A quick reminder first of all, with full details here and here
And for further listening, our hundred best tunes of 2025
60 Autocamper - What Do You Do All Day?
59 Hannah Frances - Nested In Tangles
58 Geese - Getting Killed
57 Florist - Jellywish
56 Laundromat Chicks - Sometimes Possessed
55 Dancer - More Or Less
54 Melody's Echo Chamber - Unclouded
53 jasmine.4.t - You Are The Morning
52 Jeanines - How Long Can It Last
51 Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy
50 Neev - How Things Tie In Knots
49 Breakup Haircut - No Worries If Not!
48 Deradoorian - Ready For Heaven
47 caroline - Caroline 2
46 Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz
45 Joanne Robertson - Blurrr
44 The Cords - The Cords
43 Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo
42 Matt Berninger - Get Sunk
41 Snooper - Worldwide
40 Cheekface - Middle Spoon
39 C Duncan - It's Only A Love Song
38 Tulpa - Monster Of The Week
37 Little Simz - Lotus
36 Sudan Archives - THE BPM
35 Adwaith - Solas
34 Panda Bear - Sinister Grift
33 Sacred Paws - Jump Into Life
32 Jens Lekman - Songs For Other People's Weddings
31 Lambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs Out
30 Anna B Savage - You & I are Earth
29 Wet Leg - Moisturizer
28 Ex-Vöid - In Love Again
27 Allo Darlin - Bright Nights
26 Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles - Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles
25 Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
24 Hayden Pedigo - I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away
23 Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Mercy
22 Cate Le Bon - Michaelangelo Dying
21 The Tubs - Cotton Crown
20 Gwenifer Raymond - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark
Hurrah for the American Primitive, only British! Raymond's extraordinary playing style tells stories and sets locales by itself
19 Fortitude Valley - Part Of The Problem, Baby
Whatever Laura Kovic is singing about, the bounce of their take on harmonic punk-pop/power-pop is summer-ready and irresistible as it yearns for an escape
18 Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film
The Groop return to do up the space-age bachelor pad in new shades of lounge motoric and politi-philosophical. Best they've been this century
17 The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie
Still hooky and anthemic with a certain sadness just below the surface, this time with less of a continued rush as the world and passing time catches up
16 Big Thief - Double Infinity
A reconfiguration of what their band is leads to a looser, more jammy and psychedelic wandering rather than snaking. Whisper it, but as good as this is, had they stuck with the 2024 live versions...
15 Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band - New Threats From The Soul
57 minutes for seven tracks? It has to be to fit the full weight of Davis' poetic exploratory eye for character sketches and the opulent take on alt-country backing
14 Youth Lagoon - Rarely Do I Dream
Trevor Powers' late career renaissance continues with a VHS-taped night drive, all atmospheric synths and percussive movement with terrors perhaps lurking
13 Pulp - More
For all the "kings of Britpop" stuff, doesn't this sound more like a natural successor to their pre-His'n'Hers identity, albeit one that can afford strings?
12 Wednesday - Bleeds
Karly Hartzman still expertly, poetically mining obervations of small town shame backed by a country rock band letting loose on shoegaze pedals
11 Model/Actriz - Pirouette
So you can't combine dance beats and corrosive self-examination? Cole Haden's tense queer intimacy and vulnerability is made more apparent by its taut, industrial percussiveness
10 Panic Shack - Panic Shack
Raucous, funny, occasionally meaningful, occasionally social, always the last girl gang in town. The authentic sound of the Womanby Street/St Mary Street junction
9 billy woods - GOLLIWOG
Sounds like nobody else, clambering its way through thickets of disturbing ambient and jazz loops, his and his guests' flows detailing slices of paranoid life
8 Prolapse - I Wonder When They're Going To Destroy Your Face
Attacking noise guitar like Reich breaking down, motorik insistence and a drunk Scotsman shouting absurdity. 26 years away and still nobody quite sounds like their racket
7 Perfume Genius - Glory
As anyone who saw this being performed live, there's an odd theatrically creeping in but not so much it affects Mike Hadreas' idiosyncratically grand anxiety of self and dislocation
6 mclusky - the world is still here and so are we
If only everything in life were as reliable as Andy Falkous. And also as impassionedly, abrasively hilarious, but then where would the uniqueness be?
5 Gwenno - Utopia
Ms Saunders considers her previous lives, sings in English - JUDAS! - and finds a dreamier, more ruminative version of her playfully psychedelic self
4 For Those I Love - Carving The Stone
David Balfe, who married grief in spoken word with dancefloor euphoria four years ago, casts an impassioned, raging and rueful eye over his conflicted relationship with Ireland. Also the most astonishing live set we saw all year
3 Backxwash - Only Dust Remains
Mostly laying off on the punishing soundscapes of old but not the twisted samples and loops and absolutely not the darker than hell lyrical content, building on a spiritual intensity that lays absolutely everything out
2 Rosalia - Lux
The year's most audacious album by some stretch. Symphony orchestra-backed luxuriant dramatic and experimental transcendence across a range of languages, and it all works out as a Bjork-inspired singularity
1 CMAT - EURO-COUNTRY
A remarkable record for Ciara's miracle year. Her own reckoning with post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, but also with her own impulses, grief, mental health and late stage capitalist personal identity with a unique lyrical eye. Also, it's a pop record. You feel in 2025 nobody else would have had the far-sightedness to make either this or Lux, and that's why they're there
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
STN's albums of 2025: 40-21
40 Cheekface - Middle Spoon
America's local band signal more dispatches from the nerdy, mostly impoverished artist ranks, looking out wryly at the outside world
39 C Duncan - It's Only A Love Song
An unexpected turn into romantic chamber pop, ornate swooning and swooping strings flavouring Nilsson-inspired songwriting that borders on the timeless
38 Tulpa - Monster Of The Week
Score another for Skep Wax! Ringing guitars and iridescent melodies nodding at US college rock's early 90s golden age, harmonies and knowing raggedness intersecting
37 Little Simz - Lotus
Inflo doesn't come out of it well. What does, for the most part, is a sense of Simbi trying to find herself again and finding a jazzy stillness
36 Sudan Archives - THE BPM
Taking a turn to the club, while crucially not letting the trap beats, vocal effects and house 303s overtake her well established personality
35 Adwaith - Solas
A 23-track odyssey pushing their expanding post-punk into new musical corners and emerging as psych-dipped warriors ready for arenas or electronic worlds
34 Panda Bear - Sinister Grift
The songs based on loops pick up where his Sonic Boom collaboration left off; the stacked self-harmonies, collages and sunlit uplands refract his own past into something more easily accepting
33 Sacred Paws - Jump Into Life
Back to dance through the anxiety, the exuberant hi-life guitar and restless rhythms one more reflecting the internalised joy and tension
32 Jens Lekman - Songs For Other People's Weddings
Jens takes his talent for extraordinary detail to a lengthy concept based on his nuptials side hustle, capturing unfolding stories amid a return to musical mini-grandiosity
31 Lambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs Out
The riot grrrls are back alive and giving out about the ever growing list of ills with intense force, both politically lyrically and in slabs of noise
30 Anna B Savage - You & I are Earth
Newly moved to Ireland and reckoning with her new rural surroundings, this might be the most intimate she's been which is some benchmark
29 Wet Leg - Moisturizer
In which they not only have to build on the sturdy foundations but Rhian is negotiating love. Turns out their expansive enough to make sure they're in it for the long haul
28 Ex-Vöid - In Love Again
Owen Williams' first of two appearances comes with his (and Lan McArdle's) already defunct fuzzed out hook factory of a classic power-pop outfit
27 Allo Darlin - Bright Nights
Back together, more low-key, countrified and grown into the demands of family and coping with new priorities while still wistful for the bigger picture
26 Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles - Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles
Sparhawk's first full band album since losing Mimi Parker, joining local bluegrass heroes to emotively shape a world after grief
25 Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
Van Etten forms a band around her and extends her already widescreen ambitions from indie-folk safety into electronic gothic moods and spaces
24 Hayden Pedigo - I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away
Hurrah for the American Primitive! Pedigo's fingerpicked instrumentals tell of wide open spaces, rippling vistas and undimmed small scale ambition
23 Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Mercy
billy woods' first of two appearances on the list, reteaming with ELUCID to outline a dank manual of survival, keeping heads above the piano/synth loop waters
22 Cate Le Bon - Michaelangelo Dying
Another twist in Le Bon's exploration of post-Bowie art-pop, even finding a distinct, cryptic, sometimes queasy voice in heartbreak of all potential cliches
21 The Tubs - Cotton Crown
Owen again, still sounding like Richard Thompson Sings Bob Mould if more the latter's early solo stuff, the jangle-adjacent power-pop mostly grown up and more contemplative
America's local band signal more dispatches from the nerdy, mostly impoverished artist ranks, looking out wryly at the outside world
39 C Duncan - It's Only A Love Song
An unexpected turn into romantic chamber pop, ornate swooning and swooping strings flavouring Nilsson-inspired songwriting that borders on the timeless
38 Tulpa - Monster Of The Week
Score another for Skep Wax! Ringing guitars and iridescent melodies nodding at US college rock's early 90s golden age, harmonies and knowing raggedness intersecting
37 Little Simz - Lotus
Inflo doesn't come out of it well. What does, for the most part, is a sense of Simbi trying to find herself again and finding a jazzy stillness
36 Sudan Archives - THE BPM
Taking a turn to the club, while crucially not letting the trap beats, vocal effects and house 303s overtake her well established personality
35 Adwaith - Solas
A 23-track odyssey pushing their expanding post-punk into new musical corners and emerging as psych-dipped warriors ready for arenas or electronic worlds
34 Panda Bear - Sinister Grift
The songs based on loops pick up where his Sonic Boom collaboration left off; the stacked self-harmonies, collages and sunlit uplands refract his own past into something more easily accepting
33 Sacred Paws - Jump Into Life
Back to dance through the anxiety, the exuberant hi-life guitar and restless rhythms one more reflecting the internalised joy and tension
32 Jens Lekman - Songs For Other People's Weddings
Jens takes his talent for extraordinary detail to a lengthy concept based on his nuptials side hustle, capturing unfolding stories amid a return to musical mini-grandiosity
31 Lambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs Out
The riot grrrls are back alive and giving out about the ever growing list of ills with intense force, both politically lyrically and in slabs of noise
30 Anna B Savage - You & I are Earth
Newly moved to Ireland and reckoning with her new rural surroundings, this might be the most intimate she's been which is some benchmark
29 Wet Leg - Moisturizer
In which they not only have to build on the sturdy foundations but Rhian is negotiating love. Turns out their expansive enough to make sure they're in it for the long haul
28 Ex-Vöid - In Love Again
Owen Williams' first of two appearances comes with his (and Lan McArdle's) already defunct fuzzed out hook factory of a classic power-pop outfit
27 Allo Darlin - Bright Nights
Back together, more low-key, countrified and grown into the demands of family and coping with new priorities while still wistful for the bigger picture
26 Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles - Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles
Sparhawk's first full band album since losing Mimi Parker, joining local bluegrass heroes to emotively shape a world after grief
25 Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
Van Etten forms a band around her and extends her already widescreen ambitions from indie-folk safety into electronic gothic moods and spaces
24 Hayden Pedigo - I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away
Hurrah for the American Primitive! Pedigo's fingerpicked instrumentals tell of wide open spaces, rippling vistas and undimmed small scale ambition
23 Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Mercy
billy woods' first of two appearances on the list, reteaming with ELUCID to outline a dank manual of survival, keeping heads above the piano/synth loop waters
22 Cate Le Bon - Michaelangelo Dying
Another twist in Le Bon's exploration of post-Bowie art-pop, even finding a distinct, cryptic, sometimes queasy voice in heartbreak of all potential cliches
21 The Tubs - Cotton Crown
Owen again, still sounding like Richard Thompson Sings Bob Mould if more the latter's early solo stuff, the jangle-adjacent power-pop mostly grown up and more contemplative
Monday, December 22, 2025
STN's albums of 2025: 60-41
We've never gone as far as a top 60 before, but that's how packed out with goodness the year was on an LP scale when even number 60 is something as instant and likeable as...
60 Autocamper - What Do You Do All Day?
Janglepop as she is spoke in the modern day, taking the influences of the Glasgow and Dunedin scenes into their own cohesive whole
59 Hannah Frances - Nested In Tangles
Fingerpicked folk with emotional and musical complexity, part-produced by Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen touching on avant-jazz and weird orchestrally influenced avenues
58 Geese - Getting Killed
The new black - idiosyncratic fragmentated shards of art-rock, Pavementish slacker and fifty years of Brooklyn cool
57 Florist - Jellywish
Emily Sprague and co's fifth album of sumptuously textured folk on the wonders of the existential world
56 Laundromat Chicks - Sometimes Possessed
Vienna's janglepop emissaries' third album feels like cramming a history of the genre into raggedly packaged small packages
55 Dancer - More Or Less
Slightly less slippery, slightly brighter and more approachable for newcomers, yet still within its own sphere of angular post-punk shapes
54 Melody's Echo Chamber - Unclouded
All of thirty minutes of ethereal dreampop wrapped in a neo-psych gossamer haze lifted by retro-seeming breakbeats
53 jasmine.4.t - You Are The Morning
Shapeshifting coming out, in more than one term, for Boygenius-produced close to the bone songwriting against a range from spare piano ballad to extravagant orchestration
52 Jeanines - How Long Can It Last
13 tracks in 22 minuted, efficiently filled with melody and hooks on nodding terms with C86 and those bands' own influences
51 Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy
He didn't need to reform Sugar (though he did) to affirm that his command of fuzz pedaller power and meaningful charge is well into its latest wind
50 Neev - How Things Tie In Knots
Richly expanding plaintive indie-folk founded in the tension of expectation and release of acceptance, which could take on much more feted American contemporaries in her field
49 Breakup Haircut - No Worries If Not!
DIY punk-pop and power-pop joy, sharper and often speedier, digging its nails into itself
48 Deradoorian - Ready For Heaven
As inquisitive with structure and vocal runs as her previous employer Dirty Projectors, refracted through restless psychedelia and art-pop
47 caroline - Caroline 2
Progressive in the best sense, experimental in the warmest sense, a suite of snippets, wild moments that gradually pull together and expansive post-rock plaintiveness
46 Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz
Overshadowed by TV On The Radio's reformation, Tunde's solo debut bathes in insistent beats and electronics against that familiar holler
45 Joanne Robertson - Blurrr
The best of the new wave of dread-filled singer-songwriters brings a weird beauty in murk, both lyrically and in the distant Grouper-like wraith of her solo sketches
44 The Cords - The Cords
Scotland's newest exponents of The Jangle, still teens but who seem to have infused and reframed decades of forebears
43 Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo
Cosmic jazz-funk with spiritual and oddball vibes, born from personal tragedy, sprawling into contemplative shapes trying to understand it all and move on into the mothership connection
42 Matt Berninger - Get Sunk
Subtle, textured, lyrically sweeping, the best album he's made for a while
41 Snooper - Worldwide
A frantic 28 minutes - short records are a real thing this year, huh, but don't worry, so will be long records - of their self-christened "egg punk" designed to repeatedly hurl itself into a brick wall
60 Autocamper - What Do You Do All Day?
Janglepop as she is spoke in the modern day, taking the influences of the Glasgow and Dunedin scenes into their own cohesive whole
59 Hannah Frances - Nested In Tangles
Fingerpicked folk with emotional and musical complexity, part-produced by Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen touching on avant-jazz and weird orchestrally influenced avenues
58 Geese - Getting Killed
The new black - idiosyncratic fragmentated shards of art-rock, Pavementish slacker and fifty years of Brooklyn cool
57 Florist - Jellywish
Emily Sprague and co's fifth album of sumptuously textured folk on the wonders of the existential world
56 Laundromat Chicks - Sometimes Possessed
Vienna's janglepop emissaries' third album feels like cramming a history of the genre into raggedly packaged small packages
55 Dancer - More Or Less
Slightly less slippery, slightly brighter and more approachable for newcomers, yet still within its own sphere of angular post-punk shapes
54 Melody's Echo Chamber - Unclouded
All of thirty minutes of ethereal dreampop wrapped in a neo-psych gossamer haze lifted by retro-seeming breakbeats
53 jasmine.4.t - You Are The Morning
Shapeshifting coming out, in more than one term, for Boygenius-produced close to the bone songwriting against a range from spare piano ballad to extravagant orchestration
52 Jeanines - How Long Can It Last
13 tracks in 22 minuted, efficiently filled with melody and hooks on nodding terms with C86 and those bands' own influences
51 Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy
He didn't need to reform Sugar (though he did) to affirm that his command of fuzz pedaller power and meaningful charge is well into its latest wind
50 Neev - How Things Tie In Knots
Richly expanding plaintive indie-folk founded in the tension of expectation and release of acceptance, which could take on much more feted American contemporaries in her field
49 Breakup Haircut - No Worries If Not!
DIY punk-pop and power-pop joy, sharper and often speedier, digging its nails into itself
48 Deradoorian - Ready For Heaven
As inquisitive with structure and vocal runs as her previous employer Dirty Projectors, refracted through restless psychedelia and art-pop
47 caroline - Caroline 2
Progressive in the best sense, experimental in the warmest sense, a suite of snippets, wild moments that gradually pull together and expansive post-rock plaintiveness
46 Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz
Overshadowed by TV On The Radio's reformation, Tunde's solo debut bathes in insistent beats and electronics against that familiar holler
45 Joanne Robertson - Blurrr
The best of the new wave of dread-filled singer-songwriters brings a weird beauty in murk, both lyrically and in the distant Grouper-like wraith of her solo sketches
44 The Cords - The Cords
Scotland's newest exponents of The Jangle, still teens but who seem to have infused and reframed decades of forebears
43 Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo
Cosmic jazz-funk with spiritual and oddball vibes, born from personal tragedy, sprawling into contemplative shapes trying to understand it all and move on into the mothership connection
42 Matt Berninger - Get Sunk
Subtle, textured, lyrically sweeping, the best album he's made for a while
41 Snooper - Worldwide
A frantic 28 minutes - short records are a real thing this year, huh, but don't worry, so will be long records - of their self-christened "egg punk" designed to repeatedly hurl itself into a brick wall
Friday, December 19, 2025
STN's tracks of the year 2025
Well, the coast seems clear this far in so here we go - the hundred most exciting, affecting, thought-provoking, exhilirating, hilarious and/or joyous songs we've heard this year. Your mileage may - no, absolutely 100% will - vary. Sorry about the lack of individual track links below the Spotify playlist but THERE'S A HUNDRED OF THEM.
adults - patterns
Adwaith - Planed
Allo Darlin' - Tricky Questions
Amelia & The Housewives - Summer's Over
Anna B Savage - Mo Cheol Thú
Anna Hillburg - The Shape's Gonna Shift My Way
Anna von Hausswolff feat. Ethel Cain - Aging Young Women
The Baby Seals - Tamoo Trance
Backxwash - Black Lazarus
bar italia - Cowbella
Baxter Dury feat. JGrrey - Return Of The Sharp Heads
The Beths - Metal
Big Thief - Incomprehensible
Bill Callahan - The Man I'm Supposed To Be
billy woods feat. Steel Tipped Dove - BLK ZMBY
Bobby Conn - Never Felt Better
Bob Mould - Neanderthal
Boko Yout - 9-2-5
Breakup Haircut - Spite! Spite! Spite!
Brògeal - Vicar Street Days
caroline - Total euphoria
Cate Le Bon - Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?
C Duncan - Think About It
Cheekface - Art House
CMAT - The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station
Comet Gain - The Ballad Of The Lives We Led
The Cords - Fabulist
Dancer - Baby Blue
David Lowery - I Wrote A Song Called Take The Skinheads Bowling
Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day
Ducks Ltd. - Deleted Scenes
Ellie O'Neill - Little Sister
Ethel Cain - Nettles
Ex-Vöid - In Love Again
Factory Floor - Between You
Florist - Gloom Designs
For Those I Love - Of The Sorrows
Fortitude Valley - Oceans Apart
frown line - Days Without
Geese - Cobra
Girl Group - Yay! Saturday
Glimmerpit - Nein Danke
Goat feat. MC Yallah - Nimerudi
Gwenifer Raymond - Jack Parsons Blues
Gwenno - Dancing On Volcanoes
Hannah Frances - Falling From and Further
Hayden Pedigo - Long Pond Lily
james K - On God
Jeanines - You Can't Get It Back
Jens Lekman - A Tuxedo Sewn For Two
Jessica Winter - Big Star
Kelcey Ayer - Different Planets
Lael Neale - Some Bright Morning
Lambrini Girls - Cuntology 101
Little Simz feat. Michael Kiwanuka & Yussef Dayes - Lotus
Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Adam & Steve
Matt Berninger - Bonnet Of Pins
Mclusky - way of the exploding dickhead
Melody's Echo Chamber - In The Stars
Model/Actriz - Cinderella
Murder Club - Cave In
Neev - He Built Himself
The New Eves - Highway Man
Nilüfer Yanya - Where To Look
The Orchestra (For Now) - Skins
Other Lives - Show Us Some Love
Panda Bear - Ferry Lady
Panic Shack - Gok Wan
Patrick Wolf - Reculver
People Mover - Habit
Perfume Genius feat. Aldous Harding - No Front Teeth
The Pill - Problem
Project Overload - Wildfire
Prolapse - The Fall of Cashline
Pulp - Got to Have Love
PVA - Send
Robert Forster - Breakfast on the Train
Robin Kester - The Daylight
Rosalia - Divinize
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - New Threats From the Soul
Sacred Paws - Turn me Down
Saint Etienne - Glad
Snapped Ankles - Raoul
Snõõper - Worldwide
Stereolab - Melodie Is A Wound
Sudan Archives - NOIRE
Sugababes - Jungle
Sugar - House of Dead Memories
Superchunk feat. Rosali - Bruised Lung
Swallowtail - To Trace
These New Puritans - A Season In Hell
The Tubs - Chain Reaction
Tulpa - Psyops
Tune-Yards - Swarm
Twat Union - Singer Of The Band
Viagra Boys - Man Made of Meat
Wednesday - Townies
Wet Leg - catch these fists
Young Fathers - Lowly
Youth Lagoon - Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas)
adults - patterns
Adwaith - Planed
Allo Darlin' - Tricky Questions
Amelia & The Housewives - Summer's Over
Anna B Savage - Mo Cheol Thú
Anna Hillburg - The Shape's Gonna Shift My Way
Anna von Hausswolff feat. Ethel Cain - Aging Young Women
The Baby Seals - Tamoo Trance
Backxwash - Black Lazarus
bar italia - Cowbella
Baxter Dury feat. JGrrey - Return Of The Sharp Heads
The Beths - Metal
Big Thief - Incomprehensible
Bill Callahan - The Man I'm Supposed To Be
billy woods feat. Steel Tipped Dove - BLK ZMBY
Bobby Conn - Never Felt Better
Bob Mould - Neanderthal
Boko Yout - 9-2-5
Breakup Haircut - Spite! Spite! Spite!
Brògeal - Vicar Street Days
caroline - Total euphoria
Cate Le Bon - Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?
C Duncan - Think About It
Cheekface - Art House
CMAT - The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station
Comet Gain - The Ballad Of The Lives We Led
The Cords - Fabulist
Dancer - Baby Blue
David Lowery - I Wrote A Song Called Take The Skinheads Bowling
Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day
Ducks Ltd. - Deleted Scenes
Ellie O'Neill - Little Sister
Ethel Cain - Nettles
Ex-Vöid - In Love Again
Factory Floor - Between You
Florist - Gloom Designs
For Those I Love - Of The Sorrows
Fortitude Valley - Oceans Apart
frown line - Days Without
Geese - Cobra
Girl Group - Yay! Saturday
Glimmerpit - Nein Danke
Goat feat. MC Yallah - Nimerudi
Gwenifer Raymond - Jack Parsons Blues
Gwenno - Dancing On Volcanoes
Hannah Frances - Falling From and Further
Hayden Pedigo - Long Pond Lily
james K - On God
Jeanines - You Can't Get It Back
Jens Lekman - A Tuxedo Sewn For Two
Jessica Winter - Big Star
Kelcey Ayer - Different Planets
Lael Neale - Some Bright Morning
Lambrini Girls - Cuntology 101
Little Simz feat. Michael Kiwanuka & Yussef Dayes - Lotus
Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Adam & Steve
Matt Berninger - Bonnet Of Pins
Mclusky - way of the exploding dickhead
Melody's Echo Chamber - In The Stars
Model/Actriz - Cinderella
Murder Club - Cave In
Neev - He Built Himself
The New Eves - Highway Man
Nilüfer Yanya - Where To Look
The Orchestra (For Now) - Skins
Other Lives - Show Us Some Love
Panda Bear - Ferry Lady
Panic Shack - Gok Wan
Patrick Wolf - Reculver
People Mover - Habit
Perfume Genius feat. Aldous Harding - No Front Teeth
The Pill - Problem
Project Overload - Wildfire
Prolapse - The Fall of Cashline
Pulp - Got to Have Love
PVA - Send
Robert Forster - Breakfast on the Train
Robin Kester - The Daylight
Rosalia - Divinize
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - New Threats From the Soul
Sacred Paws - Turn me Down
Saint Etienne - Glad
Snapped Ankles - Raoul
Snõõper - Worldwide
Stereolab - Melodie Is A Wound
Sudan Archives - NOIRE
Sugababes - Jungle
Sugar - House of Dead Memories
Superchunk feat. Rosali - Bruised Lung
Swallowtail - To Trace
These New Puritans - A Season In Hell
The Tubs - Chain Reaction
Tulpa - Psyops
Tune-Yards - Swarm
Twat Union - Singer Of The Band
Viagra Boys - Man Made of Meat
Wednesday - Townies
Wet Leg - catch these fists
Young Fathers - Lowly
Youth Lagoon - Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas)
Saturday, November 29, 2025
STN Select: November 2025
Just think, the next time we post will be the end of year wingdings. Another one down, and so soon.
Armand Hammer feat. Quelle Chris - Glue Traps
The Baby Seals - Tamoo Trance
Bill Callahan - The Man I'm Supposed To Be
Breakup Haircut - Spite! Spite! Spite!
Charli xcx feat. John Cale - House
cootie catcher - Gingham Dress
deathcrash - Triumph
Dry Cleaning - Cruise Ship Designer
Girl Group - She Goes
Hazel English - Gimme
The Just Joans - Here Come The Rugby Boys
Mandy, Indiana - Magazine
Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Only Girl
Ninush - I Don't Mind
The Red Stains - Freezer Jesus
ROSALÍA - Divinize
Sailor Honeymoon - Armchair
Shelf Lives - 2 phoneS
Skiving - Conversations With David Berman (Was That Civilised?)
Spanish Horses - Spells
Tulpa - PSYOPs
TVAM - The Words
Twat Union - Tiny Shorts
Twin Shadow - Deep End
Would-Be-Goods - The Gallopers
Armand Hammer feat. Quelle Chris - Glue Traps
The Baby Seals - Tamoo Trance
Bill Callahan - The Man I'm Supposed To Be
Breakup Haircut - Spite! Spite! Spite!
Charli xcx feat. John Cale - House
cootie catcher - Gingham Dress
deathcrash - Triumph
Dry Cleaning - Cruise Ship Designer
Girl Group - She Goes
Hazel English - Gimme
The Just Joans - Here Come The Rugby Boys
Mandy, Indiana - Magazine
Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Only Girl
Ninush - I Don't Mind
The Red Stains - Freezer Jesus
ROSALÍA - Divinize
Sailor Honeymoon - Armchair
Shelf Lives - 2 phoneS
Skiving - Conversations With David Berman (Was That Civilised?)
Spanish Horses - Spells
Tulpa - PSYOPs
TVAM - The Words
Twat Union - Tiny Shorts
Twin Shadow - Deep End
Would-Be-Goods - The Gallopers
Monday, November 17, 2025
STN Select: October 2025
Now we're up to date let's just whip through these, shall we. Not that you should, we've curated these for you - and again, two songs not on Spotify.
Anna von Hausswolff feat. Ethel Cain - Aging Young Women
Armand Hammer & The Alchemist feat. Silka & Cleo Reed - Calypso Gene
bar italia - omni shambles
Blue Zero - Confusion
Breakup Haircut - I'm Okay (I Lied)
Bugeye - This Ain't A Love Song
Chanel Beads - The Coward Forgets His Nightmare
CHERYM x Uninvited - Sofa Bed
combobox - The Party
Court Jester - Hair Shirt
Courtney Barnett - Stay In Your Lane
Cubzoa - In 2 Worlds
Grogg - Curry Night
Hannah Frances - Nested In Tangles
Hilary Woods - Taper
Jenny On Holiday - Dolphins
Joshua Idehen - It Always Was
Joyeria - Troubled Youth
Ladytron - I See Red
Lande Hekt - Favourite Pair Of Shoes
Melody's Echo Chamber - Eyes Closed
The Mink - Squeaky Clean
The Mountain Goats - Cold At Night
Nervous Twitch - Don't Get In Touch
Opus Kink - I'm A Pretty Showboy
The Orchestra (For Now) - Impatient
Prolapse - Swearing For Decoration
Railcard - Narcissus
RÓIS x hhH – Did ye ever get The Ride at The Wake House?
Samantha Savage Smith - My Friends
Shaking Hand - Mantras
Skiving - Ich Bin Ein Beginner
Snõõper - Star 6 9
Spiritual Cramp feat. Sharon Van Etten - You've Got My Number
Sudan Archives - NOIRE
Sugar - House Of Dead Memories
Tulpa - Transfixed Gaze
The Two Lips - if you said
Anna von Hausswolff feat. Ethel Cain - Aging Young Women
Armand Hammer & The Alchemist feat. Silka & Cleo Reed - Calypso Gene
bar italia - omni shambles
Blue Zero - Confusion
Breakup Haircut - I'm Okay (I Lied)
Bugeye - This Ain't A Love Song
Chanel Beads - The Coward Forgets His Nightmare
CHERYM x Uninvited - Sofa Bed
combobox - The Party
Court Jester - Hair Shirt
Courtney Barnett - Stay In Your Lane
Cubzoa - In 2 Worlds
Grogg - Curry Night
Hannah Frances - Nested In Tangles
Hilary Woods - Taper
Jenny On Holiday - Dolphins
Joshua Idehen - It Always Was
Joyeria - Troubled Youth
Ladytron - I See Red
Lande Hekt - Favourite Pair Of Shoes
Melody's Echo Chamber - Eyes Closed
The Mink - Squeaky Clean
The Mountain Goats - Cold At Night
Nervous Twitch - Don't Get In Touch
Opus Kink - I'm A Pretty Showboy
The Orchestra (For Now) - Impatient
Prolapse - Swearing For Decoration
Railcard - Narcissus
RÓIS x hhH – Did ye ever get The Ride at The Wake House?
Samantha Savage Smith - My Friends
Shaking Hand - Mantras
Skiving - Ich Bin Ein Beginner
Snõõper - Star 6 9
Spiritual Cramp feat. Sharon Van Etten - You've Got My Number
Sudan Archives - NOIRE
Sugar - House Of Dead Memories
Tulpa - Transfixed Gaze
The Two Lips - if you said
Friday, November 14, 2025
STN Select: September 2025
Slightly more up to date than the last one, another month cleared. Our request for someone to help put this together on something other than accursed Spotify fell on deaf ears like every other request we've made in the last few years, so sorry. There's two that aren't on there at all this time!
Amelia & The Housewives - Summer's Over
Annabelle Chairlegs - Ice Cream On The Beach
Baxter Dury - Alpha Dog
Be Your Own Pet - What a B*tch
Big Thief - Words
Breakup Haircut - The Algorithm Is Trying To Kill Me
Cate Le Bon - Mothers of Riches
The Cords - When You Said Goodbye
Croíthe - I Heard, I Saw
Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day
Geese - Cobra
Girl Group - Rage Song
Gorillaz feat. Sparks - The Happy Dictator
Gwenifer Raymond - Champion Ivy
james K - On God
jasmine.4.t - I Can't Believe I Did This Without You
Jens Lekman - A Tuxedo Sewn For Two
Joyeria - The Swimmer
Lael Neale - Some Bright Morning
Laptop - I Don't Know
Lightning In A Twilight Hour - There's More to Life Than Crooks
L.O.E - Need Your Help With This
Lo And Behold - Born To The Victors
mary in the junkyard - midori
MayKay - Busted
Melody's Echo Chamber & El Michels Affair - Daisy
Miki Berenyi Trio - Doldrum Days
Neko Case - Destination
The New Eves - Red Brick
Olan Monk feat. Maria Somerville - Down 3
Other Lives - What's It Gonna Take
Pelts - Swimming
Pem - m4 windy
The Plan - Cascade
Restless Taxis - Truth
The Schla La Las - Gotta Go
Search Results - Excruciating Heights
Sofie Royer - AUTO
Sparks - Porcupine
Sudan Archives - COME AND FIND YOU
The Sundries - Borderline
Trial Tapes - Coughing Fits
Tulpa - Let's Make A Tulpa!
Tune-Yards - Siren
Virna Lindt - The Like Song
Wednesday - Townies
Wife - Until Then I'll Be Flying
Amelia & The Housewives - Summer's Over
Annabelle Chairlegs - Ice Cream On The Beach
Baxter Dury - Alpha Dog
Be Your Own Pet - What a B*tch
Big Thief - Words
Breakup Haircut - The Algorithm Is Trying To Kill Me
Cate Le Bon - Mothers of Riches
The Cords - When You Said Goodbye
Croíthe - I Heard, I Saw
Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day
Geese - Cobra
Girl Group - Rage Song
Gorillaz feat. Sparks - The Happy Dictator
Gwenifer Raymond - Champion Ivy
james K - On God
jasmine.4.t - I Can't Believe I Did This Without You
Jens Lekman - A Tuxedo Sewn For Two
Joyeria - The Swimmer
Lael Neale - Some Bright Morning
Laptop - I Don't Know
Lightning In A Twilight Hour - There's More to Life Than Crooks
L.O.E - Need Your Help With This
Lo And Behold - Born To The Victors
mary in the junkyard - midori
MayKay - Busted
Melody's Echo Chamber & El Michels Affair - Daisy
Miki Berenyi Trio - Doldrum Days
Neko Case - Destination
The New Eves - Red Brick
Olan Monk feat. Maria Somerville - Down 3
Other Lives - What's It Gonna Take
Pelts - Swimming
Pem - m4 windy
The Plan - Cascade
Restless Taxis - Truth
The Schla La Las - Gotta Go
Search Results - Excruciating Heights
Sofie Royer - AUTO
Sparks - Porcupine
Sudan Archives - COME AND FIND YOU
The Sundries - Borderline
Trial Tapes - Coughing Fits
Tulpa - Let's Make A Tulpa!
Tune-Yards - Siren
Virna Lindt - The Like Song
Wednesday - Townies
Wife - Until Then I'll Be Flying
Thursday, October 30, 2025
STN Select: August 2025
With the up to date cutting edge approach that's served us so well over the last twenty years, on the eve of Hallowe'en here's our August playlist. Still gathered together on Spotify, unfortunately, but that's the easiest playlistable streaming service we have to hand right now. We'd ask if anyone wanted to compile it into a different format but we've done that too many times before to think the result will be any different. See you for the September playlist around the return of Halley's Comet.
adults - patterns
bar italia - Fundraiser
Bathing Suits - I Can Be A Freak
The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie
Big Modern - Head In A Toaster
Big Thief - Los Angeles
Cardiacs - Downup
The Cindys - Eternal Pharmacy
CMAT - Lord, Let That Tesla Crash
The Cords - I'm Not Sad
Dancer - Baby Blue
Darren Hayman - It's Gotten Quiet Round Here
Emma Pollock - Future Tree
For Those I Love - Carving The Stone
Fortitude Valley - Totally
Hand Habits - More Today
Jens Lekman - Wedding In Leipzig
Josie - Cupid Strikes A Blow
Lava La Rue - easy come, easy go
Lucy Dacus - More Than Friends
Neko Case - Winchester Mansion of Sound
No Peeling - Pink Flamingos
Pedestrian Band - The Winston Blues
Project Overload - Late Night Dancing
Prolapse - The Fall of Cashline
Sarah Meth - Bromance Is Dead
Scott Lavene - Muscle Car
Snõõper - Guard Dog
Wednesday - Bitter Everyday
Yttling Jazz — Illegal Hit (Joshua Idehen & Saturday, Monday Remake)
adults - patterns
bar italia - Fundraiser
Bathing Suits - I Can Be A Freak
The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie
Big Modern - Head In A Toaster
Big Thief - Los Angeles
Cardiacs - Downup
The Cindys - Eternal Pharmacy
CMAT - Lord, Let That Tesla Crash
The Cords - I'm Not Sad
Dancer - Baby Blue
Darren Hayman - It's Gotten Quiet Round Here
Emma Pollock - Future Tree
For Those I Love - Carving The Stone
Fortitude Valley - Totally
Hand Habits - More Today
Jens Lekman - Wedding In Leipzig
Josie - Cupid Strikes A Blow
Lava La Rue - easy come, easy go
Lucy Dacus - More Than Friends
Neko Case - Winchester Mansion of Sound
No Peeling - Pink Flamingos
Pedestrian Band - The Winston Blues
Project Overload - Late Night Dancing
Prolapse - The Fall of Cashline
Sarah Meth - Bromance Is Dead
Scott Lavene - Muscle Car
Snõõper - Guard Dog
Wednesday - Bitter Everyday
Yttling Jazz — Illegal Hit (Joshua Idehen & Saturday, Monday Remake)
Monday, August 04, 2025
STN Select: July 2025
Is it still worth doing these? Given we don't think anybody reads them.
Autocamper - Foxes
Blue Amber - Yr Man in the Music Scene
Boko Yout - 9-2-5
Cate Le Bon - Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?
Charm Wrestle - Gas Bill
CMAT - Euro-Country
The Cords - Fabulist
Cubzoa - Choke
Dancer - Happy Halloween
Dovetail - raining here, too
Ebbb - Manners
Factory Floor - Tell Me
Fat Dog - Pray To That
For Those I Love - Mirror
Fortitude Valley - Oceans Apart
frown line - Days Without
Gwenno - Utopia
Hand Habits - Jasmine Blossoms
Hannah Frances - Falling From and Further
Home Counties - Humdrum
Hope Of The States - Footage/Steamtrain
Jens Lekman - Candy From A Stranger
Jessica Winter - Big Star
Joanne Robertson & Oliver Coates - Gown
Lutalo - Cracked Lip
Mal Devisa - Skyline Arms-Reach Out
Meursault - Your Favourite Billionaire
Neko Case - Wreck
Nilüfer Yanya - Kneel
Other Lives - Show Us Some Love
Panic Shack - Unhinged
People Mover - Habit
The Red Stains - Diana's seatbelt
Robin Kester - The Daylight
Rocket - Wide Awake
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - New Threats From the Soul
Small Shake - Still Too Soon
Snõõper - Worldwide
Still Corners - Summer Nights
Superchunk - Stuck In A Dream
ugly ozo - madonna
Water From Your Eyes - Playing Classics
Wednesday - Pick Up That Knife
Wet Leg - mangetout
Autocamper - Foxes
Blue Amber - Yr Man in the Music Scene
Boko Yout - 9-2-5
Cate Le Bon - Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?
Charm Wrestle - Gas Bill
CMAT - Euro-Country
The Cords - Fabulist
Cubzoa - Choke
Dancer - Happy Halloween
Dovetail - raining here, too
Ebbb - Manners
Factory Floor - Tell Me
Fat Dog - Pray To That
For Those I Love - Mirror
Fortitude Valley - Oceans Apart
frown line - Days Without
Gwenno - Utopia
Hand Habits - Jasmine Blossoms
Hannah Frances - Falling From and Further
Home Counties - Humdrum
Hope Of The States - Footage/Steamtrain
Jens Lekman - Candy From A Stranger
Jessica Winter - Big Star
Joanne Robertson & Oliver Coates - Gown
Lutalo - Cracked Lip
Mal Devisa - Skyline Arms-Reach Out
Meursault - Your Favourite Billionaire
Neko Case - Wreck
Nilüfer Yanya - Kneel
Other Lives - Show Us Some Love
Panic Shack - Unhinged
People Mover - Habit
The Red Stains - Diana's seatbelt
Robin Kester - The Daylight
Rocket - Wide Awake
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - New Threats From the Soul
Small Shake - Still Too Soon
Snõõper - Worldwide
Still Corners - Summer Nights
Superchunk - Stuck In A Dream
ugly ozo - madonna
Water From Your Eyes - Playing Classics
Wednesday - Pick Up That Knife
Wet Leg - mangetout
Monday, June 30, 2025
STN Selects: June 2025
Well, mentioning how last month's playlist was fortunately a little quieter than usual was a red rag to the industry bull as this is the biggest selection of the month just ending's new releases. Loads of tracks here from newly announced or released albums (which reminds us, these are our thirty favourite albums of the first half of this year), details of which should all be laid out and linked in the YouTube descriptions. Reminder that we have a Ko-fi and that we provide weekly sustenance to Brand New Beats, 9pm Mondays on Noisebox Radio.
Adwaith - Aros Am Y Chwiban
A women's Euros Wales single!
Allo Darlin' - Cologne
bar italia - Cowbella
Baxter Dury - Return Of The Sharp Heads
The Beths - No Joy
Big Thief - Incomprehensible
Bobby Conn - Never Felt Better
Brògeal - Vicar Street Days
CMAT - The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station
Comet Gain - The Ballad Of The Lives We Led
Dancer - Just Say Yes
Dayflower - Lazy (live)
The studio version that leads the EP is fine itself, but this version was recorded at Leicesterval so straight in it goes
Ethel Cain - Nettles
Fortitude Valley - Video (Right There With You)
Playing Leicester Duffy's Bar for us on September 11th - for the love of god buy a ticket now
Gemma Cullingford & Tom Sharkett - Illuminate
Gruff Rhys - Chwyn Chwyldroadol!
GUTS. - Daphne
Gwenifer Raymond - Jack Parsons Blues
Gwenno - Y Gath
Hayden Pedigo - Long Pond Lily
Heavenly - Portland Town
james K - Play
Jeanines - You Can't Get It Back
Josie - My Boy And I
Lifeguard - A Tightwire
Little Simz ft. Michael Kiwanuka & Yussef Dayes - Lotus
Lord Huron - Bag of Bones
mark william lewis - Still Above
The New Eves - Cow Song
Nilüfer Yanya - Where To Look
Other Lives - Mystic
Panic Shack - Thelma & Louise
Patrick Wolf - Reculver
Project Overload - Wildfire
Prolapse - Cha Cha Cha 2000
Pulp - Background Noise
RIP Magic - Dox
Robin Kester - An Hour Per Day
Say She She - Cut & Rewind
Sex Week - Coach
Sudan Archives - DEAD
ugly ozo - Onto A Winner
Upchuck - Plastic
The Vorgs - Supernova
Water From Your Eyes - Life Signs
Wednesday - Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)
Young Fathers - Lowly
From the 28 Years Later soundtrack
Adwaith - Aros Am Y Chwiban
A women's Euros Wales single!
Allo Darlin' - Cologne
bar italia - Cowbella
Baxter Dury - Return Of The Sharp Heads
The Beths - No Joy
Big Thief - Incomprehensible
Bobby Conn - Never Felt Better
Brògeal - Vicar Street Days
CMAT - The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station
Comet Gain - The Ballad Of The Lives We Led
Dancer - Just Say Yes
Dayflower - Lazy (live)
The studio version that leads the EP is fine itself, but this version was recorded at Leicesterval so straight in it goes
Ethel Cain - Nettles
Fortitude Valley - Video (Right There With You)
Playing Leicester Duffy's Bar for us on September 11th - for the love of god buy a ticket now
Gemma Cullingford & Tom Sharkett - Illuminate
Gruff Rhys - Chwyn Chwyldroadol!
GUTS. - Daphne
Gwenifer Raymond - Jack Parsons Blues
Gwenno - Y Gath
Hayden Pedigo - Long Pond Lily
Heavenly - Portland Town
james K - Play
Jeanines - You Can't Get It Back
Josie - My Boy And I
Lifeguard - A Tightwire
Little Simz ft. Michael Kiwanuka & Yussef Dayes - Lotus
Lord Huron - Bag of Bones
mark william lewis - Still Above
The New Eves - Cow Song
Nilüfer Yanya - Where To Look
Other Lives - Mystic
Panic Shack - Thelma & Louise
Patrick Wolf - Reculver
Project Overload - Wildfire
Prolapse - Cha Cha Cha 2000
Pulp - Background Noise
RIP Magic - Dox
Robin Kester - An Hour Per Day
Say She She - Cut & Rewind
Sex Week - Coach
Sudan Archives - DEAD
ugly ozo - Onto A Winner
Upchuck - Plastic
The Vorgs - Supernova
Water From Your Eyes - Life Signs
Wednesday - Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)
Young Fathers - Lowly
From the 28 Years Later soundtrack
Tuesday, June 03, 2025
STN Selects: May 2025
Time to step up for another month of rounding up what's been going on. As mentioned before, we have a Ko-fi should you be in a position to donate. As not mentioned before as we keep forgetting, we're contributing currently to Brand New Beats, the highly recommended weekly new music show on Noisebox Radio, 9pm every Monday with Colm O'Rourke. (Actually the whole station is highly recommended but that's the only bit we're directly involved with) And if you like our STN Presents... Leicester-based live music arm, developments on that front will be hitting the social media, chiefly our Instagram and Facebook, very soon.
Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles - Not Broken
Allo Darlin' - My Love Will Bring You Home
BADBADNOTGOOD ft. V.C.R - Found A Light (Beale Street)
billy woods ft. ELUCID & Cavalier - Lead Paint Test
Deradoorian - Any Other World
People aren't talking about Angel's new album Ready For Heaven half enough, we say
For Those I Love - Of The Sorrows
Fortitude Valley - Sunshine State
Gemma Cullingford - The Island
Gina Birch - Causing Trouble Again
Joe & The Shitboys - SUCKBOI
Junk Whale - Julia Sad
The whole See you around, I guess? EP is well worth a go
The Lemonheads - Deep End
mary in the junkyard - drains
Matt Berninger - No Love
mclusky - hate the polis
Last track on the like-they've-never-been-away return album the world is still here and so are we
MORN - Modern Man
Murder Club - Cave In
PING008, the eighth 7" release on Popty-Ping Recording Company and eighth great single
Pebbledash - Asha's Waltz
The Pill - POSH
Pulp - Got To Have Love
Robert Forster - Breakfast On The Train
Sparks - My Devotion
Stereolab - Vermona F Transistor
Swallowtail - To Trace
Tune-Yards - Swarm
Wet Leg - CPR
Winter - Just Like A Flower
Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles - Not Broken
Allo Darlin' - My Love Will Bring You Home
BADBADNOTGOOD ft. V.C.R - Found A Light (Beale Street)
billy woods ft. ELUCID & Cavalier - Lead Paint Test
Deradoorian - Any Other World
People aren't talking about Angel's new album Ready For Heaven half enough, we say
For Those I Love - Of The Sorrows
Fortitude Valley - Sunshine State
Gemma Cullingford - The Island
Gina Birch - Causing Trouble Again
Joe & The Shitboys - SUCKBOI
Junk Whale - Julia Sad
The whole See you around, I guess? EP is well worth a go
The Lemonheads - Deep End
mary in the junkyard - drains
Matt Berninger - No Love
mclusky - hate the polis
Last track on the like-they've-never-been-away return album the world is still here and so are we
MORN - Modern Man
Murder Club - Cave In
PING008, the eighth 7" release on Popty-Ping Recording Company and eighth great single
Pebbledash - Asha's Waltz
The Pill - POSH
Pulp - Got To Have Love
Robert Forster - Breakfast On The Train
Sparks - My Devotion
Stereolab - Vermona F Transistor
Swallowtail - To Trace
Tune-Yards - Swarm
Wet Leg - CPR
Winter - Just Like A Flower
Thursday, May 01, 2025
STN Select: April 2025
Welcome once again - yeah, like we have regular readers, we've seen the numbers - to our monthly round-up of what we've grabbed on to over the month just passed, fully forty tracks this time around. As you didn't read in our last post or on our socials because nobody does, we've opened a Ko-Fi account in a ridiculous grasping attempt at getting something out of your trust, having just passed twenty years in operation as a blog without having the special things we started preparing to mark the occasion anything close to ready. That failed too. No point, is there really. Could be doing something useful rather than committing ourselves repeatedly to transmitting things that other people do much better to nobody.
Adrianne Lenker - happiness (live)
From the FORTY THREE track Live At Revolution Hall, some of which is recorded on hand-held cassette recorders and reel-to-reel, some of which changes fidelity and location halfway through, some of which is just hesitant banter, some of which is actual new songs because she cannot stop doing that.
Aesop Rock - Checkers
Allo Darlin' - Tricky Questions
They're back! First new music in nine years! And touring the UK in November!
Anna Hillburg - I Don't Know What To Do With My Mother's Sadness
Autocamper - Again
Manc classy janglers' debut album What Do You Do All Day? out 11th July on Safe Suburban Home/Slumberland
The Beths - Metal
billy woods ft. Steel Tipped Dove - BLK ZMBY
caroline ft. Caroline Polachek - Tell me I never knew that
child3 - Give It To Me Now
Cosmorat - Bad Boys Go To Heaven
The Divine Comedy - Achilles
There's a name you probably didn't expect to see among all these angular bands and Windmill types. Inspired by a WWI-era poem, Patrick Shaw-Stewart's Achilles in the Trench, it's from thirteenth album Rainy Sunday Afternoon, out NINETEENTH OF SEPTEMBER, IT'S JUST GONE APRIL, WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING HERE
Equal Parts - There For A Reason
This month's new Australian band, featuring members of CLAMM and Floodlights of whom you might be aware
Fib - You Ruined Everything
Florist - Levitate
Jellywish earns the honour of being this failed blog's official Best Album Of April 2025. We're sure Emily and co are overjoyed.
Gay Skeleton Club - Summertime (Free Palestine)
Girl and Girl - Okay
Girl Group - Flink Pike
GLIMMERPIT - Nein Danke
OK, so we're throwing a lot of new names at you this month with no elucidation, but we want to pause at this one because a) the Mancunian 'queer kraut comedy post-punk' trio's disco-sleaze-but-not-indie-sleaze debut single doesn't seem to have had much attention from anyone, b) we saw one of their very few gigs outside that city and they were tremendous fun and c) it features the increasing frantic shouts of "someone keeps sticking their penis through the wall!"
Greet Death - Country Girl
Gwenno - Dancing On Volcanoes
Jeanines - On And On
New York indiepop outfit of much transatlantic love, now on Skep Wax for June's third album How Long Can It Last and touring the UK in July
Junk Whale - Bleeding Out
Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne - It Seems
Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Adam & Steve
Mclusky - chekhov's guns
One week to go!
nathy sg - The Metaphorical One
You know, off Martha and Onsind and that. Touring at the end of May into 1st June with the aforefeatured Junk Whale
The New Eves - Highway Man
Nilüfer Yanya - Cold Heart
Orla Gartland - Now What?
Panic Shack - Girl Band Starter Pack
Big news for fellow shit munchers (officially two words, apparently), an album is coming! July 19th, self-titled which is disappointing, features Do Something which isn't
pencil - The Pencil
Not the band pencil that Adrianne Lenker used to be in but another of those unpinnable London bands
Pulp - Spike Island
Punchlove - Today You Can Learn the Secret
Search Results - Be Laurel
Sister Wives - YnCanu
SLAG - Heaven
Wait, Brighton band "making math rock sexy", this hit the playlists this month but it came out in February? What happened here?
Sorry - Jetplane
Stereolab - Melodie Is A Wound
These New Puritans - A Season In Hell
Twat Union - Little Pink Drill
And finally, the theatrical feminist punks delivered their EP Don't Look It In The Eye on Alcopop! That kind of "drill", yes.
Adrianne Lenker - happiness (live)
From the FORTY THREE track Live At Revolution Hall, some of which is recorded on hand-held cassette recorders and reel-to-reel, some of which changes fidelity and location halfway through, some of which is just hesitant banter, some of which is actual new songs because she cannot stop doing that.
Aesop Rock - Checkers
Allo Darlin' - Tricky Questions
They're back! First new music in nine years! And touring the UK in November!
Anna Hillburg - I Don't Know What To Do With My Mother's Sadness
Autocamper - Again
Manc classy janglers' debut album What Do You Do All Day? out 11th July on Safe Suburban Home/Slumberland
The Beths - Metal
billy woods ft. Steel Tipped Dove - BLK ZMBY
caroline ft. Caroline Polachek - Tell me I never knew that
child3 - Give It To Me Now
Cosmorat - Bad Boys Go To Heaven
The Divine Comedy - Achilles
There's a name you probably didn't expect to see among all these angular bands and Windmill types. Inspired by a WWI-era poem, Patrick Shaw-Stewart's Achilles in the Trench, it's from thirteenth album Rainy Sunday Afternoon, out NINETEENTH OF SEPTEMBER, IT'S JUST GONE APRIL, WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING HERE
Equal Parts - There For A Reason
This month's new Australian band, featuring members of CLAMM and Floodlights of whom you might be aware
Fib - You Ruined Everything
Florist - Levitate
Jellywish earns the honour of being this failed blog's official Best Album Of April 2025. We're sure Emily and co are overjoyed.
Gay Skeleton Club - Summertime (Free Palestine)
Girl and Girl - Okay
Girl Group - Flink Pike
GLIMMERPIT - Nein Danke
OK, so we're throwing a lot of new names at you this month with no elucidation, but we want to pause at this one because a) the Mancunian 'queer kraut comedy post-punk' trio's disco-sleaze-but-not-indie-sleaze debut single doesn't seem to have had much attention from anyone, b) we saw one of their very few gigs outside that city and they were tremendous fun and c) it features the increasing frantic shouts of "someone keeps sticking their penis through the wall!"
Greet Death - Country Girl
Gwenno - Dancing On Volcanoes
Jeanines - On And On
New York indiepop outfit of much transatlantic love, now on Skep Wax for June's third album How Long Can It Last and touring the UK in July
Junk Whale - Bleeding Out
Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne - It Seems
Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Adam & Steve
Mclusky - chekhov's guns
One week to go!
nathy sg - The Metaphorical One
You know, off Martha and Onsind and that. Touring at the end of May into 1st June with the aforefeatured Junk Whale
The New Eves - Highway Man
Nilüfer Yanya - Cold Heart
Orla Gartland - Now What?
Panic Shack - Girl Band Starter Pack
Big news for fellow shit munchers (officially two words, apparently), an album is coming! July 19th, self-titled which is disappointing, features Do Something which isn't
pencil - The Pencil
Not the band pencil that Adrianne Lenker used to be in but another of those unpinnable London bands
Pulp - Spike Island
Punchlove - Today You Can Learn the Secret
Search Results - Be Laurel
Sister Wives - YnCanu
SLAG - Heaven
Wait, Brighton band "making math rock sexy", this hit the playlists this month but it came out in February? What happened here?
Sorry - Jetplane
Stereolab - Melodie Is A Wound
These New Puritans - A Season In Hell
Twat Union - Little Pink Drill
And finally, the theatrical feminist punks delivered their EP Don't Look It In The Eye on Alcopop! That kind of "drill", yes.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
China
It's twenty years today since Sweeping The Nation started.
We had a couple of very special plans hatched up to a year ago to mark the occasion.
Neither of them are anything like close to fruition.
So we've started a Ko-Fi instead. Please give generously.
We had a couple of very special plans hatched up to a year ago to mark the occasion.
Neither of them are anything like close to fruition.
So we've started a Ko-Fi instead. Please give generously.
Monday, March 31, 2025
STN Select: March 2025
Actually timely for once, the thirty-strong best of what we heard over the course of this month just ending.
April 29th will mark Sweeping The Nation's twentieth anniversary. We had special things planned to coincide with it. None of them are coming to fruition, or at least not in time for that date. As always, idealism has been ruined by reality and drive.
Adebisi Shank - Start A Band
This is the return of a band called Adebisi Shank. Their first new release in ten years, in fact, with the kind of drive that doesn't suggest they'd been away at all.
Backxwash - Black Lazarus
The most extraordinary album of the year so far, the Montreal-based rapper's fifth album Only Dust Remains absolutely compels you not to turn away with the intensity and complete lack of compromise or veil over the personal or political darkness encompassing.
Black Country, New Road - For The Cold Country
Might be understating things to say the new BC,NR have been divisive, and that woodwind heavy press photo has absolutely not helped (nor has the growing army of those inspired by the Isaac era) but put that baggage aside and hear how this develops from plangency to rococo to percussive soaring.
Bob Mould - Fur Mink Augurs
If you're going to recall the later Husker Du albums, as the Tubs' album does, the man who wrote and sang on them may as well too on Here We Go Crazy.
caroline - Total euphoria
Somehow only 4:30, the post-rock octet skilfully play all their different parts out of time and then gradually coalesce into catharsis.
Dana Gavanski - Bolted Heart
Stately piano-led rumination from EP Again Again.
David Lowery - I Wrote A Song Called Take The Skinheads Bowling
A song about writing Take The Skinheads Bowling, by the man who wrote Take The Skinheads Bowling.
Emma-Jean Thackray - Maybe Nowhere
A slippery groove with thick old bassline housing open thought about the grief that followed her partner's death, from second album Weirdo out on 25th April.
Girl Group - Yay! Saturday
We've had Girlband!, before that we had Girl Band who became Gilla Band, maybe this was the next natural step. Musically understated (self-produced too) for something that itemises the messiest of all nights out and ends in the only way possible. a monologue about piss on a toilet seat.
Kelcey Ayer - Different Planets
The former keyboard player and co-vocalist in Local Natives breaks for a solo career, built on knotty guitar picking and layers forming that recall some of Grizzly Bear's most becalmed moments (speaking of whom, what happened to those reformation dates you said were happening this year, Ed?)
Knitting Circle - Safe Routes
"Safe Routes encourages an end to all arms sales everywhere, and an end to all wars! No borders!" is pretty conclusive, a strident call for human solidarity from the jagged indiepop-post-punk band featuring members of Milky Wimpshake, Crumbs, Red Monkey and No Fit State. 100% of proceeds from Bandcamp sales (after fees) will be donated to Campaign Against Arms Trade
Lawn Chair - Fancy Car, Girlfriend And The Big House
Back into the European post-punk wilds, this time to Cologne where we pick up the kind of synthy pulse that fills floors under a pointed picture of that kind of confident man.
Little Simz - Free
Lotus is out 9th May (on Inflo's label, which is awkward given she's suing him), we find Simbi in contemplative mode that suits her as much as the explosive stuff.
Matt Berninger - Bonnet Of Pins
While Aaron is off producing Gracie Abrams and refusing to apologise for it, world-weary singer boy has made a second solo album, Get Sunk out May 30th, and captures an energy the band haven't always lived up to in very recent years. Even a bit of a New Order influence in there.
Mclusky - people person
I mean, what do you need to know at this stage? Apart from that 'the world is still here and so are we' is out on May 9th.
Mhaol - DM:AM
Is it Mhaol now or still M(h)aol? Sources differ. Anyway, the reconstituted band continue a path between slinky and sinister, deconstructing online harassment and the self-regarding defences thereof on the road to Something Soft, out May 16th.
Neev - He Built Himself
A highlight of the cinematically expansive blown out folk of second album How Things Tie In Knots.
Panic Shack - Gok Wan
ATTN: SHITMUNCHERS. What have they been doing for the two and a half years between releases? Making an album, of course, no details yet but this is its first single. And touring lots, including practically every festival. And drinking, in all likelihood.
pencil - Silent Corners
"Something beautiful turning into something terrifying" according to the band, previewing their Bohemian Clutter EP with something that develops upon flurries of ornate folk-pop.
Perfume Genius - Clean Heart
But you already know how great Glory is.
The Pill - Problem
Five singles of this kind of sticky compressed shoutpop, loads of festivals and HotWax and Panic Shack tour supports ahead, and yet no word of an EP or album. What gives?
Prohibition Prohibition - Columns
Back to the German underground, Munich this time, and anxiety induced build and release post-punk with a vocalist who sounds like Hamish Hawk.
Prolapse - On The Quarter Days
Had they not been teasing it for the last few years and seen them live twice along the way we'd have gone up into orbit at the news that the mid to late 90s' actual finest noise-pop band had reformed. Even with that this is the kind of return that shows they've barely lost a step, noise freakouts, Scottish Mick shouting and all.
Rival Consoles - Catherine
Ambient electronic producer with Jon Hopkins parallels previews ninth album Landscape From Memory by conjuring shards of melody and emotion amid pulsing atmospherics.
Sacred Paws - Winter
The hi-life guitars/busily propulsive drums combination turns up trumps again throughout third album Jump Into Life, this track adding some of Ray Aggs' other speciality, weeping and soaring fiddle.
Snapped Ankles - Smart World
Machine tooled arrythmia from new album Hard Times Furious Dancing
Sugababes - Jungle
Don't know if you know these, they've been around in various Thesean forms for a while now. A weirdly overlooked actual comeback single given how keen people were for new material from the original three before they settled onto the corporate occasion circuit instead, but absolutely bringing their classic era momentum into house-pop modernism.
Sunny Intervals - As Summer Draws In
Late night ruminative/melancholic acoustic indiepop from Andy Hall formerly of Pocketbooks (and Indietracks), from album Swept Away out on 11th April.
Superchunk feat. Rosali - Bruised Lung
Chunky, cripsy power-pop just as they did it back in the day.
Throwing Muses - Drugstore Drastic
Meanwhile the first new Muses album in five years Moonlight Concessions uses acoustic and cello to create the necessary shaded mood, none better than here.
April 29th will mark Sweeping The Nation's twentieth anniversary. We had special things planned to coincide with it. None of them are coming to fruition, or at least not in time for that date. As always, idealism has been ruined by reality and drive.
Adebisi Shank - Start A Band
This is the return of a band called Adebisi Shank. Their first new release in ten years, in fact, with the kind of drive that doesn't suggest they'd been away at all.
Backxwash - Black Lazarus
The most extraordinary album of the year so far, the Montreal-based rapper's fifth album Only Dust Remains absolutely compels you not to turn away with the intensity and complete lack of compromise or veil over the personal or political darkness encompassing.
Black Country, New Road - For The Cold Country
Might be understating things to say the new BC,NR have been divisive, and that woodwind heavy press photo has absolutely not helped (nor has the growing army of those inspired by the Isaac era) but put that baggage aside and hear how this develops from plangency to rococo to percussive soaring.
Bob Mould - Fur Mink Augurs
If you're going to recall the later Husker Du albums, as the Tubs' album does, the man who wrote and sang on them may as well too on Here We Go Crazy.
caroline - Total euphoria
Somehow only 4:30, the post-rock octet skilfully play all their different parts out of time and then gradually coalesce into catharsis.
Dana Gavanski - Bolted Heart
Stately piano-led rumination from EP Again Again.
David Lowery - I Wrote A Song Called Take The Skinheads Bowling
A song about writing Take The Skinheads Bowling, by the man who wrote Take The Skinheads Bowling.
Emma-Jean Thackray - Maybe Nowhere
A slippery groove with thick old bassline housing open thought about the grief that followed her partner's death, from second album Weirdo out on 25th April.
Girl Group - Yay! Saturday
We've had Girlband!, before that we had Girl Band who became Gilla Band, maybe this was the next natural step. Musically understated (self-produced too) for something that itemises the messiest of all nights out and ends in the only way possible. a monologue about piss on a toilet seat.
Kelcey Ayer - Different Planets
The former keyboard player and co-vocalist in Local Natives breaks for a solo career, built on knotty guitar picking and layers forming that recall some of Grizzly Bear's most becalmed moments (speaking of whom, what happened to those reformation dates you said were happening this year, Ed?)
Knitting Circle - Safe Routes
"Safe Routes encourages an end to all arms sales everywhere, and an end to all wars! No borders!" is pretty conclusive, a strident call for human solidarity from the jagged indiepop-post-punk band featuring members of Milky Wimpshake, Crumbs, Red Monkey and No Fit State. 100% of proceeds from Bandcamp sales (after fees) will be donated to Campaign Against Arms Trade
Lawn Chair - Fancy Car, Girlfriend And The Big House
Back into the European post-punk wilds, this time to Cologne where we pick up the kind of synthy pulse that fills floors under a pointed picture of that kind of confident man.
Little Simz - Free
Lotus is out 9th May (on Inflo's label, which is awkward given she's suing him), we find Simbi in contemplative mode that suits her as much as the explosive stuff.
Matt Berninger - Bonnet Of Pins
While Aaron is off producing Gracie Abrams and refusing to apologise for it, world-weary singer boy has made a second solo album, Get Sunk out May 30th, and captures an energy the band haven't always lived up to in very recent years. Even a bit of a New Order influence in there.
Mclusky - people person
I mean, what do you need to know at this stage? Apart from that 'the world is still here and so are we' is out on May 9th.
Mhaol - DM:AM
Is it Mhaol now or still M(h)aol? Sources differ. Anyway, the reconstituted band continue a path between slinky and sinister, deconstructing online harassment and the self-regarding defences thereof on the road to Something Soft, out May 16th.
Neev - He Built Himself
A highlight of the cinematically expansive blown out folk of second album How Things Tie In Knots.
Panic Shack - Gok Wan
ATTN: SHITMUNCHERS. What have they been doing for the two and a half years between releases? Making an album, of course, no details yet but this is its first single. And touring lots, including practically every festival. And drinking, in all likelihood.
pencil - Silent Corners
"Something beautiful turning into something terrifying" according to the band, previewing their Bohemian Clutter EP with something that develops upon flurries of ornate folk-pop.
Perfume Genius - Clean Heart
But you already know how great Glory is.
The Pill - Problem
Five singles of this kind of sticky compressed shoutpop, loads of festivals and HotWax and Panic Shack tour supports ahead, and yet no word of an EP or album. What gives?
Prohibition Prohibition - Columns
Back to the German underground, Munich this time, and anxiety induced build and release post-punk with a vocalist who sounds like Hamish Hawk.
Prolapse - On The Quarter Days
Had they not been teasing it for the last few years and seen them live twice along the way we'd have gone up into orbit at the news that the mid to late 90s' actual finest noise-pop band had reformed. Even with that this is the kind of return that shows they've barely lost a step, noise freakouts, Scottish Mick shouting and all.
Rival Consoles - Catherine
Ambient electronic producer with Jon Hopkins parallels previews ninth album Landscape From Memory by conjuring shards of melody and emotion amid pulsing atmospherics.
Sacred Paws - Winter
The hi-life guitars/busily propulsive drums combination turns up trumps again throughout third album Jump Into Life, this track adding some of Ray Aggs' other speciality, weeping and soaring fiddle.
Snapped Ankles - Smart World
Machine tooled arrythmia from new album Hard Times Furious Dancing
Sugababes - Jungle
Don't know if you know these, they've been around in various Thesean forms for a while now. A weirdly overlooked actual comeback single given how keen people were for new material from the original three before they settled onto the corporate occasion circuit instead, but absolutely bringing their classic era momentum into house-pop modernism.
Sunny Intervals - As Summer Draws In
Late night ruminative/melancholic acoustic indiepop from Andy Hall formerly of Pocketbooks (and Indietracks), from album Swept Away out on 11th April.
Superchunk feat. Rosali - Bruised Lung
Chunky, cripsy power-pop just as they did it back in the day.
Throwing Muses - Drugstore Drastic
Meanwhile the first new Muses album in five years Moonlight Concessions uses acoustic and cello to create the necessary shaded mood, none better than here.
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
STN Select: February 2025
Adwaith - Planed (from Solas)
Anna Hillburg - The Shape's Gonna Shift My Way
Bambara - Letters From Sing Sing
Bob Mould - Neanderthal
Cheekface - Art House (from Middle Spoon)
Dana Gavanski - Hang In For Us Both
Factory Floor - Between You
Florist - Gloom Designs
Fontaines D.C. - It's Amazing To Be Young
Hurray For The Riff Raff - Pyramid Scheme
King Hannah - Leftovers
mclusky - way of the exploding dickhead
Mirrored Daughters - Unreturning Sun (from Mirrored Daughters)
Neev - My Own Back
Panda Bear - Ends Meet (from Sinister Grift)
Patrick Wolf - Dies Irae
Perfume Genius ft. Aldous Harding - No Front Teeth
Project Overload - Silhouettes
Robin Kester ft. Rozi Plain - Departure
Sacred Paws - Turn Me Down
Scrounge - UTG
Sister Wives - Malady
SMILE - Hot Friend
Snapped Ankles - Pay The Rent
Stuart Pearce - Rope
Tugboat Captain - Dog Tale
Twat Union - Singer Of The Band
Yoshika Colwell - Last Night
Youth Lagoon - Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas) (from Rarely Do I Dream)
Monday, February 03, 2025
STN Select: January 2025
Anna B Savage - Mo Cheol Thú
Hymn to love and to new home Ireland from typically intimate in warmth and detail third album You and i are Earth (capitalisation artist's own), which in a move that makes absolute logical sense shares a producer with Lankum.
C Duncan - Think About It
In case you didn't think they made lavish and sweeping piano-led orchestral romance any more, It's Only A Love Song has all the flourishes, expansive tropes and, yes, ba-ba-ba backing vocals you'd want.
Florist - Have Heaven
The ghost of Big Thief lurks in both Emily Sprague's phrasing and the building outwards intimacy with care. Fifth album Jellywish out 4th April.
GOAT feat. MC Yallah - Nimerudi
Propulsive masked Swedish acid-funk psychedelicists team with rapidfire multilingual Kenya-Uganda rapper and highlight of last year's End Of The Road, bring some blaxploitation flute.
jasmine.4.t - Highfield
Airy sparseness around a dark subject, from debut album You Are The Morning, carefully arranged by all three of its producers, namely Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. Never heard of them. Are they good?
Magana - Hold On
The last, Jeni now claims, of a series of seasonally affected EPs, Bad News reflecting the move from winter to spring and sounding appropriately like frost melting.
The Orchestra (For Now) - Skins
Hark, is that the sound of the Brixton Windmill? Don't they have the roof dog any more? The septet's second single hoards nominatively orchestral slow-burn dramatics before bursting out and racing to the skies. EP out on 28th March.
Panda Bear - Ferry Lady
One of those solo Animal Collective projects in that this track also fetures Geologist on "sounds" and Deakin on "synth trumpet". Still sounds as woozy and whacked-out as Panda's best work. From Sinister Grift, out 28th February.
Pigeon Dog - Wet Washing
North London trio stalk the perimeter of knotty alt-rock that might remind some of Throwing Muses or Cay. These are good things.
Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory - Trouble
Yeah, she's got a band now, while still threading the needle between electronics and her signature rolling, self-questioning songwriting. self-titled album out this Friday.
Snapped Ankles - Raoul
And now the other masked psych-art freaks, who follow a post-DFA pulsing, yowling disco-punk groove to the abyss with what seems to be references to Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote disasters. Hard Times Furious Dancing is released on 28th March.
Viagra Boys - Man Made Of Meat
A radio-ready chorus, a ranting on a street corner-ready verse. Look forward to them sending a crowd as nuts as they go in that Research Chemicals Glastonbury experience you've doubtless seen on YouTube. New album is called Viagr Aboys, because why not, and is out April 25th.
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