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 yes we did say all this last time (surely no one reads the intro when the music is waiting down there)

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 in some place called Maine…

1: Small Pond – We know nothing about Small Pond other than that they’re from Maine and they kind of sound like a more carefree time somewhere back at the end of the last century and days of whatever the days were of back there, that and that they have a new album called Soft Burn (out on October 21st). Here’s a song written by Molly McDevitt, go find it on Bandcamp and then come back and say thanks….

Meanwhile, coming to our local park this Sunday….

2: Concrete Vehicles – we did cover the band from Canada known as Concrete Vehicles a few days back, they’ve just released another track, here it is (landed here on the same day as some new Protomartyr as well). We are rather looking forward to seeing Concrete Vehicles in our local park this coming weekend, this link will tell you more about that gig and who they are – Canada’s Concrete Vehicles cut ties and head this way for East London’s All Points East Festival with Deftones and a whole load of UK and European dates besides…

3: Rascal Reporters – a band who have figured regularly on the Other Rock Show, have a new album on the way in September, we no, not a new album, more a bit of almost lost treasure from the Detriot band – “The Freak Obscured is a new edition of the debut release from Rascal Reporters – Freaks Obscure. Originally released on cassette in 1980, the album has become a lost cult favourite amongst cassette diggers and avant-gardians the world over. Until now, the only versions of most of these songs obtainable have been fairly poor quality cassette rips suffering heavy warble and flutter issues (unless you happened to have some copy of the original cassette yourself!)” Find it, hear a couple of tracks and find out more via their Bandcamp

4 and a bit: Formal Sppeedwear and a taste of a new album, a debut album called Punch Card that’s out in September. They’re from Stoke on Trent, someone has to be, Lemmy said he hated the place and the best thnig about it was the road out of the place (and they put up a statue to him!). Formal Sppeedwear have some kind of 80’s thing going down, a touch of 80s Dicipline/King Crimson, a touch of Talking heads. They’ve got a lot of UK dates on the way, here’s a Linktree and here’s some more (wonder if they’ve been for three weeks in Spain this year?)

4: Cult of Luna after all these years could surely just dial it in? Thankfully they’re not taking the easy option. “Swedish post-metal visionaries Cult of Luna have shared a new single, A Way Back. It’s the latest track to be taken from their forthcoming tenth studio album, In the Shadow of Your Shadow which is due November 6th via the band’s own label RED CRK.

5: Julia Holter – Materia 2 from the new album Materia, out on the 21st August 2026 via Domino Record Co. Here’s some links and things. Here’s the Bandcamp and…

5 and a bit (none of this is in any kind of order) Beck – Haven’t really taken much notice of Beck for years, probably not since the debut album that followed that demo tape he sent in back in the last century. Rather like this though, Disappearing Act comes from Beck’s new album Ride Lonesome, an album that’s out on September 18th – www.beck.com

And shall we do it all again or….