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 Austin via Glasgow

1: Skloss, more Skloss, Austin/Glasgow duo Skloss are today releasing Mind Hive, the third and final single to be lifted from their debut album The Pattern Speaks. The album is due out March 7th 2025 on London-based label Fuzz Club. Here’s more, a rather fine video we’ve shared before…

Here’s the links, there’s a Bandcamp, hang on, here’s some more, they’re both is Austin now, “The Pattern Speaks is the debut album from Austin via Glasgow space-gaze duo Skloss, blending heavy psychedelia, post-metal drones, meditative drums, and raw distorted riffs performed with honesty and deliberation. Across these eight equally pulverising and ethereal tracks, the result is a powerful, atmospheric and reverberating wall of sound that indulges Skloss’ heaviest and gentlest sonic impulses all at once”. Do like the video, we look forward to more. Here’s their Facebook

2: Slap Rash have something new, we haven’t eoncountered them for a couple of years, the Manchester duo are sounding as urgent as ever, they have a new three track release out today on Sour Grapes Records, here it is on Bandcamp and here’s a Linktree for more

Here’s another slice from a few months back…

3: Intensive Care + The Body share The Riderless Mount. Shall we share this? It is rather darkly intense, brooding, thick bodied, says here that “Toronto duo Intensive Care (Andrew Nolan and Ryan Bloomer) and Rhode Island duo The Body (Chip King and Lee Buford) have joined forces for a collaborative album Was I Good Enough?”

“With glitchy, bellowing vocals and an icy industrial backbone, these eight tracks showcase the respective pedigrees of their creators while summoning a dynamic and dangerous beast through the distortion.  Today, the album’s pummelling second single The Riderless Mount has arrived.  Andrew Nolan from Intensive Care shares that the song is both groups “ode to different eras of hip hop. We stripped the song back as much as possible for this, deciding that the first half should be carried primarily by vocal performance and an amplified Roland TR 808 drum machine, at the halfway point when The Body takes over the guitars were slowed down significantly, imported into a sampler, and chopped up and rearranged on the pads.”  He continues, “Chip’s vocals were recorded in the green room on Nolan’s iPhone before a show that both bands were playing.”

Here’s a link or two and here’s some more, the first track…

4: House of Protection are just starting to make their first post-hardcore experimental rock moves on the year. The first taste of a new up that’s due out in May, a second EP after lasy year’s debut when we said soemthing along the lines of “this sounds like a lot of things I can’t remember from the days when Suzie was a swimmer and Organ Radio was a series of things, when One Minute Silence had a following that pulled apart venues and Cynical Smile were never cynical and always smiled that and a bit of Beck before he lost it and there were parking violations and it was maggots more than pulling teath. I saw a Korn poster yesterday from the top deck of a 388 bus back to Hackney, are they still going? Has any band ever split up?”. And here there are, House of Protection and yeah, there’s always roomfor more and what with the price of vegan cheese rather than fish you’ll be wanting a link I guess? Well their website link is up there…

5: Children of The Night – Mexican techno producer Alejandro Barba aka Dellarge, and French documentary and film music producer Pierre Labret are a duo with music rooted in dark, cinematic soundscapes that draws from classic horror and psychological thrillers.

The Children of The Night debut self-titled album, released 21st February via Mannequin Records, “masterfully combines dark, atmospheric elements with driving electronic rhythms, drawing heavily from the worlds of classic horror and psychological thrillers. The result is a collection of soundscapes that are as eerie as they are captivating, creating an immersive and haunting listening experience. The album stands as an unconventional horror soundtrack for a film that never came to be – a tribute to the legendary Spanish filmmaker Jess Franco, known for his prolific work in the exploitation and horror genres”.

We’ll dig into the whole album in a bit, so far so good, it does sounds like a quite a few soundtracks of a darker nature, here’s the album Bandcamp page.