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Paul W.
@paulwonvinyl.bsky.social
Speaking in songs 🎵 and talking books 📚
#20SongsByYear (I’m carrying on to the end of the month!)
#2025FavSingles
#MusicChallenge

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🎵 I don’t know what to save
💿 I still want to share
🎤 Sophie Jamieson

Contemporary folk at once vulnerable and glorious 🥹 The highlight of her Jan release on the Bella Union label.

youtu.be/WWrQRQW5o5c
Sophie Jamieson - I don't know what to save (Official Video)
YouTube video by Sophie Jamieson
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Continuing to count down to the #5albums25 #MusicChallenge in just over a week’s time.

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The sophomore LP by Rebecca Shelley aka boci remains a unique (uniXia!) delight 😊 One to watch, I’m convinced that her best music is yet to come.

🎵 moonbathing, CYFYC
#NowPlaying #np #NewMusic2025

scenes from uniXia, self-released today by boci, alt-folk singer-songwriter & violinist from Bristol 🇬🇧 An amazing talent, bold & imaginative. Bat For Lashes is perhaps one comparison.

Great music by independent artists is always out there! 🥳

linktr.ee/bocimusic?ut...
December 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
#ArtistFaveXmas
#MusicChallenge

Day 🎄🎄

🎵 Losing My Sledge 🛷 (Michael Jackson vs Andrews Sisters & Bing Crosby vs LCD Soundsystem vs Lipps Inc - 2012) by TBC Poundsystem
💿 Xmash - Christmas Mashups and Covers

Brilliant kitchen sink mash-up 💃🎅🏻🕺🏻

fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/track/losing...
Losing My Sledge (Michael Jackson vs Andrews Sisters & Bing Crosby vs LCD Soundsystem vs Lipps Inc - 2012), by TBC Poundsystem
from the album Xmash - Christmas Mashups and Covers
fingertrouble.bandcamp.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Counting down to #5albums25

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Rose Cousins is a singer-songwriter based in Halifax, NS 🍁

For fans of Nerina Pallot at her most reflective. Rose tours the UK in January.

🎵 I Believe In Love (And It's Very Hard)
#NowPlaying #np #NewMusic2025 🇨🇦

💿 Conditions of Love, Vol. 1

Rose Cousins’ previous album, Bravado, kept me company during lockdown, and it featured in my #5albums20

Her new record, mostly intimate and often soulful piano ballads, was worth the five-year wait 😊

rosecousins.ffm.to/conditionsof...
December 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
#20SongsByYear #2025FavSingles 1️⃣2️⃣

Also #ArtistFaveXmas 🎄 day 1️⃣

#MusicChallenge

🎵 Christmas Day

Will Graefe can produce extraordinary ambient sounds with a guitar.

Taken from his Compositions For A Guitar Vol. 1 album, the track does though sound more like Boxing Day 3am ☺️

youtu.be/VZHZhlIchR4
Christmas Day
YouTube video by Will Graefe - Topic
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Counting down to #5albums25
#MusicSky

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💿 The World Under Unsun
🇵🇱 Lunatic Soul
🗓️ Oct

🎵 The Prophecy
🎵 Mind Obscured, Heart Eclipsed

Mammoth prog album, hugely rewarding. Shout out to @mellotronmary.bsky.social without whom this LP would’ve passed me by 🙏🏻

lunaticsoulmusic.lnk.to/theworldunde...
December 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#20SongsByYear (mine is 31!)
#2025FavSingles
#MusicChallenge

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🎵 The Queen Of Mercy
🇮🇪 Soda Blonde
🗓️ May

People Pleaser EP - the first of two releases this year.

The second, the band’s 2023 Dream Big LP reimagined, Live With The National Symphony Orchestra, is in the post 😊

youtu.be/u-MPfNE23k8
Soda Blonde - The Queen Of Mercy (Official Video)
YouTube video by SodaBlondeVEVO
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#20SongsByYear (I started at 31 for 2025!)
#2025FavSingles
#MusicChallenge

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🎵 See Things Through
🎤 Toria Wooff

From her self-titled debut album, released in March. Country-tinged gothic folk, from Chester, NW England 😊

youtu.be/GB7TBvNP8_s
See Things Through
YouTube video by Toria Wooff - Topic
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Continuing to count down to #5albums25

At 2️⃣2️⃣ in my list, In Limerence, Jacob Alon’s May debut 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#NowPlaying #NewMusic2025

🎤 Jacob Alon
💿 In Limerence

Line of sight from Nick Drake thro Jeff Buckley to contemporaries such as the edginess of David Keenan, the sensitivity of Perfume Genius and Radiohead at their quietest ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🎵 Don’t Fall Asleep, Fairy In A Bottle

jacobalon.lnk.to/InLimerence
December 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Continuing to count down to #5albums25

2️⃣3️⃣

The latest Cynefin (pronounced kuh-neh-vin) album was released in January. As we approach the end of the year, I remain equally delighted by the music and the physical product 😊

@cynefinmusic.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#KantoMondo
#MusicChallenge

Day 3️⃣

🎵 Mae'r Nen Yn Ei Glesni
✍🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
💿 Shimli

I have @lotty.bsky.social to thank for introducing me to this #NewMusic2025 by Welsh folk artist, Cynefin. The beautifully presented CD contains a booklet with an absorbing commentary in two languages.

cynefin.lnk.to/Shimli
December 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
#20SongsByYear (mine is 31 this time)
#2025FavSingles
#MusicChallenge

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🎵 My Agincourt
🗓️ May

From Louise Connell’s Clients of Suddenness album, folk/pop on Last Night From Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

On this track, the singer’s voice recalls the late Scott Hutchison.

youtu.be/W16X6E_OG34
My Agincourt
YouTube video by Louise Connell - Topic
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Counting down to #5albums25 😊

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🇸🇮 Širom
💿 In The Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper

An alt-folk Swans, the percussion is relentless and intense 🥁

🎵 The Hangman's Shadow Fifteen Years On
🎵 For You, This Eve, The Wolves Will Be Enchantingly Forsaken

idol-io.ffm.to/inthewindofn...
Širom - In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper
Choose your preferred music service
idol-io.ffm.to
December 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
#20SongsByYear (mine is 31 this time!)
#2025FavSingles
#MusicChallenge

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🎵 LOUD!
🗓️ February
💿 Living Arrows

A song by the one and only Chesney Hawkes 😊

Adult contemporary pop FFO One Republic or Savage Garden. From the first time I heard it on the radio, I was hooked!

youtu.be/PXHpolBWZkM?...
Chesney Hawkes - LOUD! Official Music Video
YouTube video by Chesney Hawkes
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Counting down to #5albums25 😊

My longer list is predominantly singer-songwriters. Dorothy Bird starts things off at 2️⃣5️⃣ 🇩🇪🇬🇧
#NewMusicFriday

💿 Whispering Paper
🎤 Dorothy Bird

Singer-songwriter Berlin-born, Liverpool-based & never far from my turntable right now.

Fans of The Weather Station & Cassandra Jenkins may find much to enjoy here 😊

🎵 Around The Corner, It Only Takes One

dorothybird.bandcamp.com/album/whispe...
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#20SongsByYear (mine is 31!)
#2025FavSingles
#MusicChallenge

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🎵 Sewing
🎤 The Weather Station
💿 Humanhood
🗓️ January

Delicate final song on Tamara Lindeman’s most recent album, so quiet you could hear a pin drop ☺️

youtu.be/lYPdvzVh1pk?...
The Weather Station - Sewing (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The Weather Station
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
#20SongsByYear (mine is 31 this time!)
#2025FavSingles
#MusicChallenge

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🎵 Shadow Quarter
🎹 @talktopeters.bsky.social
🗓️ May
⏱️ 2:13

A short track from Mark Peters’ mellow instrumental electronica EP of the same name. Spellbinding 😵‍💫

mark-peters.bandcamp.com/track/shadow...
Shadow Quarter, by Mark Peters
from the album Shadow Quarter
mark-peters.bandcamp.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
#20SongsByYear (mine is 31 this time!)
#2025FavSingles
#MusicChallenge

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🎵 Liminalù
🎤 Livija Gemma
💿 Dangus jau rausta

Alt/ambient pop from Vilnius, Lithuania 🇱🇹 Ace percussion, especially in the second half of the song. Bat For Lashes fans I’m sure will enjoy the album 😊

youtu.be/Di89QNUk_c0
Liminalù
YouTube video by Livija Gemma - Topic
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
#5DebutAlbums7074
#MusicChallenge

Hi @richards7370.bsky.social

🥇 Hang On In There Baby, Johnny Bristol (1974)
2. Pieces Of A Man, Gil Scott-Heron (1971)
3. Whole Oats, Daryl Hall & John Oates (1972)
4. Everything Is Everything, Donny Hathaway (1970)
5. Singer Songwriter, Clifford T. Ward (1972)

🙏🏻
#5DebutAlbums7074
#MusicChallenge

💿 Hang On In There Baby

Johnny Bristol was a remarkably talented singer/songwriter. His 1974 debut features the original Love Me For A Reason (a hit for the Osmonds), Memories Don’t Leave Like People Do and of course the ace title track… 💃🕺🏻

youtu.be/ZVdzN1axrW8
Johnny Bristol - Hang On In There Baby
YouTube video by KaderFunkyman
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
#20SongsByYear (mine is 31 this time!)
#2025FavSingles
#MusicChallenge

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🎵 memory 2: grow something
🎤 Nico Paulo
💿 Interval_o

From a folkie five-track March release, often dreamy and ethereal ☺️

Nico Paulo appeared in my year end list a couple of years ago too ⬇️

youtu.be/plDBKfGDH4g
December 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
My top five gigs of 2025:

Katie Spencer (Kings Heath, Oct - pictured)
Nadia Reid (Coventry, Sep)
Conor O’Rourke / JJ Lovegrove (Birmingham, Aug)
Nerina Pallot (Oxford, Oct)
Duke Special (Kings Heath, Apr)

You can’t beat small venues for live music - and you can bet they really value our support 😊
December 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#20SongsByYear (mine is 31!)
#2025FavSingles
#MusicChallenge

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🎵 Cathexis
🎤 Circuit des Yeux
🗓️ March

Electronica from Haley Fohr’s dark, gothic and often heavy Halo On The Inside album. An extraordinary voice, though masked and distorted on this grand, sweeping highlight.

youtu.be/tCFCrC9lNa8
Circuit des Yeux - Cathexis (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Circuit des Yeux
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
#20SongsByYear (mine is 31!)
#2025FavSingles
#MusicChallenge

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🎵 The Children Of War
🗓️ Sep

Discovered only just on John’s latest Compendium radio show, but I wanted to find room. Fiddle, flute & piano combine beautifully on an evocative instrumental ☺️

lauratargett.bandcamp.com/track/the-ch...
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#5DebutAlbums7074
#MusicChallenge

💿 Singer Songwriter (1972)

Clifford T. Ward was from just over the border from me in Worcestershire. He would reach his creative peak on his next 3 albums, but there is plenty to enjoy here too. Top 5 👍🏻

🎵 Sam, Leader, Carrie

music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Singer Songwriter - Album by Clifford T. Ward
Listen to Singer Songwriter by Clifford T. Ward on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.
music.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
#20SongsByYear (extended to 31!)
#2025FavSingles
#MusicChallenge

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🎵 Me & Angel
🎤 Perfume Genius
💿 Glory
🗓️ Mar

An elegant and thoughtful piano-led track from Mike Hadreas’ latest album. The video was released last month.

youtu.be/IEmQNS2QgTg
Perfume Genius - "Me & Angel" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Perfume Genius
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
#5DebutAlbums7074
#MusicChallenge

💿 Hang On In There Baby

Johnny Bristol was a remarkably talented singer/songwriter. His 1974 debut features the original Love Me For A Reason (a hit for the Osmonds), Memories Don’t Leave Like People Do and of course the ace title track… 💃🕺🏻

youtu.be/ZVdzN1axrW8
Johnny Bristol - Hang On In There Baby
YouTube video by KaderFunkyman
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM