Who needs who? 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 bird seed and…
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? 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? 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, the second five of a new year, this time we start somewhere in Norway…
1: Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns – “Weejuns is all about interplay,” explains Mollestad. “Bitches Blues consists of six instrumental tracks, or stretches of music, with an extreme range of dynamics. Some are based around hefty beats, while other tracks are far more lyrical and rubato. It ranges from riff-based rock-ish stuff, to loud chaos, to melancholy ballads and even totally free improvisations.”
And that track will more than do for us in terms of a taste of the forthcoming album. Nice dynamic, sharp edges, nicely restrained and controlled when it could have got wild, nice organ interplay…
Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns is Hedvig Mollestad – guitar, Ståle Storløkken -organ, synth and Ole Mofjell – drums. This is their first single from their upcoming release Bitches Blues, out on the always interesting Rune Grammofon label on April 17th 2026. Bitches Blues is the group’s second album. Weejuns is a slang abbreviation of “Norwegians”.
Here’s something from a slight different line up…
2: Gelbart and a first track from the next album TK-745 which we’ll no doubt get to grips with in a week or two. Here’s the coverage of the last one – ORGAN: Albums, albums, albums – Nyos, Gelbart, Clipping, Singlelito and that vital Shearling experience, more of that end of year clearing the decks…
3: Phew & Danielle de Picciotto – “A unique collaboration between two of the most inquisitive and important artists in modern avant-garde electronic music. Phew and Danielle de Picciotto join forces for the first time on Paper Masks, out 20 February 2026 (on Mute). Developed over nearly five years between Tokyo and Berlin, the album fuses Phew’s electronics and vocals with de Picciotto’s poetry and voice, a collaboration born from experimentation, imagination and transformation….” Here come a tree of links
4: Hey Colossus and a second slice of the forthcoming album featuring guest vocals by Claire Adams (Objections, Nape Neck, Beards). The new album Heaven Was Wild on Wrong Speed Records/Learning Curve Records (USA). The release is out on February 27th 2026. More from Bandcamp. Is this second taste sounding a little Hawkwindish at the start?
5: Adult say they are still is not cooperating, the detroit duo, have announced a new Album Kissing Luck Goodbye, the album will be released on March 27 via Dais Records. We could say that Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller have been one of the most fervent proponents of a dark, dance aesthetic, something that “harnesses the perverse aspects of the late ’70s analog dystopian post-modernism” or we could just leave you with the track and tell you there’s more details to be found via the link at the start of the paragraph while we wait to hear more from the album. Damn fine first bite….
Previously on these pages…
And while we’re here….
THE ORGAN 