Shall we write a new editorial? Oh the endless demand and who needs a damn editorial? No time for editorials, 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 editorial. 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 New Brunswick (Canada not New Jersey)

1: Motherhood – Another slice of that forthcoming album that the North American band have coming out in January 2025, “the second single from New Brunswick (Canada not NJ) art punk trio Motherhood’s Thunder Perfect Mind. Thunder Perfect Mind is, naturally, a mathy, twitchy concept album about a bridge crossing pedestrian who is “yeeted back to the dawn of time” and forced to oberserve a real-time return to the present while being held captive by an otherworldly force. The band describes it as basically a sci-fi novel, but also as their most accessible record yet, in typical unpredictable fashion….”  Find more of the album waiting on their Bandcamp page

2: Alan Davey, one time Hawkwind gunslinger, has a new solo album on the way early in the new year, here’s a bit of a taster just posted…

This is the Official trailer for Bassist Vocalist and Producer/Songwriter Alan Davey’s first solo album in over 8 years. “This incredible concept album is brought to you by Savant Guarde Records and features the Ex-Hawkwind, and current Hawkestral Gunslinger and Pink Fairies Main/Man Producer at his best. The album is titled Electrum and features Alan on all instruments with a special guest appearance from Ex-Hawkwind bandmate and David Bowie Violinist Simon House on the opening track…” More soon I expect.

3: Death Of The Story – “Hi, we’re a new, I don’t know what genre to say -electronic, new wave, noise band called Death Of The Story from Birmingham UK. I hope you can watch our debut video release. I’m not just saying it, I’ve seen your tastes over the years and i think you might like it”. Well yes, he’s right, we rather like the Birmingham two piece and their first recording, here’s their Facebook page

4: Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta – A rather colourful first taste of an album due out in January of 2025 on the ever rewarding Nyege Nyege Tapes label. It is only one track and we do need more than just one bite but it is rather good first taste, yes it does sound like a quite a few things of similar nature but it is promising –

“Recorded in Kampala, Mapambazuko pairs Peruvian artist and researcher Alejandra Cárdenas (aka Ale Hop) with Congolese guitarist Titi Bakorta, who locate a balmy junction between their respective approaches. Bakorta’s debut album Molende, released on Nyege Nyege Tapes in 2023, was an eccentric rumination on his years performing a unique fusion of Congolese soukous and folk sounds, and Mapambazuko picks up where it left off, looping Bakorta’s wiry guitar solos around Cárdenas’ psychedelic Afro-Latin rhythms and fractured synths. Cárdenas’ last run of albums have bounced her around the stylistic map: on the acclaimed Agua Dulce, she deconstructed traditional Peruvian rhythms with Laura Robles, while she traversed radically different territory on 2021’s The life of Insects, imagining an abstract universe from the inside of a terrarium. All this experience – in pop music, electroacoustic experimentation and avant-garde minimalism – is applied to Mapambazuko as she skews Bakorta’s exuberant themes with subtle sound design elements and powerful, uncompromising drumwork”. We await more… Bandcamp

5: The Below – Tabla Motors is the 4th video from the Behaviour in Public Places E.P. this track features Jesper Hanning. The Swedish band released thier five track EP a couple of weeks back, it is a rather dramatic twenty minutes, here’s the video…

And well “The Below is a industrial/noise-rock project by a member of the legendary Swedish industrial experimentalists Dr. Evil & The Boys From Below (1985-1992)”. The EP sounds rather darly different to us. All kinds of instruments, scrap metal buts of other found objects, piano and…