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.
