Our moderators listened to every track we were sent this week and have picked their favourites for your listening pleasure this weekend:

BEAUTY SLEEP - Radical Happiness
EUAN BLACKMAN - Girl
HAZY WATERS - Overdose
IDOLISING NOVA - Fall Apart
ISAAC STUART - Bloom (when The Rain Falls)
LOST CHIMES - Pick Up The Pieces (Radio Edit)
MARBLE STARS - Play This Tune
MELLOW PARTY - Deep In The Holy Water
NATALIE HOLMES - Jack In A Box
NICO PAUL - Iris Of White Fire
NOURIA BAH - Sawtooth Ruler
NOVELTY ISLAND - Rainy
OWEN DUFF - Travelling Light
PHIL COOPER - Bijou
PSYCHEDELIC KANGAROO CULT - Face It All
SAM REDMORE - El Camino
SHARON KATTA & NÄT - Detachment Theory
SLANEY BAY - The Long Way Home
SZOU - Rose-Tinted
THE BABLERS - Where The Wind Blows Free
THE TRUSTED - Iridescence
THINGS THAT GO - The Mourning
TOGETHER REBELS - The Love That You Deserve
TONIGHT'S SUNSHINE - Country Gay
TONY NJOKU - All Our Knives Are Always Sharp (ft Coby Sey)

Listening Post: Batch 567

Lyrics:
Yes, I’ll walk with you
Take the long way home
Miss my final train
That doesn’t mean that it’s love

Now I watch old films
Pretentious as that feels
Heard you like them too
That doesn’t mean that it's love
It doesn’t mean that much 

And I’ll play it cool
Act a little cold around you
Said your friends can’t know
Why you’re suddenly taking the long way home
You’re all that I want 

Lips turn shades of blue
I’ll step a little further for you 
Til my legs turn numb
That doesn’t mean that it's love
Doesn’t mean that much 

Weak knees, bated breath
Held till my cheeks turn red
Fumbled my keys when you said   
Why you’re suddenly taking the long way home 
You’re all that I want 

You’re suddenly taking the long way home
You’re all that I want
Taking the long way home
You’re all that I want
Suddenly taking the long way home

The Long Way Home

Pick up the Pieces (Radio Edit)

Pick Up The Pieces (Radio Edit)

Written and performed by by The Trusted (Tom Cunningham, Dale Holt Mead, Finlay Cunningham, David Batchelor)

Produced and Mixed by Rees Broomfield Mastered by Doug van Sloun

Iridescence

The second single of Natalie's upcoming second album 'Opposite Day'.

Opposite Day - Second Mixes

Jack in a Box

Deep In The Holy Water' in the old days would be the hidden track on the album. Colin wrote the tune after I said I'd like to have a surf song about surfing the Severn Bore. in a crazy coincidence our pal Jane's Granda mad Jack Churchill(no relation) 1955 surfed the 'Severn Bore' in Gloucestershire on a homemade 14 foot surfboard. and it coincided at the time with the scandal that had hit the news that the majority of England's rivers are polluted, only 14% meet the standards of a "good ecological status. Its not perfect in Scotland but its better and one of the few brags we've got is that our water tastes better, but i dont want our English family literally swimming in shit when they're at the beach. I was listening to the Blindboy Podcast at the time about Irish Godesses and the reverence that Clíodhna the Celtic goddess of the sea, with a passion and love, and deep beauty had and how our old myths and religions meant there was a deep devine respect for nature that has been lost over the years. Where as before water was worshipped and revered, now it is sadly polluted. Look what happened to The Black Sea for evidence of why we shouldn't mess with our life giving bodies of water. It experienced unprecedented degradation in the 1990s causing a large dead zone. The main sources of nutrients were runoff from the agricultural sector (fertilizers and livestock waste) as well as domestic and industrial wastes. You can go a month without food,  but you can't survive 3 days without water. The oceanographer Helen Czerski's was on the brilliant 6 Music Cerys Matthews  show talking about her latest research, measuring ocean breathing. All of these different bits of inspiration led to the lyrics. It's time we got back to respecting our water and what we put into them and oh aye 'Deep In The Holy Water' is a banging tune to surf or dance to regardless of the meaning. 

7. Deep In The Holy Water lyrics 

Deep in the holy water,
into the endless wave,
The tide breaks free into the estuary, oh me oh my oh me.
Deep, deep state, Illuminate my faith, deep in the holy water. 

Deep in the holy water,
where throats and tears run dry,
storm speeding, ocean breathing,
Clíodhna reigns supreme, oh me oh my oh me.
Streams like veins, and dreams remain to ponder, deep in the holy water 

Deep in the holy water into the endless waves  oh me oh my ,oh me 
Deep in the holy water where throats and tears run dry, oh me oh my ,oh me 

Deep in the holy water!


Deep in the Holy Water by Mellow Party

Are deepest desires are constituted of both terror and beauty. In lots of ways we fear to love. 

Iris of White Fire

Fall Apart

Where The Wind Blows Free

SOUNG-U KIM: FLUTE ( RECORDED BY ANNA DE MUTIIS)
ANNA DE MUTIIS: BASS

MASTERED AT PEACH STUDIOS BY KY ACAB
ARTWORK BY HOLLY PILOT

Sawtooth Ruler

Produced by Matt Hales.

LYRICS
Hard to find peace of mind
In the cracks between the lines
Reading ads on the tube

What a time, 25
Overwork to stay alive
There’s so much left to lose

But when the rain falls
Will it hit my heart and wash away the blues? 
And let the dark find 
Another shade
Another way to bloom

Isn’t it all just noise?
Isn’t it all just life?
Oh it can’t be round and round and round and then we die

Isn’t it all just faith
Tell me I’ll be fie
If there’s a man upstairs oh he takes he god damn time
He takes his god damn time

Start the day, feel the same
Fill my cup just to pour away 
When did March turn to June? 

Lost the light in the eyes
Of someone I don’t recognise
Is there much left to lose? 

But when the rain falls
Will it hit my heart and wash away the blues? 
And let the dark find 
Another shade
Another way to bloom

Isn’t it all just noise?
Isn’t it all just life?
Oh it can’t be round and round and round and then we die

Isn’t it all just faith
Tell me I’ll be fie
If there’s a man upstairs oh he takes he god damn time
He takes his god damn time

Ohhhhh

Isn’t it all just noise?
Isn’t it all just life?
Oh it can’t be round and round and round and then we die

Isn’t it all just faith
Tell me I’ll be fie
If there’s a man upstairs oh he takes he god damn time
He takes his god damn time

bloom (when the rain falls)

Written and Produced by Euan Blackman
Backing Vocals by Olivia Rebel
Mixed by Tarek Musa @ Musa Studios
Mastered by Graeme Lynch
Photo credit: Stu Price
Ripe Records 2025

Lyrics:
She got the long hair running down
See her on the street downtown
I don’t think she even knows
She’s spending all the money in the bank
Give her dad a heart attack
I don’t think she even knows

She got the secret smile, that she saves
Kind that drives the clouds away
I don’t think she even knows
She got the tiny hoops, glasses on
YSL, silk chiffon
I don’t think she even knows

Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl

I got the kind of love that makes you cry
Think about her all the time
I don’t think she even cares
I’m saving all the money that I have
Just so I can stand a chance
I don’t think she even cares

She got that pretty face, blue eyes
Clothes that seem to fit just right
I don’t think she even cares
I got nothing left up my sleeve
Got me down on my knees
I don’t think she even cares

Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl

There she goes
There she goes
There she goes again
There she goes
There she goes
There she goes again

Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl

girl

Detachment Theory

Rainy

New single from Beauty Sleep
taken from their upcoming album 'The Whole Damn Cake' due October 2025 via Alcopop! Records

Radical Happiness

It’s about that kind of love that spirals - consuming, impossible to quit. It’s the sound of wanting more even when it’s already too much. Perfect for those late summer nights ✨


Written by: Agnieszka Trawczynska, Simon Velazquez, Aleksander Kaczmarek
Drums by: Marek Radziminski
Producer, Mixing Engineer: Aleksander Kaczmarek
Mastering Engineer: Krzysztof Kessler

Feel me
Just like you feel your heartbeat
On your wrists
Feel the hot blood pumping

Curious
Curious, your heart is
I might let you in
If I feel you're like me

And you crawl back to my arms and overdose

Crawl
Crawl yourself to my skin
Magnetised
To what you could not see

I'll make you fall
In so many ways
You could not imagine
I'll keep you entertained
Until nothing feels just like this

And you crawl back to my arms and overdose

It's so much faster
Feel it approaching
It's so much faster
I feel it coming
It's so much faster
I feel it coming
It's so much faster
I feel it coming

This feeling
This beating
Is harder
Than anything else

Will thicken
Will bubble
Erupt and cause trouble
We'll burst to fall

I'll watch it in rapture
An outstanding finding
And overcommitting
Cause it is so blinding
I'll try to capture
Euphoria and love
And I'm forgetting
That life is upsetting
That every beginning
Is start to an end
I will forget that we ever lived
I will forget that we ever lived

overdose

Downtempo hypnotic, experimental electronic, noise

Play this Tune

Lyrics: 
Love is a broken spine
The guilt that you’re carrying once was mine
Though you are racing away with it chasing that finishing line
While I’m way off course
I always was
So I’ll just resign

But if anyone asks you tell
Them I was fantastic hell
It’s nobody else’s business but ours
Is there any way out of here
Please tell me I’m all ears
I’ll leave with the little I have

I’m travelling light
Travelling light

I wish I could wish you well
I would but you put me through hell
And I might have deserved it
That part I find hard to tell
I guess you would say
You’d no other way
Of breaking the spell

Well it’s nobody’s fault I swear
We weren’t even really there
Just two kids hiding that no one came to seek
Will I forever be alone
Will you always be unknown
You try and you try then you’re gone

Just travelling light
Travelling light

Owen Duff - Travelling Light

FREE DOWNLOAD - https://pleasurewaxrecords.bandcamp.com/track/face-it-all

Debut single from the Psychedelic Kangaroo Cult documenting the struggles of the divine feminine in a modern world.....

Vocals and Production - Melatron
Synths and Production - Point Of Motion
Ryan Spendlove - Bass

Face It All (Radio Edit)

Sam Redmore teams up with Ellie Coleman once again to deliver a slice of pure sunshine, fusing salsa, broken beat and house - perfect for those hot and sweaty summer dancefloors.

Speaking about the track, Ellie says: “El Camino is about independence. Solitude isn’t emptiness: it’s possibility. A soundtrack for those who find rhythm in their own footsteps. It celebrates the late-night wanderers who embrace the magic of their own company and the beat beneath their feet as they stride through the dark”.

El Camino (feat. Ellie Coleman) [Radio Edit]

 Bijou is taken from the album "Playing Solitaire", which comes out on 2nd May. It laments the loss of grass roots music venues, and the struggles facing the industry generally.

Bijou

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