– these are the things that have been in our ears this week, please explore and if it sounds interesting then hit the links and make your own minds up, our reviews and thoughts are mere signposts designed to guide you to the things you might like to feast on yourselves... don’t you just love the www. 

No time to shout this week, we're all Ditzy'd out and Made All Up and itching to tell Yous what's so Ditzy Scene - we're itching to get shouting about Ditzy Scene
 

John on the phone...

Well maybe....

ORGAN TV?

ORGAN TV  is on your screens in the UK right now. Every Wednesday evening, 10.30pm  on the OPEN ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY160. And now due to the fine response, repeated every Sunday on SKY883 at 11.15pm.

This coming Sunday we have the following videos...

OURLIVES - Sandra 
BEE STRINGS -   Pressure (Running Away) 
THE KEITH JOHN ADAMS - Other Side Of The Road 
SOHODOLLS - Right and Right Again 
THE DUEL - Camden Town 
CHRIS LIEBING & SPEEDY J - Cream 3 
SIKTH - How May I Help You 
SLIPKNOT - The Heretic 

Next Wednesday and Sunday we have...

LIARS - It Fit When I Was A Kid 
THE SCHLA LA LAS - 1,2,3,4 
DAN DEACON - The Crystal Cat 
THE KEITH JOHN ADAMS - Other Side Of The Road 
65DAYSOFSTATIC - Don't Go Down To Sorrow 
AKERCOCKE - Axiom 
ChthoniC - Quasi Putrefaction 
 
 

What's it all about? Simple, just good music, and the art of good video making...  Same musical policy as we've always had with Organ - the labels are just handy signposts, as long as the music and video making has that X factor - expect a healthy eye/earboiling mix of metal, punk, prog, beats, post rock, post punk, post man pat, hardcore, indie, alternative, pronk, whatever..... music and creativity for the open minded 
 

DEMO OF THE WEEK
INSTRUMENTS – Make Music – Nice demo, nice set of tunes, fine and uplifting and just right. Instruments are a really uplifting pleasing, rather nice, four piece from London. The music is mostly instrumental and I guess you could point at a lot of current post rock and slightly emo-edged post-hardcore math bands. they clearly have a love for things like Polvo and June of 44, for Botch and Isis and Hella and Battles and Don Cabellero – all in a good positive way. Instruments are enjoyable, they’re breezy, they’re about the simple act of making music and enjoying it. Instruments are joyous. Six fine tracks, count them like cats and get all bright eyed  – www.myspace.com/instrumentsmakemusic

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THE BAND OF THE EYE – Band from Bristol making their early Nirvana/Sonic Youth flavoured moves, sounds like a band who are still formulating their ideas and their sound right now. We look forward to the developments – www.myspace.com/thebandoftheeye.

Last week's demo of the week - DEATH QUNT

Previous demo's of the week - OAKWOOD / EPSTEIN SUPERFLU / THE FURIOUS SLEEP / FUNERAL CRASHERS / THUMPERMONKEY LIVES! / HELLFIRE / MR PHORMULA and LEWS TEWNS / THE APPLES / ONSEGEN ENSEMBLE / SASSY

DEMO REVIEW ARCHIVES

ALBUM OF THE WEEK
YOU AND THE ATOM BOMB – The Spirit Of Things (Sink And Stove) - Seems that fair retribution would be to rip their teeth from their mouths and burn their houses to the ground, well we can’t see why that should be, but that is what they said. An exciting opportunity has arisen so get your head screwed on together - You And The Atom Bomb have a new album, feast on the scene, lick your plate clean – this is quite something alright, it was nothing if not that and there really is nothing quite like You And The Atom Bomb and they should be a regular household name (or at least a flash in the pan) because they really are not quite the same - they are quite some thing alright.  The Atom Bomb are really rather unique and quintessentially English and so uplifting and so so good for you. They bounce and spring and like we said before they’re so gleefully fine. Words that make you skip, tunes that make you hop, slices of imaginative and rather original English prog and meaty keyboard rides and bring me the head of anyone who ever says anything bad about You And The Atom Bomb – we won’t hesitate to drag their names through the mud and mock them forever - heads, tails and exuberant post punk pop new wave safety dancing and yes shimmering beat pop toooooooo.   And an effervescent feeling of very eloquent and sing along to the boy/girl dual voices. Get your head together, and you could not do any better, make no mistake, separate the ins from the outs, then let your hair down and think fondly of the time you first heard of the musical fineness and beautiful wordery of You And The Atom Bomb – one of our favouritest bands of all. www.youandtheatombomb.co.uk   (should we say they are so good they are a modern day Hatfield And The North?)
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2 GALLHAMMER – ILL INOCENCE (Peaceville) – A Japanese metal trio who manage to churn up an impressive and rather original mix of classic old school death metal grindcore crust and throw it right out there with the bleakest serving of blackness. An offering that comes with just the right amount of avant edge and an occasional hint of way left field Deerhoof style creative J-rock bounce to add to the Neurosis (capital N) bleakness, the raw thrashing, and the dark dark churning. Most of the time they grinding away in a violent cathartic pit of churning churning oppression and slowcore darkness while they sing of isolation and a world without colour – and just when you’re thinking, they’re right, no colour here, they hit you with all the colour you could possible need and remind you that if you really look (or listen) there is no such thing as black. Viewed properly, black is the most colourful thing there is and Gallhammer are quite possible the finest black metal band in the world right now. They understand the power of restraint and that some times less is so so much more - their music is textured and detailed, no blind obedient following of the metal rules here – Gallhammer are an intelligent cathartic, almost nihilistic challenge. When they need to serve it up with classic Dark Throne Hellhammer rawness, they do. They hint at locked on German space rock for a moment or two, they have the production spot on. They lull you with their Sunn 0))) style epic/quiet minimalism then pummel you with their raw garage thrash – oh and did we mention that all three of them are girls? Not that it matters here. Gallhammer are probably the best metal band out there right now (oh and the artwork is just right as well). www.peaceville.com

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DOWN – Down III: Over The Under (Roadrunner) – New Orleans sludge metal supergroup Down just dropped their third set of bombs. Yes! The answer is yes! Yes it is as good as you expected it to be – massive sludge and doom and righteous wrecking balls of monster size stoner rock and heavy psychedelic blues. You don’t need to be told who they are do you? Led by frontman Phil Anselmo, he of Pantera, good people out of fine bands like Crowbar, Eyehategod, Superjoint Ritual and Corrosion of Conformity – I expect this is all over the mainstream rock press/radio, you don’t really need us telling you how good it is do you. Just check out Never Try – www.down-nola.com / www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk

WE START FIRES – We Start Fires (Hot Noise) – Debut album, is it really their first album? Really? Seems like they’ve been around for ever with their homemade demos, their glitter packed packages and their zine powered DIY releases. We Start Fires are the real deal, they’ve got their hands dirty, they’re worked hard to get here, they’re more than earned it. Twelve slices of girl powered (boy drummer driven) infectiously good electro indie punk pop. These days they’re all slick and polished, slick without ever losing any of their old energy or appeal though, the sound and production is spot on (and ready to break hearts clean in two). They’re the Charlies Angels/Disco Pistol who had the guts to stick to their guns and actually get it done, they’ll spin your heads with their perfect pop – nothing wrong with pop when it comes with heartfelt warmth and honesty like this does. Cool as f indie girl pop, Bananarama for all you Be Your Own Pet fans, a cool as Kim Deal – cool cool cool. www.westartfires.co.uk
 

SODOM – The Final Sign Of Evil (SPV) – A whole load of old 1984 songs re-recorded (or recorded properly for the first time) by the original line up of Tom Angelripper, Grave Violator and Chris Witchhunter right here in 2007. You see, the way we try to do it around these parts is to throw on the music that comes in without really looking at who it is or reading the press release and the hype that generally comes in here with a new release. We try to avoid the the pre-conceived ideas and let the music do the talking – so we threw this on and thought, hey this sounds a little dates and raw, sounds like the early days of thrash and death and Hellhammer and Venom, sounds like 1984 – I kind of like the sound (felt kind of pleased with myself when I got around to checking the facts). I guess this is mostly for those who are already fans (and those who don’t snigger too much at those names – well they don’t really use them themselves now, I guess they’re kind of laughing at themselves as well). Sounds raw and dated and kind of nostalgic is a rather positive sense. Thankfully they’re recorded the songs properly, i.e. raw and blistering and authentically ’84 rather that all polished up and over produced. The album features the tracks from their original In The Sign Of Evil EP along with a whole load of other tracks that date from the time and should have been recorded back then – apparently this twelve track album is what The Sign Of Evil should have sounded like.  The German threesome have got it just right when they could quite easily have made a right dogs dinner of things – despite their silly names, they generally do get things right. Sodom fans and old school death metal thrashheads should be more that happy with this rather fine slice of authentic thrashing old school black/death metal – www.sodomized.info / www.spv.de

SOLAR FIRE TRIO – Rise Up (Foreign Frequency) – 49 minutes, three tracks – free-form jazz meets avant rock noise. A two sax three piece led my Ray Dickaty (Skree, Spiritulized and a million others) on tenor Sax, Dave Jackson on alto sax and held together by some impressive jazzy drumming from Steve Belger. The thing is, that as good as they clearly are (they certainly live up to their reputation) we’ve been rather spoiled by the extra dimensions of both the Original Silence album and the Two Bands And A Legend album in recent times – this in comparison seems a little flat and dare we say polite and predictable and really as free form avant jazz noise goes, well, it really needs to be right out there to grab us now, this is a little run of the mill... www.solarfire.co.uk

BIG BIG TRAIN – The Different Machine (English Electric) - Let be frank here, recent output from Bournemouth’s Big Big Train has been little short of middle of the road dreadful. Bland pedestrian AOR pop rock greyness that they tried to peddle as prog and something that you really did need to avoid. Back in their early 90’s demo tape days Big Big Train threatened interesting things, somewhere along the line they lost their way completely. Something’s happened here though, they’re remembered where they came from, this is a half decent rather worthy neo prog concept album of quite some considerable depth.  Impressive melodic prog adventure that falls somewhere between Spock’s Beard, the clean-cut epicness of Amplifier or Mew and Trick Of The Tail period Genesis – if that sounds like you kind of thing then Big Big Train have a rather positive surprise waiting for you – www.bigbigtrain.com or www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecombigbigtrain

THE BOMBS OF ENDURING FREEDOM – The Bombs Of Enduring Freedom (D.T.M) – Cut up paranoia and punkoid industrial space rock CCTV barcode manipulation. Brainwashed cut ‘n paste fundamentalist vs fundamentalist. Made in “The Council Flat of Mass Destruction”, The Bombs are a media manipulation that tastes of Hawkwind, Ministry, Killing Joke, Ian Brown, The Orb, secret flights, orange suits and post cards from Baghdad. Death is glory and god wants you to buy this (or something like that). Identity theft and twenty-four hour surveillance and sample this. cut up that – a suspect package holiday in someone else’s misery. Samples, riffs, soundbites. Lead by James Fogarty (formally of Ewigkeit), nice manipulation of the BBC News 24 theme there... Where is G.I Jesus? Who are those neo cons? Can you get this in your local shopping mall? The answers are probably not to be found over at www.thebombsofenduringfreedom.com

PEDIGREE – Growing Apart (Nailboard) – Dark-edged and rather impressive, Killing Joke flavoured industrial metal. They’ve been around since 1993, they’re from Tallinn, Estonia. Powerful, dark, churning in a rather impressive Godflesh, Young Gods, Neurosis – hints of dub, dark-art, post rock, trip-hop and a positive experimental edge that makes them well worth your time. This album actually appears to have been released in 2005 – the impressive twelve sliced album arrived in our lives this week via a great big package from “The heaviest Estonian label in the world” – there’s some genuine avant moments here, up there with the bands we name dropped and this is highly recommended www.myspace.com/nailboardrecords or www.myspace.com/pedigree1

THARAPHITA – Primeval Force (Nailboard) – Estonian pagan metal so they say – epic black battle-ready sword-waving metal with just a touch of folk is what it sounds like. Think Bathory meets Trivium with a healthy hint of Pandemonium period Celtic Frost. A little lacking in terms of dimension but hey, they’re well worth your time – this is their 2005 album  www.myspace.com/nailboardrecords or www.myspace.com/tharaphita

THARAPHITA – Iidsetel Sunkjatel Radadel (Nailboard) - And in to 2007 via more of their 13th century Estonian battle calls and yes more of their Primeval Force, a little more dimension this time though, they have indeed built on their previous release. Lost a little of the folk and added a little more black metal power to their this time slightly more conventional battle metal intensity. Apparently the translation of the album title is On Path Ancient And Dark – give me this rather than Dragonforce or Trivium any day of the week. www.myspace.com/tharaphita

NITROUS – Dominant Force (Nailboard) – You guessed it, Estonian again. This time apparently lead by a drag racing champion. Brutal thrashcore that’s drenched in “gasoline and nitrous oxide”. Released in 2006, a brutal bombardment of speeding riffs and thrashing old school metal of a Medulla Nocte intensity – think Medulla in a runaway truck. These Nailboard people certainly know what they’re doing, they’re setting themselves rather healthy standards. www.nailboard.org

EAST TRADING WANG – Favela Yayo Caipirinha (Nailboard) – Colourfully heavy grunge-edged melodic weighty locked-on alternative rock that stands out from the crowd – nothing that obvious here. Tough, driving, meaty and yet again rather impressive. Kind of remind us of Cortizone - www.myspace.com/nailboardrecords

LOITS - Must Album (Nailboard) – More black metal flavours, this time laced with melodic colour and a hint of a gothic/rock n’ roll edge – a mix of In The Woods, Immortal, Venom and a touch of New Model Army in their with a healthy fingerprint of their own, a uniquely Estonian fingerprint? This is their 2007 album - no real idea what they’re singing about, not that up on my Estonian. They use restrained power and emotion rather then brutal speed - www.myspace.com/loits

THE SIN:DECAY (Nailboard) – Colourfully cold and clean-edged melodic electronic goth-laced programming that’s intersected with a corrosive metal riff or two. They’re from Finland, they’ve evolved out of And Oceans and they’re for you people who like bands in the VNV Nation/Kovenant vein  - www.myspace.com/sindecay

MUST MISSA – Martyr of Wrath (Nailbomb) – Relentlessly intense old school punked-up raw thrash metal for people who like it violent, shouty, crunching and right in their faces in a no messing no frills top quality studded arm band and bullet belt Venom/Warfare/Exodus/Kreator/Slayer/Sodom kind of way. Another band from Tallinn, Estonia and another band well worth checking out – www.myspace.com/mustmissa

METSATOLL – Terast Mis Hangund Me Hinge 10218 (Nailbomb) – Now Metsatoll really do sound like a band from Estonia. Once again I have no idea what they’re actually singing about, the title translates as Steel Frozen in Our Souls. Sounds like a rather colourful mix of what I imagine Estonian pagan/drinking/fighting/folk music to sound like - a kind of epic blend of bombastic metal, odd time signatures and traditional folk based around what I’m told is old Estonian runo-singing. Traditional instruments (including what we’re intriguingly told is a stinking drum) weave around metal riffs and thrashy drums. Seems they’ve become “a paragon or a symbol of the preservation and revival of national culture and the Estonian language” – I really hope that if that is the case then things are done in the right way here. Nationalism bothers me, healthy preservation (and evolution) of artistic culture that has some kid of root in a place and time – fine. I have no idea what Metsatoll are singing about, they sound rather good, they’re intriguing and almost certainly unique and their metal sounds rather like Tarantula Hawk  (that is a massive compliment). This is really rather good, Metsatoll are well well worth your time and further investigation - www.myspace.com/nailboardrecords or www.myspace.com/metsatoll
 

Last week's album of the week - MEWITHOUTYOU Previous album's of the week - PRE / LOU REED & ZEITKRATZER / SCRAPS OF TAPE / EVERY TIME I DIE / SOHODOLLS / LIARS / UPSILON ACRUX / MIKROKOSMOS / ODD NOSDAM / MENENDEZ /  GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN  / CHROME HOOF / x

ALBUM REVIEW ARCHIVES

LIVE REVIEW ARCHIVES

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
TINY MASTERS OF TODAY – Hey Mr DJ (Mute) – Double helping of cool on cool – lead track is a gritty slice of soul-filled lo-fi raw edged fuzzing garage guitar stomp from the duo who’s average is just twelve. Powered by the drums and raw production skills of Mr Russell Sims (of the Blues Explosion). Then you get the Liars remix – you don’t need to be told who it is, only one band gets a sound like that – locked on, stripped down and Liar’d up, everything those Liars go near turns to gold, Lairs really are the coolest band in the world right now.. You’ll find the Liars mix on the CD version. The seven inch meanwhile boasts an electro bleep and vocoder remix from CSS – www.tinymasters.net / www.myspace.com/tinymasters

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THE BLEEPS – Dull Thud (Listen For Pleasure) - Wired garage pop with a little bit of an angular edge and a bite of a confident knowing sharp thud of impact. They’re a two piece, apparently they’re half a band who we knew rather positively as Father Of Boon. Dirty, wired and awkwardly good – www.myspace.com/thebleeps

MACHINE HEAD – Halo (Roadrunner) – Single off one of the top metal albums of the year, Machine Head go on moving forward with their intelligent forward looking challenging crunch. 

THE VIOLETS – Trouble Of Keneat (Angular) – Sounds like a classic slice of Germanic new wave Siouxsie And The Banshees/Hazel O’Connor from 1982. Biting bass and sharp delivery, I guess what goes around always comes around again and again, no bad thing, we like the sound of breaking glass and that hint of Gossip drive, a decent single  – www.angularrecords.net or www.myspace.com/thevioletsuk

Last week's single of the week - AND THEIR EYES WERE BLOODSHOT

Previously - BRENDA / CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN AVIATOR / FIGHT LIKE APES / THE SOUND MOVEMENT / THE CULT / LIARS / DAN DEACON / TWIN THOUSANDS / ZAN PAN / THE GENTLE GOOD / TRUCKDRIVER JNR / FRAN RODGERS

SINGLE REVIEW ARCHIVES

PREVIOUSLY - THE HOUSE OF LOVE / MONO / DEEP PURPLE / NUB / ANTHRAX / OMD

PREVIOUSLY - DVD: MIGHTY ROBOT: SLEEP WHEN YOU ARE DEAD / DVD: GLASTONBURY - THE MOVIE / BOOK: THE LANGUAGE OF THE BLUES – Debra De Salvo / BOOK: BERNARD SUMNER – CONFUSION / ZINE: NOISY No5 / DVD: SAMMY AND THE WABOS – LIVING IT UP IN ST.LOUIS / DVD - NAZARETH – FROM THE BEGINNING

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ORGAN 220 - PRE, LOU REED/ZEITKRATZER, DEATH QUNT, BRENDA, CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN AVIATOR, VENICE IS SINKING, THE FLATLINERS, MONO, GLASTONBURY - THE MOVIE, CHRISTOPHER REES, KNIGHT AREA, THRUSHES, VOODOOSHOCK, SENDELICA,  W.A.K.O, BEEHOOVER, MINUS THE BEAR, EMIGRATE, EVILE, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, ZEBEDY RAYS, THE BROKEN HEARTS, BLACK LIGHT THEATRE, BLESSTHEFALL, THE HOPE AVENUE, CAMDEN STABLES MARKET

ORGAN 219 - SCRAPS OF TAPE, WAR FROM A HARLOT’S MOUTH, HEAVEN AND HELL, CAREER SUICIDE, LINED UP VOL 1, MONSTERS BUILD MEAN ROBOTS, SEVENYEARSDEAD, FIGHTSTAR, LUNATIC, FIGHT LIKE APES, THE DOMINO STATE, EPSTEIN SUPERFLU, OAKWOOD, HERZOGA 

ORGAN 218 - JOHN ADAMS / BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, VILE VILE CREATURES, EVERY TIME I DIE, SOHODOLLS, WHITE HILLS, MUNICIPAL WASTE, HOPE IS NOISE, THE BLACKOUT ARGUMENT, TIMO RAISANEN, PATRICK WATSON, THE CONDORS, THE FURIOUS SLEEP, FUNERAL CRASHERS, FIRESUITE, CODA, KUBICHEK, THE SOUND MOVEMENT, WEASEL WALTER, RADIOHEAD, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, HENRY ROLLINS, DOWN, DEEP PURPLE, THE LANGUAGE OF THE BLUES – Debra De Salvo 

ORGAN 217 - LIARS, UPSILON ACRUX, TED MAUL, GUTWORM, BLACK BONZO, ALLFLAWS, NUB, THE CULT, ODD SHAPED HEAD, THUMPERMONKEY LIVES!, ARTY KARATE, I KILLED PHAROAH, SUPERJIMENEZ , TONY WILSON, VILE VILE CREATURES, RADIOHEAD, WINTERS, HERZOGA, SCARLETT JOHANSSON, TV ON THE RADIO, CRITICAL MASS... 

ORGAN 216 - MIKROKOSMOS, ODD NOSDAM, MENENDEZ, ANTHRAX(uk). AKERCOCKE, MOHA!, THE BDI’s, HANOI ROCKS, SPIKE, LIARS, HELLFIRE, TIME.SPACE.REPEAT, SISTER, JOHN & JEHN, BEARSUIT, BERNARD SUMNER biography, The LONDON FETISH FAIR, DIABLESSE SCREAMING EAGLE, HIGH ON FIRE, TO THE BONES, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, OTTO VON SHIRACH, CHROME HOOF and more....