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 Los Angeles…

1: Lana Del Rabies, there is new music/visuals, a new film and such from the artist known as Lana Del Rabies – “God Save the King//God Save the Queen”, Anne Boleyn is from the EP Le Temps Viendra, this film was directed, edited, styled, performed and shot by Lana Del Rabies with additional shots and executioner performance by Alec Richmond.

“Lana Del Rabies is the uncompromising project of Los Angeles-based artist Sam An, known for her visceral fusion of industrial, gothic noise, and experimental metal. Hailed by us on these pages many times, her past releases have earned acclaim from many for their raw intensity and emotional depth. Her live shows are cathartic rituals — immersive, unrelenting, unforgettable”.

“In 2025, she returns with Le Temps Viendra (The Time Will Come), a bold EP named after a piece of writing by the infamous English Queen Anne Boleyn — a cryptic emblem of ambition and fate created during her rise to power in the English court, before her exile and execution by her husband King Henry VIII. The namesake lead track, Anne Boleyn, merges ghostly elegance with brutal force. Across five songs, Lana explores desire, betrayal, exile, death, and transcendence — a sonic reckoning drawn from personal and historical hauntings”.

You can find the whole EP on Bandcamp,

ORGAN THING: The always deliciously intense performance/visual artist and musician Lana Del Rabies covers Garbage and announces European dates

ORGAN THING: There’s a new Lana Del Rabies track and video, if we are still calling them videos, this one surely deserves to be called a film it deserves that reverence…

ORGAN THING: The ever rewarding Lana Del Rabies has a new track that, as always, comes with some strong visuals. The new release, Queen of the Black Muses is out today…

Lots more Lana coverage via Organ. Lana Del Rabies news and social links: lanadelrabies.com

2: Amanda DeBoer Bartlett – Must confess to not knowing much about her – “Amanda DeBoer Bartlett is a Chicago-based singer and songwriter specializing in contemporary classical music, folk music, and improvisation. She’s been described as a “rainwater fresh soprano” (Chicago Tribune), with deep storytelling, and heart-bursting emotion” – this is just a beautiful piece of folk or Americana or whatever you wish to call it, just one song, and I’m guessing from the statement up there there’s a lot more to her. This one song can be downloaded from free from her Bandcamp right now.

3: Dazzling Killmen  – Now a band reforming is hardly big news these days, everyone and their dog is reforming or touring again even though everyone who was in the band have have left the planet, wring out that cash from your loyal fans now, get on that 80s/90s/whatever band circuit and haul your sad carcass around singing that one minor hit, hang on though, hide that cynical smile (yeah, even Cynical Smile were threatening it, which come to think  of it wouldn’t be a bad thing seeing as we have a stack of their t-shirts still sitting here from around 2004 or whenever it was), now and again someone worthwhile comes back, this was announced a couple of weeks back…

Math Rock Pioneers Dazzling Killmen Re-form  – Press Release: April, 2025 –  Foundational math rock / post-metal / jazz-core band Dazzling Killmen have announced they are re-forming and will perform at the Dark Days Bright Nights Fest in Richmond, Virgina on September 26-28, 2025.
 
Founding members, vocalist/guitarist Nick Sakes and drummer Blake Fleming will be playing together for the first time since disbanding 30 years ago. The two will be joined by bassist Evan Jagels and guitarist Ben Greenberg of the band Uniform.

Dazzling Killmen formed in the St. Louis area in 1990 and was composed of vocalist/guitarist Nick Sakes and jazz students – drummer Blake Fleming and bassist Darin Gray. The group issued four singles, a live cassette and two full-lengths before officially ending in 1995, with a majority of it released through the independent label SKiN GRAFT Records. Guitarist Tim Garrigan later joined the band after guesting on their “Medicine Me” single. The group would break up in the fall of 1995, prior to a planned tour of Japan with Jim O’Rourke, Melt-Banana, Space Streakings and Zeni Geva.
 
Sakes went on to play in the band Colossamite with future Deerhoof members Ed Rodriguez and John Dieterich.  He is currently a member of the Minneapolis post-hardcore trio Upright Forms, who released their debut LP “Blurred Wires” last year.  Fleming was the founding drummer of Laddio Bolocko and then The Mars Volta. He recently performed with Jagels in the band Shatter on Impact, as heard on SKiN GRAFT’s “Sounds To Make You Shudder!” Halloween compilation.
 
Taking influence from hardcore punk and jazz music, Dazzling Killmen has been noted by critics and peers as having influenced the genres that came to be known as math rock and post-metal.  The band’s final album “Face of Collapse” was reissued in a deluxe, expanded edition in 2016 and again in 2022 in by SKiN GRAFT Records.

Founded in 2024 by Mike Taylor of Pageninetynine / Pygmylush and Paul Hansbarger of Richmond-based Persistent Vision Records, Dark Days Bright Nights presents three days of outsider DIY punk, hardcore and adjacent heavy music, taking place at multiple venues in Richmond, Virginia”.

Find some music on Bandcamp

Previous reading…

ORGAN: Albums – The hard wired goodness of Upright Forms, the polyrhythmic anarchy of Nsasi, the prog flavours and the slightly psychedelic strawberry jam of Detroit’s Custard Flux…

4: Actionfredag – Says here “Actionfredag contribute to the Sprø Musikk Festival in Arendal festival’s compilation CD with a brand new single. Martins Lyckliga Dag is a sweet little summer tune celebrating Martin’s love for shiny things, such as the sun and sea sparkles” which sounds about right on this beautiful sunny Saturday morning in May… Bandcamp

5: Hum of the Green Star – “We like to think of these releases as having three sides – an a-side, a b-side and a visual side, the latter being provided by a different artistic friend of the group each month. This month’s guest front cover artist is the late John Hyatt, a hugely talented painter and the lead singer in The Three Johns – one of the greatest groups of all time. Alan has been a huge fan since 1981 and covered the group’s song “AWOL” in his own group back in the 80s. It was only in the social media age that Alan and John connected in person and met up in real life a few times, Alan buying John’s painting ‘Path Through the Woods’, which has pride of place above Hum of the Green Star’s dinner table and now features as the sleeve art for this month’s release, with kind permission of Liz Hyatt”.

This is the latest Hum of the Green Star monthly single, the May release, from a band who describe themsleves as “retro space-pop for cosmic futures” a band from North Wales who feature Zoë Skoulding, Alan Holmes and Mark Thomas. Find it and find out lots more about what they’re doing via Bandcamp

“In the words of Sun Ra, “Space is the Place”, and in the words of William S Burroughs, “We Are Here to Go”. The group’s name was inspired by “Krtek a zelená hvězda” (The Little Mole and the Green Star), a 1969 Czechoslovakian animated film short remembered from when daytime TV was padded out with wonderful (cheaply) imported programmes from eastern Europe”.

Previously – ORGAN: Five Music Things – Chris Cochrane and the Collapsible Shoulder Big Band, Japan’s BBBBBBB, a new EP from avant-garde composer and guitarist Rafiq Bhatia, Hum of the Green Star, The Reference Group and…

And while we’re here, just because we haven’t for ages…