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 apples 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 oil? 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…

Here we go, in no particular order….

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1: Unschooling – Brand New Storm is the second single lifted from Unschooling’s new album, New World Artifacts, the album is out on October 6th via Bad Vibrations Records, here it is….

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Recently announcing their debut album New World Artifacts (out 6th October 2023) via Bad Vibrations Records, Unschooling have just shared a new single Ribbon Road. A single that certainly caught ears here…

They have already kind of teased interest in the new album with lead single Brand New Storm, and now with this second taste, Ribbon Road, the band steer away from post-punk into a curious, almost-jazzy piece led by two basses, two drums and guitars in unison with saxophones recorded in collaboration with Levi Gillis. “’It’s a labyrinthine tribute to the famous Mario Kart course of the same name.” says lead vocalist and guitarist Vincent Fevrier.

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New World Artifacts is said to be “a collection of lo-fi post-punk clocking in at 30 minutes, underscored with subtle pop melodies and structures but never far away from bouts of anarchic no-wave dissonance”. A 5-piece from France, they emerged with their self-released Defensive Designs cassette in 2019 which made a splash in the French indie scene. 2021’s follow-up Random Acts of Total Control EP solidified their reputation further afield and established them as one of the most exciting new acts.

“For all that New World Artifacts might be chaotic and experimentally-grounded, it’s above all else a fun and entertaining listen that never takes itself too seriously. It’s for this reason that the band have already been heralded as one of the most exciting up-and-comers in the new school of post-punk revivalists, playing to busy crowds and festival fields across the continent. New World Artifacts might just mark them out as the best in class” so the press release says. Two tracks in and we’re rather enjoying it.

The band will set off on a UK headline tour this October/November, with tickets on-sale now

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2: Core Blo77er and something called Shorty Green – Core is from Stratford, Ontario so it is said, “Stupid indie music on YouTube inspired by Cardiacs, Blur, shoegaze, Stereolab, the yearning you feel in the early afternoon. I have no right to do this.” . The art of noise, the art of film, of an edit, I like the visuals, the music makes for a fine soundtrack…

“First album by core blo77er, unknown mystic and casual user of independently run convenience stores. By turns loud and a bit less loud, with guitars and clinkly things, coreblo, as some people refuse to call him, espouses lower-case nominatives as a quick and reliable way to show that he is callously pretentious and hopes you won’t not notice. Never jailed for any crime, the 77er, a nickname others have never admitted publicly to using, believes that music soothes the souls of all living and undead beings provided they are sufficiently conversant in the tropes of late 60s rock through the rise of indie and shoegaze in the 1990s and before and beyond”.

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3: Don Kapot – “Brussels-based power trio Don Kapot are set to release their rousing new album ‘I Love Tempo’ on the 15th September via W.E.R.F. Records. A lifeboat of free jazz, afrobeat and krautpunk sailed by Giotis Damianidis (bass), Viktor Perdieus (baritone saxophone) and Jakob Warmenbol (drums), the album follows the release of their critically acclaimed 2022 album ‘Un Peu Live’ recorded with Dutch multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer Fulco Ottervanger, and described by Bandcamp Daily as a ‘fun mix of modern jazz and krautrock.’

 Ahead of the new album, Don Kapot are pleased to share new single ‘Macarona’, released 14th July. ‘Macarona’ is a perfect example of Don Kapot’s love of incongruous assemblages. The track begins with blazing saxophone against a backdrop of mechanical blasts of sound before eventually maturing into one hellish groove, here it is….

New album ‘I Love Tempo’ follows the release of their critically acclaimed 2022 album ‘Un Peu Live’ recorded with Dutch multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer Fulco Ottervanger. Mixed and co-produced by Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), the trio use a wide range of instruments, evolving their sound into a solid complex rhythmic wave, shaken by demented samples and punk attitude. Releasing their self-titled debut album in 2018 via Mr. Nakayasi Records, in 2021 they signed to Flemish record label W.E.R.F. Records and have released three albums under the label and have performed sold-out shows across Belgium and the Netherlands.

 The players in Don Kapot also extend their musical adventures to other projects. Damianidis leads Punk Kong and has performed with Akira Sakata, Sakis Papadimitriou, Oghene Kologbo, Tony Allen, Baba Ani, Balasz Pandi and Gonzalo Almeida among others. Warmenbol was a member of The Unrevealed Society, Robbing Millions and M(h)ysteria. He also performs with Ruth Tafebe & the Afrosoul Messengers (with Giotis), Under The Reefs Orchestra and Monolithe Noir. Perdieus performs in Punk Kong and with Pompelmoes and The Milk Factory and took part in Ifa y Xango, Laia Arkestra, Bolhaerd, Nest and VVolk. He has also recorded and played with Andrew Cyrille (Bambi Pang Pang).

4: Tent Music – Something due out this August…

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“It’s difficult not to feel like everything’s already been discovered and documented, posted, scrolling under our compulsive thumbs; that what we have to look forward to is, at best, only a novel combination of well-worn elements. Micaela Tobin and Joshua Hill’s Tent Music presents a significant rebuke to this feeling. Born of a fascinating process, Tent Music is a whim turned into a staggeringly deep, psychomytholgical excavation.

Playing at times like a more brutal, fractured version of Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet’s 2018 song cycle, Landfall while careening from bone-rattling fuzzed-out violin drones that wouldn’t be out of place on Stephen O’Malley’s Cylene to glorious psychedelic pop songs, Tent Music centers intuition to the point of channeling spirits-cum-archetypes. Tobin’s avant-operatic background, including work with Pulitzer Prize winner Raven Chacon, and her celebrated work as White Boy Scream certainly serve as reference points for this work, but the circumstances surrounding Tent Music set it apart from that work, as from the rest of earthly existence. It is in no small sense ritual music in the footsteps of Coil, perhaps automatic music, in the spirit of Austin Osman Spare’s automatic drawing….

More via the Bandcamp and more from us when we’ve heard more than the one track you can hear on Bandcamp right now

5: Flaer – Follow, Taken from the debut album Preludes, released on 4th August via Odda Recordings. Nice bit of animation as well, the music, as most music does, speaks for itself, more tha nmost music actually…

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And here’s some more from the same soon to be released debut album….

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And while we’re here, some vintage Webcore, Webore really did help fuel Organ in the early days, and is that Grob down the front, he was never ever still at a gig…. with this feeling….