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, well where are Buñuel from? Italy I guess Eugene?

1: Buñuel – A new video released today, a proper storytelling video to go with the track Drug Burn, itself a slice of wholesome goodness from Buñuel’s recent album Mansuetude, released via Overdrive/Skingraft last year. Buñuel, the band propelled in part by Oxbow’s Eugene S. Robinson. An album that figured somewhere on that list of best albums we heard in 2024 – 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… and well, here’s the album review – ORGAN: Albums, more albums – Oranssi Pazuzu’s shapeshifting, Buñuel’s Eugene S. Robinson fuelled extreme but articulate metal, a taste of Beasts and that time at The Marquee with the orange baked beans and…

2: Haute & Freddy and something rather wholesome, we’ll just let the music and art do the talking…

And here’s the audio of their latest single, we need more visual! We need more Haute & Freddy…

3: Neptune – Who are Neptune then? Don’t ask us, they just started following us on Bluesky, they’re from Boston, Massachusetts, this piece of tense dates from the very end of last year, it appears to be their latest release. They talk of PostPythagorean junk rock and Indiscriminate scrap metal guitars and drums, I say we need to go explore some more… Here you go, a website and a Bandcamp page

Neat looking artwork and screen printing by Ron Liberti, here it is and here they are, watch this space…

4: The Alarm – From the forthcoming album Transformation, best thing we’ve heard from The Alarm in a long time. Last time we encountered Mike Peters it was at a very emotional Big Country performance/celebration at Shepherds Bush Empire fronting and conducting a 2011 show that bounced from start to finish, good to see Mr Peters looking and sounding well, he’s had a tough time. Stay alive as someone once said…

5: Nirvana Reunion – And a touch of a Nivana thing that happened a couple of days ago at Fire Aid with Kim Gordon, St. Vincent, Joan Jett, Violet Grohl and well more on Fire Aid here

And before we go, these people really know how to brighten up a rather gloomy final day of Saturday…

And what a bounce that was (there goes me) with The Alarm’s mike Peters leading the Big Country crowd in celebration. I need to dig these live video s out now and again to remind myself…