is there another way? A better way? A cure for pulling flying dogs out of the clouds? Is there a rhyme? Is there a reason? Was there ever a reason? What do reasons make? Five more? Snake foil? Everything must go and same as last time (and the time before that) five, and no, we never do and the proof of the pudding is in that proof reading. When we started this thing, oh never mind, it doesn’t matter why we started this damn thing and like we asked last time, does anyone bother reading the editorial? Does anyone ever actually look down the rabbit hole or is it all just method acting? We do really try to listen to everything that comes in, we do it so you don’t have to, we are very (very) very very picky about what we actually post on these fractured pages or about what gets played on the radio or indeed what we hang in a gallery. Cut to the chase, never mind the editorial, there’s loads of music further down the page, well five or so pieces of music that have come our way in the last few days and cut cut slash and cut it, who needs an editorial or words or worms in general? What’s Wordsworth? Just facts and links and sounds then. Here you go, play the music, grab your five, eat your greens, go eat some art, go eat some fresh music and don’t forget whatever it was we said last time,

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1: Blevin Blectum – “Sci-fi fantasy in its most decadent technicolor forms fuels the journey of OMNII, Blevin Blectum’s latest solo adventure. The soundtrack to a lost space opera to fit perfectly in the gaps between Barbarella, The Beast in Space, and Planet of the Vampires”. Blevin Blectum is half of the rather duo Blectum From Blechdom, who recently returned from deep space hibernation with their album ‘Deep Bone’, also on the always Deathbomb Arc. more via Bandcamp

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2: The Smile – They don’t really need us, we probably don’t need them, they are top of it though and this is the latest thing to kind of make you smile even though the ground is coming for him now and all over the edge and as good as anything the leaner version of their other band have done… More info from this link right here – animation by Sabrina Nichols, Imagery by Stanley Donwood. Did enjoy The Smile in my local park last year and this is ground control to Major Thom… Wow!

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3: Boo Hiss gives his unique spin on a Grateful Dead classic. From the mixtape Psyche Bird Celebrations. Don’t ask me about the Grateful Dead, saw them once, they went on for days and days, is this a classic, I don’t know, do rather like Boo Hiss though

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4: Scorpion Tea – Hey, let’s go, don’ put on a show, zoo time, different cup of tea. Following on from the announcement of the band’s formation earlier this year here;s the debut single and from Scorpion Tea, a piece titled Scarlet Misquote and something driven by the propulsive rhythms of Edley ODowd, best known as the drummer with Psychic TV prior to the band’s dissolution. Find the singe and a rather tasty b-side remix on Bandcamp

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5: Water Machine – “Following last year’s self-titled demo tape on Gold Mold Records, and fresh off of shows with the likes of Holiday Ghosts, The Cool Greenhouse and The Orielles, as well as a rollicking Viagra Boys afterparty, the four-piece will release their highly-anticipated first studio effort ‘Raw Liquid Power’ on Upset The Rhythm on August 4th”.

We’re told that Water Machine are  “an office romance between Hando Morice (they/them), Flore de Hoog (she/her), Jimmy Gage (he/him) and Goda Ilgauskaitė (she/her). An unassuming supergroup formed out of Glasgow institutions including Goth GF, Passion Pusher, Brenda and Soursob, their sound careens between punk, country and alt-rock underpinned by the unique quality they call “Raw Liquid Power”. Make of all that what you will, the four tracks here taste of some kind of spiky, punky indie pop that come with a bit of a DIY chip on their collective shoulders. They sound like the kind of band we might have wanted ot release bac kin the ORG Records days, the kind of things we’s despatch to my Peel and anticipate an excited phone call from his end along with an offer of a session and while we have heard bands and records like this hundreds of times before we kind of need new bands making new ones while they snarl and spit about old timers still going on about John Peel sessions.

The songs do sound like The anti-anthems, gloriously so, urgent, needed, kind of throwaway is the best sense, a Staccato kick up something or other and we could go on about bands like The Fire Engines but hey, this is Glasgow right now so shut up about back then. Four fine pieces of forward looking music, everything just right (besides the art, what a piss poor effort in terms of the cover art) .

‘Raw Liquid Power’ EP will be released on August 4th by Upset The Rhythm.   Here’s the Bandcamp  

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