Shall we write a new editorial? Who needs a damn editorial let alone a new one? Who needs Organ for that matter? Brave said yer man. No time for editorials, let the actual music do the actual walking and the actual talking while we play catch up with it all now we’ve got those three Cardiacs bits out of the way. Exact same thing as last time once again, another five (or so) slices of music that have passed our way recently cherry picked for your delight 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? Snake 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 New York..

1: Deaf Doula and a piece of music that I do believe is their very first release, they had us at Cop Shoot Cop, the last time I saw Cop Shoot Cop was a never to be forgotten low key secret gig in the back room of the much missed now gentrified Bull and Gate here in London. This first track has us rather intrigued –

“Deaf Doula is comprised of Jim Coleman (Human Impact, Cop Shoot Cop, filer coleman) and Ev Gold (Cinema Cinema, GoJuMo). Experimental in approach, Deaf Doula discards typical guidelines for music making, creating presciently dark yet hopeful sonic alternatives to the world we inhabit”. So far so good, here it is on Bandcamp

“What began as a personal exploration of Ev Gold (Cinema Cinema, GoJuMo) and Jim Coleman (Cop Shoot Cop, Human Impact) during the pandemic became a collaborative voice grounded in tactile experimentation and emotional honesty. The release unveils a new sonic identity weaving together ambient serenity, industrial grit, raw noise energy, and electroacoustic timbres.

Deaf Doula’s debut track “2057” explores the intersection of darkness and light, dystopia and hope, doom and dream. “The world we currently inhabit can feel damn dark, and the future can feel even more foreboding,” shares Jim. “The future tripping / catastrophizing envisioned in “2057” is rooted in our current reality – in addition to the stark lyrics, we hear children trying to procure food in war-ravaged countries. But there is a resoluteness present, a refusal to accept this reality as the only inevitable reality. To some degree, we can define our own reality, and at times the only way to do that is to create our own reality. And so we make music – to escape and to live.”

“2057” appeared at the very end – a final spark the band hadn’t planned to include on the record. Ev recounts, “I believe this was song fifteen for the pile dedicated to the first release. Once we started mixing, it started to stand out from the rest of the batch. It just has an alluring, ice-cold aura. Odd it works out this is the first thing we release! “2057” is a dimly lit look at the near future. Ambient, with a strong pulse to balance its calm and chaos. It’s bleak and matter-of-fact. It’s like a dark cloud looming close.”

“Deaf Doula’s live premiere, taking place as part of the Stereo Mandrax series at Pianos NYC on November 16th, will reinterpret the material through real-time processing where texture and emotion unfold in equal measure. “The show will be a true electro-acoustic hybrid, a melding of instruments, voice, songs, and more improvised work,” says Jim. Ev adds, “Really excited to finally debut the project! Jim and I have been working on this material for over a year now, trading tracks and creating recordings in the studio. Moving forward with live activity is like flesh for the soul of the project to inhabit. Deaf Doula lives!”

You can catch David Hepher’s current exhibition in London right now – ORGAN: The humanity of David Hepher’s brutalist concrete towers as his The Elegy of Robin Hood Gardens opens at Flowers Gallery’s Cork Street space…

2: Lankum have just let loose their rather Lankumesque version of Ghost Town, here it is, and here’s some links, what more do you need from us?

3: Ida The Young – And furher to last time’s Five Music Things, there is now an Ida The Young video. More via this handy link to the precious coverage – ORGAN: Five Music Things – a rather beautiful single from Ida The Young, James Adrian Brown, former Pulled Apart By Horses guitarist, announces his solo album, some excellent Lene Lovich footage, Buffalo, NY hardcore outfit Spaced, garage punk muffins Minot and…

4 Angine de Poitrine – now these people certainly look interesting, this footage just passed by, they have an album from 2024 on their Bandcamp page should you wish to find out more. They’re from Saguenay, Québec, Canada, looks like they’re rather partial to a polka dot…

5: The August List – Oxford band, The August List have shared a rather uplifting second track Sun Dogs from their upcoming EP, Sun Pinned on Ghost Sky which in turn is out on 7th November on August List Records…

“Sun Dogs is an anthemic daydream with fuzzed out guitars and a huge chorus. Grandaddy’s The Sophtware Slump was a key influence, a record that saved the life of at least one of The August List on multiple occasions. The song has an uplifting and positive viewpoint of successfully escaping a dire situation, but with the bleak caveat that you can’t escape yourself. The chorus came from a line spoken by the actor Tom Pelphrey in the TV show Ozark (a heart-breaking moment).  

“We feel like it’s the perfect chorus for an audience to sing along to at gigs and festivals, but as our audience, and the band themselves are quite introverted, this would rarely happen. We would encourage some gentle swaying though if possible. It’s kind of an outlier song for us in that it’s in a major key and has euphoric chords, it’s super fun to play live as for a brief moment you’re in a rock band from the nineties and a fuzz pedal is all you need.” The August List

Here’s some links and the band’s Bandcamp

And… well that will do today..

Preciously

ORGAN: Five Music Things – a rather beautiful single from Ida The Young, James Adrian Brown, former Pulled Apart By Horses guitarist, announces his solo album, some excellent Lene Lovich footage, Buffalo, NY hardcore outfit Spaced, garage punk muffins Minot and…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Scared Little Toaster, Psychonaut, Lande hekt, Claire M Singer, Preyrs, oh and a classic bit of Ullulators now on vinyl…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Worm Shot live in what looks like a Bay Area bookshop, more Horse Jumper of Love, more Sick Man of Europe, Sunflowers and a fine new film and something from the new Clark album…