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.

Things you don’t want to read in the e.mail inbox headlines part 97; “Nickelback release emotionally charged new single…” These are the kind of things we put up with every day so you don’t have to….

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 Portland, Oregon…

1: Team Dresch – The Official music video for “Heard A Bang” by Team Dresch. From the album “Furthermore,” out now via Jealous Butcher Records. Directed by Lance Bangs “FIRST NEW ALBUM IN 30 YEARS!!!” shout the team behind Team Dresch, and by the way, they play a one off UK date here in London next week, at the Lexington, on 30th September… Here’s the new album, here’s a bagload of links and the Bandcamp and we probably wrote about the last one thirty years ago, back in the days when the psot woman brought us sacks full of things like Team Dresch albums…

Here’s some more, kind of like they’ve never been away….

and…

2: Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – This machine is the new single by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan from the forthcoming (seventh) album Industrial Growth. Released 30th October 2026 on vinyl and CD as well as a digital thing and streaming if stream you must. Here’s the Bandcamp thing, here the website, here’s the concrete…

Meanwhile over at the state51 Factory…

3: White Flowers perform songs from their latest album, Dreams For Somebody Else, plus a very special Deerhunter cover, live at The state51 Factory.

Catch White Flowers on their upcoming UK headline tour: 30 September – The Croft, Bristol 01 October – A L P H A B E T, Brighton 02 October – ICA, London 08 October – Stereo, Glasgow 09 October – The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge 10 October – Yes, Manchester – ticket link

here’s the links and the Bandcamp to the album

4: Seneca – Let go, sever, Watch each word untether or at least hear every word. Bristol’s Seneca with a bit more, are they sounding a bit Black Midi? Surely that is a good thing, it is meant as praise. “We’re a high-energy weirdo math/prog rock band” they said but we knew that already, we have covered the Bristol band before, good to have something new from them, something ambitiously forward looking, more natural than weirdo we’d sayt, they don’t sound like they’re having to force it, it does feel like they’re flowing naturally, Just the right time, Just the right frame… Bandcamp

5: Snõõper – More Snõõper, new Snõõper, there can never be too much Snõõper. Find this new one on Bandcamp, find more from the band from Nashville here

previously

ORGAN: Five Music Things – A new Italian instrumental duo called Gat Osken, a new Geneva Jacuzzi video, The Velveteers want you to put their name in your mouth, Howlin Rain with a slice of Mountain, Ibibo Sound Machine remix Andrew Jim Gannon oh and a bit of new Neil Young…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Heckle Chamber play visceral complex rock music, Sheherazaad will release her long-awaited debut full-length album very soon, Bunnies do Mazzy Star, Finn Loxbo oh and some Temple Ov Subsonic Youth and a touch of Grand Prix…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Small Pond, more Concrete Vehicles, Rascal Reporters, Formal Sppeedwear have some kind of 80’s Crimson thing going down, new Cult of Luna, Julia Holter, Beck and yeah, okay, more than five…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Kraanerg’s adventurous kind of maximalism, London-based multidisciplinary artist Lim Orion, more of Perennial’s modernism, Flowers Must Die, Natural Information Society, a group who represent a convergence of musicians and artists who create sonic harbour, meditative space and kinetic momentum music are at Cafe Oto this week and…

and while we’re here, someone who doesn’t need to be here but hey, we’ll leave this recent live video here anyway…