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, this time we start somewhere in Stockholm again
1: Les Big Byrd again and more of that new album. A little more mellow this time around, the first single was a rather dramatic Hawk-flavoured space rock treat, this second one is a little more restrained. Here’s the Bandcamp thing for the single – the album is once again released via Chimp Limbs sometime soon, early June, that first single is at the foot of this page or read lots more about it via the link under the Bandcamp thing…
Here comes some Lifeguard, a little late, but hey, who needs a lifeguard that arrives on time?
2: Lifeguard – Out today, whenever today is? A rather cold and wet Friday March 27th I do believe – oh that was days ago now, busy times, no time for music and we’re certainly not here to fit in with record label release schedules – Ultra Violence/Appetite is the new maxi-single from Chicago trio Lifeguard. Meanwhile some American mouthpiece for Trump is on the radio talking of maximum optionality, a strategic approach that prioritizes retaining or creating future choices and flexibility, rather than committing to a single, rigid path. Here you go, a Bandcamp thing and,,,
3: Flea and Nick Cave – are rather fine version of Wichita Lineman and Nick Cave (hasn’t Mr Cave been rather dismissive of Flea’s band? Didn’t he something like whenever he was at a party and there was awful music play it almost always turned out to be those Red Hot Chili Peppers?), This is a track from Flea’s album Honora, out now on Nonesuch Records. Hang on, let’s ask the internet Mr Cave and what he said. Haven’t paid much attention to Flea’s solo album, always going to pay attention to a version of Wichita Lineman from Nick Cave…
“Nick Cave famously dismissed the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2004, stating, “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers”. He later described this comment as “uncharitable” and an “obnoxious” attempt to provoke, revealing he has since reconciled and even collaborated with bassist Flea.
Now if we ever did write that Organ book then there are a hundred tales to be told of touring with those Red Hot Chili Peppers back at the start of the 90s and the Atom Seed days but then we’d need a good lawyer to read it all and then read it again, it was a rather competitive tour….
4 – Haast “yall, Haast gots a new song. A moody posty doomy alty grungey sprawling stinker” said someone on good old social media. Here it is (via Bandcamp), the msuic does the Welsh band’s talking for them…
5: Rien faire – And some rather delicious session versions of songs from the just released delight that is Rien Faire album that we did recently review; – ORGAN: Albums, albums, albums – Jah Wobble & Jon Klein whereupon Mr Wobble, with the help of Mr Klein, continues to go all radio rental in this oh so modern world, Fangus make heavy rock from somewhere around 1971, while Rien faire, the bright and breezy band from Lyon continue to blaze a trail…
And…
That first Les Big Byrd single mentioned at the top of this late arriving page….
THE ORGAN 