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 Cincinnati, Ohio

1: Fruit LoOops – More of that frantic urgent thing that Cincinnati, Ohio’s Fruit LoOops do, more of their new EP Everything Is Clear To Me Now which is out on June 6th via Orange Milk Records. exuberant indeed. like we already said a few days back, 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…. Here’s the Bandcamp and Instagram again and well….

2: Lifeguard – Another piece of music taken from the Chicago band’s new album Ripped and Torn, out on Friday 6th June on Matador Records which is now yesterday seeing as this is being posted on Saturday 7th (hey we’re busy here, art coverage comes first these days we’re busy exploring London Gallery Weekend, no time to proof read, need more hours)

Lifeguard’s music does feel like it comes from a place where noise and melody find visceral form and well, the couple of tracks we’ve already heard from this new album do demand we make an effort to hear more. There’s some UK dates coming up so the label tell us although before irate people in Wales yell at us and Bonnie Prince Charlie marches South and gets as far as Derby, we’ll point out these are all English dates…

UK SHOWS NEXT WEEK:
June 9 – London @ Lexington
June 10 – Brighton @ Dust
June 11 – Manchester @ The Castle
June 12 – Bristol @ Rough Trade (instore)

3: Terence Fixmer has shared a brand new remix by German techno powerhouse Marcel Dettmann, a reworking of Evolve, “one of the stand out tracks from Fixmer’s recent album” – we can’t claim to have heard the album, this track just landed in our in box today, we liked it, we’ve shared it, it really is that simple, you don’t need reviews or anything else these days do you? All you need are the links which I expect will appear any moment now underneath the music…

Evolve (Marcel Dettmann Remix) will feature on a new EP, Magnetic North, set for release on 16th July 2025. The three-track EP also includes a remix of Another End by German techno producer/DJ, and founder of Recorded Things imprint, Oliver Rosemann and a new track, Magnetic North, which explains Fixmer, “serves as a bridge between The paradox in me and the sound of my future album, which will lean towards the club, and be more techno, and hypnotic with raw sounds.”

Those links / Bandcamp

“Terence Fixmer is one of France’s most illustrated characters of the techno scene, of which he has been at the forefront for over 20 successful years. Bringing his dark, atmospheric sound to prestigious dance floors that range from Berlin’s mecca of techno to Paris ‘ Rex club. Terence reached this respected level, without ever succumbing to excessive promotion or subscribing to the mainstream” I wonder who illustrated him?

4: Daily Toll – Another rather beautiful track from Sydney-based three-piece Daily Toll  ahead of the release of their debut album, A Profound Non-Event and a series of UK dates in July. The album, set for release on 20th June 2025 via Tough Love Records on vinyl, CD and digitally, comprises 11 songs traversing three years of forged friendships, collaborative experimentation and a shared love of growing through words and song…. Read more about them and hear a little more via our previous post – ORGAN: Five Music Things – Rampressure and that broodingly intense noise they’re making, Rival Consoles and a new piece, Sydney-based three-piece Daily Toll, Baby Volcano, more from JakoJako’s new album and something from Index For Working Musik… Here’s a little bit more of their beauty…

5: Water From Your Eyes – A first taste of the New York duo’s new album, It’s A Beautiful Place, although are they still a duo or have things expanded? There was a wordy press release with all the hype and the price of life and blah blah blah, for now we’ll just let the rather fine piece of music do all the talking. Although let’s offer you this little bit of thought on the new album –

“The duo recorded the bulk of It’s A Beautiful Place last summer, just as they have every other WFYE release: in Amos’s bedroom, under the watchful eye of a tattered Robin Williams poster from the Mork & Mindy era. “Basically,” jokes Amos, “Robin is like a silent member of Water From Your Eyes.” But this time, much of the writing and recording were shaped around the dynamics of a full-blooded live group: “When you’re playing with a band you tend to write with one in mind – this was the first time I wrote anything for WFYE imagining us playing anywhere bigger than a basement”, he observes”.

The album is out on August 22nd and here come the user friendly thing that is Bandcamp where you can find more of what you might need…

And hey Mr Music PR man, don’t be sending us a press release telling us someone has covered Status Quo’s Rockin’ All Over The World, it isn’t a bloody Status Quo song, that’s disrepecting the Creedence man, what would the Dude say? Let’s have it right now, that’s a John Fogerty song thast Status Quo covered in a not very ispired way!

Here some Quo from when they were good….

Here’s a Creedence original for Mr music PR guy, have a nice day now….

Previously

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Morn’s Speedy Wunderground, who are The Gatekeepers? More from The Sick Man Of Europe, more of the new Rival Consoles album, the beauty of Disiniblud, Rún and a piece called Terror Moon and…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Just that, five music makers that have passed our way this week; a taste Vile Imbeciles, Chrysalid Homo, SARN, something new from Judge Smith, Cindytalk’s post punk from back there and…

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…