Alvvays - very online guy, 2022

“Very Online Guy” is a bit more of a departure from what we’ve come to expect from the band. The track sounds distinctly European, channeling strains of Italo Disco and French chansons, and it’s hard to tell at first whether Rankin is singing in another language."

Saint Etienne - hats off to roy hodgson, 2022

"a previously unreleased song likely paying tribute to the English football manager Roy Hodgson"

James - born of frustration live, 2022

"Born of Frustration was the second single off the Seven album released a couple of weeks before the album itself. Weighing in at over five minutes and containing Tim yodelling and a “la, la, la, la” refrain that brought comparisons with Simple Minds “Don’t You Forget About Me”, it was the one song that the critics felt justified all the stadium-rock accusations thrown at the band at the time. It was for sure a bigger more ambitious wide-screen sound that James had never previously achieved and that in many quarters was seen as a crime against indie music."

Saint Etienne - swedish radio theme, 2022

"A collection of hot dishes and cold cuts from late period Saint Etienne. Some were one-off projects, others are gems that were ruthlessly tossed aside from reasons no one can quite remember. And so, for your enjoyment, we have the theme from a scandalous show called Luuk & Lokko (Swedish Radio Theme)"

Shout Out Louds - my companion, 2022

"Sometimes it’s easy to get fooled by the youthful spirit of the Shout Out Louds songs … but yes, the Swedish indie rock formation has indeed been active for two decades now and have also crossed the magical age-mark of 40 by now. But once you fall into new music by the four-piece these things become quite relative anyway because there’s a certain timelessness that surrouns their music anyway. The sweet indie pop gems of the Swedes are carried by a certain longing, warm melancholia and a reflective notion that just gets better and better with age."

D4RKSTAR - end of days, 2022

"D4RKSTAR is a one-person music project led by Andreas Lindh, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. It blends shoegaze, post-punk, darkwave, and electronic genres, characterized by heavy reverb, distorted guitars, bright synths, and hypnotic rhythms. The music evokes a mix of desperation, melancholy, and hope, with influences from bands like The Cure, Joy Division, Jesus and Mary Chain, and modern acts like I Break Horses."

The Lightning Seeds - emily smiles, 2022

“Emily Smiles is about miscommunication and lives being changed by small moments and random events”

Club 8 - late in life, 2022

"This single is definitely upbeat, yet somehow a super chill listen. It’s the kind of song you want to be listening to as you take an afternoon drive near the coast, windows down, breathing in the salty air. The electric guitar bits are always so fun, fresh, and paint a really specific picture of the story Club 8 is trying to tell and the feeling they’re trying to evoke."

Alvvays - many mirrors, 2022

"The whole album is fantastic, but the song ‘Many Mirrors’ had a pure, adventurous energy to it that really resonated with me."

The Golden Filter - drive cover, 2022

"The Golden Filter is an American/Australian electronic music duo from New York City, formed in 2008, now based in London. The band consists of Penelope Trappes and Stephen Hindman."

The Lightning Seeds - permanent danger, 2022

"This intoxicating 10 track collection will kick start a soundtrack to summer with the feel good warmth of ‘Sunshine’. Most of the songs are written by Ian Broudie. One of the album highlights, ‘Emily Smiles’, was co-written with Terry Hall while ‘Great to Be Alive’ is a co-write with James Skelly (the Coral)."

Beach Vacation - it soothes me, 2022

"The track captures a sun-soaked lush dreamy rock sound that has a bit of early Beach Fossils in it, with some gorgeous sounds that feel like the best summer with your friends that you wish you could turn the back towards this very instant."

Death Cab For Cutie - asphalt meadows, 2022

"Gibbard has been admirably candid about the personal turmoil he suffered while creating Death Cab for Cutie’s most beloved music, in contrast to the sobriety and equilibrium he experiences now—challenging fans to consider what they miss about “the old Death Cab.” But the existential burden of being in a massively popular band with dwindling acclaim has lightened over the past three years."

Beirut - the rip tide ber-abq version, 2022

"These ideas of acceptance, hope and personal reflection make The Rip Tide an accomplished, restrained record, which sees Condon forgetting his travels, and forging his own native sound."

Seablite - ink bleeds, 2022

"Seablite" is a San Francisco-based indie pop band known for their dreamy shoegaze and jangling guitar sounds, often compared to influences like The Smiths, The Mamas & the Papas, and Cocteau Twins. "Ink Bleeds" is one of two tracks on their 7" single released on January 1, 2022, via Emotional Response Records, with the other track being "Breadcrumbs."

Arcade Fire - age of anxiety i, 2022

"We is the sixth studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, released through Columbia Records on May 6, 2022. Produced by Nigel Godrich and band members Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, it was recorded in studios in New Orleans; in El Paso, Texas; and on Mount Desert Island in Maine. The album takes its name from the Russian dystopian novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It was the final album by Arcade Fire to feature multi-instrumentalist Will Butler, who departed the band in 2022."

Yot Club - priorities, 2022

"Priorities" is a track by Yot Club, the musical project of Ryan Kaiser, an American bedroom pop artist from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, now based in Nashville, Tennessee. The song was released on June 10, 2022, and is part of his album "off the grid." The lyrics reflect themes of balancing personal relationships with individual responsibilities and productivity, as seen in lines like "And it's all just motivation for vague productivity / I'm just concentrated more on priorities."

Jade Bird - american pie cover, 2022

"On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. The event became known as "The Day the Music Died" after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie".

Damien Jurado - ohio live, 2022

"Ohio" is an elaborate and painfully sad tale of a girl deciding to return home years after being kidnapped by her father."

Cat Stevens – morning has broken cover live, 2022

The hymn originally appeared in the second edition of Songs of Praise (published in 1931), to the tune "Bunessan", composed in the Scottish Islands. In Songs of Praise Discussed, the editor, Percy Dearmer, explains that as there was need for a hymn to give thanks for each day, English poet and children's author Eleanor Farjeon had been "asked to make a poem to fit the lovely Scottish tune." Farjeon later included a slight variation on the original hymn text under the new title, "A Morning Song (For the First Day of Spring)", in her collection of poems for children entitled The Children's Bells, published by Oxford University Press in 1957."