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TAPE TRASH - Black Kites Babylon
💿 Eden (@tinyengines.bsky.social)

Capping off part 1 of the 2025 Rewind with the powerful closer from this Oslo band's new record, Eden. We'll see you December 22nd for part 2 - hope you found something you liked. Take care out there 💜
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Turnstile - Look Out For Me
💿 Never Enough

One song from this band is Never Enough so we decided to go with the seven-minute centrepiece from their boundary-smashing new record, which is effectively two songs in one. Said Dublin show was an absolute stunner, you had to be there 🌈
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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@gurriers.bsky.social - Erasure

You should Come and See this band at their pair of Dublin shows on December 20th and 21st, assuming you've got a ticket that is because DAMN those sold out quick. We saw them open up for Turnstile in a much bigger venue recently. New album next year ❌
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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@anamanaguchi.bsky.social - Sapphire
💿 Anyway (@polyvinyl.bsky.social )

More songs about a band's early days should go this hard - their DIY comeup is the subject of this mosh-ready ripper from Anamanaguchi, who also get a twofer because the new album is just THAT good. 🏠🏠
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Petey USA - Anything in Between
💿 A Case of Yips

Have you got A Case of Yips? Petey Martin might be able to help. The Los Angeles man's unflinching third album The Yips arrived in July, and a deluxe edition drops Friday with three new songs; this is one of them 🍺
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Dance With the Dead - Psycho Disco

The California synthwave-metal duo follow up 2022's Driven to Madness next year - this is a new song of theirs slated to appear on the album. More when we get it 🧟
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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We Are Scientists - The Big One
💿 Qualifying Miles

In addition to those aforementioned shows (we were in London and had a ball 🪩), the New York trio released their brilliant ninth album in July. irish shows are planned for next year, please stand by 👀
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Sean McVerry - Better
💿 STEVE

Please excuse us while we go wear this song out again, brb. As well as an excellent new record from June, McVerry is all but part of We Are Scientists now, joining them as multi-instrumentalist for their With Love and Squalor shows in October. Speaking of!
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Arm's Length - Fatal Flaw
💿 There's a Whole World Out There (@purenoiserecords.bsky.social)

The Ontario emo trailblazers came out swinging on their visceral second album in May, buffing up every facet of their sound to leave an already impressive debut album in the dust. 🌐
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Daniel Avery - In Keeping (Soon We'll Be Dust) [feat. Walter Schreifels)

The London polymath signed to @dominorecordco.bsky.social this year, dropping his best record & one of the best albums of 2025, Tremor, on Halloween, with a huge scope & the features list to match. Essential. ⛰️
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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@spanishlovesongs.bsky.social - Lifers Too (feat. Dan Campbell)

We've been waiting on this one for a few months and the full-band version of Lifers Too (a response to the opener from 2023's No Joy) delivers in spades even BEFORE Dan of The Wonder Years' guest spot. Yes please. ⏲️
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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The Maccabees - Something Like Happiness (Acoustic)
💿 Marks to Prove It (10th Anniversary Edition)

Resurrected from 2015 (and the band themselves from 2017!), this gorgeous rework of an album highlight goes out to a special someone 💜
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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@michaelcerapalin.bsky.social - Crypto
💿 We Could Be Brave (@bsmrocks.bsky.social)

A typically dense highlight from The Best Debut Album of 2025 (their London album show in September confirmed it) that skewers interlinked American fascist rhetoric and worthless digital currency 💵
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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@bartees-strange.bsky.social - Backseat Banton
💿 Horror (@4ad.com)

Responsible for one of favourite albums and shows of the year (YES Basement, Manchester, August 25th), Baltimore-based Bartees Strange ALSO put a new EP out last month. It's all happening for him 🛞
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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@acloudyskye.com - Float
💿 This Won't Be the Last Time

New Yorker Skye Kothari made it two albums in two years with This Won't Be the Last Time, a captivating indie/electronic/emo hybrid that completes an impressive double paired with last year's There Must Be Something Here 🌊
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Boxplot - Rose Tint

We love a good tempo match here and are trying to emphasise the 'mix' part of 'mixtape episode', so we're dropping you straight into this cracking single from Boston's Ian Shelton, thank us later 🌹
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Andromedik & Netsky - Out of Body
💿 Ascension

Loved-up D&B songs are like buses, you wait ages for anything and then two come along at once. Axel Demarbaix released his new album Ascension a few weeks back, featuring this STORMING team-up with Netsky. 💜
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Feint & Kate McGill - It's True
💿 Undertow EP

While the wait for a bonafide album from Andrew Hu continues, his 2025 loosies have been collected as a new EP, which kicks off with a song about the realisation of being head over heels in love - up-tempo bliss 💫
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Venjent - Til Death We Do Art

London-based producer Vincent Welch is (a) better known as Venjent and (b) will sample and make a song out of literally anything. He'll make it slap super hard too, this one's spent a while on repeat this year 🖌️
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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TAPE TRASH - Rapture Boy
💿 Eden (@tinyengines.bsky.social)

High Voltage Track of the Month last month and we're still not over this song - a patented second-album Tiny Engines level up from this Oslo-based duo 🙏
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Biffy Clyro - Hunting Season
💿 Futique

The Kilmarnock-formed titans came back from the brink with Futique in September, and return to the 3Arena on Saturday January 10th with The Armed and Soft Play in tow. We'll see you there! 🗡️
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Sudan Archives - YEA YEA YEA
💿 THE BPM (@4ad.com)

LA's Brittney Parks plays the Academy on Monday December 8th, off the back of last month's new album drop. Should you go if you're on the fence? Yea yea yea. 🎻
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
We played around with a segue from b-side Buried and it turned out to work perfectly as a lead into the next song. You should have seen us pop off when we sorted it 😤
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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@formerhero.bsky.social - Reclaimed

Yorkshire-based Mike Jones is back at it as Former Hero after stepping away from the project in late 2023. He's (heh) reclaimed the name, with the first official FH song in two years dropping next week, and LP3 in Spring 2026. 🌳
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Ghost - Cenotaph
💿 Skeletá

One of our very favourite songs of 2025 from a Swedish band who had a very big year off the back of April's Skeletá. That solo is absolutely everything 🎸
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM