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 Italy…
1: She’s Analog – Now this is a beautiful first taste of the new She’s Analog album and “in November 1926, Tina Modotti wrote: “I accept the tragic conflict between life continuously changing its form, and also immutably fixing it in time.” No longer, not yet, the second album from the Italian band She’s Analog, “is an ‘instant film’ that pretentiously tries to stop movement” or so we’re told. The title refers to a zone of transit, in which everything unfolds and blooms and hopefully it does indeed bloom and even more hopefully we shall be back with more once there is more than just the one excellently colourful track on Bandcamp to be heard from the album that is due out on May 30th 2025…
2: Bunnies, more Bunnies, the new album must be almost upon us by now, here once more is the previously shared Bandcamp and some other links…
3: Glass Museum, a self confessed Jazz-tronica band from Brussels, have a sublime (adjective: sublime; comparative adjective: sublimer; superlative adjective: sublimest – of very great excellence or beauty) piece of music and a rather fine video as well. Three years after the release of the album Reflet, Glass Museum returns with a new single, Gate 1…
“Gate 1 was conceived as the boarding gate for an urban journey, a crossing of the canal through the port and abandoned districts of a city. An exploration where metallic structures and the rhythm of machines define a hypnotic atmosphere.
The origin of the track goes back to an exchange between Glass Museum and producer Arthur Hnatek: for the first time, the band chose to integrate a collaborative creative process by starting from an external sequence. They invited the producer to design a repetitive electronic loop that would serve as the foundation for the composition. From this mechanical base, the trio shaped a soundscape sculpted by synthesizers, drums, and a resonant bass.
The music video, directed by the Brussels-based production company Supertchip, combines images of ever-evolving buildings. Business districts and architectural structures merge and intertwine in motion, creating a visual echo of the track’s rhythm”.
Previously, three years ago…
4: Frankie and the Witch Fingers up next and something off the forthcoming album; “Los Angeles psych-punk torchbearers Frankie and the Witch Fingers have shared another example of what to expect from their new album Trash Classic (June 6, 2025 via The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Greenway Records). Total Reset arrives with an appropriately grimy lyric video in tow…
Here’s more about the forthcoming album via Bandcamp….
Previously on these pages…
Here’s Frankie and company on KEXP and a blistering preformance that was released a couple of weeks ago as a live album, here’s the Bandcamp
5: Panzerballett and their version of Ode to Joy (feat. Andromeda Anarchia, Conny Kreitmeier, Marco Minnemann), what more do we need to add?
Here’s more of what they do….
And while we’re here, Brass Against have just let loose a rather decent version of Ace of Spades, here come some links
More Bunnies…
And this is where they started in 2007…..
THE ORGAN 