Enjoy The Ride
The San Diego band's vocalist Dawson Daugherty says this song is about 'anxiety and trying to confront the things you fear'. Cole Clisby (gtr) and Luke Fabry (bass) agree. So there
Hunting Season
Our favourite Ayrshire Cliff Richard fans are back!
Man On A Mission
The Ohio garage-blues-rock duo are Dan Auerbach (vcls, gtrs) and Patrick Carney (drms)
Makes Me Great
Another slice of superb-ness from San Francisco's Anton Newcombe, following his 2third album 'The Future Is Your Past' in 2023
Wonderful Life '25
Dresden knob-tiddlers Purple Disco Machine did the remix for the English duo, Theo Hutchcraft (vcls) and Adam Anderson (kybds, gtr)
Hight Tide
The Baltimore indies formed in 2002 and are Drew Danburry (gtr/vcls), Eli Sims (drms), Leena Rhodes (gtr, vcls), Brendan Russell (bass), Peyton Rodeffer (gtr, vcls) and Andrew Young (drms). We're told they originally recorded this classic-in-the-making back in 2004
It's Not The First Time
Twenty-seven years after their 2XS session, Edinburgh's Roddy Woomble and chms return
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Riverboat Queen (2XS)
Strong flavours of Greta Van Fleet from this teenage Lichfield band. Impressive
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Life Is Simple (Move Your Body)
L.A.'s Emeric Boxall enlists the help of Marshall Jefferson (DJ) and Franco-Indian Salome' Das (vcls)
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Natural Blues (ft. Blond:ish, Kik Francis)
Canadian house producer Blond:ish and Kiko Francis help out Melvyn Hall on this remix of his 2000 classic
Awake
On Brighton's Shoredive Records, the L.A. band blend the rawness of garage rock with some strong Brian Jonestown shoegaze jangle. The band are Jaime Rosas (bass), Linda Ventura (drms) and Carlos Bojorquez (vcls, gtrs)
Leave Me Alone
Bring on North Carolina's now-gay 'Joan Jett of modern pop'
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Shores (2XS)
The Macclesfield four-piece have been going since 2022. They say 'our aim is to make music which is lean, novel and emotionally cathartic.'. They do a pretty good job of that here
Run Free
The long-running 2XS Barn Session band from Ghent centres around brothers David and Stephen Dewaele. This is the first music by them that we have played since 2017, so it's good to have them back
Ain't Quite Right
The new transatlantic duo are Jordy (from Hawaii) and Ben (from Manchester, where they wrote this song while it was raining)
Dancing With The Europeans
Returning to more of their old swagger, this is the tenth album by Brett Anderson's London indies and follows 2022's 'Autofiction'
Freakout At The Mud Palace
Mike Scott goes nuts over the Kansas star of 'New Hollywood', Dennis Lee Hopper
Mangetout
Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers return with one of the most highly-anticipated sophomore albums ever. It follows their enormous success with their 2022 debut, 'Wet Leg'. Pity about the U.S. album title spelling, though. This song was written by Teasdale and their bass player, Ellis Durand
In The Middle
The Ealing band release this in advance of their seventh album, due in Nov 2025
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Redlights
Reminding us of Everlast, the Ontario 'urban country' artist Chris Hale says this has a story to tell: 'a woman caught in the struggle, using herself to survive and drowning the pain with substances'