TURN UP THE VOLUME – 20 BEST LULLABIES OF 2025
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK-BY-TRACK
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Band: MY MORNING JACKET
Who: The veteran Louisville‘s
rockers.
Track: WHERE TO BEGIN
A pearl of a ballad beauty, actually a previously unreleased
track from their 20th-anniversary edition of their 4th LP ‘Z’.
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Band: THE WATERBOYS
Who: The Scottish pop-rock-folk
band orchestrated by Mike Scott.
Track: RIDING DOWN TO MARDI GRAS
Mike Scott at its gripping best. A piece from the band’s
astonishing 16th LP titled Life, Death And Dennis Hopper.
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Band: Much lauded indie act JAPANESE BREAKFAST
Who: The much lauded indie act formed back in 2013
in Philadelphia.
Track: ORLANDO IN LOVE
Dreamy gem from their 4th full-length, named
For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women).
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Artist: MAVIS STAPLES
Who: Legendary soul/blues/rock voice who, along with family, had a long and
greatly accomplished career under the name of The Staple Singers (1948-1994).
She’s 86 now, singing and swinging like a 36-year-old.
Track: SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD
Title track from her new LP.
What a voice.
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Photo Credit: Meg Moon
Band: THE BEACHES
Who: All female Canadian
guitar pop quartet.
Track: LESBIAN OF THE YEAR
Glorious slow-mo anthem from their 3rd LP, titled No Hard Feelings.
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Press photo by Destiny Robb
Band: CHARM SCHOOL
Who: The latest project from singer-songwriter Andrew Sellers
who, originally from Louisville, has paid his dues in both the
NYC and LA DIY music scenes.
Track: WITHOUT A DOUBT
Impassioned, amplified piece from their debut LP Debt Forever.
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Band: WOLF ALICE
Who: Lauded British guitar pop quartet, fronted
by the tremendous vocalist Ellie Rowsell.
Track: WOLF ALICE
Heart-rending humdinger from their 4th longplayer, baptized The Clearing.
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Press Photo by Genesis Báez
Band: BIG THIEF
Who: The folk-pop combo from Brooklyn,
led by touching voice Adrianne Lenker.
Track: ALL NIGHT ALL DAY
Mellow reverie from their 6th full-length Double Infinity.
Instagram
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Band: PORRIDGE RADIO
Who: Young Brighton indies by the wonderful
Dana Margolin, who have released 4 albums.
Track: DON’T WANNA DANCE
Tearjerker from their goodbye EP, called
The Machine Stars To Sing. I miss this band,
on record and on stage.
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Band: THE MOONLANDINGZ
Who: English electro-pop freaks fronted by chameleon
Lias Saoudi (Fat White Family, Decius, author, modern day
philosopher).
Track: ROUSTABOUT
Film noir theme from their 2nd LP, called No Rocket Required .
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Artist: EZRA FURMAN
Who: Flaring singer-songwriter
from Chicago.
Track: YOU HURT ME I HATE YOU
Mixed emotions nightmare. From her
7th longplayer, titled Goodbye Small Head.
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Band: NEWMOON
Who: Popular Belgian
melodic shoegazers.
Track: SAME DISTANCE
Cinematic splendour.
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Artists: BRIAN ENO and BEATIE WOLFE
Track: WHAT WE ARE
Ambient silence from the duo’s full-length, called Luminal.
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Band: NEIL YOUNG AND THE CHROME HEARTS
Track: THANKFUL
Vintage Young. From the album Talkin To The Trees.
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Band: PULP
Who: Sheffield’s beloved
common people.
Track: A SUNSET
From their comeback
longplayer More.
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Artist: MARK STEWART
Who: One of the most adventurous/inventive/original
post-punk & dub artists/performers ever, passed away
2 years, aged 62.
Track: A LONG ROAD
Soul-stirring song from his final, posthumously
released LP, titled The Fateful Symmetry.
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Artist: USI ES
Who: The musical moniker of affecting
Belgian singer-songwriter Ester Weemaes.
She released her debut EP Mutiny.
Track: SENDER UNKNOWN
Weemaes opens her heart for all refugees in the world who have no place to go.
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Band: MUMFORD & SONS
Track: MALIBU
Enthralling contemplation from their 5th album Rushmere.
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Photo by Tyler T. Williams.
Artist: YOUTH LAGOON
Who: The musical project of
Idaho musician Trevor Powers.
Track: FOOTBALL
Cut from their album Rarely Do I Dream.
Goal.
Instagram
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Band: Múm
Who: Icelandic indietronica
team (1997-present).
Track: MILD AT HEART
From their 7th longplayer,
named History Of Silence.
Daydream reverie for reflective moments.
