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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….
1: Magic Al‘s collaboration with the duo Viv and Riley featuring Taylor Meier of Caamp and Sumbuck has just landed here (out August 11th 2023 on Sleepycat Records so we’re told). “We hope Hello can find a home with you and the music lovers at Organ Zine. Please be in touch if you are able to feature the track” said a Sleepycat. Sleepycat have a new Alice Garrard record on the way, they appear ro be a rather interesting label…
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2: The Astronauts – The final release by The Astronauts is the album LP. It will be released on 27th August, Mark Astronaut’s birthday. Mark sadly passed away last year, he recorded the album just before the died, and it was completed by the band in 2023. Right now you can hear one track and some of Mark’s delightfully English pondering around the when it gets too cold and the words disappear from the tune that help you get lost in his mind, you can hear it on the Grow Your Own Records Bandcamp page. That one track tells us it should be a more than fitting final release…
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3: Hotline TNT, the New York-based project from indie stalwart Will Anderson have signed to Third Man Records, here’s their new single/video, Protocol. “Hotline TNT’s 2021 debut on California taste-making label Smoking Room – Nineteen in Love – embodied his devotion to strong hooks and distortion, dripping like sour honey. The group toured relentlessly, enduring seemingly endless lineup shifts to become a linchpin of several interconnecting DIY scenes. Their audience steadily ballooned, with Nineteen in Love becoming a coveted LP. It remains an inspiring document of (and to) blown-out beauty. Protocol is sun-swept and sad, as if frowning in the middle of a party. Like Teenage Fanclub battling Jesu for speaker space, a jubilant guitar jangle and arching melody counter shards of noise and a punishing rhythm section.
Of the video, director Fiona Kane says “It’s a rock n roll push and pull silent comedy for summer. The most important parts of summer are beating the heat and listening to rock music.”
Of the track, Anderson adds: “This song is about falling on a sword — sometimes you just gotta hold an L even when in your heart of hearts you know it’s not fair. Saving the relationship is worth taking the blame now and again.”
Following a sold out show at The Lexington with label-mates Island Of Love last month, Hotline TNT will return to the UK in November for a string of dates around further new material,
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3: Bodega – There is new Bodega, that is a good thing, we never quite know what the new York band are going to do next, they are delightfully unpredictable and they do have UK dates soming up
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All those Statuettes Sur La Console last year were one of the highlights of what was a rather fine musical year, especially whe nyou put them all together…..
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4: Louis Cole – This happens back at the end of May this year, “Louis Cole and his band performed at this tiny cafe, Franz Mehlhose in Erfurt Germany, for some 200 people. The show was funded I understood with a subsidy from the German government (way to go Germany!). The audience loved it and the band loved it too. Enjoy!
And and and (and) a touch of the Dutch version before we move on….
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5: Deeper – a slice of earfood from the album Careful! out on Sub Pop Records on September 8th, 2023. They’re from somewhere or other, they kind of sound like a lot of things without sounding like any of them, they don’t feel like they’re doing anything that radical, but then who is? The’yre safe enough to be on what passes for Sub Pop these days and they’re playing the pitchfrok thing here in London sometime soon but we can forgive them that, that bit sounds liek Icehouse, that bit that a bit like Comsat Angels, they’re from Chicargo, they’re intelligent, shut u, yuo’re not so different, you can talk, I know you can, ive heard you, it isn’t a bad point of view…
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There’s more of the Deeper album to be found on Bandcamp if you wish to find more of the album before it comes out in September
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And while we’re here, more ….
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More of htis in easy listening format here….
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