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 Berlin

1: Lyra Pramuk – Berlin-based American multidisciplinary artist Lyra Pramuk  announces Hymnal (Resung), a euphoric sequel to her widely revered album Hymnal, featuring reworks of select album tracks by Djrum, Verraco,  Laurel Halo in collaboration with John Tejada, Dumama, Tarta Relena and  Lyra Pramuk herself. Here’s a rather delicious first taste…

2: Telehealth – We do rather like their rather infectious rather jaunty spiky post whatever new wave old wave post wave post information age urgency We do rather like their rather infectious rather jaunty spiky post whatever new wave old wave post wave post information age urgency…

Everyone’s Got Talent so we learn from the official video for Telehealth’s Donor Country (A gOoD cAuSe), something directed by Eleanor Petry. Something from Green World Image, the forthcoming full-length Sub Pop debut that’s released worldwide on Friday May 15th, 2026. Telehealth start a US Tour on Sunday, April 26th, 2026 In Cleveland and yes, Organ is a UK based non-stop operation, we do have far more readers in the U.S these days if our ever increasing readership stats are to be believed, we not about to start publsihing U.S dates though, Sub Pop will tell you where the band from Seattle, Washington, are going in the next few weeks and months.

“In the official video for Telehealth’s Donor Country (A gOoD cAuSe), the band presents Telehealth’s Top Talent, an unreal new talent show competition featuring an assortment of witches, hedge trimming artists, magicians, “air” DJs, and bubblegum blowers all vying for their 15 minutes of fame. 

Telehealth offer this on the song and its accompanying visual, Donor Country (A gOoD cAuSe) examines how modern philanthropy blurs survival, cultural status, and compromise. In the absurd American financial landscape where nearly every day to day activity (from checkout charity prompts at Safeway to GoFundMe campaigns to afford medical bill) relies on some form of patronage, the song sits in a gray space, tracing the interdependence between funding that keeps life (and art!) afloat while quietly shaping their limits, turning generosity into both necessity and a performance.
 
The video stages this absurd reality as Telehealth Top Talent, a parody talent show where contestants push themselves into increasingly exaggerated, court-jester extremes (cue the singing, dancing, and self-mythologising!!) for a shot at money and fleeting fame. Blending satire with discomfort, the video turns the spectacle of opportunity into an observation of cultural survival under patronage… asking not just who is being exploited, but who is benefiting from this? In the end, it’s less about a single oppressor than a shared dependency – one that leaves open the question of who holds power once the cheque clears, and where that money comes from in the first place?”

Here’s some more and here’s some links for the album and the Bandcamp thing and that’s enough from us for now…

3: Visible Cloaks and something called Intarsia that features Ioana Șelaru. A piece of music from an album called Paradessence, an album that’s due out in May, here’s some links and well, we share these pieces of music and give you links, upto you what you do with them. We don’t need to actually write about everything so we? If we like it then we share it and we rather like the warmth of this one…

“Paradessence, Visible Cloak’s third full length, is an album of tension and reassurance. Its thirteen songs shift, heave, and shimmer against a faintly luminous backdrop of night, a cavern-like space shaped by sparse hyperreal representations of the natural world. The arrangements are simultaneously grandiose and fragile. As adventurous as anything they’ve produced so far, Paradessence is both an inversion and culmination of what came before…. continue on Bandcamp

4: Massive Attack / Tom Waits – Boots on the Ground – “A film created by Massive Attack (working with US photo artist thefinaleye). This montage work portrays a momentous American epoch that is yet to be named, and comes in the aftermath of the largest public protests in American history – focused on opposition to ICE raids, the militarisation of domestic forces, and state authoritarianism. The film quotes statistics and research by the following sources: American Immigration Council, American Civil Liberties Union, Inside Higher Ed, National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, US National Library of Medicine, US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Privacy International, FactCheck.org. Viewers seeking further information or wishing to take action are encouraged to visit aclu.org, veterans-aid.net, immigrantdefenseproject.org, and freedomforimmigrants.org.”

5: The Tubs fade to black and sign to Merge Records; The Tubs’ cover of Metallica’s Fade to Black does rather transform what is almost a power ballad into the pastoral, jangle-laden epic it maybe always really was meant to be.

Tubs fronman Owen Williams on Fade to Black;

“Signing to Merge is a dream come true for The Tubs…we’ve been huge fans since we were teens. They’ve put out some of our fave records of all time and we could tell you them all here but we don’t have the space. Call Taylor on +** **** ****** if you’d like the full list.

I’ve always been a big fan of a Metallica ballad. Obviously I like the riffs too but I think there’s a weirdly beautiful and singular quality to their ballads, even though the lyrics are basically always trash. We thought it’d be fun to jangle up Fade to Black and give it a sort of folk rock reinvented outro to announce the signing.”

It might just be a gimmick, if it is it is a rather enjoyable one on a sunny Wednesday morning here in deepest Hackney and it is a rather beautiful song, the London-based Welsh band are certainly better at covering Metallica songs than Metallica are at covering other people’s… Here’s The Tubs cover on Bandcamp

And here’s some more from that new Telehealth album we were just telling you about up there…