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 music that have passed our way recently and however you like to slice it and of course it was the price of oranges 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?
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 Falmouth, are Moreish idols still a Falmouth band?
1: Moreish Idols and something taken from the forthcoming album All In The Game, the debut album they’ve just announce, they also tour the UK in March, here’s a bag of links. The album will be out 7th March on Speedy Wunderground and follows their recent singles Pale Blue Dot and Slouch (with the former marking the label’s 50th 7” single), singles that have seen the band earn plaudits here as well as elsewhere. The album will be available on ltd. edition orange vinyl should coloured vinyl be a thing that matters to you.
2: Whatever The Weather – Something from Whatever The Weather on indeed anything from London’s Loraine James is always worth checking out. The new album Whatever The Weather II will be out in March, this is a rather delicious first taste, and a rather good video made by the artist…
“While titles released under her given name on the esteemed label Hyperdub, tend toward IDM-influenced, vocal-heavy collaborations, James reserves her alias, Whatever The Weather, for a more impressionistic, inward gaze. On Whatever The Weather II, rich worlds of layered textures flow seamlessly from hypnotic ambience, to mottled rhythms, to cut-up collages of diaristic field recordings. The result is a uniquely fractured beauty, born from a compelling union of organic and human elements, processed through a variety of digital and analogue methods”.
3: Crush of Souls, the band from Paris, France, have a new single out now as well as a new album Lézire on the way. Crush of Souls, who we’re told are mostly the musical endeavour of Charles Rowell (Crocodiles, Flowers of Evil, Issue), are back with their latest album. Says here that with “one foot in early Industrial and the other in 80’s Synth-Pop, Crush Of Souls hold the whip and demand that you submit your soul”.
The album is out in March on Italian label Avant! The album is said to be “a love letter to Paris; all of its beauty and decay”. Lézire is a slang mixture of the French words for Lizard and Desire so we’re told. Hopefully more about that whip and who’s holding it later? We’ve only heard one track so far, as always the hope is in wait rather than the lash itself, there’s a still from the video just there that adds to the mystery of what might be to come… Bandcamp / more links
And on with this latest page and how many of these words are actually needs, surely all you need is the music selected, the links, and a clean pair of heels?
4: Richard Dawson – Gondola is something rather delicately strong from the upcoming album End of the Middle out 14th February 2025 on Weird World / Domino… and here’s some more Richard Dawson from a year ago…
5: Decius – Queen of 14th St is taken from Decius’ second album, Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) Released 31st January 2025. We have been featuring tracks off this new album over the past couple of months, you definitely need to experience more than one slice to get anywhere near the full picture, this is the lastest serving…
Who are they? “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”.
And yes, we are going to share this video yet again, read more here – ORGAN: Five music things – Gina Birch sings Yoko Ono, new Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, more from that new Decius album, Peter Hammill, Kathryn Mohr, the charm of Divorce, Yachts first ever promo video just 43 years after the band split up and okay, that’s seven…
Previously…
THE ORGAN 
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