Oh the endless demand. Where were we? Almost asked that the time before last time, do we need a new editorial yet? An endless parade indeed, whatever morning this is and the inbox is full of messages, pleas, (angry) demands, can you listen to my new song? Have you listened to our album yet? We could really do with a review, and who needs a damn editorial? 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 lemons and here comes the intro, Don’t be flippant she said, how could it ever be flippant? I can’t remember why she said that now, in one ear, out the other, we have a bad attitude here apparently, no respect for those who work in the music industry, well no poop Sherlock, have you only just worked that one out? We’ve been showing (and getting) zero respect since the last century, zero flips given…

Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? 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 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, skip this bit, 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 what’s Wordsworth? Just the basic facts and links and those sounds (and visuals), that’s surely all you need from us?

Here we go, five more slices of music that have recently come our way, this time we start somewhere in Canada (rather than Australia)

1: Scions – Now this is rather beautiful and today is a day that needs something beautiful. Not to be confused with the rather decent Australian band of the same name, this is the debut for Canada’s Scions.

“New experimental nine-piece ensemble announces debut album To Cry Out In The Wilderness out 8th of November via Idée Fixe Recordsamd share debut single Fight Song” trumpets the press release….

Do they have a touch of early Efterklang about them? Those Parade days we were only talking about the other day? Hey, this is our first taste of Scions, I suspect it might be yours as well, I suspect the next taste will be jsut as gloriously rewarding, we await it, meanwhile here’s the first single….

“Scions are a new, innovative, experimental ensemble based between Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. The group features members from the award-winning minimalist chamber-jazz quartet New Hermitage, the Polaris-nominated drone-hymn duo Joyful Joyful, and the acclaimed producer and composer Michael Cloud Duguay. Their collaboration began at the Sappyfest music festival in Sackville, New Brunswick, in August 2022. During this event, New Hermitage and Joyful Joyful connected for the first time and teamed up with Duguay for a spontaneous improvisational performance based on his songwriting. The enthusiastic response, capped by a standing ovation, solidified the ensemble’s decision to pursue the project further, with Duguay deftly shifting from front-person to producer and musical director….” We await more…

Links? Instagram seems to be the only thing thay have right now. Gawd how I detest Instagram’s hold over everyone. There are other vague links, the Bandcamp one isn’t working right now, it might be by the time you doo right and have a look?

2: You Doo Right have just let loose a new single (in two parts), that’s right, “Experimental rock trio Yoo Doo Right (Montréal, CA) wed noisy, melodic guitar parts, effects-laden synthesizer soundscapes, deep bass grooves and patented percussive furies into sprawling, cathartic musical pieces. Drawing inspiration from post-rock, krautrock, shoegaze, classical music, electroacoustics, and musique concrète, they create a unique sound. Today they announce their new album From the Heights of Our Pastureland is due November 8th via Mothland and share the first piece of music from the record with Spirit’s Heavy, But Not Overthrown Part 1 and Spirits Heavy, But Not Overthrown Part 2.” Well that’s what the press release said, not sure how “unique” it is, we do hear rather a lot of this kind of thing, way too much at times, but they do do it rather well. Actually when you do get into the body of part two there is somethingrather different…

On Spirit’s Heavy, But Not Overthrown, the band said “The patience of a brewing storm. The destruction. Its aftermath. The problems that come with the rebuild. Compassion for others and an attempt to lift all up.”

The band have shared a video for Part 1 of the track. Director Kristina Perdersen explained “The video, as the introduction track to the record, is a low, tuning buzz of anxiety and awe. It’s about how we watch the world fail spectacularly over and over again and then try, in the deepest most desperate place in our minds, to make it make sense. If we give our actions protocol and order, maybe we can give them meaning. If we witness, maybe we can affect. These are simple hopes.”

I guess if you’re going to name your band after an obscure Can song then you are going to do right and whooooo, spooky, just as I was typing this bit a Can press release came in, strange forces at work on this rather Autumnal Tuesday morning. Let us see if they make a believer out of anyone around here, we await more of the new You Doo Right album… (it was a press release for “Can Live in Keele 1977 – Long awaited recording of fan favourite – Out 22 November on Mute / Future Days – more here)

Links / Bandcamp / Website

Part two…

3: The Green Child have a new album out via Upset The Rhythm in November. The band has now grown into four people, originally the recording project of Raven Mahon (furniture maker and member of Grass Widow, Rocky) and Mikey Young (recording engineer and band member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Shutdown 66), The Green Child now boasts Shaun Gionis (of Boomgates) on drums and Alex Macfarlane (who runs the excellent label Hobbies Galore) on guitar and synths. This invigorated quartet from Naarm/Melbourne began writing the group’s third album ‘Look Familiar’ last year, a rather flowing rather rich first taste has just emerged via Bandcamp, we look forward to more, rather like this first helping…

4: Goat – A just released radio edit of a new piece of goodness from Goat, the unedited version can be found on the Goat album Goat which is to released on 11 October 2024 via Rocket Recordings. We assume the unedited version is much longer, certainly feels like it should be, feels like this radio edit (neat video by the way) is only a toe in the water…

“Today, Goat release the second single, “Goatbrain” – embodying a hedonistic spirit driven by incisive funk and fuzz/wah-drenched guitar – from their self-titled album, out 11th October on Rocket Recordings. “Don’t stay in your brain. Go further in. And out.” warn Goat!” so reads the press release

“The Ouroboros – the icon of the snake or dragon eating its own tail – appears to some a statement of the brutality of nature. To others of a Gnostic disposition it symbolises the duality of the divine and earthly in mankind. But most commonly, it’s taken simply to mean the endless cycles of death and rebirth that characterise life on this planet. As such, it’s an image that looms large in the world of Goat, the ever-mysterious and endlessly revivifying collective whose latest album marks another adventure above and beyond this particular plane of reality.

This may be a band that has named albums both Requiem and Oh Death, yet this eponymous salvo proves yet again that transcendence and metamorphosis are their watchwords. Following on from the uncharted territory of the soul-searching and folk-tinged Medicine and the dark, atmospheric soundtrack to Shane Meadows’ The Gallows Pole, Goat sees this ever-unpredictable outfit summoning rhythmically-driven rituals in unmistakable, uplifting and scintillating style, equally adept at igniting dancefloors and expanding minds”.

Goatbrain follows the breakbeat driven single, Ouroboros, did we share this one already? I can’r remember, the relentless flood of music and all that..

5: Can – Here’s a taste of that Can thing we mentioned up there with the You Doo Right bit…

“Can Live in Keele 1977 is the newest release in a series of live albums that have been unearthed from the Spoon Records vaults and from fan recordings, then painstakingly assembled by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer / engineer René Tinner.  The long-awaited recording of Can Live in Keele 1977 – this is the performance that has been requested the most since the series began – is set for release on vinyl, CD and digitally on 22 November 2024 via Mute and Future Days”. More

And while we’re here, there can never be too much early Roxy can there?