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 Belgium…

1: Camille Camille is the musical project of Belgian singer-songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Camille Willemart. Known for her intimate songwriting and delicate, atmospheric sound, Camille Camille creates music that lives in the space between vulnerability and quiet strength. Influenced by the folk tradition, her work feels deeply personal, often exploring themes of observation, connection, inner reflection and the natural world. Today she shares new single & video In A Song out now via Labelman.

2: Slift – Does this new slice of seriously good Slift, seriously good even by their already high standards, sound a little like classic IQ? New material from the epic prog band that emerged at ArcTanGent last year… Bandcamp / website

Previously

ORGAN THING: Slift at Camden’s Electric Ballroom – The materialisation of a rotating, cellular, hovering globe heralds their arrival – three mysterious silhouettes, backlit by this fourth presence…

ORGAN THING: This is massive, everything about Slift is massive, this is a towering album, exhilarating, more than that though, these songs are big. ‘Ilion’, the French Prog band’s Sub pop debut, isn’t just about…

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…

ORGAN THING: Listen back to last weekend’s Other Rock Show as featured on London’s unique Resonance 104.4FM – This week it was Slift, Cheer Accident, Ensemble 1, Town Portal, The Andretti and more…

3: The Leaf Library and a classic bit of dreamy indie pop; Catch Up, Isobel is the second single to be taken from the new album by The Leaf Library – “After The Rain, Strange Seeds – which is due out on 20 March via Fika Recordings. The track sees the band reconnecting with their jangly guitar roots, after a few years of trying to distance themselves from the indiepop tag. The band found a rich new seam of melodic guitar music whilst working on the new record, including bands they’d missed the first time around (The Chills, The Go-Betweens, The Clean) and new music from the current wave of lo-fi dream pop bands (Cindy, Reds Pinks and Purples, Jetstream Pony, Massage). The lyrics, a message to someone who is struggling (“isolated in a crowded room” as the band put it) were co-written by longtime collaborator Melinda Bronstein”.

Links: theleaflibrary.com / Instagram / Facebook

Here’s some more of that new album….

4: Hen Ogledd and another impressive piece taken from the album Discombobulated, out on 20th February 2026 on Weird World (that’s tomorrow if you’re reading this today). We have mentioned the new album before; ORGAN: Five Music Things – Hen Ogledd’s finest moments yet, Sydney’s Party Dozen release their new single, new Lifeguard, Anolah featuring Hak Baker as part of Speedy Wunderground’s constantly good singles series, new Winged Wheel and…

Here’s the links for more details: Website / Album links / Bandcamp

5: Ronker and a little more from that just released album from the band from Denderleeuw in Belgium, read more about the urgent, committed, intense album here – Albums, albums, albums – Ronker blur the line between noise rock, hardcore and with just a bit of slightly different colour, Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s fine piece of hope, JeGong’s organic analogue warmth…

Previously…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Monsieur Thibault, ronja, Melvins and Napalm Death have been doing things together, The Shits, Pittsburgh-based experimental band Microwaves and some classic Hawklords…

ORGAN PREVIEW: A quick shout about this year’s Radioactive Lemon, a diy day of experimental prog, psychedelia and things that verge on art rock over in Reading with ChopChop, Shoun Shoun, Sugar Darling, Mascot Moth, Zenden Greenpurp, Seas Of Mirth, The Scaramanga Six and more…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – a tasty combination of Only Now and Jaijiu, Dog Chocolate and more from their new album, London’s Scared Little Toaster, Oslo’s Gangar, Polish experimental artist Magda Drozd and the best song The Smiths ever made….

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Swell Maps have a new album ready to vertically take off, likewise Bratakus, Fotocrime, HÉR and more from that vital new Mandy Indiana album…

And while we’re here some classic Slift and that album from 2024 –