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Never mind the editorial bit at the top or what we said the last time or where the music coverage has been in recent weeks, everything has gone sideways here and you’ve read all this already, just jump down past this editorial bit and let the actual music do the actually talking. Exact same thing again, another five (or so) slices of musical things that can do all the talking themselves and however you like to slice it and of course it was the price of apples and here comes the intro….

Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? Do we need to do the editorial bit again? Is there another way? A better way? A cure for pulling flying dogs out of the clouds? Is there a rhyme? Is there a reason? Was there ever a reason? What do reasons make? Five more? Snake oil? Everything must go and same as last time (and the time before that) five, and no, we never do and the proof of the pudding is in that proof reading. When we started this thing, oh never mind, it doesn’t matter why we started this damn thing and like we asked last time, does anyone bother reading the editorial? Does anyone ever actually look down the rabbit hole or is it all just method acting? We do really try to listen to everything that comes in, we do it so you don’t have to, 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, there’s loads of music further down the page, well five or so pieces of music that have come our way in the last few days and cut cut slash and cut it, who needs an editorial or words or worms in general? What’s Wordsworth? Just facts and links and sounds then. Here you go, play the music, grab your five, eat your greens, go eat some art, go eat some fresh music and don’t forget whatever it was we said last time…

Here we go again, in no particular order….

1: Marnie Stern – now it seems like ages since we heard from her, New York’s Marnie Stern is back, the comeback kid maybe? Waht if i add this? This is Believing Is Seeing, a track off the new album The Comeback Kid, an album that’s out on Joyful Noise Recordings at the start of November. The tracks we’ve heard from it s ofar are sounding rather fine, that one about moving backwards is a real leap forwards. More via Bandcamp

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2: Rainy Miller & Space Afrika share new single featuring Iceboy Violet and RenzNiro – Sweet (I’m Free) is taken from the new album  A Grisaille Wedding released on November 16th via fixed Abode. “Two of the UK’s most prodigious, defining contemporary musical artists and multi-hyphenate creatives, Rainy Miller and Space Afrika prep full kength collaborative project titled ‘A Grisaille Wedding’ due for release in November.

“My verse is about the chase, heartbreak, finding a kind of pleasure in never getting exactly what you want, or having it only temporarily of knowing you can have it again. Of dusting yourself off. Of the joy of taking chances. Rainy Miller asked me to write what I normally do but with a lightness, an edge of positivity and possibility. So I tried to turn a bad situation that was going on into a good one” Iceboy Violet
 
“It’s inspired by the moment you clock all the noise & negativity means nothing & take the decision to move forward, against all the odds and tap into your potential” RenzNiro

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And the kids around here are wired or wierd and something witchy goes this way….

3: Dragged Up have a new EP out via Cruel Nature Records we ll it was new when they sent it, the in-box is out of contro lhere and better late than never. The band are from Glasgow, the label from Northumberland, I think we’ve said this before haven’t we? Dragged Up are brilliant, we’re talking lo-fi collages, some kind of positive off-kilter psych-garage proto-punk that doesn’t need to swagger as much as it just needs you to smile as it sprays a cross on your back. They sound like they’re from Glasgow, they sound like a celebration of all kinds of Glasgow zine-powred DIY things from back there, they sound refreshingly good, they sound like a fairytale in super arcadia and at least one of them is almst sure to hae glittery blue nail varish that’s all cracked and need redoing. They sound like the kind of band we’d have loved to release back in the days whe nwe did that kind o thing,, the kind of band that people would have either loved or just failed to get and I just want to know how many hurricanes there are going to be. Yeah, I know, late with the mention, it came out in Spetember, better late than never, I blame the Art Car Boot Fair or walks to the video shop and we probably should write this in a wretched font while wear pyjamas but I don’t have any, jsut old band t-shierts we’d never leave the studio in. Bandcamp

4: Ghost Woman have just this second or maybe another second that felt rather like this one, shared the second single, Yoko from their forthcoming album, Hindsight is 50/50 due out 24th November on Full Time Hobby.  “The new single spits into life in bursts of squalling guitars, and a mid-song breakdown that infers the live version will far outlive its three and a half recorded minutes” and with that

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The Ghost Woman album details and such are on Bandcamp

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5: Desperate Breakfast, some more, a session, let the music do the talking….

And while we’re here, back in 1972 there was this Italian guy…

‘Prisencolinensinainciusol’ by Adriano Celentano (1972)

The nonsense lyrics to “Prisencolinensinainciusol” were intended to imitate the way American English sounds to non-English speakers. Despite having no actual meaning, the song rose to number one on the charts in Italy, Germany, France and Belgium that year.