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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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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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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MY MORNING JACKET Stir Heart And Soul With New Bittersweet Lullaby ‘WHERE TO BEGIN’

Reveries for the laziest day of the week

17 August 2025

Louisville‘s veteran rockers MY MORNING JACKET will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their fourth full-length, called Z on October 4th. The day before, they will release a deluxe anniversary.


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It’ll contains previously unreleased material, demos, and rarities like
the Elizabethtown soundtrack song Where To Begin the band just shared.
A lullaby that breathes melancholia at its most gripping, with warm pedal steel play.

Jim James (vocalist/guitarist): “October 4 is the 20th anniversary of our album Z. It’s pretty wild to think about that. To celebrate two decades of it being out in the ether, we’re excited to be turning five of our shows into special Z anniversary shows, where we’ll play that album,
and some other songs, don’t worry – front to back.”

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