A Fistful Of Diamonds Or Just Shards Of Glass...?

No music to get excited about in 2025? Here are half a dozen replies to the contrary, released in the last week alone!

1) Into Dust (Still Falling): Four Tet

2) Cut & Rewind: Say She She

3) Pollyanna: Just Mustard

4) BYE BYE 25!: Kim Gordon

5) Sad Piano (Extended Mix): Daphni

6) I'm Not Done (Therapy Session): Fever Ray

Click on the links to buy the above (and more) from Bandcamp.

 

 

 

 

 

So Tired Of Hearing These Awful Christmas Songs

So says Richard Dawson on Boxing Day Sales, released just in time for Christmas and in advance of new album End Of The Middle in February. There's even a fun video to boot, with Richard doing his best impression of Kim Cattrall in Mannequin.

Here are half a dozen other festive offerings, fresh for 2024. Whilst unlikely to bother Wham! and Mariah in the race for Christmas Number One, all are worth a listen. And if I get around to doing another Bad Santa selection this year, then at least a couple of these will probably make the cut.

Disappearing Christmas / Empty Nester: The Disappearing

Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight​)​ (Cover of Ramones): Mattiel

This Wintertime / Purple Snowflakes (cover of Marvin Gaye): Say She She

Last Minute Christmas List / Shirley Hughes Christmas: Neil Brogan

White Christmas (cover of Bing Crosby) / Silence Night: Laibach & Silence

Merry Wiffmas! EP: Skeewiff (remixes of festive fare by José Feliciano, The Harvey Averne Band and more, available as a name your price / free download)