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 San Francisco with one of our favourite bands…
1: Deerhoof have a new single – Sparrow Sparrow is being released as a “double” – that is, a single with two songs, like you may remember from back in the days of physical media – along with Overrated Species Anyhow.
Deerhoof are a band who’ve been covered many many times via the pages of Organ, you don’t need anymore from us, here’s the Bandcamp and underneath you can find their words…
“Overrated Species Anyhow is an achingly beautiful lament and celebration of “animals” “savages” and “aliens,” Satomi Matsuzaki’s austere folksong matching perfectly to a veritable wilderness of heavenly choirs and chirping birds. Like Jean Ritchie backed by John Williams, and every bit as disturbing as that sounds.
On “Sparrow Sparrow,” the “animals, savages and aliens” turn out to be more sensitive and intelligent than expected. Deerhoof’s meticulous racket seems to flow directly out of Satomi’s nimble vocal phrasing, or vice versa. She shifts her emphasis, and the rest of the band subtly adjusts their rhythm to accommodate it; or they veer from one cubist dance-rock groove to another and she fits in immediately. The connections between each element — Matsuzaki’s own depth-charge bass lines, Greg Saunier’s monster drum beat evoking a Purdie shuffle chopped up and sampled in an MPC, John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez’s guitars like a layer of crumpled aluminum foil draped over the rhythm section, reflecting light at unpredictable angles — are so natural and intuitive that it almost sounds simple”.
2: Hooveriii – “After four albums of extra-dimensional exploration, Hooveriii delivered Manhunter with the controls set directly for the heart of the cosmic groove. Expertly synthesizing their influences and still managing to bring even more to the party, from spiky post punk to beautiful new age excursions and mammoth 70’s arena rock hooks, Manhunter delivers not only their best album yet but an instant classic for all the psych-heads, stoners and dimensionauts”. Well that’s what the hype that came with the lead single, the album isn’t out until May, so we’ll wait until then before we believe the claims, the artwork looks good
And here’s the Bandcamp
3: Djrum – Three Foxes Chasing Each Other, the second single taken from Djrum’s forthcoming LP ‘Under Tangled Silence’ released on Houndstooth on 25th April 2025, has just been released to the ears of the world…
There’s a second rather beautiful track from the new album that can be heard via Bandcamp right now – (other not so musician/labelfriends options are available)
“We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves – This line from Patti Smith was going round and round Felix Manuel’s head as he gradually constructed Under Tangled Silence, his first album in six years and a record of a literal creative rebirth. Felix originally began it in earnest in 2020 Covid lockdown, but a catastrophic hard-drive meltdown destroyed almost all his work and sent him close to psychic collapse himself. However, ultimately this pushed him to rebuild from scratch and in so doing to confront and reassess every part of his musical and psychological processes”.
4: Penelope Trappes and the title from the so far rather beautiful rather glowing rather uplifting upcoming album A Requiem which in turn is out on April 4th via some label that couldn’t care less what we say about things. Here’s some links, here’s her Bluesky feed, here’s our Bluesky feed. Penelope Trappes has a gloriously beautiful way of honouring the oak, here’s her website, it is all about the signposts and the sending you on your way to find out more…. Video directed Agnes Haus
Here’s the Bandcamp page for the album, you can hear a number of the tracks on there right now
5: Robert Ascroft – More from that Robert Ascroft album, this time with Tess Parks, more about that album here, we can’t be typing it all out again today – ORGAN: Five Music Things – Eyed Jay and a rather radiant track from his debut album, Robert Ascroft and Kid Congo Powers, Hayden Thorpe, Endless Dive, English Teacher performing live in the Sonic Cathedral at WNXP Nashville and.. The album Echo Still Remains is now out, find it on Bandcamp
And let’s have six, this has a bit of energy…
5: Fergy LH – A rather raw thing from a raw band from the raw streets of Birmingham. Here’s their Instagram and here’s the Bandcamp thing, did we already share this?
Previously…
ORGAN THING: Today some history, some Organ history, just a little bit of it…
THE ORGAN 