Maybe we will next week?  Maybe we'll have smiles as wide as crocodiles? Maybe? Maybe stupid bands will stop sending us e.mail asking us to vote for stupid shit? 

I guess you think we should tell you about Ophelia Torah at Lark In The Park, or Bill Drake last week? Maybe we will next week?  Waste is a thief and why do people think it OK to just take sound files of very very reasonably new releases on independent labels and put them up on line for every one to have free? Pretty soon there won’t be any labels willing to take the risk, then all you’ll have will be Kaiser Chiefs telling you how everything is average. 

– 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. 

John on the phone...

CRAP ARREST OF THE WEEK - For singing 'We Are The Champions'... A 16 year old was arrested this week - along with four others - at Smash EDO's awful 'Bad Karaoke' event outside the gates of the Brighton bomb factory. Obviously the police and EDO MBM Managing Director Paul Hills weren't feeling in the mood after having love songs sung to them plus an 'extraordinary' rendition of that hackneyed old gloating chant "We are the Champions". The cops singled our lad out from the talent contest after he and another - also nicked - had earlier been spotted setting up the evil karaoke machine. Obviously the police and Paul Hills aren't fans of Queen (but quite probably The Queen). * For film of this crap arrest and the rest of the day's greatest hits see here – Crap Arrest of the week is brought to you by the ever informative www.schnews.org.uk

ORGAN TV?

This coming Sunday we have the following videos...

VIKING MOSES - Little Emma's Smile 
ODD SHAPED HEAD - Egomatic Annie 
TIM ARNOLD - Another World 
AARON MCMULLEN - Blue From Black 
BEE STINGS -  Pressure (Running Away) 
THE KIETH JOHN ADAMS - The Other Side Of The Road 
65DAYSOFSTATIC - Don't Go Down To Sorrow 
TANGAROA - Vietnamese Killing Queens 

Next Wednesday and Sunday we have...

ODD SHAPED HEAD - Egomatic Annie
TIM ARNOLD - Another World
AARON MCMULLEN - Blue From Black 
LILY GREEN - Patience
EMIGRATE - My World
ASSDROIDS - Daft Crunk 
THE ICARUS LINE - Gets Paid
CULT OF LUNA - Leave Me Here 
 

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
BASTARDS OF THE SKIES – Quite why this band aren’t big news all over the pages of the glossy metal press and toasted by those who like to think they’re in the know when it comes to the UK metal underground scene I don’t really know. Maybe they’re not obvious enough? Seems pretty obvious to us. Another excellent demo from the appropriately named Blackburn outfit Bastards of The Skies then, three more swooping scathing sludging tracks, three more slices of essential sonic violence. Relentless low-end metal that’ll rumble right over you in that High On Fire/Melvins/Fudge Tunnel manner of theirs. They a bit of a groove to the relentlessly heavy sludge, not just dumb riffing, these bastards have substance, they know what they’re doing (and they can damn well play –check those flowing drums). Last time we talked of great big tar pits of sound and millions of holes all over Blackburn Lancashire and we’re going to damn well do it again  - no time to compromise around here, Bastards Of The Skies dropped another excellent demo, you really should take the time to check them out  – www.myspace.com/bastardoftheskies

DEMO OF THE WEEK 2
MEHE – Intense monolithic rock-moving seam-splitting alt.metal and a rather tasty three piece churning and thrashing out of Oslo (Sweden). Heavy heavy slow-moving thrashy alt.rock that will stick in your brain and stomp on everything else. They can speed things up when they need to get a steam on, kind of deceptive and relentless like some giant charging pissed-off rhino that doesn’t appear to be moving that fast until you try to outrun it - they have an alternative other-rock edge to them, a heavier (much heavier) Shellac or Sicbay maybe? This is good, this is very good! Fire up the radio transmitter, we got one here for you...www.meheband.com or www.myspace.com/musicinthevoid

Last week's demo of the week - THE PRETTY YOUNG THINGS

Previous demo's of the week - HAPPY PENGUIN HUNGRY BEAR / SOMEBODY’S MIND / INSTRUMENTS / DEATH QUNT / 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
RASHOMON - The Ruined Map: Film Music Volume 1 (Mirrors) - An instrumental project from ex-Guapo member Matt Thompson, collaborating with a small number of other musicians including Nought's excellent drummer Paul Westwood.   'The Ruined Map (Film Music Volume 1)'  is very much worth hunting down.   'Each track on the album is based on a different film - not specifically in the form of soundtracks, but rather as companion pieces to the psychic states invoked by the more bizarre outer reaches of experimental narrative cinema' - films such as Confessions Of An Opium Eater, Jan Svankmeyer's A Quiet Week In The House, Onibaba, Lancelot Du Lac... a mixture of avant prog, Balkan folk, trad metal, modern composition, drone and psyche rock... inspired by soundtrack composers such as Morricone, Toru Takemitsu and by visionaries such as Magma, Popul Vuh... not to mention Judas Priest,' it says here.  This is really very good stuff, Onibaba and Blast of Silence reminiscent of 5UUs, The Art Bears, in places Thinking Plague, referencing Van Der Graaf Generator and all manner of Matt Thompson's extensive avant rock knowledge. Was that an Arab On Radar moment there? Others lean towards atmospherics, whilst Branded To Kill is the Priest meets Boredoms thing. Influences aside, the whole premise works extremely well - A Quiet Week In The House captures the surrealist short film of the same name perfectly, right down to its neurotic repetition, broken-down Balkan style and Svankmayer's twitchy editing.  The other films I've not seen, but something visual, narrative and emotionally distinct is suggested by each composition.  Better than alternative soundtracks, they're trailers, sending you straight to the nearest arthouse cinema. www.myspace.com/rashomon68
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ALSO CHECK OUT AKIMBO – Navigating The Bronze (Alternative Tentacles) – Dynamic heaviness from deepest Seattle - muscled-up drums (one track pretty much is a drum solo), a ferocious sound, low slung and heavy, brooding alternative head-messing classic punked-up hard rock - tight as hell rhythm section, tight as hell everything! Frantic playing/pace switching heavy intensity for fans of Melvins, Sicbay or maybe a stripped back laid bare Neurosis ripping in to an AC/DC riff or two! For fans of great big old school no time for messing around noise-making monster bands that just know how to rock out with mega riffs and big amps (and big everything). Big crushing riffing get-in-the-van old school stoner-edged punk-ass filthy blues based prog-fused hard rock monster riffing righteous goodness – check out the monster that is Wizard Van Wizard! Oh yes, their finest album yet – www.myspace.com/akimbo – Alternative Tentacle releases are available in the UK via www.cargorecords.co.uk

MONSTER MAGNET – 4-Way Diablo (SPV) – Twelve new Wyndorf bites and a Rolling Stones cover – 2000 Light Years From Home - you come to expect an interesting cover with your new Monster Magnet album by now don’t you? Monster Magnet albums are always welcome around these parts, this one is taking a little more time to hit the spot though, and as good as it is, I’m really not sure if ever will quite hit the centre of that spot like they have done in the past – I must confess I’m a tad disappointed. Little less Hawkwind, little more Turbonegro this time around – a little more psycho garage thrashy when quite a few others are already down that road and down – and indeed down that road with a bit more speed and dirt – I don’t know, maybe it will turn out to be a grower? www.monstermagnet.net

DIMITRIJ – Words-Objects (Noise Appeal) - Helmet/Drive Like Jehu flavoured post-hardcore intelligent urgency from Austria. Busy, blistering, frantic yet melodic, clever, challenging - plenty to get your teeth in to – www.noiseappeal.com

THE WINCHESTER CLUB – Britannia Triumphant (WHI) – Refined laid back whispered delicate ambient atmospheric post-rock tunes – looping guitar, field-sounds, quiet drones that slowly unobtrusively building in to epic delights of an easy-on-the-ear GodspeedYBE/Tortoise nature, slowly evolving instrumental passages with the occasional spoken word. All very easy and relaxing and rather rewarding – deceptively simple (although I’m sure it isn’t). Three pieces that add up to thirty five minutes of peaceful listening that allows you to forget everything – all your responsibilities, all your problems and simple experience the moment. The mellowest of mellow quality that frees you from everything and allows you all the time in the world.   www.thewinchesterclub.org

BELLAVISTA – Bellavista (Take Root) – Debut album from a San Francisco band who take in healthy hints of raw Echo And The Bunnymen, Jesus And Mary Chain and a whole load of edgy alternative 80’s sounding English/British things and mixes them with a healthy slice or two of something that nods towards a scuzzy slightly wired early pre sell-out Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – www.bellavista.tv or www.myspace.com/bellavistapsychbeat
 

Last week's album of the week - SAMARA LUBELSKI Previous album's of the week - EFTERKLANG / TAINT / AMERICAN STEEL / ATHLETIC AUTOMATON / YOU AND THE ATOM BOMB / GALLHAMMER / MEWITHOUTYOU / PRE / LOU REED & ZEITKRATZER / SCRAPS OF TAPE / EVERY TIME I DIE / SOHODOLLS / LIARS / UPSILON ACRUX / MIKROKOSMOS / ODD NOSDAM / MENENDEZ /  GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN x

ALBUM REVIEW ARCHIVES

LIVE REVIEW ARCHIVES

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
VESSELS – Two Words And A Gesture (Cuckundoo) – Another fine single from the always rewarding Vessels. Two new tracks and two fine uplifting refined slices of clever (never too clever) easy on the ear melodic clean-cut mathematical indie post-rock goodness. This time around they gently glow and ease you in to their sunlit days with a beautiful uplifting song called Two Words And A Gesture, they taste of Battles and 65Days and Brian Eno as they build up the well of positive emotion. Over on the b-side things are even better, a delightful dynamically quiet song called Clear And Calm that really does afford a wonderful view – if My Vitriol were to go all post-rock and triumphant? Another fine single from Vessels. – www.vesselsband.com or www.myspace.com/cuckundoorecords

SINGLE OF THE WEEK 2
4 OR 5 MAGICIANS – Forever On The Edge (Alcopop) – Former demo of the week band around these parts with their debut single proper. They’re from the edge, or maybe they’re forever from Brighton? It looks like they’re not going have to pin every single one of their hopes on a lottery ticket and it wasn’t a total waste of time to spend every moment playing cricket. They sound like an English slacker band, Wedding Present meets Buffalo Tom or Pavement  - that’s very lazy of me and it really obvious and it certainly isn’t that important being important. They do have the pacing of one of those classic 90’s US Dinosaur Jr/Pond/Guided By Voices style bands despite their very obvious Englishness (and this being their last chance to dance) and their satirical nature and what do they/we know anyway? Forever On The Edge doesn’t really sound like anyone or anything else, someone out there has to like their stuff (we do), scraping by, Sainsbury’s basics until we’re all dead and gone and we’ve all stopped wasting out lives telling you about these bands. Hello, what’s your name again? A fine fine debut slice of English alt.rock and we need a new Wedding Present and I was just about to leave... we want everyone to form an orderly queue and pin all your hopes on these four or five fine magicians – www.myspace.com/4or5magicians

SINGLE OF THE WEEK 3
TIME.SPACE.REPEAT – The End Of The World (God Is In The TV) – Two track download only single from London’s rapidly developing Time.Space.Repeat (and from the God Is In The TV zine people as well, nice one). Lead track of two is a glorious slice of sky touching shoe-gaizing post-rock flavoured levitation that comes laced with just the right amount of edgy tight-rope walking tension and uncertainty – will we get to the end of the world or? Six minutes of uplifting hope and spiraling drama and it clearly can’t be the end? No, not when creation like this - joyous and hopeful – ok, lazy one liner: Radiohead on a happy day – hey, you’ve got your new Radiohead album for 50p or whatever you paid, now treat yourself to this and get to a T.S.R gig, they’re rather excellent live as well. Second track here is a fine fine piece of dramatic quietness and mellow beauty called No Laces, two very fine tracks from a very fine band with a very fine attitude and a clear love for their art and music in general, a refreshing and recommended band who exist for all the right reasons - www.timespacerepeat.com or www.myspace.com/timespacerepeat

SINGLE OF THE WEEK 4
WE START FIRES – Let’s Get Our Hands Dirty (Hot Noise) – Another perfect pop single from the now quite perfect We Start Fires gang. Spot on fizzing girl-voiced synth pop with just the right amount of ice-cool bite. Perfectly produced – slick and smooth without losing an inch of that DIY glitter punk edge they had back there when they first landed with their hand made demo recordings. Back seat dirty handed pop music that will dance you in to surrender. Cool Fischerspooner flavoured seven minute electro mix from renowned pop song remixers Manhattan Clique as well. Proper cool as f pop music, everything pop should be - www.westartfires.co.uk

Last week's single of the week - LOVE AND A .45

Previously - BLUE STATES / EFTERKLANG / NATO / TINY MASTERS OF TODAY / AND THEIR EYES WERE BLOODSHOT / BRENDA / CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN AVIATOR / FIGHT LIKE APES / THE SOUND MOVEMENT / THE CULT / LIARS / DAN DEACON / TWIN THOUSANDS / ZAN PAN / THE GENTLE GOOD / TRUCKDRIVER JNR

SINGLE REVIEW ARCHIVES

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

PREVIOUSLY - NEMESIS TO GO #4 / 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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