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
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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
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