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 and who reads editorials?

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, who are the cake? 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? On these Five Pieces of Music pages you 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 just outside Berlin….

1: Hackedepicciotto – ‘Zeitenwende (tr. ‘The Turning Point’) is taken from the new album Lichtung by Hackedepicciotto, an album that’s out 10th July via Mute. Says here that “the new album marks the point that Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke end a period of nomadic life to set down roots and settle in the outer edges of Berlin, close to nature with fields not far from their garden; “The album is called Lichtung, which means a clearing, a place in which you can suddenly see the light in a dark forest, a place to rest. As the world seems to be spinning ever more quickly into a place of madness, being in this quiet place helps us think about how to deal with it all.” and here we are sharing it today as clear some space and I guess they’d rather not have a capital letter at the start of their band name but hey, they’re having one anyway… Here’s some links for what anything is worth. Meanwhile, somewherte on the trail…

2: Dead Pioneers, a band championed around here rather a lot back when they were making their first moves, indeed I do believe, according to their one time PR person, Organ is where the band got their very first coverage on this side of the pond. Seems they’re well on their way to world domination now and don’t need our support that much anymore, no bad thing of course. This is something from the next album, Wagon Burner, more kicking against the pricks as they say. And they seen to have picked up Jason Williamson, a Sleaford Mod, now that’s just you need when you’re off in your Wagon… Here’s the links, I think our work is mostly done here, we’ll shut the flip up now, excellent once more.

3: XCOMM and something called Pirates that features Ghostemane, something you can find on the Los Angeles band’s just released (last week) album Time To Burn. We should probably say more about the album but do we really need to? The details are there via Bandcamp and well, we don’t have time to burn, places to be, things to do and all that. What else could you possibly need from other than the footage, the links and the fact that we like the band and indeed the album enough to give it our time and space. Truth be told they sound like a million bands we championed, released, put gigs on for, had fights with, got ripped off by and far more over the last few decades but these things need to be in the hands of the the youth and their energy and we need bands like this as much as we’ve ever done, maybe even more so, we need a new menace to society. We like what they’re saying, we like the way they’re saying it

and on we go…

4: Sad Cypress and something from an EP called Princess of Cups – “Sad Cypress is the mystical and magical otherworldly persona of Cardiff-based musician Sophie Cartmell” and if you’re curious then here’s her Bandcamp where you can fish for more, rather like this first taste, we await what comes next…

And in no particular order, here comes number five…

5: Neptune – From the upcoming album Play Some Music and album that a man called Dan says is releasing June 5th, 2026 on Sleeping Giant Glossolalia. Dan knows, Dan sent it in, we liked it, we shared it, simple as that really…

Dan also said that “after twelve years of relative quiet, experimental rock band Neptune return with Play Some Music, their ninth full length album and a return to form from a project spanning over three decades. Play Some Music reunites the band’s most recognizable and widest traveling lineup of Jason Sidney Sanford, Mark William Pearson, and Daniel Paul Boucher, whose 2008 LP Gong Lake (Table of the Elements) and 2006 LP Patterns (Les Potagers Natures) serve as defining releases among the band’s catalog of over thirty recordings. Wielding their distinctive homemade instruments – a melding of hardware store and landfill – Play Some Music features microtonal and macrotonal wire-framed steel guitars as well as amplified drums, amplified circular saw blade percussion, electronics, and feedback organ to produce a suite of songs, improvised and composed, that explore classical mythology and the nebulous realm of memory. Always expanding their sound world, Neptune’s signature frenetic guitars and drums are joined by new gamelan-like amplified percussion and phantasmagoric electronic textures hovering over its ether….” There was more from Dan but hey, like I already said, we have places to be…

And while we’re here, how good is this (via those Tiny Desk people); “And while we’re here, how good is this (via those Tiny Desk people); “Laurie Anderson has a way of holding our lives up to a mirror, reintroducing us to ourselves, in all our ridiculousness and splendor. Now in her late 70s, the curious-minded visionary maintains her impish smile; her incantations — on everything from the American Dream to Amelia Earhart in this Tiny Desk set…. read more on the YouTube page, we are but your bring of portals to these things

A bit more because, as we said up there…