More albums, there are always more albums, such a mountain, cut one’s head off and another five grow and put on boots all made for walking all over the time needed all, albums, music, more more, more and over there we’re trying to take in as much of Frieze week and who are all the what? Hungry?

Moja – I’m Hungry – All that scratching us making me itch, more of that headpecking, that urgent thing only two piece bands seem to do as they make up for the lack of bodies doing things (see Mr Sterile Assembly for more details). Moja are from Japan, a Tokyo-based drum and bass duo; “We are Moja from Tokyo. Drums-Masumi and Bass+Vox-Haru. Two person. Infinite emotion” they say. This is raw, urgent, primal, slightly messy, onions falling out of the burger as the drums assault yer taste buds. They not going to win themselves many vegan followers with all their frantic celebrating of hamburgers, cheeseburgers and double helpings of whatever’s on the menu. Not sure I’m getting the “infinite emotion” they talk of, more an almost confrontational onslaught of scratchy punky no thank yous and that already mentioned primal high speed set of conversations between bass and drums (and shouting). Just energy really, energy that erupts with unrelenting intensity and possibly a little too much of a fast food rush, a few too many sugar hits, they are rather hyper… Bandcamp

Ger Eaton – Season Changes (Dimple Discs) – Now if I’m really honest here, some of this album is maybe just a little too middle of the road for my alternative left-field tastes, I thought I’d Had A Friend is maybe a little too much in the direction of Elton John for me. Some of it really is gorgeous though, especially that title track that just may have been mentioned more than a few times around here already. It really is worth the price of admission for that song alone.

This debut solo album isn’t a one trick pony by any means thought, don’t let me give you that idea; Hollow is a lush piece of lounge flavoured warmth and the rich beauty of The Time it Takes to Fall is something that would stand out on any album by The Divine Comedy. I must admit I know nothing about Ger Eaton (pronounced Jair, short for Gerard); an Irish multi-instrumentalist, songwriter (and hair stylist apparently). Seems he’s most recently known for being the keyboardist/guitarist for Dublin alt-rock heroes The Pale and “he has long been a revered mainstay of the Irish music scene as a member of Premonition, Las Vegas Basement, Les Marionettes, Pugwash, The Carnival Brothers and for numerous solo and collaborative efforts”. He’s been lauded by the likes of Mike Scott of The Waterboys and the late Cathal Coughlan.

And that title track, Season Changes is just so so beautiful, it touches on Nick Drake, it hints at a psychedelic almost prog rock undercurrent in the singer/songwriter feel of it all, that title track is just so so good, it comes right at the end of the rather rich album and the way the tune is hinted at the start gives the whole album almost a concept feel, or maybe the feel of a story unfolding? Overall, this is a beautiful album, a fine set of deliciously crafted songs, lush, warm and yes it does carry timeless echoes of both the melodic heyday of the late ’60s (Jimmy Webb, Scott Walker, Brian Wilson) and early ‘70s work of Colin Blunstone. That closing title track is just something very special… 

Vøvk – Litera – Now if the truth be told here, musically, this album, on the whole, didn’t do much for me on the first few listens but now that i;ve returned, the personality in the msuic they make is starting to emerge along with the list details and the craft in their blend. They tell us Litera is something for fans of Cave In, Mastodon, Soundgarden, Quicksand, Deftones, Oceansize or Porcupine Tree and yes, I guess that does give you a vaguely good idea. I can’t say any of those bands massively appeal to me these days and really and I suspect if this band were from England or somewhere in the U.S or pretty much any place other than Kyiv we’d probably just politely pass on to the next thing waiting in the inbox. It isn’t though, they’ve made it in Kyiv in the middle of who knows what and without even checking out the English versions of the lyrics (find them on the videos they’ve made) you know this really matters to them. Indeed Vøvk they do their chosen thing very very well. Can’t be easy being a band from Ukraine at the moment, I assume those are crops on fire on that powerful front cover…

“Hi Organ team, From Kyiv, Ukraine – progressive rock band Vøvk is releasing the new album Litera on October 3. We hope you’ll have the chance to check it and publish a news piece or a review – we’d be very grateful for any support. The record reflects struggle, loss, hope, and renewal, moving between progressive rock and post-hardcore. The album also features members of fellow Ukrainian bands, as well as a special guest appearance by Johannes Persson (Cult of Luna), singing in Ukrainian for the first time”.

You can find all the English lyrics via their YouTube videos or find the album via Bandcamp

Sturle Dagsland – Dreams And Conjurations (Bolgen Music) – It all seems a little feral, it seems like someone really wants us to cover this album, how many e.mails about it now? I mean, it is pretty good but it does it keep on repeating the same intense high-pitched musical motive just a little too much? We don’t actually seem to going anywhere, we seems to be lost in some kind of tropical Norwegian rain forest with an untamed Kate Bush and as much instrumentation as he, they or whoever this is can throw at the whole rather colourful stew of leaf growth and thick vegetation as we almost hack our way through   

Sturle Dagsland, so it says here, is a “highly acclaimed genre-bending artist from Norway. With a wild and unique performance he captivates the audience and takes the listeners on an adventurous, surreal and beautiful journey. Touring frequently at festivals all across the world, from Shanghai to New York, he creates music with a dark, ethereal and irrefutable intensity that enchants the audience and leaves no one feeling indifferent” – Well it is intense, we’ll give him that, i guess they want us to talk of something that “conjures sounds of the netherworlds and intertwines old primordial knowledge with avant-garde pop music, screaming metal, folk music and immersive electronic soundscapes”.

We could talk of kitchen sinks thrown in, certainly no notion of less ever being more here. Experimental pop music maybe, not really hearing metal (maybe a tiny hint now and again), he does Make Geddy Lee sound like Lemmy in comparison, there is a lot of yelping and screaming, not really hearing folk, although it does kind of hint of classical lushness here and there. Dreams And Conjurations is an interesting album, the problem is it just constantly throws the same stew of colours out in an almost bombastically relentless manner even when it does (almost)stop for breath. Does that opening track have a touch of Michael Jackson’s more experimental Black and White moments about it? Maybe a touch of Jackson goes all World Music and maximalist and Enya and it says something here  about… oh never mind what it ways, here it is, you make up your mind, it seems to be getting a lot of good reviews, he doesn’t really need our opinion.      Bandcamp

Pop Will Eat Itself – Delete Everything – Cheesy quavers asking for what? Didn’t pop eat itself a long time ago? Disco misfits? Last time we saw the Poppies Atom Seed were opening for them in Brixton somewhere in the last century. The best time we saw then was at Acid Daze at Finsbury Park with Hawkwind back in 87, this we are told is their first album in something like ten years, Mary Byker might be one of the mouths up front now but the are pretty much sounding like they always did, it is still that cut up collage of pop art, beats, bites, and give me Big Macs and fries to go, they do indeed still sound like the pages of a 2000 AD comic with Graham Crabb and Mary Byker “trading vocals like bouncing Duracell bunnies to the itching, compulsive beats surrounding them”. They sound like they still haven’t grown up, the refrence points might be updated, but hey, never mind the botox, they sound exactly like they should sound if that’s what you want… Bandcamp

Previously

ORGAN: Albums, albums, albums – Fat Concubine’s explosive Empire, Belgian psych-rock explorers The Loved Drones return, Abigail Hopkins, The Garage…

ORGAN THING: Yowie’s new album then, Taking Umbrage is seriously hard-boiled, it is relentless, it does peck. Hypnotic, purely about playing with rhythm. Hyper composed math rock or something like that…

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…

ORGAN: Three more albums – The very American pop art of Guerilla Toss, the classic space rock sound of Sons Of Mu, the beautiful detail of Ohio psych rockers In The Pines…

And have you checked out that Mummy album yet? ORGAN THING: Mummy? A beautiful beautiful first album, let this just be the first, let this be the start of where Jo Spratley and Bic Hayes are going next, this is something like a whole bunch of love and more…