Shall we write a new editorial? Who needs a damn editorial let alone a new one? Who needs Organ for that matter? 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

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 where ever Alex Lukasehvsky is from. There’s new Smort, that’s futher down the page…

1: Alex Bad Baby Lukashevsky and his band, Cocoa Corner have today announced their new album, OOOOH! out 24th October on Tin Angel Records and at the same time they’ve shared a rather spiky lead single; “that musician that’s dead.” 

Lukasehvsky explains, “I remember going to an older musician’s funeral and the friar comforting the mourners by saying he’s in heaven now playing the sweetest song! How strange that the world at large is always looking to give a musician their bona fides, even in death; maybe even especially so. The sweetest song? For how long?”

“That musician that’s dead he wore rings he took trips learned to play the guitar in one easy lifetime — muddy Waters right of spring a little prick flick-licking the sticky bloodline.” 

As leader of Deep Dark United, as a solo performer, and a sideman in Brodie Wests’ Eucalyptus and Luka Kuplowsky’s Ryokan Band, Alex has been an outsized influence on the Toronto music scene that spawned acts like Broken Social Scene and Owen Pallett. Pallett, who has toured with Lukashevsky, went so far as to record an entire album’s worth of Alex’s songs, backed by a full orchestra. Lukashevsky has always been disobedient. Which simply means, nothing is off the table when he’s looking for his poetic voice; when trying to find the realest I of the teller. As he sings on this single:

“The musician is radical/ it’s the world that’s demented/ listening with their eyes, the music looks dented/ they’re over-represented.”

Lukashevsky, in addition to writing the songs, plays guitar and sings on OOOOH!, doing both in ways that are soulful and spikey. Joining him on guitar and vocals is his oldest child, Charlie Lukashevsky, who, at 23, is already a talented performer and songwriter in his own right. The band also includes Aidan McConnell, an in-demand drummer and composer, Jack Johnston, a jazz bassist and Barry Harris acolyte, and percussionist Evan Cartwright (The Weather Station, U.S. Girls, Cola, Tasseomancy), who plays steel pan and marching drum.

The album also features a contribution from Meg Remy, the visionary musician and producer who is the leader of the critically acclaimed project U.S. Girls. Remy duets with Lukashevsky on the imagistic and sprawling album closer “things keep happening.”

Lukashevsky has approached each of his albums and projects as something completely new, using only the musical boundaries he creates with each song. Even when he has recorded songs with nothing but his voice and his own acoustic guitar accompaniment, the results are never “stripped down” or “back to basics,” and on goes the press release but one swallow doesn’t make for a an album worth out space and s ofar we have only heard this one song so we’ll halt the lazt cut and paste for now and wait up here on the fence for more. Actually we’re still up here waiting for that Dead Pioneers album but that’s another story… Shall we pack this all in? What is the point? Here the Bandcamp

2: Constant Smiles – Time Measured in Moonflowers is a rather refined peaceful uplifting single from Constant Smiles’ album Moonflowers which, in turn is out on November 7th on Felte Records. Do give it a moment, if it doesn’t grab you right now come back later once the wind has blown away the dust or the rust or the rubbish of the day or whatever’s in the way. The album is said to be “full of internally-born ambient pop, born through various home bases and an exceptionally fluid line-up that features Fred Thomas, Katie von Schleicher, Shahzad Ismaily, Steven R. Smith, P.G. Six and more… 

3: Slow Crush have a rather fine new single Bloodmoon, just ahead of the release of the Belgium band’s rather full-bodied full-length album Thirst. Of the track the band say, “In the absence of light only the darkness remains. In this dark void we feel lost without purpose or spark while time slips through our fingers like sand. ‘Bloodmoon’ is about the struggles and pain of a passionate and purposeful life but a life worth living. A life without is dark. In this fulfilling life we can completely lose ourselves and forget about the crunch of time.”

You could well say Slow Crush are rather like their name, they have it as a “compelling abrasive shoegaze band, dealing with the aesthetics of contrasting sounds. Heavy like a gloomy dream yet soothingly vibrant. The vulnerable soft floating voice of Manchester’s Isa Holliday underneath layers of grungy shoegaze soaked noisepop, seeking shelter from a f’ed up world”. Colourful words, they have the dimensions to back it up though, theirs is a big sound, a full-bodied layered sound, a sometimes encasing sound that really does want to wrap itself around you, they don’t sound that gloomy to these ears.

Hear more of the album via Bandcamp or explore slowcrush.org. There’s some UK dates in October…

4: Clémentine March has announced a new album Powder Keg, it comes out in November 2025 via PRAH Recordings, this is an early taste, find more via Bandcamp. – “London-based chanteuse, composer and filmmaker, Clémentine March forays into a very personal approach to pop songs, playing with languages and textures, with a Brazilian savoir-faire and a post-punk edge”

5: Smote, is that something new from Smote? The Linton Wyrm is more of that dark folk thing that comes from the river, is it still the river this time? Analmost ten minute something from the album Songs From The Free House so it would seem, soemthing that sounds a demandingly invites and the music of Smote always is. The new album is coming out on Rocket, here’s the link for what any of this worthless thing we do is worth. The link will tell you all about it, well not all, there’s always mystery with Smote…

And there is no reason why this should be here other than for the pure enjoyment of one of the best film soundtracks ever as well as one of the best opening credit sequences to a film. Deltics are your friend…

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