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 music block be unblocked, let the actual music do the actual walking and the actual talking. Exact same thing as last time once 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 pears 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 music further down the page, 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 somewhere in Canada…
1: EarthBall have a new album on the way, the massive thing is out on 7th November 2025 via Upset The Rhythm, we have already done all the raving and drooling, here’s the link – ORGAN THING: Stop, there’s a new EarthBall album. They are painters, EarthBall paint music and somehow, they’ve dialled it all up even further, this is intense, this is a serious album… There is now a video, here it is…
2: Club Brat – Club Brat are are are, so it says here, “a high-intensity Punk/Noise Pop band blending jagged guitars, bass-heavy dissonance, and volatile rhythms. Formed in 2023, they’ve built a reputation for chaotic live shows, DIY ethics, and collaborations with top underground engineers. Raw, political in form, and defiantly unboxable. Miss out at your peril” and well, the Peterborough band have a new four track EP, “recorded with Dom Mitchison and Archie Jones, and mastered by Bob Weston of Shellac – ‘Four Songs’ is a clear nod to the Albini school of stark, unvarnished production”. Unvarnished, I like that, certainly no need for that protective layer of varnish here, not too raw through. Feisty alt. punk post whatever you have to be post about, almost a throwback in a rather positive kind of way…
3: Smote – Another rather delicious piece from the new album, taken from the album Songs From The Free House…
4: The Sick Man Of Europe – Earlier this year, The Sick Man of Europe released a rather fine rather crisp electronic pop album, a debut self-titled album that kind of sounds like both then and now in a rather satisfying way and today or this week or whatever day it was when this press release landed (along with hundreds of others that land everyday, it is impossible to keep up now), this week The Sick Man returns with Fade/Form (The Bunker Tapes). Once again released via The Leaf Label, this time a live album, “a live document of The Sick Man Of Europe’s evolution from the studio to the stage and is accompanied by a full-length performance video”. Released as a 4-track digital mini-album, and as a limited edition 5-track cassette. The Sick Man Of Europe will tour the UK and Europe in October and November 2025 and as this live album will tell you The Sick Man of Europe is far more than just some studio button pushing project, there’s heart here, soul, and as we said before; “It is economical, not too economical, it is rather crisp, clean, economic rather than minimal. Economic forward moving electronic music that does kind of echo the current semi-establishment notions of what’s called post punk now, or maybe a more European art rock thing? It does feel rather now as well as rather 80s”. It has a touch of the Associates about it and that is intended as high praise…
Here’s what the press release said…
“In this summer of discontent, The Sick Man Of Europe meet in secret in a room beneath a factory on a hill. Crushed by the weight of brick and steel, and consumed by the relentless hunger for progress – here to document change. It’s an escape from the city and from the history unfolding in front of our eyes. These times are transient and our ideals are called into question at every juncture”.
Five bodies stand in this room. An engineer and three operatives. They look towards the foreman. The spokesperson. For guidance and clarity where there is none.
“These ideas have evolved into something I never thought they would,” explains The Sick Man Of Europe. “Through exposure they have accumulated weight. The meanings have warped and twisted and they’ve become something else entirely – something more urgent. Repetition has deepened the grooves and cut into the earth. They are now beyond my careful control. Captured for posterity.”
A mechanical clank and the whir of magnetic tape. A voice from the depths.
“Transitions only exist when they are observed. Each document, when mapped to time, is nothing but a measurement of change. See this as snapshot, somewhere between the death of one idea and the birth of another. It is both the beginning and the end.”
The Sick Man Of Europe live:
1st Oct – The Attic, Leeds, UK
2nd Oct – Golden Lion, Todmordon, UK
3rd Oct – Flying Duck, Glasgow, UK
4th Oct – Zerox, Newcastle, UK
18th Oct – Sŵn Festival, Cardiff, UK
23rd Oct – Left Of The Dial Festival, Rotterdam, NL
24th Oct – Left Of The Dial Festival, Rotterdam, NL
25th Oct – Vera Downstage, Groningen, NL
26th Oct – Rabataz, Halle (Saale), DE
27th Oct – Neue Zukunft, Berlin, DE
28th Oct – Altes Volksbad, Mannheim, DE
29th Oct – They’re Gonna Be Big Festival, Paris, FR
30th Oct – Cafk, Nantes, FR
31st Oct – Creative Seeds, Rennes, FR
6th Nov – Club Cheek, London, UK
7th Nov – Mutations Festival, Brighton, UK
8th Nov – Simple Things Festival, Bristol, UK
Previous coverage on these pages
5: drumcorps – Aaron Spectre has a rather violently intense frothing boiling new album out on October 3rd, right now you can hear the first track via the magic of label/artist friendly Bandcamp, I rather like the multi-layered attack of that first taste, who knows how the whole album is going to pan out, go have a listen to the first track and watch this space I guess? I’m off to make a cup of tea and find a capital letter d….
6: SlapPeR – And while we’re here, something about John Lee Bird‘s antics and his shouting about knickers at last Saturday’s Art Car Boot Fair that made us think of Slapper and wonder if they had done much since that excellent version of Cardiacs Bus For a Bus? Seems they put out a rather fine EP in 2023 that does feature the aforementioned cover and well, they probably ate the finest Neo-Baroque Pub Opera band in the world. And all that ranting about being an angry animal turned out to be a Slapper song, find it and them on Bandcamp
Here’s another #43SecondFilm…
And a quick, well a ten minute flashback from one of the best weekends of the Summer, this walk through video is just a pleasure….
And a little more “while we’re here” and a rather beautiful version of her dad’s song performed early this year by Kirsten Adamson
Previously…
THE ORGAN 
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[…] 4: The Sick Man of Europe – Another slice of those Bunder Tapes, these five pieces of music pages are simply about throwing up recommended carefully selected pieces of music and leaving them with you, not about reviewing or commenting too much, simply cherry picking. We did cover The Sick Man’s excellent live album already, this is a track from that album and here’s the link to the review… more from The Sick Man Of Europe, drumcorps, a bit of SlapPeR and… […]