Where were we, knee deep in art shows and curation and no time for Organgrinding and listening to new music for a day or two, we’re back now though and never mind nothing, on with the music and what we said last time or last week or last year, you’ve read all this already, never mind the damn editorial, never mind the biscuits or the dogfish, just jump down past this editorial, who needs an editorial? Jump past and let the actual music do the actual walking and the actual talking. Exact same thing again, another five (or so) slices of musical things that have passed our way recently and however you like to slice it and of course it was the price of apples and here comes the intro, Don’t be flippant she said, how could it ever be flippant?
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 rabbits 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, same as last time, in no particular order, starting isomewhere out there in Lyon (again)
1: Irnini Mons are from Lyon, of course they are. here’s the links you need for their new rather delightful new single that came out on Dur et Doux on March 8th while we were occupied with more cake and…
Here’s more, we need more, always follow that one eyed horse
2: M(h)aol have just released another powerful piece of music they says everything it needs to say without us adding anything. Find the song and the lyrics on Bandcamp. More M(h)aol here, bring on the chipper chips!
3: Alien Airforce is Crispin Gray (Daisy Chainsaw, Queen Adreena and currently Starsha Lee), this is a taste of his jsut released new solo album, more later
4: O. – Something new from O, that’s got to be a good thing hasn’t it? Taken from the album ‘WeirdOs’ out Speedy Wunderground on the 21st June
O, are the London-based duo of baritone saxophonist Joe Henwood and drummer Tash Keary – they just returned with details of their “highly anticipated” debut album “WeirdOs” and “colossal” new single titled “Green Shirt”. The album is due out 21st June.
“Honing their fearless sound through a residency at Brixton’s iconic venue The Windmill, as well as on support slots across the UK and Europe with fellow heavyweights black midi and Gilla Band, O. have now distilled their unique live energy into their debut album, “WeirdOs”. Featuring production from Dan Carey, WeirdOs is Tash and Joe at their most raucous and free. Across 10 tracks of high-octane instrumentals recorded live to tape, the duo encompass everything from cathartic dancefloor drops, to junglist breakbeats, intricate jazz lines, and sludgy, menacing doom metal.
Coming hot on the heels of last November’s debut EP “SLICE”, the new single “Green Shirt” sees the band expanding on their ever evolving, epiphanic sound combining thundering blast beats with labyrinthine sax.
The band describe the single as “a short rock/metal rinse out. To match the distorted amp sounds coming from Joe, we put Tash’s drums through distorted guitar amps on this one. It’s named after Tash’s favourite green flannel shirt, that was lost several times and then eaten by a dog.”
The single is accompanied by a video taken from the perspective of Speedy Wunderground’s resident pooch Poppy, traversing Streatham High Street and a studio performance by O., before tearing up a green flannel shirt”.
4 and a bit – Mannequin Pussy and a taste of the Philadelphia band’s jsut released album that we probably should say soemthing about if only there were enough hours in the dayand days in the week and,as The Ooozes would say, blah blah blah….
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5: Steinsdotter – And last but in the case far far from least, we were led to Steinsdotter via that beautiful encounter with With the Naked Grace Missionaries a couple of weeks ago – ORGAN THING: The Naked Grace Missionaries at Helgi’s, Hackney, East London. Curiosity never really killed the cat, it just took her to a higher plane…
This first track and a rather fine video from a couple of years ago – The first single from Steinsdotter‘s debut EP of the same name, due for release on 24th September. The term ‘Blood Eagle’ is originally that of a ritual method of execution, detailed in late Skaldic poetry. Believed to be an honour from your enemy, if you were brave enough to endure it without making a sound, you would be welcomed in Valhalla and honoured as a true warrior. Taking her lead for the song from the bravery of the victims of this, the single is about taking personal responsibility, as Steinsdotter explains “Blood Eagle is about being brave enough to take responsibility for your own faith, with the choices we make despite the challenges facing us, it’s about the sacrifices we make, how they make us who we are. it’s about what meets us at the other side of fear”
And here’s some more…
More Steinsdotter very soon, meanwhile findmore on this month’s Spotify playlist
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