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 with something new from Lausanne, Switzerland…

1: Elie Zoé – Now the vitally important thing with this one is that you stick with it for the full almost seven minutes while it properly reveals itself, things aren’t as obvious as the first couple of minutes might have you think they are, in fact right on two minutes is where that wholesome bit of feedback kicks in…. Here’s some links…

“This track is a two-part manifesto where elie’s signature earthy guitars meet the raw drumming of Luc Hess (Coilguns, Beurre), recorded through the organic, vintage microphones of Louis Jucker and mastered by Johann Meyer (FOH for Gojira, Grammy Awards 2025). A symbiotic collaboration that carries a radical statement:“I can’t eat-win-know-learn-see-leave-care-beat or hate with those words anymore.”Words wound, confine, or set free. Choosing them carefully is an essential act. From now on, elie select those that create spaces of freedom, beauty, and kindness.

“But I’m as afraid as you / of losing my skin / of losing my friends / and myparents too.” Beneath this redefinition, fragile new sprouts emerge, revealing the doubts embroidered along the way. Fans will recognize a familiar movement in the Swiss songwriter’s work: transforming the most communicative fire into deeply intimate emotions, sometimes within a single verse.

The second half of the song is an invitation. A counterform drawn with softness. The energy settles, the landscape opens. The message is not meant to be kept to oneself.

“The foundation of this second part was recorded live last summer with a choir of close friends on my birthday. Then I went into the forest and placed this recording among the birds and trees. That’s when I had the idea to weave in other human voices—but not my own. I thought about our precious exchanges, especially voice messages; it made sense and led me to a text, a melody, a second movement for this song.” elie zoé

“change my name” is guided by a reinvented voice, one that elie zoé has allowed themself to shape freely. A voice that answers an urge to align words and sound, unbound by expectations. The same original raw power and sincerity remain, now reinforced by the radiant joy of finding a true home after a long journey”.

Here’s a previous track from back in February from Elie Zoé. “Les Incendies (The Wildfires) questions why we tell stories and revisit past experiences and traumas. It speaks of gathering, coming together, forming alliances around the warming fire to recount the fires that burn, and reinventing how we see and describe the world. It is about imagining tomorrow when yesterday lies in ashes.

It was written in French as a possible epilogue to the theatre play “Ca commence par le feu” (text Magali Mougel and staging Anne Bisang, 2024), and as its soundtrack. The photograph by Dmitry Markov (the one up there) was the starting point for writing the lyrics”.

2: Pili Coït‘s excellent 2021 album Love Everywhere has just been re-issued on a different coloured vinyl, a random colour whatever that is all about? A band and an album championed around these parts in terms of words, radio play and playlists rather a lot of course and this gives us another excuse to share it again but don’t be asking us about coloured vinyl or re-issues (unless someone wants to buy us a copy of course). Find it on Bandcamp – it was one of our albums of the year back there – ORGAN THING: List time, our top albums of 2021, who made it? Gazelle Twin & NYX, Peter Hammill, Michael J Sheehy, Black Country New Road, Robert Calvert, Flying Luttenbachers, Deerhoof, Van Der Graaf, Alex Ward, Charlotte Greve, the Commoners Choir and…

3: Lost Crowns have what promises to be a rather excellent new album out sometime around about now, don’t ask me, no one ever tells me, I guess I could go ask Doctor Google but then you could go do that yourself. Hey, ff The Who can be bothered to send in press releases and bug about coming see them and such then… It does sound like a rather glorious first taste and who cares where we were yesterday, things are never far away and according to the Lost Crowns Bandcamp page the new album is out on April 4th although right now you can’t hear any of the tracks on the aforementioned Bandcamp page and what with the need to go throw paint and feed pigeons I shall leave it all with you to go find out more if you wish to, we can but share the signposts and point the way, if bands and labels aren’t interested in the coverage then fair enough, plenty more fish in the pond. Damn fine piece of music though…

You tube thinks we need to listen to Earthball straight after Lost Crowns, I think we can take a break from five new things and go with that, it was and still is one of those #43SecondFilm things after all and it was one of the finest gigs of recent times when it happened last Summer here in London. The neighbours loved it… ORGAN THING: What’s this? Really, Earth Ball? Avant jazz-flavoured no-wave improv noise experiments in the bandstand at East London’s Arnold Circus late on a Friday afternoon? Is this really going to happen?

Oh, now YouTube think we want to enjoy some Decemberists now, another #43SecondFilm, there are rather a lot of these films, there are lots more to put up. Here’s one of a Cardiacs Family queue and here’s one of the last nine minutes of coming into Euston Station, the Decemberists show film was made at All Points East last year – ORGAN THING: Decemberists, Sleater-Kinney, Gossip, Say She She, Gustaf, Teenage Fanclub, the final day of All Points East is full of treats…

Enough of this, back to the five pieces of music thing, here’s a rather busy tune that just landed here about seven minutes ago…

4: Abertooth Lincoln – “Dayton, Ohio’s wildly wonderful Abertooth Lincoln is back and louder than ever with their scathing new single, Precision Scheduled Disasters, out now via Golden Robot Records”. Here’s a link or two and they are back, not is!

5: IQ – The tine is now, to send it out, and talking of bands not that bothered about what we have to say about them these days, here’s more from the new IQ album, a band we featured in bucket loads way back there in the last century when we flogged copies of Organ down the Marquee. The is a rather epic twenty minute piece of beauty from their new album, Dominion, an album that’s out today on their own label GEP. IQ are a slightly more polite beast these days, dare we say a little “Neo”, but hey, fair weather wings and all that, they still sound rather good to us, this is brilliant actually, rather emotionally so, IQ were a big part of Organ history back there, one of the reasons we started it all in the first place… Here’s a piece we wrote earlier, you’ll find the link to need there – ORGAN THING: A new IQ piece released today, a rather refined first taste of the long-stranding prog band’s new album…

And while we’re here, here’s that Ger Eaton song from about year ago again, a song that came this way about a month ago, still not had a moment to go find out more but it is a glorious thing and the season is changing and that live version down there is rather good as well. It might well get shared again next week as well. Here it is on Bandcamp, he doesn’t seem to have done anything more since.