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 João Pessoa, Brazil…

1: Papangu and another wonderfully delicious taste of things to come from the Prog Rock band from João Pessoa, Brazil’s forthcoming album. They are a delight, they’re worderful live, this, in their own words is “an allegoric, keyboard-driven composition in sonata form, Colosso is the second single from Brazilian prog rockers Papangu’s third album. Echoing Clube da Esquina, Azymuth, and Magma’s zeuhl, “Colosso” plays with the contradictions of hubris and the merciless passage of time…” Find the single on Bandcamp

And more excellent artwork by Juliana Lapa, just right in terms of the music being made. Here’s the album details on Bandcamp…

2: Piss – Well, we’re often told we’re taking it, bleedin’ liberties so we’re told, here you go; “Piss sign to Sub Pop. UK dates coming up, including sold out London show, The Great Escape, FOCUS Wales, Dot to Dot and more….” said the press release. The Vancouver four piece have just announced that they’ve signed to Sub Pop for the world besides Canada where you can find them on Paper Bag Records. Here’s a performance from last year, I guess all the dates and whatever you need can be found on their website

3: Jon Spencer – Knock ‘Em Out is off Songs Of Personal Loss And protest, a new album that is set to explode (as all things Jon Spencer do) on June 12th on vinyl, CD (with bonus tracks), and all digital platforms via Shove Records, Bronze Rat Records in the EU/UK, and Sony Japan in Japan.

“I’m in a time of spiritual reckoning”, Jon confides. “These past few years there has been a lot of emotional conflict and personal loss — the passing of time takes its toll.  Losing friends, losing family, and all of this set against a world gone topsy turvy where it feels like we are losing basic freedoms… I’m trying to balance a lot of things, but the answer is always rock’n’roll”.

The album has just landed here, we’ll dive in in a moment, right now this forst track is sounding rather string. More later, here’s a Linktree full of links and a Bronzerat link and the album on Bandcamp via Bronzerat for we are a UK based operation even though we do seem to have five times more readers in the USA these days (hey, our viewing numbers are going up and up all over the globe). Jon Spencer and his current band are sounding as on it as they’ve even been, we haven’t interviewed the man since the last century, always had a bag load of time for his music and his vartious bands…

Jon Spencer UK Live Dates:
22/05 ST LEONARDS ON SEA THE PIPER
23/05 CATTON PARK, DERBYSHIRE BEARDED THEORY FESTIVAL
25/05 BRISTOL THE FLEECE
26/05 EXETER THE CAVERN CLUB
27/05 OXFORD ACADEMY 2
28/05 EUSTON HALL, SUFFOLK RED ROOSTER FESTIVAL
29/05 NOTTINGHAM THE BOAT CLUB
30/05 LIVERPOOL ACADEMY 2
31/05 GLASGOW ROOM 2
02/06 BELFAST ULSTER SPORTS CLUB
03/06 DUBLIN LOST LANE
04/06 MANCHESTER GORILLA
05/06 LONDON THE DOME

4: Radhika have just released Since Yesterday, a single and indeed a video if that’s what we call them still, from debut album, Cine-Pop, an album that’s out 22nd May on Glass Modern. It is their rather impressive version of the Strawberry Switchblade classic Since Yesterday featuring special guest contribution from Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura and Mitch Mitchell of The Pastels both on harmony vocals… Bandcamp

5: Zoon Phonanta – Dim Diolch? Yes please; “They said it couldn’t be done. And yet less than a month after Artemis 2, shadowbanned such-disco power trio Zoon Phonanta risked it all by releasing the world’s first vocoder-sung Berlin-born Welsh language unisex krautrock hipshaker. Amazing time to be alive! From the forthcoming album Emergency Lies, out August 2026″.

Berlin’s only two-thirds Welsh, one-third Danish “psych disco of the dead band” sound rather lush… Bandcamp/Gwersyllband

And while we’re here, more (taking of the) Piss….