I guess we just pick up like we nearly did last time and 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…
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 Paris, France…
1: Empiricismus – “This is actual BRUTAL PROG. accept no substitutes or pretenders” so shouted Weasel Walter, whuch in turn is how it fell into our world, always take note of the Flying Luttenbacher. This isn’t new, it is recent, there was an album in 2024, there iit is via the magic of Bandcamp. Not sure if it is prog enough to be brutal prog in that glorious way of those Flying Luttenbachers but it is deliciously brutal, intensely so, relentlessly so, it is brutally intense metal, it is a little machine like, a solo studio project rather than the organic full force of a band. Whatever kind of brutality it is, we rather like it…
And while we’re talking of Weasel Walter, jsut in case you haven’t checked out that brutal prog statement that was our album of the year in 2024 –
2: Sweeping Promises and another spiky piece of short sharp proper pop music. another slice of the album You Say I Romanticize, an album that’s out, as we already said a couple of days back whe nwe brought you a first taste, on August 14th, 2026 on Sub Pop. They’re from Lawrence, Kansas but you probably knew that already and if you didn;t then we already said already … Here’s the Bandcamp, more when we hear more, if what we hear is as good as this bit we just heard and the first bit we heard the other day.
3: Severe Girls and well, what do we know about Severe Girls other than the fact that we like this piece of music? Well not a lot really. They’re from the North, or he and his band are, here’s the Bandcamp thing and the Facebook page and is it a one off? We’ll see. There was an ep last year that on first listen sounds rather decent in an indie pop rock kind of way, it mostly seems to be the work of Andrew Neil Richardson whoever he might be? Not that severe and well, we shall see, do like Sunset Mindset…
And over to Bristol or maybe Brighton….
4: Every Hell, a band who can’t decide if they’re from Bristol or Brighton, have just announced theri debut EP and crammed way more that three and a half minutes in to the first three and a half minute first taste of things to come, Here’s the hype; “Created from the ashes of a collection of other brilliant UK bands, one of the most exciting heavy voices in the UK rock scene right now is Brighton/Bristol based band Every Hell. The band can today announce their utterly spellbinding new EP The People’s Republic Of Hell, which is set for release on Friday the 26th June…
Hang on, here’s a bit more from the EP, they do build their song up rather well…
A bit more hype…
At the core of Every Hell is a collective whose reach extends far beyond the band itself. Vocalist and saxophonist Will Gardner, also known for his work in Black Peaks, bridges heavy music and jazz as a well-respected figure in both scenes. Guitarist Toby Stewart is a long-standing fixture of the well-established heavier festivals, with over a decade of appearances at ArcTanGent — including opening its first-ever main stage — alongside performances at 2000trees and Bloodstock. The band’s expanded sound is completed by new member Jules Maas-Palmer on guitar and synths, whose work spans performance, production, education, studio design and underground sound-system culture. Bassist Andrew Gosden, formerly of Black Peaks, brings a rare end-to-end understanding of the industry, combining global touring experience with years spent as a trained guitar luthier and over 15 years sourcing and supplying specialist tonewoods to instrument makers worldwide. Anchoring the band is drummer Mark Roberts, a highly respected producer, engineer and mixer whose credits include Black Peaks, Jamie Lenman, Delta Sleep, Alpha Male Tea Party and The Physics House Band, alongside extensive UK and European touring.
The band have already released a collection of infectious, bright and popular singles, as well as the debut ‘Vertebrate’ EP in 2024 – an EP recorded straight to tape, entirely live and ‘in the room’. They have also toured and played shows with the likes of Knives, Vower, Sick Joy, The St Pierre Snake Invasion and Peach (who joined them on the ‘Vertebrate’ EP launch show), as well as perform at 2000trees Festival, Arctangent, Noizzefest, Castle Fest and Misery Loves Company. www.everyhell.com
5: Maquina – a band often covered on these fractured pages, it is a mostly thankless thing we do, one day a record label will say thanks for all this, we’re not anticipating Fuzz Club‘s thanks any time soon though. This is a taste of the next album a sliced of locked on first ever fully instrumental cut from the band, soemthing that does indeed sound like it is for the moment…
“Today, Lisbon’s party-starters Maquina have shared another new single from their forthcoming album Body Transmission, due out July 10th via Fuzz Club. The single comes as the band confirm plans to bring their electrifying live show back to the UK later this summer, following buzzy shows at The Great Escape and across the country in the Spring….”
And another YouTube slice from the rather crisp sounding new Maquina album…
And a little more brutality while we’re here…
And while we’re here one of those mash up things that were cool for fifteen minutes a couple of decades ago, rather like this one…
Previously…
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