I guess we just pick up where we left off and who needs who? Still 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…
Where have we been? The silence in the last week was mostly due to a family bereavement and well, on we go…
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 in Lyon, France…
1: Le Grand Sbam and a second taste of that new album we’re getting rather excited about. A new album called Janus from the band from Lyon, this is exciting, a new album from Le Grand Sbam is always exciting – “Janus a philo-zoophic, zoopunk, Cthulhu, ecofeminist album….”
“Le Grand Sbam is a collective of creation, research and musical experimentation that defends living music in all its richness, complexity and universality…”
2: Pussy Riot have turned their Venice Biennale protest into a music video ahead of what will eventually be their debut album…
Pussy Riot commandeered the unveiling of the 61st Venice Biennale last month, chanting from behind pink balaclavas and popping off multicoloured smoke bombs in front of the Russian pavilion, protesting the pariah empire’s return to the world’s largest art exhibition. A boombox played punk music part way through – Disobey to be specific, the lead single off Pussy Riot’s debut album Cyka (Russian for bitch), which hits streaming platforms on June 12. The 90-second song’s music video consists of footage from the group’s viral Venice action… Read more via Artnet
Here’s some more from the album although, hmmmm..
3: Horse Lords – More from the new album Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, an album that is now out, more in a moment,,,
You might like to know that the Chromaccord light-art instrument was constructed and performed by Daniel Conrad and that the video was shot and edited by Will Schorre. The whole album is out now, find it on Bandcamp
“Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! arrives with a video created by Dan Conrad. “In the 70s, I built a visual performance instrument that displayed areas of coloured light on a translucent screen and used manually controlled dimmers to change the colours. I named the instrument a ‘chromaccord’, meaning ‘colours together,’ and performed it live with musicians,” notes Conrad.
When Horse Lords asked Conrad to create a visual accompaniment for their new album, he employed an evolved, LED version of the Chromaccord to create five patterns, improvising colour changes as segments responding to the movement of Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!. Will Schorre captured this performance and edited the final video” but we already told you that…
4: Sweeping Promises and a spiky piece of short sharp proper pop music called Shooting Shadows from the album You Say I Romanticize, an album that’s out August 14th, 2026 on Sub Pop. They’re from Lawrence, Kansas but you probably knew that already… Here’s the Bandcamp, more when we hear more, if what we hear is as good as this bit we jsut heard. Great album artwork by Claire Monroe…
5: The Linda Lindas have something new…
5: And there is more Shearwater, more from the forthcoming album The New World (out July 31st 2026) to follow on from that gorgeous first taste we already shared on these pages – ORGAN: Five Music Things – Here we go, five more slices of music that have recently come our way; a gorgeous new thing from Shearwater, an excellent bite of Splat from an on-form Deep Purple, something extreme from Make, some American porn from the Die Spitz, some Hot Garbage and…
There’s a rather impressive third taste of the new Shearwater on the Bandcamp page…
Previously…
THE ORGAN 