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 New York again…
1: Zoh Amba and more from that new album: “In April, Zoh Amba announced their Matador debut album Eyes Full, out June 5th, an album of tough and soulful songs that feel like a pure transmission from the heart. Today, Amba shares the album’s pensive and darkly hypnotic title track, a song about what makes someone’s heart full and questioning why. It’s accompanied by a video directed by Grace Bader Conrad, featuring Amba and album musicians Jim White (drums) and Kevin Hyland (electric guitar). Watch/listen
I still say, after this second taste of the album, that it kind of makes me think of that Rhatigan album we once released in the way she plays in such a deliciously free way…
There’s some UK dates just announced for those who want to wish the year away already – Thu 12 Nov 2026 – Bristol – The Louisiana, Fri 13 Nov 2026 – London – The Lexington, Sat 14 Nov 2026 – Manchester – Gullivers, Sun 15 Nov 2026 – Glasgow – The Hug and Pint
2: Mass Hallucination – “Just emailing to send my band’s new EP and ask if you would review it. The band is Mass Hallucination, we’re a four-piece hardcore punk band from Leeds, UK formed in 2025 and influenced by bands like Negative Approach, Poison Idea and Killing Joke”.
Do we need to review it? The fact that we’re sharing it means we like it, in fact we more than like it, classic bit of feedback to kick it off, you know as soon as you hear that start that the Leeds band are going to be on it, they are! Blistering stuff, commited, refreshing, much needed. Here’s the Bandcamp
3: The Yummy Fur – hang on, what’s this? New Yummy Fur? “Roll away your Beatles and Stones: The Yummy Fur are back from the dead with our first new record in 28 years” and there we were talking of things from the last century up there, well the Rhatigan album and the days of running a cool record label. Hey we probably haven’t mentioned The Yummy Fur since the 90s, we probably mentioned them rather a lot during that decade.
“New T-shirt was written during the couch surfing era of summer 2024 and recorded by Chris McCrory and Adam Milne down on Washington St on Feb 2nd 2026. Sleeve painting as always by Mac McNaughton. It comes as one side of a split 7″ with our partners in civility, Buffet Lunch. You can get an actual copy by coming along to our shows”
Find The Yummy Fur’s latest show news via their Instabloodygram rather that a photocopied flyer you got in the post with a zine. Good to see the cover artwork and those familiar graphics. “Sleeve painting as always by Mac McNaughton“. The original painting is called Male Shadow at 3 O’Clock (oil on canvas, 60x80cm)
4: Poor Effort – and something called City Of Hope off the debut Poor Effort EP, a remixed version from The Cutter. Find it all via Bandcamp. The original version makes for a rather tasty set of Northern observations, find the original underneath the YouTube thing…
And while we’re here, some more from The Cutter and the Manchester duo’s debut EP from last year….
5: Eel Men – more eels, more get your ducks in a row and don’t make me mad. Last month we brought you news of North London-based band Eel Men and a new 10” EP release and that rather excellent title track song called Glass Hammers, due for DIY release on May 15th. Today we return with a second track from the EP as they announce plans for more dates which we imagine can be found on their webite – eelmen.com
That Glass Hammers song is rather good, here it is again…
Previously…
And before we close this page, here’s some Gong from back when Gong really were Gong….
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