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, yeah right, respect those shoes. No time for editorials, let the actual music do the actual walking and the actual talking while we play catch up with it all. 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? Bake the 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 more from Manchester (and not Indiana)

1: Mandy, Indiana – Fresh Mandy, Indiana, that’s something that’s always welcome around here. Something from the just announced upcoming album URGH, out on February 6th, 2026.

“Mandy, Indiana sign to Sacred Bones and announce their new album, URGH, out February 6th, with a lead single Magazine out today. The Manchester band are also set to tour across Europe next year with UK shows in London, Leeds and Glasgow”. More in the new year I expect, they’re a band we have covered over the last few years.

Wed 25 Mar –  London, UK – Heaven
Fri 27 Mar – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Sat 28 Mar – Glasgow, UK – Room 2

Here’s the Bandcamp and more album details

2: Ragana and Drowse – Ash Souvenir, the new album from Ragana and Drowse (from Olympia, Washington), out November 14th (or tomorrow) on The Flenser. here’s the Bandcamp page and here’s a taste and…

3: Hot Face – London trio Hot Face have just announced their debut album, Automated Response, alongside its rather wired up punk-infused throwback of a lead single Pink Liquor. Automated Response is set for release on 23rd Jan 2026 via the always interesting Speedy Wunderground and was captured live in one take at Abbey Road Studios in front of an audience. For now then, here’s the single, more about the album next year (if said album is any good) I guess.. 

4: Charli xcx/John Cale – House featuring John Cale from Charli xcx’s upcoming album for Wuthering Heights, I guess that makes it a soundtrack album? “I feel so lucky to have been able to work with John on this song,” Charli says. Here’s the piece of music, more about it down there underneath the video…

Charli XCX and John Cale have released piece of music called House and with it a rather plush Goth flavoured video, written to appear on the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontē’s novel Wuthering Heights. Charli XCX has recently talked about how as a huge fan of The Velvet Underground, she was particularly inspired by Cale’s belief (expressed on Todd Haynes’ film about the band) that songs must be both ‘elegant and brutal’. “I got really stuck on that phrase,” she posted, “I wrote it down in my notes app and would pull it up from time to time and think about what he meant.” The phrase kept coming to mind as she worked on the Wuthering Heights soundtrack. “I decided to reach out to him to get his opinion on the songs that his phrase had so deeply inspired, but also to see whether he might want to collaborate,” she wrote. “We got connected, we spoke on the phone and wow… that voice, so elegant, so brutal. I sent him some songs and we started talking specifically about ‘House;. We spoke about the idea of a poem. He recorded something and sent it to me. Something that only John could do. And it was… well, it made me cry.”

5: Cardiel and some footage of the duo performing Antiglesia live in the KEXP studio. Recorded August 8th, 2025.

That’s it, that’s you five for this time…

Previously

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Poly-Math have something new, a rather blissful first taste of Papir’s new album, some Fältsånger, Maddie Ashman, Dead Finks and…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – New Louis Carnell, CxBxT, Norway’s Kronstad 23, Michael Rudolph Cummings, Shrine Maiden and some Stephen Wilson JR, oh and just a touch of Webcore…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Lankum’s version of Ghost Town, Jim Coleman (Cop Shoot Cop) is back with Deaf Doula, more Ida The Young, the polka dots of Angine de Poitrine, Oxford’s The August List and…

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…