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 France yet again, last time it was Paris, this time we’re back in Lyon…
1: Odessey & Oracle – “Hello, everyone, I’m thrilled to announce the release of Odessey & Oracle’s long-awaited fourth album on September 18: Technicolor.” so said the one eyed horse. It is indeed always thrilling to learn of a nouvel album and more of that subversive undercurrent that comes drenched in French sunshine, here’s a first taste of that new Odessey & Oracle album, they’re sounding as good as ever (excellent video as well). Manger les riches indeed…
“More determined than ever to subvert the conventions of popular music, Odessey & Oracle presents a new album that seeks to bring colour back to a daily life that can sometimes be mired in shades of gray. Flowery arrangements, adventurous melodies, and lush harmonies, along with baroque pop and psychedelic touches, are hallmarks of this quartet as they push the boundaries of the genre. Listening to this album, we can sense some of their influences, such as Brian Wilson, 10cc, Robert Wyatt, Caetano Veloso, and White Noise. The lyrics (in French), meanwhile, offer a political perspective – not without humor and satire – on the major social issues of our time, striving to restore color and hope in the face of an often gloomy reality”
More details via Bandcamp / Facebook
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2: The Yummy Fur – “Glasgow art-punk legends The Yummy Fur will release their new album” so shouts the headline. We brought you news of new Yummy Fur and that new t-shirt activity earlier this year – Hang on, what’s this? Something new from The Yummy Fur? And here comes some more which of course is excellent news. Unity Over Europe features on The Yummy Fur’s just announced new album Everybody Talks About the Weather, out Sept 24th on Upset The Rhythm. More on the album in a few days, here’s the first track off it, here’s Pavlov’s favourite lapdog, a friend of Top Banana and down there underneath the video there’s some background from the label…
“The Yummy Fur’s first album of new material in over 27 years is seductive and ambiguous; a fast-paced flip through scenes from art, myth, life and fantasy; a witty whole made from glittering scraps. The band’s original incarnation – fronted by singer, songwriter and guitarist John McKeown from 1992 to 1999 – morphed from making quick-hit cartoon-art songs to Eno and Cale-influenced creepers, populated by characters from McKeown’s life in Glasgow and the films, books and poetry that he lived a parallel life through. Everybody Talks About The Weather delights in using every past iteration of the band as potent collage material: a melee of sounds and ideas existing at once, revealing themselves then dipping back into hiding.
Recorded by the original core trio of McKeown, Brian MacDougall (guitar) and Paul Thomson (drums), Everybody Talks About The Weather comes 17 years after the band reformed for sporadic live shows, and seven years after the release of their sorta-greatest hits compilation Piggy Wings (Rock Action). Ten tracks long with nothing to spare, it is as condensed and vital as their best songs, with a new clarity of sound that allows their ambiguities to come into the light”.
3: Andrew Jim Gannon – More from the rather fine album that is Hydrate Those Folds! Read, see, find links and hear more here – ORGAN: Albums, albums, albums – Andrew Jim Gannon hydrates those minds, an identity reset from One Eyed Ancestor, a nihilistic something or other from VNRL, four fifths of the classic King Diamond line up return as Lex Legion and someone complained that the problem with Organ is that we like everything…
4: Joyeria – “Duller Grey recorded to 16-track reel-to-reel in March 2026 at Radlicks Studios, London, U.K. Everything was written, recorded and mixed by Joy. No computers were used during the writing, recording or mixing of this song” and we put that bit first because this first taste of the new album Decay Decay Decay sounds like it was recorded in the right way, things are sound right here, we’re curious
I have no idea who Joy is, never heard of him until earlier today: “Born in Poland, raised in Canada and sharpened by the relentless pace of London where he’s been based most of his life, Joyeria has spent decades playing in various bands and navigating the fringes of the industry. With Decay Decay Decay, Joyeria emerges as a fully realised, singular voice – one that trades in nervous energy, motorik rhythms, and a weary, wisecracking cynicism…”
5: Scanner has a new EP, The Prophet, something to do with using the GForce emulation of the classic Sequential Prophet-5 synthesiser so he says. Scanner is an artist and composer who has been working in and around London since something like 1991. He has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, I think we last interviewed him in the early 90s. The EP is free to download via Bandcamp, it feels rather rereshing during the start of the third opressive London heatwave of an only jsut started Summer….
And while we’re here, Getdown Services performing Dog Dribble live in the KEXP studio back in April 2026…
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THE ORGAN 