Here's a track from this week's 2XS Top 20:

INSECURE MEN
Cleaning Bricks
A Man For All Seasons (2025)

The band originally formed in 2015 in The Queens Head pub, Stockwell (the Fat White Family's 'practice space')
You can play songs from this list on Spotify (where permitted) here.

On next:
VELVET REVOLVER


And we just played these...
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
Back Of Love
Porcupine (1983)

Gloom pop from Liverpool's Ian McCulloch and chums

SHED SEVEN
Let's Go Dancing
A Matter Of Time (2024)

Good to see the thirty-year veteran band returning with a #1 album

METRIC
All Comes Crashing
Formentera (2022)

This is the eighth studio album by Emily Haines' Toronto band, who hit the jackpot in 2005 with 'Monster Hospital'

BLOSSOMS
There's A Reason Why (I Never Returned Your Calls)
Cool Like You (2018)

Tom Ogden's Stockport band is an 'alliance of best friends, all born in the same hospital, Stepping Hill'. This is their second album