Shall we write a new editorial? it is about time we did but then as we have asked before, 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 strawberries and here comes the editorial. Don’t be silly she said, how could it ever be? 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. 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 Cincinnati, Ohio

1: Fruit LoOops, from Cincinnati, Ohio, have just shared a single Appendicitis ahead of their forthcoming EP Everything Is Clear To Me Now which in turn is out on June 6th via Orange Milk Records. exuberant indeed. We do have the whole EP here, in it rather in your face, it is rather right there standing on your toes and right in your face. Frantic, urgent, several loops all at the same time, zesty fruit looops, Stick 66 is a thing of beauty, their tunes sound like several tunes all playing at the same time (which is of course a good thing) and well, yes, we’ll have some of that….

“Dear Friends, Beyond excited to share with you Appendicitis, the first single from Fruit LoOops’s blistering follow up to 2023’s You’re Somebody’s World. This first single is a electronic assault of heavy synth riffs and distorted vocals, soldered together by a commanding percussive line. The self shot music video follows an employee begrudgingly beginning his shift at a warehouse for human experimentation, desperately trying to escape to no avail.  The newest EP holds four tracks of relentless sonic experimentation, flying between manic dance escapades and total synth freakouts. There will be two more singles leading up to release, with an accompanying music video shot by the band for the last single”.

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2: These New Puritans – A Season In Hell from the upcoming album Crooked Wing, out on 23rd May 2025 on Domino, what more do you need us to say? Porbably quite a lot more, maybe we will when we hear the whole album and time allows us…

3: 7Seconds have shared Ian MacKaye’s newly remastered/remixed 
Tied Up in Rhythm, the details are underneath the music…

“As part of the 7Seconds’ deluxe reissue of their 1986 album New Wind, original producer Ian Mackaye, alongside Inner Ear Studios’ Don Zientara, remixed and remastered its 13 original songs into an entirely new album, retitled to Change In My Head. MacKaye’s renewed version also includes two unheard / unreleased singles from the original 1985 D.C. session – title track Change In My Head and Compro. Change In My Head is a fresh snapshot of 7Seconds in transition, but still very much of a hardcore punk band. Today 7Seconds give another glimpse into Change In My Head with the reimagined version of Tied Up In Rhythm“. More via Trust Records and their website or indeed via that infomercial at the foot of this page…

4: Death Valley Girls – The LA “mystic rockers” have just shared a new split 7”, which features a Fleetwood Mac re-imagination and modern spin on a Link Wray classic. “The tracks were recorded before lead singer Bonnie Bloomgarden lost her Altadena home to the Los Angeles wildfires, the songs have taken on newfound spiritual weight in the wake of the devastation that impacted her”. 

Death Valley Girls will be touring the UK in the coming weeks including London on May 11th and seeing as we’re based in London that is where our focus is, here’s all the dates…

06/5 – Birmingham – Hare & Hounds
07/5 – Nottingham – Bodega
08/5 – Newcastle – The Cluny
09/5 – Edinburgh – Bongo Club
10/5 – Manchester – Yes Basement
11/5 – London – The Lexington

Find the single on Bandcamp

5: Bunnies – This is an older Bunnies song that the band from Northampton, Massachusetts, right now we’ can’t get enough of those Bunnies. Here’s where you find out about their new album as well as all the links you need, it came out a few days back, you probably need it – ORGAN THING: Bunnies have a new album – “This ain’t pop rock nope, this is an outside variation on prog-rock. And not that slick sophisticated “proof of musicianship” type of prog. This is raw and they don’t really care that much what you think, as they should not. And that’s why I like ’em so much”…

And while we’re here… Video for Ectogram’s epic track Glove Soup, as featured on their 2002 album Tall Things Falling.