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 577

Why?

Fading

Release Date: 4th June 2025
www.honeymotel.co.uk

If You Didn't Exist

This track encapsulates the endless times I have been haunted by sleep paralysis. I've often woken up to a lifeless body, unable to move, speak or scream combined with the sensation that something horrible and otherworldly is lurking over me.
On occasions the room has turned blood red and I've felt like I've been dragged down the side of my bed. Or, I've seen shadow-like figures in the crevices of my room.
When it happens I feel this force trying to pull me back into a slumber, however I fear that if I fall back to sleep I will die and so I just try to keep calm and stay awake.
Sometimes I have to get into bed with my mum because of how terrified I am, which is a bit embarrassing to admit to at 25 years old...


Jodie Langford - I See Only Red

Written and Produced by Euan Blackman
Backing Vocals by Olivia Rebel
Drums by Tom Lloyd
Drums engineered by Amelia Danby @ Kempston Street Studios
Mixed by Tarek Musa @ Musa Studios
Mastered by Graeme Lynch
Photo credit: Stu Price
Ripe Records 2025

Lyrics:

I don’t wanna think about
What I was back then
I’m a new man now
I’m a better friend

Find me by the reservoir
Humming to myself 
In a quiet thought
In a peaceful spell

Moving on is easy
You’ll be fine, believe it
Your heart is strong, it’s silver
Carry on, forgive her
Forgive her

Sometimes when I fall asleep
I see world war three
I see tidal waves
Crashing over me

Lately I’ve been doing fine
Working on myself
And I scream out loud
When I feel compelled

Moving on is easy
You’ll be fine, believe it
Your heart is strong, it’s silver
Carry on, forgive her
Forgive her

‘Cause a broken heart
Is still a beating heart
Is still a beating heart
Yeah a broken heart
Is still a beating heart
Is still a beating heart

Moving on is easy
You’ll be fine, believe it
Your heart is strong, it’s silver
Carry on, forgive her
Forgive her

forgive

I Just Can't Help Feeling Curious

City Lights

Blodyn Gwyllt

Bare feet, green knees - all that I need.

Starring:
David Scobie - vocals, bass, keys, flute, percussion, whistling, glockenspiel, youthful roaring, composition, lyrics, programming, production, mixing
Kyle Sharp – drums, percussion, vocals
Bandea – vocals
Cathal Murphy – guitar 
Felix Kennedy Somerville – trumpet

pluuuus The Maxwell Quartet:
Colin Scobie - violin
George Smith - violin
Elliot Perks - viola
Duncan Strachan - cello

extras:
Greg Scobie - weird noises
Colin Scobie - excitement
Alastair Scobie - queries

Robin Sutherland - mastering

Supermarket Raceway

I See Colour

Something To Say / Insane

Something To Say

Credits
Co produced by Jasmine Gardosi Ryan Pinson Dan Whitehouse 
Mixed by Ryan Pinson RML Studios
Guitar, piano, bass, vocals Dan Whitehouse
Spoken Word Jasmine Gardosi
Drums, percussion, synth, Ryan Pinson

Poet meets songsmith in a fresh, genre-blending collaboration - Jasmine Gardosi and Dan Whitehouse release their debut collaborative single..
(They Say It’s Like) Riding A Bike explores what it means to keep going - to fall, wobble, pause, and get back on again. A song about resilience and mental health. Powered by the sounds of a real bicycle turned into a percussion instrument - striking wheels, ringing bells - while Jasmine Gardosi’s beatboxing adds breath and momentum, echoing the ride itself and the quiet courage it takes to begin again.
Born from Black Country Bikes: Music In Motion - a songwriting and community project they co-led in 2024 - the song turns the bicycle into a metaphor for life itself.
Workshops brought together a diverse community of cyclists, poets, musicians, and first-time songwriters to explore the question: “What does it feel like to ride a bike?” A real bicycle became a percussion instrument sampled in this song. …Stories became lyrics. Movement became metaphor. And from the middle of it all came this track - not just a one-off, but the first ripple in what promises to be a longer journey together.
“There’s a reason we say, ‘It’s like riding a bike,’” says Gardosi. “The body remembers. The heart does too. This song is about those moments when we think we can’t keep going, but somehow, we do.”
Whitehouse adds: “Mental health-wise, it’s a reminder that it’s OK to ‘fall off’. I guess what matters is getting back on, even if the wheels feel wobbly.”
(They Say It’s Like) Riding A Bike rolls gently through themes of healing, persistence, and self-compassion, set to a chill-hop pulse.

They Say Its Like Riding A Bike

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Save Your Love For Me

Lyrics,Produced, Music, All instruments by Nakita Demir.Vocal Arrangements,Vocals,
Mixing,Mastering,Engineering,Recorded, etc 
Powered By Nb Nakita for Nb Nakita Productions

NB NAKITA  "Japan Coffee"

Nagra is a London based psychedelic math rock collective conjuring universes of sound. 

Characterised by fast guitars that dance like jagged daggers and drums that entrance you into a whacked out funk. They occasionally play almost exclusively in odd time - which is a taste of what you’ll have when you listen. 


Their debut single I See Colour lands on Friday the 11th of July. Sit tight, tuck in.

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I See Colour

Nagra

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