Shall we write a new editorial? 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 apples and here comes the editorial and smoking ain’t cool, it never was, it doesn’t make you look cool in your music video, it just makes you look like a sucker…
Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? Is there another way? A better way? A cure for pulling flying swordfish out of the clouds? Is there a rhyme? Is there a reason? Was there ever a reason? What do reasons make? Five more? Cake oil? Everything must go somewhere 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, we never should have done 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 Nashville, Tennessee
1: Snooper – Seems like the ever excellent blur of colour that is Snooper have a new album on the way at the start of October, here’s a taste of the Nashville, Tennessee outfit’s Worldwide and here’s the Bandcamp and blah blah blah… previous Snõõper thankless coverage on these broken pages
2: Happy Family – Well this is a little different in terms of what Happy Family do, kind of neat sidestep, wouldn’t want it to be their only trick, it isn’t though so yes, let’s have some piano versions; “We are excited to share two new piano versions of upcoming Happy Family tracks. These interpretations offer a raw and intimate glimpse into the core of our latest compositions—currently being developed into full-band arrangements through ongoing rehearsals.We’re also thrilled to announce an upcoming headline show in Tokyo. Happy Family will perform a solo live set on Saturday, December 13, at Silver Elephant in Tokyo. For more details and updates, please visit our official Facebook page” where it says Happy Family are a Japanese progressive rock band born in 1987.
3: Long Fling – A rather intriguing (adjective: intriguing arousing one’s curiosity or interest) first single, Flung, from another album on the way later this year; “Amsterdam indie stalwarts Pip Blom and Willem Smit, respectively the songwriter and vocal force behind Pip Blom and the driving creative mind behind Personal Trainer, have come together after a decade of intermittent collaborations to launch a new project: Long Fling. The duo’s self-titled debut album arrives 3rd of October, 2025, unveiling a collection of charming, offbeat guitar and drum machine, kraut-rock tinged anthems, touching on everyday oddities like socks, shoes, and the allure of staying home…”
“Their debut single Flung is out today (well it ws out on whatever day this page started to come together, probably before the Greatest Gathering distracted us), “Flung is out today capturing the sonic chemistry found between Pip and Willem. Willem describes it as “one of the easiest songs on the record to write”, featuring a “spanky” guitar, gifted to him due to being “impossible to tune and beyond repair“, matched by synths that lean into more dissonant places than either Pip Blom or Personal Trainer would normally visit. The drums, made by Willem at home by slapping a mic against anything from the cupboards to the floor, before being digitally processed, give the track a raw yet polished feel, making it a live favourite that builds irresistibly toward its climax”. We await the album, will it all be as good as this rather fine first taste? Bandcamp / other places
4: NiCKY‘s new single Private Glance, taken from the forthcoming with EP (and yes, it does come with a small w at the start of the EPs name, all this artists, musicians and such wanting to make us look careless with our capitalistion and what have yer!) I like Nicky, I like that I never quite know what Nicky will do next, does Nicky know what Nicky will do next? Next is this song from a new EP called with that comes out well, sometime soon, here’s a Linktree full of those always useful links
The EP’s lead single PR stuff; ‘Private Glance’ sees NiCKY struts into a masquerade of playful avant-pop, offbeat ballroom disco and outré no wave sax. Arguably their most outlandish turn to date, ‘Private Glance’ embraces everything from Bob Fosse to Grace Jones in a song that skewers art world performativity from the perspective of an insightful outsider: “‘Private Glance’ imagines a Bob Fosse musical about a private view, seen from the eyes of two queens working the bar…everything’s a bit smoke and mirrors; what’s underneath everyone’s public mask? [It’s a song that] makes me smile every time! It feels like a Lizzy Mercier Descloux / Grace Jones mash up.”
Previous Nicky bits….
Here’s Nicky’s rather beautiful version (and video for) a Sandy Denny cover Who Knows Where The Time Goes from a short while back (shame about the bloody smoking, smoking ain’t cool people, smoking has killed several people we care about, it ain’t cool, it never was, it never will be)
5 and a bit: Sunflowers – You do know these things are in no particular order don’t you? It is just how they fall, Sunflowers are on Fuzz Club, a label who have had a lot of coerage on these pages over the years (one day they might even say thanks and share something or other, you labels need to stop taking all this for granted all the time). Chameleon Kid is lifted from Sunflowers’ new album You Have Fallen… Congratulations!, released November 7th 2025 on Fuzz Club. it is a rather urgent bit of bite, a two and a quarter minutes of energy that manages to fit in a twist or two. Do Fuzz Club deserve another link? Probably not, but hey, here it is and here’s the music and the animation and the price of whatever.
5: Green Carnation haven’t crossed our path (or should that be the other way around? We haven’t crossed their path maybe?) since the days of print, not sure why, they were rather good last time path did cross down at the Camden Underworld somewhere way back in time. This sounds rather satifying in a slightly epic kind of way, a little more than just prog-metal; “A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia comes out September 5, 2025” so it says under the video, more here I guess…
Previously on these pages….
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