20 BEST TRACKS OF THE MONTH – JULY 2025
30 July 2025
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK BY TRACK
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Band: MODERN GUILT
Who: Fully charged indie
trio from London.
Track: YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
“A self-confessed ode to dishonesty.”
TUTV: Jangly indie Britrock at its arousing best. No way to not go
bonkers when this rip-roaring The Strokes-like anthem infiltrates
your ears. Trust me, one spin and you’re hooked. You know
where to find the repeat button.
Blimey.
Instagram – Linktree
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Band: MONITORS
Who: French-British-Bosnian post-punk outfit,
formed in 2017. So far, they have 2 EPs on
their résumé.
Track: DANSE MACABRE
First single from their upcoming debut album,
titled The Madelaine Affair out 3rd October.
TUTV: Thudding drums, edgy guitar riffs,
infectious dynamics, deranged chorus, and
agitated vocals.
Titanic thrill!
Instagram – Bandcamp
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Band: SOULWAX,
Who: Belgian brothers David and Stephen Dewaele‘ working together
for 30 years now, with diverse projects. They DJed the world around
as 2manydjs, had their own Radio Soulwax, and produced/remixed
countless other artists.
Track: RUN FREE
One of two new shared pieces from their 6th LP,
titled All Systems Are Lying and on your stereo
on October 17th.
Album artwork
“We wanted to capture the feeling of a band playing electronic instruments,
live, loud and loose. This record is the result of that experiment. It’s a rock
album made without any electric guitars.”
Trippy.
Dancey.
Vibey.
Trancy.
Instagram – Website
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Press photo
Band: SUEDE
Who: The famous glam
rock vets from London.
Track: DANCING WITH EUROPEANS
Newest single from their 10th album. It’s called
Antidepressants and will land on our speakers
on September 5th.
TUTV: Anderson stars, once again, in the middle with an overwhelming vocal performance, peaking on the epic chorus, and he’s backed by a full of vim and vigour drums/bass tandem and glimmering guitars.
Suede age backwards.
Instagram – Linktree – All Albums
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New album artwork
Band: WET LEG
Who: The showy pop sensation, Rhian Teasdale
and Hester Chambers, from the Isle of Wight.
Track: DAVINA MCCALL
Highlight from their sophomore
full-length, named Moisturizer.
Groovy.
Smoothly.
Sexy.
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Press photo by Nik Freitas
Band: BRIGHT EYES
Who: Longtime lauded Nebraska‘s
pop/rock trio orchestrated by
Conor Oberst.
Last year, they released their exquisite
11th LP, titled Five Dice, All Threes.
Track: 1ST WORLD Brand new single.
Oberst: “It’s an homage to ska in all its waves. From Desmond Dekker
to Tim Armstrong, we’re just happy to add our track to the bin. The video
is inspired by NYC 90s hip hop, which like ska, has a long tradition of unifying
people & using celebratory music to convey subversive political themes. To be
played loud. Windows down. Summertime.”
TUTV: Sounds and feels like you are
ska-ing on a shaky merry-go-round.
Big fun. Big tune.
Instagram – Linktree
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Photo by Sandra Ebert
Artists: STILL BLANK
Who: New transatlantic guitar pop duo — Jordy is
from Kaua’i, Hawaii, while Ben is from Manchester, UK.
Track: AIN’T QUITE RIGHT
Only their 2nd single.
TUTV: An ongoing, hyperkinetic, swift drum beat drives you nuts, while
guitar sparks come and go, and humming vocals add a seductive feel.
Pretty addictive.
Instagram – Linktree
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Artist: JASON ISBELL
Who: Much lauded songsmith with 10 albums on
his résumé (6 recorded with his band the 400 Unit)
Track: SHOULD I GO MISSING
Isbell has reissued his 10-year-old album Something More Than Free
digitally. It will be available on physical media on October 3. It includes
this previously unreleased track, a B-side for one of the LP’s singles.
TUTV: Fortunately, this psychedelic, slide-guitar ripper didn’t go missing.
It resonates like a swamp blues burner spiced with good old organ play
and Isbell‘s firm voice. Totally cool.
Instagram – Spotify
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Band: MELT MOTIF
Who: An experimental band based in Bergen, Norway, and São Paulo, Brazil.
Known for their unique fusion of genres, they blend elements of metal, dark
electronic, darkwave, industrial, and more.
So far, they have released two albums and their respective remixes.
A new full-length is waiting in the pipeline to be released in September.
Track: ASPHALT
Newest single.
TUTV: It’s a nasty industrial brainfucker motorized by fierce percussion
and ominous vocals. Its haunting and bloodcurdling progression has an
instant impact on your psyche. This is sick shit. I love it.
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Instagram – Linktree
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Photo: Emma Chitty | Graphics: Mike Raymond
Band: NRVS
Who: Mysterious trio with an inimitable take on
humanity’s downward spiral into a dysfunctional
entropic existence. They unleashed their punk-groovy
debut EP Like You last year.
Track: FREE
New single from their
upcoming album.
“Just another dumb song about love found & lost within
the wreckage! It happens… what are you gonna do?”
TUTV: This arresting, melancholic song sticks after just one spin. Its bluesy guitar
radiance, its bass-beat-heavy cadence and despondent vocals get under your skin.
Its melodic catchiness has irresistible written all over it. In a normal world this should
be a bloody big hit.
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Band: LOBSTERBOMB
Who: Glamorous indie quartet from Berlin. They released
their pithy party debut album Look Out in 2023. You can
stream it here.
Track: NIGHTBIRD
TUTV: Full steam ahead from the get-go, motorized by bedazzling guitars,
a relentless drum beat, and peppy vocals culminating in a pungent chorus.
Lobsterbomb‘s appetite for blistering pop punk is insatiable. Don’t stop.
Instagram – Linktree
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Photo by Euan Robertson
Band: IDLEWILD
Who: Veteran Scottish
indie pop team.
Track: IT’S NOT THE FIRST TIME
Newest single from their upcoming 10th, self-titled
album, their first one in 6 years. It’ll hit the streets
on 3 October.
TUTV: Vintage Idlewild. Nostalgia and romanticism
wrapped in a sticky guitar pop melody. Welcome back.
Instagram – Linktree
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Band: GUSH
Who: Fresh and frantic Belfast 4-piece who launched their
cooking 5-track debut EP Exposure Therapy, last summer.
Track: YOUR WORLD
Their 2nd single of the year.
TUTV: Your World is a glammy, full-riff-blooded, rollicking burner.
All amps up, all decibels up, while afire guitars have an ongoing
sonic fight with a badass bass and a chorus that goes airborne
every time it pops up, powered by frisky vocals.
Get your world rocked right here.
Instagram – Linktree
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Artist: BAXTER DURY
Who: Renowned nightclubber and
chill-out singer-songwriter. Son of,
you know who.
Track: SCHADENFRAU
Newest single from his 8th LP, baptized
Allbarone and out on September 12th.
Jiving electro-disco vibes
activating all of your lazy
limbs.
Instagram – All Albums
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Band: EDITRIX
Who: Disorderly noise trio from
Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Track: FLESH DEBT
New piece from their upcoming 3rd LP,
titled The Big E. It’ll show up on July 25.
TUTV: Bass and guitar have a metallic riff contest while vocalist Wendy Eisenberg
tells us a story. A knock-down-and-drag-out finale will blow you off your socks.
Schizophrenic electricity!
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Instagram – Bandcamp
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Credit: The Irrational Library
Band: THE IRRATIONAL LIBRARY
Who: The Irrational Library is a Dutch-American rock band with its roots
firmly planted in both the regional and international counterculture.
Track: NOTES FROM THE PLAYGROUND Newest single from their
forthcoming, 5th full-length ‘The Saying Of It All‘. More details TBA.
TUTV: Wham bam. Here comes the rumbling blues train once again. Rollin’ and steamin’, always thundering to the pounding heartbeat of its fat groove, while hungry guitars and Joshua Baumgarten‘s stirring vocals inflame this rough ripper with extra fuel.
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Press Photo by Genesis Báez
Band: BIG THIEF
Who: Brooklyn‘s beloved folk-pop-rockers,
fronted by voice/face and soft songstress
Adrienne Lenker.
Track: ALL NIGHT ALL DAY
New piece from their 6th LP, entitled
Double Infinity. It comes out on
September 5.
TUTV: Another sepia-colored BT humdinger with
Lenker‘s starry-eyed voice enchants once again.
Instagram – Spotify – All Albums
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Band: NEWMOON
Who: Popular Belgian
melodic shoegazers.
Track: SAME DISTANCE
Piece that should have been on their excellent 2024 album Temporary Light ,
but it didn’t due to vinyl constraints. It was never intended as a single or B-side.
TUTV: Yes, it would have been an unquestionable highlight on the album. But on or off it, it’s great to have this phantasmagoric pearl right now. A dream-in-motion beauty for the ears, mind, and soul. Made me immediately think of Brian Eno‘s ambient atmospherics. Wonderful. Truly wonderful.
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Artist: STEPH SWEET
Who: Affecting British
indie songstress.
Track: BURN SO GOOD
From her new 4-track EP Ghost Signal.
TUTV: Trip-hop dynamics, ambient echoes and
ominous synths, and Sweet‘s haunting vocals combine
for a twilight experience in slow-mo.
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Instagram – Website
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MARK STEWART, one of the most adventurous/inventive/original
post-punk & dub artists/performers ever, passed away 2 years,
aged 62.
He was a co-founding member and frontman of British,
genre-bending new wave band The Pop Group
Track: A LONG ROAD
From his sublime, 8th solo LP The Fateful Symmetry,
released posthumously 3 weeks ago.
Goosebumps! Nothing but goosebumps!
Reminiscent of his friend, fan and piano
crooner Nick Cave‘s work.
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