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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 past this editorial bit and let the actual music do the actually talking. Exact same thing again, another five (or so) slices of musical things that can do all the talking themselves and however you like to slice it and of course it was the price of apples and here comes the intro….
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 again, in no particular order….
1: USA Nails have a new slice of goodness, a first taste of a new album, a sixth, here is that first taste….
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Ever excellent London noise-rock quartet USA Nails have just announced their upcoming album Feel Worse, out March 22nd 2024. It’s the first album on their new label One Little Independent Records. The band have forged a considerable reputation since their formation in 2013 from their South London base, comprising of members of Kong, Future Of The Left, Blacklisters, Death Pedals and Silent Front.
We’re told Feel Worse “explores schadenfreude; the pleasure derived from another person’s misfortune. With this, they use new material to attack austerity and UK authoritarianism, consumer culture (particularly the consumption of quick fix reality TV and hyper-capitalist agendas), youth culture, bullying, and more. They do so with their intense and unmistakable brand of abrasive, chaotic post-hardcore. There’s a raw and uncompromising energy to USA Nails, and Feel Worse is (so claims the press release) their most powerful and vital album to date”.
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2: Cold Comfort – All change, here we go, a release called All Power No Sour / Selected Works on Cruel Nature – do rather like this tape label, Cruel Nature Records, a “Northumberland based DIY label specialising in limited edition cassettes for eclectic tastes”. Now this is more like it, we seemed to be swamped with mice polite all-is-well-with-the-world fluffy middle class, no, hang on, not mice, nice, we’re swamped with “nice” music, music that doesn’t really matter that much. this music on this Cold Comfort release sounds like it really needs to be made, that it really really matters to the maker. Yes it is messy, it is very home made, a lot more than horses for courses and not all about noise and barbed edges and anyway is it cool to be caustic? There’s a lot here, “all songs written, performed, mixed and mastered by Ben Forrester at home in Northwich, Cheshire. Side A is the 2023 album ‘All Power No Sour’. Side B includes the 2022 Double A single, The 2022 ‘Maximum Effort’ EP and also the 2023 ‘Goner’ EP” – a kind of gathering together of the last two years or so then. Twenty tracks, some of it raw and metallic, some of it home made industrial, some of it rather more delicate in a caustic kind of way – that’s right, let it flow, it isn’t all relentless riffage, not when you really get in there and listen properly, check out A Very Sudden Urge before you think you’ve got him pegged and before everything got closed down before you got here. Yes it does boil, it does spit, it is sweet and sour, it is aggressive, angry, you could call it bedroom anger but it is much much more than that. The Tenth of twenty tracks on here, All Change, is a stand out, a different shade, all change, and don’t be shooting me, I’m just the messenger passing these things on. This is raw, this is full of angry piss and puss, this is urgent, this is good all of it committed, all of it very real, all vitally uncompromising and having just listened to most of the dreadfully bloated dreadfully flat new Duran Duran album (don’t be looking it up now, once you’ve heard thier version of Ghost Town you really can’t unhear it) , something very very much needed…. Find Cold Comfort on Bandcamp
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3: Folly Group have announced details of a new single. I’ll Do What I Can. The track is taken from their much anticipated debut album Down There!, which is set for release on 12th January 2024 via So Young Records, and follows their recent singles Strange Neighbour and the borderless Big Ground. There’s a whole load of wordy hype in the press release about the “critically acclaimed” band, we’ll just let the music do the talking and and ask who has the keys to the house next door…
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Find more from London band Folly Group and their new album via Bandcamp
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4: id id id – From Southampton, “Three old men plus spawns navigate the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame using a guidebook that turns out to be a badly photocopied map of Tucktonia and end up wanderingthe sewers following pipes of filth and vibrating themselves to death on heaps of junk for no reason and with no reward” or s owe’re tolsd. The video here features their ten month old debut single. THe band are in London at New River Studios this Saturday 4th November with SPeW and now – what is it with bandas and capital letters (and how many bands valled Now have there been now anyway? here’s some id id id links
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5: SPeW – We just mentioned them up there with the id id id bit, the two bands play together this Saturday… “Angular, no wave, punk wonk sounds. Sax, bass, noise guitar. Danceable songs of toxic dirt, lust and grandma”. And well this is a rather old tune by the standards of these posted today, off the radar by the end of the day world we now live in. SPeW are from London, Cos Chapman, he of Rude Mechanicals and a lot more is involved. Bandcamp
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Meanwhile, online art exhibitions
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More music….
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