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 in Colorado, I’ve never been to Colorado, I’ve never been to most places…

1: Eyed Jay has just shared the rather radiantly beautiful title track from his debut album called Strangeland, and at the same time announced details of that album. We only have the one track so far –

“Strangeland, the title track and first single from the debut LP from Eyed Jay, arriving on tape/digital April 4th. The song explores the sense of fate and surrender in being drawn to another person. Its fragmented, elliptical imagery sets memories of private moments between two people in relief against natural cycles beyond our grasp – drawing attention to how world-creating these little, human moments can be despite their smallness on a cosmological scale” – I can go with all that as well as the almost fragile state of the many layer that make up the first taste of the kaleidoscope, and yes it does have the feel of early Animal Collective or maybe Olivia Tremor Control, well this first very promising track does anyway… More details via Bandcamp

2: Hayden Thorpe and an intriguing new single Doom Orchid, taken from the the rather delightful album Ness (an album that is in fact a little more than just delightful), an album that in turn came out and passed us by in September of last year (hey even we can’t be on top of everything)

And here is that delicious album from last year that we missed (via Bandcamp) – “Using a process of redaction, Thorpe brings songs to life from the pages of best-selling author Robert Macfarlane’s book of the same name. Ness is inspired by Suffolk’s Orford Ness, the former Ministry of Defence weapons development site during both World Wars and the Cold War. Acquired by the National Trust in 1993 and left to re-wild, it to this day remains a place of paradox, mystery and constant evolution. Thorpe’s Ness is an ode to Orford Ness, the physical place and the book it inspired, both featuring the words of Robert Macfarlane and the artwork of Stanley Donwood“.

3: Robert Ascroft & Kid Congo Powers – Cramp, Gun Clubber, Bad Seed and Pink Monkey Bird Robert Ascroft just posted on Bluesky, the Elon-free place to be, that he had just “guested on my friend Robert Ascroft’s new album. Robert directed the video. Devil Opens The Door indeed!”. The track, and the one jsut down there are both on an album that’s coming out in February, the 14th actually, seems like a good day for it. The album Echo Still Remains is on Bandcamp

Here’s some more, this time Robert Ascroft and Britta Phillips

And here’s that album…

4: Endless Dive and some rather nice, positively nice, quite often when we say something is ‘nice’ it can be with a dismissive note, this is positicvely nice post rock, post rock that goes to a lot of the places post rock likes to go Endless Dive have a humanity to their music, and they did make a video with lots of pigeons in it a couple of years ago which was indeed positively nice. There are two types of people in this world, those who appreciate pigeons and those who don’t, I like people who make time for pigeons… Endless Dive have a new album called Souvenances on the way in the Spring, 28th February to be precise, more later…

5: English Teacher – And while we’re here, here’s the continuing delight that is English Teacher performing live in the Sonic Cathedral at WNXP Nashville. Recorded back in September 2024 and posted this week by the radio station which is why we’re sharing it here today. English Teacher’s album was one of our highlight’s of 2024 of course – ORGAN: Our best 43 albums of another very musically busy 2024. Who did we rate? The Flying Luttenbachers, Extra life, Earth Ball, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Gazelle Twin, English Teacher, Slift, Uniform… –

Endlessly diving in for more and don’t forget to feed those pigeons…

Previously…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – The mystery of Circuit des Yeux, more Penelope Trappes, Larkin Poe’s blues, Jerzy Mączyński is an experimental saxophonist and producer, Mien – members of The Black Angels, Elephant Stone, The Earlies, Golden Dawn Arkestra – have just announced a new album, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have a new thing…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Paris band Crush of Souls holding the whip, Moreish Idols and something taken from their forthcoming debut album, London’s Loraine James is always worth checking out Whatever The Weather, something rather delicate from Richard Dawson, more of that Decius album that’s out at the end of the month…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – MC Yallah gets to work with Goat, Horsegirl Switch Over, meanwhile cellist, composer and curator Violeta García has something new, so does Clipping and so does English agriculturist Jethro Tull…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Black Flower, Building Instrument & Mari Kvien Brunvoll & Øyvind Hegg-Lunde, Venamoris do Scorpions, Squid, another taste of that new Legendary Pink Dots album and…

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