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.