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 Chicago, Illinois…

1: Circuit des Yeux – Megaloner is a track released today, a piece of music taken from Halo on the Inside, the new album from the delciously mysterious Circuit des Yeux. The album is out March 14th on Matador Records. Here’s the Bandcamp with more details.

Circuit des Yeux is Haley Fohr – “Haley Fohr (b. Dec 16 1988) is a vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. Her musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her 10-year career as Circuit des Yeux has grown into one of America’s most successful efforts to connect the personal to the universal. She is most distinctly identified by her 4-octave voice and unique style of 12-string guitar”

Here’s some more, a standalone rather excellent piece that came out late last year

2: Penelope Trappes and a rather beautiful piece of music taken from her upcoming album A Requiem that in turn is out April 4th, more about that underneath the music and the rather fine film or video or whatever we call these things these days….

“Inspired by Yuri Tarassov, sorcerer and exorcist , from Werner Herzog’s documentary ‘BELLS FROM THE DEEP: Faith and Superstition in Russia from 1993’. I had a dream where I was amongst the ruins of society and saw a young boy holding a red dove. A distinct feeling about the fraught existential enigma of the human experience was hanging in the desolated air”.

The album is out on OLI in April, yer man at One Little whatever they’re called now had a hissy fit with us, something to do with expecting us to go review a USA Nails gig for him and expecting us to pay to get in a do it, lot of people seem to think were here to support them and that that support is one way thing. Thankfully Penelope just shared the new video on her social media so we can cut out yer man who has now removed us from his mailing list thus cutting off his own nose just to spite his face and deprive his bands and artists of some healthy coverage and disreagding the year of positive coverage his label has had from us. Here’s some links and over there there’s a flux of pink something or other and here’s the Bandcamp page and more about the album the label doesn’t want us to tell you about…

3: Larkin Poe – Easy Love Pt. 1 is off the Bloom album that’s out any moment now, Jan 24th if you want us to be accurate about it. Sounding more and more like Free with every move, no bad thing if you ask these ears… “Larkin Poe, the Georgia-bred, Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist duo, sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell, are kicking off the new year with their latest single…”. They’re doing a Signing session and in-store performances at London’s Rough Trade East set for Tuesday, January 28th if that kind of thing interests you?

4: Jerzy Mączyński is a saxophonist and producer, he’s just announces new sci-fi jazz odyssey album DO 555PS (via Vibrasjon) and who doesn’t like a sci-fi jazz odyssey album? He’s just shared a video for a new single off the album that caught our ear more than most things thatr have landed in our in box so far this week. Here it is…

“Saxophonist and producer Jerzy Mączyński fuses utopian electronics and organic improvisation on sci-fi jazz odyssey, ‘DO 555PS’ released 7th March via Vibrasjon. Conceived as a sonic manifesto for an imagined planet – a tabula rasa for humanity to start afresh, live in harmony with nature and build a more idyllic society – ‘DO 555PS’ is Polish saxophonist, producer, and composer Jerzy Mączyński’s most ambitious project to date”.

5: Mien, members of The Black Angels, Elephant Stone, The Earlies, Golden Dawn Arkestra have just announced a new album ‘MIIEN’ (out April 18 on Fuzz Club). Here’s a track of that album that does the talking for us and here the Bandcamp page for the album…

A blast of propulsive synthesised psych-rock, Mien say: “‘Evil People’ has its roots in a 2015 collaboration between Alex and awesome Danish musician Trentemøller. Fast forward to March 2022, when Mien reunited in Austin for three intense days of recording during SXSW. Given how rare it is for all of us to be in the same room at the same time, the creative energy was electric—music and ideas flowed effortlessly, and ‘Evil People’ was born.”

5 and a bit: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – A new thing, Stitches, never sure if Pigs x7 are as good as everyone says they are but then some of us caught Budgie more than a few times and those seven pigs are stil lrather good and they have a new thing and the video is made by Ben Faircloth, a visual artist and animator we rather like and indeed featured before, catch Ben in Mixtape No.2 – Cultivate presents Mixtape No.2 – an online art exhibition.

The press release tells us “Newcastle’s riff wizards, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs return with their fifth studio album, Death Hilarious due out 4th April on Rocket Recordings (and Missing Piece Records in North America)”

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