Shall we write a new editorial? Who needs a damn editorial let alone a new one? Who needs what? No time for editorials, 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, five slices of music 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 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 on these Five pages we reguarly post?

Here we go, five more slices of music that have recently come our way, this time we start with, well where have these people come from?

1: Jupiter Orbit Escape – “Willkommen in der Bubble voller Mehr! ein grellbunter overkill aus Social-Media-Wahnsinn, Filterblasen-Echokammern und absoluter Reizüberflutung. Laut, drüber, satirisch. Genau so, wie sich das Internet manchmal anfühlt. Viel Spaß im Neonrausch. Kommentiert, Teilt, Liked und Hyped was das Zeug hält – ihr wisst schon ;)” reads the blurb under their video, the Google translation is under that rather different band video

Willkommen in der Bubble in English reads “Welcome to the bubble of more! A garish, colourful overkill of social media madness, filter bubble echo chambers, and absolute sensory overload. Loud, over the top, satirical. Exactly how the internet sometimes feels. Enjoy the neon frenzy. Comment, share, like, and hype to your heart’s content—you know the drill ;)” – Here’s their Instagram page

2: 72% and the title track from their forthcoming album, I’m Not Happy And That’s On You Three. The album is out in February 2026 and if you need to know more, which you surely must? Then here’s the Bandcamp thing…

3: Lucy Leave are described, by someone we met at a gig yesterday, as “a really interesting trio from Oxford, very difficult to pin down, with a scrappy, improv-inflected sound that sits somewhere between experimental psych, indie punk, and jazz grunge…” Their triple a-side single features the songs Steve Lamacq Wants to Know, The Letter P and the Number 7, and Go to the Show (I Just Wanna). 

“This is the second triple a-side to be released from the band’s upcoming double album Feelings Explorer I & II, which comes out on March 6th next year on our label, Divine Schism (a label a gig promoting operation we have covered before, they make great gig posters). The new threesided released is something to do Lucy Leave raging bitterly about banal radio chat, lack of accessibility measures, and the impossibility of saying what you mean, all good subjects for a second triple A-side single (this is their second, there’s an album on the way)

“The tracks are the second triple A-side to be shared from upcoming double album Feelings Explorer I & II, which will be released on vinyl and digital on independent label Divine Schism in the new year. The album is the band’s third, following 2020’s Everyone is Doing So Well and their 2018 debut Look//Listen.

The band have always had their DIY ethic in their bones, and that’s reflected in their scrappy, improv-inflected sound that sits somewhere between experimental psych, indie punk, and jazz grunge, channelling influences like Deerhoof, Minutemen, and late-70s Joni Mitchell, sometimes all at the same time.

Steve Lamacq Wants to Know takes a playful jibe at the veteran BBC 6Music DJ, using real examples of phone-ins on his show for lyrics. Musically it’s all jagged edges, as juttering guitar fights against frenetic drums, anchored by Jenny Oliver’s huge, insistent, hypnotic bassline. ‘The Letter P and the Number 7’, meanwhile, is an oblique consideration of missed connections and the mystery of language, as drummer Pete moves on to lead vocal (with Jenny singing counterpoint) to plead that ‘I deserve a little rest’ while the band bounce through a 6/4 rocker that’s anything but straightforward.

Go to the Show (I Just Wanna) is lyrically far more direct – addressing something that has impacted the band since the Covid 19 pandemic hit. Not only did Covid scupper the band’s headline tour for 2020 album Everyone is Doing So Well – which was originally due to take place in late March of that year – but the band continue to live with the very real threat that the virus still poses to its Covid-vulnerable members. They’ve limited live performances to outdoor shows and occasional masked indoor gigs to limit the risk, a sacrifice they feel keenly.

The song addresses this head-on, with its protagonist lamenting that despite feeling like a martyr who’s been both right and wrong all this time, they ‘just wanna go to the show’. It’s a deeply personal and affecting message that lays bare the truth for the many thousands of musicians and music fans in the UK who still can’t safely attend public events.

Mike Smith, guitarist and vocalist in Lucy Leave, says: “Because of my cerebral palsy, we have always spoken about the accessibility of gig venues, and when Covid hit in 2020 it became just another element of that. The song grew from the feelings of self-doubt, self-pity and self-righteousness that can come when you ask for adjustments, along with the open tuning, guitar harmonics and plaintive earnestness of our favourite Oxford emo bands Spank Hair and Junk Whale. That those bands are from the grass roots music scene here is an important spoke of the song, since a supportive community is so important when it comes to making spaces accessible”.

“Many people don’t seem to see Covid as an ongoing issue, but it still affects us deeply as a band – we love playing live, but we’re not able to do it anywhere near as much as we’d like. We’re currently trying to book a tour of outdoor spaces for May and June 2026, but those spaces are difficult to find so it’s proving tricky. If you know of one, let us know and we’ll come and play it!”

A lyric video for Steve Lamacq Wants to Know reappropriates a 1956 American propaganda film titled Anger At Work, which discourages factory workers from getting angry with their bosses in the name of ‘productivity’, and directs them to take out their feelings on their garden weeds, or the golf course, or simply to channel it back into their work. The iconographic video for Go To The Show (I Just Wanna) uses live photos of the band by Oxford scene stalwart Ian Hanham.

Lucy Leave are a trio from Oxford, made up of bassist Jenny Oliver, her partner, guitarist Mike Smith, and his brother, drummer Pete Smith; all three share singing duties. The band formed in 2015 and took their name from an early Syd Barrett song. They have since released two albums: 2018’s Look//Listen and 2020’s Everyone is Doing So Well.  

Feelings Explorer I & II was recorded at Oxford’s Glasshouse Studios by Matty King, and by the band themselves at home in Cardiff, Oxford, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was mixed by Adam Sowinski and mastered in Denmark by redredpaw. It will be released on vinyl and digital by independent label Divine Schism in early 2026.

4: Dreamwave – Bristol psych-rock outfit Dreamwave return with their new single Murmers on the Dunes, some that is says here on this press release, “marks the next step in their collaboration with Stolen Body Records”.

The track arrives alongside the announcement of their upcoming EP Drifter, now available for pre-order as a vinyl pressing paired with their previous EP Moon Dogs on Side A. We assume details will find their way to the label’s Bandcamp page at some point? Right now you can find this single track…

5: Tigers and Flies – a rather feisty band from Manchester, have just released an album. You can hear a good slice of said album and all that pulling out of hair and trumpet playing and that slightly mathy indie pop thing that these boys who like smashing things do on their Bandcamp page

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