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TURN UP THE VOLUME – 20 BEST LULLABIES OF 2025

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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.

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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.

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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.

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JAPANESE BREAKFAST Cause Relaxation With New Dreamy Pop Album ‘FOR MELANCHOLY BRUNETTES (& SAD WOMEN)’

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21 March 2025


Album Artwork – 📸 Pak Bae & design by Min Chai Lee

Much lauded indie act JAPANESE BREAKFAST, fronted by vocalist, guitarist
and primary songwriter Michelle Zauner formed back in 2013 in Philadelphia.

Today, on the first day of spring they launched their brand new
4th LP, named FOR MELANCHOLY BRUNETTES (& SAD WOMEN) .

Press info: Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, the record sees Michelle Zauner pull back from the bright extroversion that defined its predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves that roil within, the moody, fecund field of melancholy, long held to be the psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration.

The result is an artistic statement of purpose: a mature, intricate,
contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel.”

Zauner says the record is inspired by : “The record is ithe plight of Icarus
and other such condemned ones, where characters are taken through cycles
of temptation, transgression, and retribution.”

Rolling Stone: “For Melancholy Brunettes is an evolution of everything that came before — mixing and merging imagery both mythic and mundane with A-class instrumentation from the likes of Bob Dylan guitarist Blake Mills (who produced the record), legendary session drummer Jim Keltner, and vocals from actor Jeff Bridges on ‘Men In Bars’.”

TUTV: With Japanese Breakfast, you just can sit down, listen and let your thoughts
run free, far away from the depressing outside world. This new full-length creates
that imaginative, dreamy pop sentiment once again. Subtle, and oh-so-effective.

Orlando In Love, Little Girl, Picture Window and Men In Bars with, what a surprise, actor Jeff ‘The Dude’ Bridges in duet with Zauner, are my highlights, but it’s the overall relaxing and tranquillizing atmosphere that stands out. Brunettes is a cloud nine soundtrack to be consumed slowly.

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JAPANESE BREAKFAST Return With New Romantic Beauty ‘ORLANDO IN LOVE’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

8 January 2025

Much lauded indie act JAPANESE BREAKFAST
formed back in 2013 in Philadelphia.

They just announced the birth of their 4th LP. It’s called
For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) and comes
our way on March 21st.

A press statement tells us that the record was inspired by “the plight of Icarus and
other such condemned ones, where characters are taken through cycles of temptation, transgression, and retribution.”


Album Artwork – 📸 Pak Bae & design by Min Chai Lee

Lead single: ORLANDO IN LOVE

A dreamy beauty coloured with symphonic textures and
romantic sensibility, while Michelle Zauner float on a blue
cloud.

WATCH/LISTEN

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