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 Austin Texas…
1: Shearwater are always rewarding, this is particularly so; Daydream Unbeliever, from the upcoming album The New World, out July 31st. Here’s the Bandcamp link with more details and a second track from said new album
More of that Shearwater album…
2: Deep Purple – First strike from the new Deep Purple album, they’ve still got it, they’re still cool, their last album impressed, so did the gigs, here’s the first track let loose from the new album Splat (out on July 3rd)
Frontman Ian Gillan says of Arrogant Boy: “This is the story of Billy who couldn’t read or write. He is unhappy with things, so he speaks up, and finds a way of irritating, one way or another, the elite. And I can’t think of anything more fun than irritating the elite. It would be a joyous exercise for me every morning after coffee.”
The single arrives one week after Deep Purple announced their new studio album SPLAT!. Once again, the band has teamed up with producer Bob Ezrin, continuing a collaboration that has shaped the band’s recent studio albums, all of which reached number one on the album charts in multiple countries.
Deep Purple have just returned from shows in Asia. In June, the band will continue with a run of European summer dates before officially launching the SPLAT! World Tour in North America in August. The upcoming touring schedule includes 86 shows across 28 countries, bringing Deep Purple back to major arenas across Europe in autumn before the year ends with shows in South America in December.
Previously on the pages
UK dates – 18 NOV 2026 – Newcastle, UK – Utilita Arena, 19 NOV 2026 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro, 21 NOV 2026 – Birmingham, UK – BP Pulse Arena, 22 NOV 2026 – Manchester, UK – AO Arena, 24 NOV 2026 – London, UK – Eventim Apollo, 25 NOV 2026 – London, UK – Royal Albert Hall
From the last album….
3: Make – Durham, North Carolina-based Make return with their first album in a decade, their fourth LP, Exegesis At The End Of Time, is set for release on June 12th on Accident Prone Records. The first taste, The End of The Night kind of eases you in, a massive opening movement as it were, the album (and we’re blasting it here right now) is intensely heavy extreme metal alive with dark, some might say pessimistic colour, watch this space, more in a day or so once we dig into it properly… Here’s the Bandcamp with the details of the album
4: Die Spitz – Back to Austin Texas again and some American Porn from the Die Spitz debut album Something to Consume out now on Third Man Records. You can find the whole thing on Bandcamp, we’ll probably get around to saying something about it at some point, it came out last year, we have mentioned it before, they don’t really need us..
5: Hot Garbage are from Ontario, Canada and well, the way they tell it via their Bandcamp page is something like this: “Calling on the driving rhythms of dark post-punk and motorik krautrock, Toronto’s Hot Garbage seamlessly work shining melodies and swirling textures into deliberate, brooding arrangements”.
Here’s the Hot Garbage Bandcamp page and here’s a bit more…
Previously on these pages –
Meanwhile, back in 1970…
THE ORGAN 