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 Berlin…
1: S3xverbot – “surprise surprise” say someone via the magic of e.mail, “the first song of S3xverbot’s upcoming debut album S3xverbot is out! We were totally flashed when we listened to their self released demo tape last summer and beyond happy to be able to put out this great record now on Bretford. Fast guitars, clear lyrics, no frills.” Well, I’m listening to it right now for the first time, well no, for the sixth or seventh time on repeat now as you really should do with a classic single which is just what this is, brilliant, but don’t take my word for it, fire it up yourself, something from Berlin, something to do with a thousand-euro-bill….
Here’s the S3xverbot single on Bandcamp although that’s on Mangel and not Bretford, here’s a mixtape of other things Mangel have for us, never heard of them before, all sounds rather good to these ears, feel your heartbeat, touch it, feel it… Ah, I see, Bretford are putting out the vinyl.
2: Fatboi Sharif & Driveby – More from that album they’re threatening to release via our good friends over at Deathbomb Arc. Shapeshifting at the Audubon Ballroom is the third track from the new album Let Me Out, something to do with cherry trees and the land of make believe and who knows what, it sounds dark to us, all shellshocked and we did feature the rather delicious Battlestar Galactica already. The album is out later this month…
3: Slow Fiction – NYC quintet Slow Fiction have just shared a new single When, the single is out now on Speedy Wunderground as part of the often rather rewarding Speedy Singles series. More details
4: Jake Henry – Says here that “Feelings marks Jake Henry’s long-awaited return as a leader, more than a decade after his debut with Sweet Talk/Glitterbomb. This album is a deeply personal exploration of the intricate harmonic language and angular counterpoint Henry developed during his formative years as a guitarist. Drawing on the frenetic energy of math rock, raw intensity of metal, and chaotic textures of noise, Henry recontextualizes common song form into a bold, genre-defying soundscape…”
Right now you can hear the first track to be released from the album (that comes out in May) via the Bandcamp page that also has all the details of that album. Don’t know about the rest of it but let that first track boil up and get really going, give it time now, play the whole thing not just the first thirty seconds, let it get to boiling point. Actually we do know a bit more about the whole album now, it is all sounding rather good, we’ll be back with more later…
5: New Candys and something taken from the album The Uncanny Extravaganza out May 30th, 2025 on Fuzz Club, a label that does seem to get a lot of coverage on these pages. The band’s name is also the link, they’re from Venice, Italy, they sound like they’re part of some kind of fuzz club….
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