Shall we write a new editorial now? Oh the endless demand and who needs a damn editorial let alone a new one? 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 haddocks 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 from Brighton, are Vile Imbeciles still from Btrighton? Were they ever?

1: Vile Imbeciles – Now this will more than do today, today being, well it really doesn’t matter what today is or what today is being or what’s for tea, this would more than do on most days of the week. This is the first single from the forthcoming album Violent What and well it is rather magnificent in a slightly menacing kind of way and one day you’ll thank us for all this time spend on these things…

2: SARN and some clever, well I almost said some clever glitch, but no, a tingle maybe, something sad? Broken pop? A first taste and a rather beautiful opening track, deosn’t feel that broken to these ears; “After a slew of cassette and digital only releases for Deathbomb Arc, SARN finally delivers his wtf swan song i’m am in dark places, and as his first ever vinyl release! For an artist who revels in awkwardness, discomfort, and clashes between the delicate and the harsh, the idea of refining such work to perfection feels like the wrong language to describe any of his albums. Yet, here we are with the most perfected of SARN’s indiscernible broken pop visions”. Bandcamp is your friend for this one…

3: Chrysalid Homo and a couple of rather fine tastes of an album that’s on the way later this Summer. Thay talk of “Devo-meets-New-Musik-via-the-1984-grim-tv-show-Threads…”, the first of the two tracks we can hear right now has a positive almost breezy upbeat Talk Talk feel to it, delightful and uplifiting rather that the dirty bite of Devo talked of, the second piece, The Randall Node has a slightly menacing futurisric feel to the crisp cut of it all, should we mention that short lived Romo thing that no one will remember now? Should we mention Gary Numan? Visage? That welcome slightly homemade sound of an 80s synth. So far so good, we’re going to need to hear the whole thing, sounds like there might some kind of futurist Sc-fi concept waiting to be explored, so far so good and the whole thing just landed, watch this space… Bandcamp

4: Judge Smith and a first taste of something called The Overstayer, an 18 minute piece about an illegal migrant woman, written for church pipe-organ, saxophones (with flutes and whistles). The piece comes with vocals from Dorie Jackson and composer, Judge Smith (joint founder and early part of Van Der Graaf Generator as well as semi-regular contributor of course. “The combination of Organ and Saxophones is at times reminiscent of early Van der Graaf Generator, a sound originally defined by David Jackson’s ground-breaking saxophone technique, while his daughter Dorie Jackson’s remarkable multi-tracked vocals have recently attracted wide attention on her solo CD Stupid Says Run.” The piece is released in early July, find it on Bandcamp

5: Cindytalk – Cindytalk was or is “the mercurial, expressionist outlet of Scottish artist Cinder, inspired by the crossroads of exploratory UK post-punk and early European industrial. Her work thrives on chance and transformation, collaging elements of noise, balladry, soundtrack, catharsis, and improvisation”.

We were trying to find our own space,” says Cinder of the formative period Camouflage Heart emerged from…

“Camouflage Heart was the debut album from the mercurial Scottish outfit Cindytalk originally released in 1984. The band emerged out of the post-punk outfit The Freeze and was and is led by singer Cinder probably most well known for guesting on This Mortal Coil’s It Will End In Tears. The album blends post-punk and industrial music with elements of noise, balladry and improvisation. The beginning of a long and fascinating journey”.  The album has just been reissued and we’ll dive in a little more later… Linktree

Previously

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Big things from The Bug, more DIIV, His Lordship, Geiger von Muller, more Pili Coït & Les Exocrines, Bunnies and those Bruce Springsteen words and…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Cringe Fantasy have a new EP, more of that new Frankie and the Witch Fingers album, Lifeguard, The Sick Man Of Europe and a second rather impressive piece of music from Activity…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – New Gina Birch trouble, Suzanne Rhatigan and a song not heard before around these parts, a Midwife b-side, New York’s Activity, Man/Woman/Chainsaw have a new single, John Cale, Sunflower Bean and that’s five right?