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

Listening Post: Batch 592

The EP closes with its most vulnerable moment. Written from the perspective of Emma Morley from David Nicholls’ One Day, the song doubles as a reflection on Ellie’s own past relationships. Built around a persistent piano line and swelling harmonies, it charts the heartbreak of loving someone who cannot love you fully. Emma’s desperate plea - “Who will take me home?” - is answered by her own realisation: “You’ll fall apart again.” The final calm chord lands like a breath after emotional exhaustion.
Ellie shares: “Writing ‘One Day’ gave me the chance to speak through Emma’s voice, but also to acknowledge parts of my own past. It’s about the moment you realise love isn’t enough, and the bravery it takes to stop being someone’s secret.”

One Day

Dominoes

A Charles - Rockets (final)

A collection of  tracks exploring loss, grief, healing, and rebirth.  

Japan

P.A BASS

From the forthcoming album “It’s Dreaming", out March 6th 2026

Watch the music Video - https://youtu.be/9GV9gd5vTNU

Listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/3N8p2wTodjk5i4EMYu05rI?si=SHSJKhPGR5KZtpuEAG575A
Listen on Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/evadney/1449805139

Album 12” vinyl pre-order on Bandcamp - https://evadney.bandcamp.com/album/its-dreaming

For several years I had a very private battle with addiction that was so completely at odds with the beauty I wanted to sing about. It felt like I split in half. This song is a purge of that experience and is really the first time I’ve fully accepted the role darkness can have to play on the path to light. I’ve been to the bottom and it’s ok because from there the only way was up, and that in itself is a beautiful journey to write about. This song is the base of the album and so it felt like the best place to start. Like a prologue!

Sharing this song is a uniquely challenging and liberating experience for me. I hope that it might tease shame out of its hiding place in anyone who might need the permission. I thank you being here to read this and listen to the music. The lyrics are below.

Lyrics:
More than lately 
Life's been a war
More than lately 
I've been a little dark
Painting scenes wonderful 
Painting scenes 
Where I'm leathered and laced
More over that
I've not been in search of much 

But to be 
Not a shadow of me at all
If only my body and me can 
Can get along

Ooah
Ooah

Carry my love
Carry my love
Carry my love my love 
Carry my love my love
Carry

Written, performed & produced by Evadney. 
Mixed by Danny Trachtenberg
String Arrangement by Jack Sugden

Leathered & Laced

Steaming links: https://tr.ee/vQx2jOXC2M
Music video: https://youtu.be/vnk1Q8Q-K6o?si=53Hp579IdLK3_0uq

http://instagram.com/lejunkk

The Internet

Wondering

Birds

Food For The Flames

misunderstood child

missed pages

Day By Day

Iago

Sorrow Ways

‘Soma’ is a dark, sultry club anthem for those nights when you want to give into the sirens’ song.

This collaboration between producer FHUR and melodic techno duo SIRENΣ gives a unique spin to the genre, adding hints of trance and darksynth elements to create a soundscape that will lure you in.

Soma

Lullaby

Our November song in our attempt to release a song every month of 2025. Free download available from here or Bandcamp !

Gone Again

 “Sunday Evening” by Man at Sea from the upcoming album ‘Pale Fire Catch Me,’ out February 2026.

Sunday Evening

Written, performed and produced by James Humphrys.

Co-produced and mixed by Philip Van Den Brandaler.

Listen on Spotify: https://shorturl.at/e0rl4

Mastered by Anthony Theaker.

Lights On

This is the first song I released in 2025 after a 5 year break.

GLOW

'Fungus' is about enabling toxic behaviour to the point it changes you and others, then holding on to bitterness and resentment that has grown as a result. 
'Fungus' will be one of five songs in an EP I intend to release in 2026 called 'Octopoda'. The project's focal point is holding on. Sometimes it is good to hold on and sometimes it is not. Sometimes you change yourself so that you can continue to hold on, but it comes at an expense. You might hold on to bad memories that make you feel bitter or sick, but you can't help it. Other times you hold on because it brings you happiness, for example a fond memory of somebody who is no longer with us.
I've called the EP  'Octopoda' because octopuses  are known for resilience, the ability to adapt, deceive, change shape and camouflage. To add to this, the obvious would be their tentacles and strong grip, which goes with the theme of holding on.

Fungus

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Listening Post: Batch 592

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