Who needs who? No time for editorials, repeat, replete, reheat, 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 Manchester…

1: Mumbles – The Mumbles Book of Hell and the non-stop peck peck of it all. “Hey, just following this up with a bit more info as the EP is out on Monday! The epic 26-minute new EP is called The Mumbles Book of Hell, and it 
charts a wild journey as it descends from total chaos and abject panic into accepting, peaceful, dream-filled sleep across a mesmerising, challenging, enthralling 26 minutes. You can listen here…”

Well yer man from Mumbles said we could listen here, but that didn’t apply to you dear reader, now that they have shared it with everyone we’ll post it here and everyone can listen and no one needs my dancing around the madness of their archtecture. Isn’t there lighthouse in Mumbles? This plague of lighthouse keepers sound like absolutely no one, it is indeed a rather wild journey and we recommend you go listen to every single one of those twenty six minutes, here it is, excellent, and just released on Oxford label Divine Schism and here it is for everyone to hear on Bandcamp

2: Buñuel and a new video or film or whatever we call these things these days, some kind of High. Speed. Chase as heard on the SkinGraft Records/Overdrive Records Mansuetude album that we featured some time ago now on these fractured pages. The album vame out back in late 2024, here’s that review ORGAN: Albums, more albums – Oranssi Pazuzu’s shapeshifting, Buñuel’s Eugene S. Robinson fuelled extreme but articulate metal, a taste of Beasts and that time at The Marquee with the orange baked beans and… and an album that did figure come the great 2024 round up – ORGAN: Our best 43 albums of another very musically busy 2024. Who did we rate? The Flying Luttenbachers, Extra life, Earth Ball, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Gazelle Twin, English Teacher, Slift, Uniform…

Buñuel are on a US tour around about now and seeing as we seem to have far more readers in the US than we do in the UK these days (not to say our UK numbers have dropped off, far from it, our US numbers have gone through the roof in recent months though…), seeing as we seem to have far more readers in the US at the moment, we’ll stick Buñuel‘s American dates down at the foot of the page…

3: Crippled Black Phoenix present Ravenettes, a central composition from the forthcoming album Sceaduhelm. Built around a “glitch in the timeline”, it treats memory as an uninvited guest that never leaves, proving that endurance is less a triumph than a talent for surviving the same collapse on loop. Sceaduhelm is out April 17th via Season of Mist.

4: Frenzee – they come from Greece, they probably have a thirst for knowledge – “Like the three heads of Cerberus from Greek Mythology, Frenzee are a monster trio from Crete. Relentless unstoppable power. No slack on the leash. Just brutally economical riffing from brothers Adonis(gtr) and Nick(drums), while sister Apollonia spits fire”. The track up there, with the excellent animation (video directed & animated by Apollonia Xylouris), came out this week and here’s some more from something like a month ago, meanwhile, here’s their Bandcamp page…

Meanwhile, “the best noise rock in Thailand” so says Greg…

5: Hariguem Zaboy – Taken from the new album Honking Continues out this May on Gezellig Records (LP Vinyl) and Flaxxist Records (Cassette). “the best noise rock in Thailand!” said someone called Greg just now, thanks Greg whoever you are! Links – Instagram / Facebook. Here’s some more from a couple of years ago…

And while we’re here, some footage from a couple of days ago, January 30th, 2026 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN and a gig protesting the ICE action and those cowardly murders Trump’s army commited, self defense my arse…

“It’s music like this that can rally a country to overthrow tyranny. We are (all) going to need it…” and what happens over there today happens over here tomorrow with Nigel, Tommy and his mates…

And…