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 L.A with Niis…

1: Niis – This will more than do to kick off the day, The Bow is off upcoming album Niis World out on March 28th, 2025 via Get Better Records, here’s some links, here’s the album Bandcamp and Instagram and what more do you need from us today?

2: Simon Henocq has a new album out on French label Carlton in April (the label that brought you RZWD – ORGAN: Albums – The fluid space rock of Lord of Forms, Jazz Sabbath’s lost ’68 recordings that some other band might have heard, the experimental chemistry of Jeff Arnal and Dietrich Eichmann, RZWD crafting dance noise club music…). We can only hear one track right now, it is a rather rewarding first taste though, a rather caustic rather abrasive closing track to the album that has us curious about the rest of it, has us wondering what the hell had come bofore it –

“We Use Cookies shapes a sonic reality that is both raw and captivating. Sound becomes a living, untamed material, exploring the tensions between chaos and control, electro-noise pulses, and radical disruptions. With striking physicality, raw, organic, and industrial textures intertwine with the rigour of acousmatic art. Sonic layers build, deconstruct, and dissolve before our eyes. The music transforms into a physical and instinctive language, immersing the listener in an intense sensory experience at the boundary between sound and matter”. Bandcamp

3: Sextile – From the upcoming album yes, please, out on May 02, 2025 on Sacred Bones Records. Listen to the single right here or via these links. Here’s their live dates including some UK shows in May and here’s a Linktree, one day yuo’ll thank us for all this, not today though, probably not in this life, I;m off ot fight a sewing machine, textile time…

4: Patriarchy and a just released slice of live footage to go with the live album the Los Angeles band put out at the end of October last year…

“Suffer With Me is a record to mark the culmination of two years of relentless touring following the release of Patriarchy’s second album ‘The Unself.’ Recorded live onstage at their sold-out London debut at Moth Club, April 27, 2024 – it’s presented in it’s entirety with no cuts, except for the removal of two as-of-yet unreleased songs”. Bandcamp / other links

5: Mien – Empty Sun is lifted from Mien’s new album Miien, released April 18th 2025 on Fuzz Club, haven’t we mentioned this before? Indeed we have – 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…

“Austin TX via Montreal psychedelic supergroup MIEN are today sharing a second glimpse at their forthcoming album ‘MIIEN’, out April 18th via Fuzz Club. The album release comes just ahead of UK and mainland European live dates this Spring”. Here’s the dates…

28.04 Kola – Portsmouth, UK
29.04 The Attic – Leeds, UK
30.04 YES Basement – Manchester, UK
02.05 Where Else? – Margate, UK
03.05 Hope & Ruin – Brighton, UK
04.05 Moth Club – London, UK
07.05 Supersonic – Paris, FR
10.05 Fuzz Club Festival – Eindhoven, NL
11.05 Import Export – Munich, DE
13.05 Kantine am Berghain – Berlin, DE
Tickets details here

More from that new Niis album…

And while we’re here….