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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…
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 Middle Spoon by Cheekface 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 It's Only A Love Song by…
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 What Do You Do All Day? by Autocamper 59 Hannah…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Those we know about Lambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs Out (10th January) Sophie Jamieson - I still want to share (17th January) Anna B Savage - You & i are Earth (24th January) Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (7th February) Panda Bear - Sinister Grift (28th February) The Tubs - Cotton Crown (7th March) The Horrors - Night Life (21st March) Those we don't Beach House:…
Right then, let's wrap this misbegotten year up in the acceptable fashion. As usual it's one per artist, otherwise it gets silly, and yes, we know a couple of them were released right at the end of 2023 but we either discovered them on a 2024 album or they came too late for that year's reckoning. Sorry for the Ek-toadying, haven't got the wherewithal to do a playlist on any other streaming service…
But first, a reminder: 50 Lip Critic - Hex Dealer 49 New Starts - More Break-Up Songs 48 Isobel Campbell - Bow To Love 47 Drahla - angeltape 46 TORRES - What an enormous room 45 Magana - Teeth 44 Hello Mary - Emita Ox 43 MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks 42 Nightshift - Homosapien 41 mui zyu - nothing or something to die for 40 Clarissa Connelly - World Of Work 39 St Vincent - All Born Screaming 38…
20 Dana Gavanski - LATE SLAP Twisting guitar-pop melodies until they don't quite feel right, capturing the skill of musical optimism and lyrical hollowness 19 Laura Marling - Patterns In Repeat Motherhood suits Marling's meditative side, intimate and homely whilst considering what her new life looks like 18 Hamish Hawk - A Firmer Hand Bookish, raffish and full of theatrical introspectiveness (yes,…
30 Neutrals - New Town Dream Glaswegian transplanted to California gets to examine the human stories of tenement life from afar in an agit-janglepop setting 29 King Hannah - Big Swimmer A big step forward for a second album, narrating a diaristic candour as the guitar explodes the languorous meditation states 28 Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us A recalibration based on taking stock of…
40 Clarissa Connelly - World Of Work Copenhagen based producer/composer's rich voice drives brooding piano-led experiments in Celtic-aligned folk hauntology 39 St Vincent - All Born Screaming Stepping back into a daze, harsh beats rubbing against vulnerable self-consideration amid nods throughout to previous highs (i.e. not Daddy's Home) 38 Yard Act - Where's My Utopia? A reckoning with James…
50 Lip Critic - Hex Dealer Intense 32 minutes of full-on New York electro-dance-punk, like DFA's circuits overheating 49 New Starts - More Break-Up Songs Darren Hayman's new band in the long shadow of Hefner, all Velvets chug, power-pop dynamics and map-of-the-heart lyrics 48 Isobel Campbell - Bow To Love Fleabitten queen of the hushed reckons with the modern world in low-key dream-folk tones 47…
Astraba - Sink The Moon Apart from this being a London band's debut there doesn't seem to be a lot of background to Astraba, which can feel suspicious for ones so fully formed, but they're a band who seem to have much in front of them, routed in layered psychedelia that shifts from Mazzy Star-adjacent wistfulness to spiralling surges, all still ethereal at heart and all that. Augustin Bousfield -…
Autocamper - Summertime Manchester by spiritual way of Dunedin, the janglepop revivalists (if it ever needs reviving, or indeed counts as one) have their calendar all wrong but their spirit absolutely in the right place, scratchy and jolting while borrowing The Clean's organ melodies. Summertime by Autocamper HONESTY - TORMENTOR Formed from the ashes of Eagulls, HONESTY really clicked for us…