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 Lyon or at least France…
1: Ni – “Before hitting UK this week, we released a new video from our brand new EP. Enjoy!” We have covered that EP and indeed played tracks from it on the radio, but hey, they’ve in the UK this week so here’s the video the constantly rewarding French band just made, find those dates and EP details via our previous piece – ORGAN THING: A split single on Dur et Doux from French Other Rock tightrope walkers Ni and a band called Vojdi from Prešov, Slovakia…
2: Bonner Kramer/Thurston Moore and a video released today to go with that rather beautiful Joy Division cover that is rather fine by itself but really really (really) needs to be heard at the end of the labum the two of them are about to release. Read more about the album via this link – ORGAN THING: A first listen of the new Bonner Kramer/Thurston Moore album They Came Like Swallows, a first taste released and some insight and…
Kramer had the idea to cover a Joy Division tune,” says Moore. “It was a left turn from the improvisations we had been tracking, though wholly in keeping with both our sensibilities of light and dark unifying in transcendent songwriting, both of us devotees of ‘the song’ as well as ‘the freedom.’”
“I clearly remember what I felt when I first heard track four of Unknown Pleasures. It was a masterpiece. A stroke of pure artistic genius. ‘Insight’ is a criminally under-appreciated tone poem; a benediction of loss, longing, and regret that still touches every cell in my body. It also features Hook’s finest bass guitar invention, singing to me like the sirens of Titan,” says Kramer. “I’d waited decades to ‘cover’ this trembling ode to the curse of being human, waiting until I finally had the perfect partner to help me re-imagine it and make it new again. Thurston gave the music the gentle magic and unhurried cries Ian Curtis’ words had always been screaming for, and singing it with him put me right back into that place, that feeling, that time when I first heard the sad pageantry of this tragic man’s exquisite warning: ‘Time won’t stop for you, or for anyone or anything. It owns us. Accept it, or be consumed by it.’”
3: Snail Mail – Now this is just refreshing, this taste or two, this breath of fresh air and the almost here third album Ricochet, out on March 27th 2026. Lindsey Jordan does indeed return to assert herself as “a generational songwriter as clear-eyed and honest as ever…” Here’s the Bandcamp and a whole bunch of other links and things. She’s just added more UK dates to her forthcoming tour as well
4: Miss Grit – The official visualiser, for visualiser is what we must call these things now, for Miss Grit’s Mind Disaster, taken from the second album Under My Umbrella, out via Mute already or sometime soon or maybe on the April 24th 2026, here’s a link or two, what an excellent full bodied sound the piece has…
5: Voodoo Drummer Duo – What are the two of them doing this time? A just (and rather just) release, a sinful adaptation? Gotta keep the Devil way down in the hole? A rather good reworking of a Tom Waits classic. Say’s here, in their own words, that “The HELLenic duo asks for forgiveness from their favourite songwriter, Tom Waits”
Voodoo Drummer Duo are Stavros Parginos on spiritual cello and Christos Koutsogiannis on weirdofon and sacred drums (a one – octave diatonic metallophone, gourd – resonated, the West African Balafon with one hand while the other and the feet play the snareless drums). Here’s their Instagram and their Facebook page
And a touch more of Miss Grit’s new album before we go…
Previously…
And we do get some strange things sent in here, someone from some record label or other just sent us an Eagles live album to review….
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