Shall we write a new editorial? Oh the endless demand. Where were we? Almost asked that the time before last time. 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 back here in London

1: Decius – Lias from Fat White Family and Quinn from Paranoid London announce new Decius album – “My mate Rob says he can no longer make love without first sticking Vol. I on the stereo. A lot of the lads down Berghain have been complaining of a similar problem since we played there. Once you’ve had Vol. I, you need Vol. II. With Vol. II, we hope to further inspire and extend this kind of desperate dependence in our acolytes.”  Meat Divine aka L. Saoudi

“A supergroup of sorts – Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi, Trashmouth Records’ Luke and Liam May, and Quinn Whalley of Paranoid London and Warmduscher – Decius have travelled the earth liberating people from banality since the release of Decius Vol. I. They’ve revealed to all those they’ve encountered just what was missing in their lives: pump without borders, pump without reason – absolute pump”. Well that’s what someone from their organisation said, don’t ask us, we were busy flying to the moon or going into space or something like that, mostly in a square in Kings Cross. Today is catch up day and the video does have a certain style to it… I guess they’d like us to share the links to the album details? All part of the marketing plan or the future dream or the shopping scheme (they never include the Bandcamp link with these linklist things do they?)

2: High Vis – Now we’re motoring, what’s the the score here? Drop Me Out from the Guided Tour thing that’s coming out next month, the third album. This is how you grab some attention…

“Since first forming in 2016, London’s High Vis have steadily polished their palette of progressive hardcore with shades of post-punk, Brit pop, neo-psychedelia, and even Madchester groove, mapping a middle ground between hooks and fury, melodies and mosh pits. Singer Graham Sayle describes their third album Guided Tour as an axis of competing forces: “It’s trying to be a hopeful record, while also being incensed.” Rounded out by drummer Edward ‘Ski’ Harper, bassist Jack Muncaster, and guitarists Martin MacNamara and Rob Hammaren, the band’s deep roots in the UK and Irish DIY hardcore scenes have kept them grounded but growing, inspired equally by restlessness and righteous anger. As Sayle puts it, “Everyone’s scratching, everyone’s working all the time, and their idea of relaxing is just getting fucked and avoiding reality. This album is an escape from that”. More from this link right here – Guided Tour

Bandcamp

3: Big Mountain County – Rome’s very own Electro-Psych outfit, Big Mountain County, are set to release their third LP Deep Drives on November 29th via Sister 9 Recordings, they’ve just announced this and released Going Down, a track they or probably their people say was “written in a single breath during a lightning-fast session, in those rare moments when creativity flows effortlessly and authenticity reigns, Going Down delivers a jolt of high- kicking thrills”. BMC say about the song: “We wanted to thrust the listener deep into the metropolitan nightscape, where a relentless and frenetic rhythm takes over, enveloping everything in a synthetic, alienating texture. The night itself is the hysterical protagonist of the song. It is a landscape of fear, neon flickers and speeding cars tearing through the streets. It is a tale of shattered promises, empty pockets and failures, where the only release is a howl into the high- octane blur of the abyss”.

4: Bye Bye Tsunami, the self-declared meth-metal, post-mental, future jazz trio from planet 無 – present a new video for Overture/Breakfast, a track that opens their new Eating EP, nearing release on Nefarious Industries, hang on though, the track and the video you really want is further down, something called Eating…

 Here comes the hype from the label…

“Bye Bye Tsunami are a group of individuals who thrive in uncertainty and find delight in the entropy of noise. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark (while visiting our planet), the trio employs disrupted rhythms, unique self-built futuristic wind instruments, and heartbreaking cyborg screams to expand the musical language beyond its wildest horizons. With their second EP, Eating, the band promises massive meth-metal beats, dehumanized hopeless voices, eclectic noisy influences, glitchy electronics, and various other innovative elements, all appropriately complimented with exclusive artwork created by illustrator Frances Lili Farmer. The futuristic perspectives and hidden mystical layers contained within this peculiar narrative explore a realm of absurd hypothetical faraway planets, weaving a subtle double meaning that surprisingly mirrors the realities and issues of our times.

In this work Bye Bye Tsunami delve deeper into their distinctive sound signature anchored by the Flaubosax. By generating new soundscapes through a personal asymmetrical tonal system and intertwining them with intricate and powerful drum rhythms, they guide the music through disrupted forms and post-industrial spiritual textures. In a collaborative endeavour for this project, the band has joined forces with other avant-garde artists proficient in vocals, guitar, electronics, and visual arts. This synergy of talents results in a truly unique audiovisual package, setting the stage for a captivating and boundary-pushing musical experience”

Bandcamp / nefariousindustries.com

5: Coilguns – wasn’t really expecting this from the normally far more in your face Swiss hatdcore band. The Wind To Wash The Pain is a new single from the band’s forthcoming album Odd Love, due for release on 22 November via Humus records. Here’s the video, there’s more of the new album on Bandcamp right now…

And… “Odd Love is a way to summarize our relationship with music in itself, the overall music business and our band life. We’re amazed how long this band has lasted so far and the importance is has taken in our life, knowing how randomly it started. Our music has always been a sane yet intense way to process all the light and deep things we were going through in ou personal lives. Oddness is our nomality and love is our motor to achieve it. It took us a long time to fit somewhere in a scene, since we never believed and cared so much about scenes. Our drive was to get on stage and tore it down, and we found out pretty quickly that it would be hard to turn this energy into a business plan. Through the years we tried to cherish this strangeness while adapting to this gigantic chaos that is music today. This has for instance seen us start our own label and create most of our tools from scratch. We’ve obviously learned a lot together, and this whole process has taught us to love ourselves for what we are: a noisy odd band from a tidy watchmaking city” – Louis Jucker

And while we’re here, for no reason what so ever….