Playlist 564 - 2025 Mid Year Review

middle of the year but not middle of the road

a compilation of my favourite tunes of the year so far

enjoy people

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Playlist
1. Pierre Bastien & Michel Banabila – Closing time: The party is over (Pingipung)
2. Men I Trust – Heavenly flow (bandcamp)
3. Stereolab – Melodie is a wound (Duophonic/Warp)
4. Water Machine – River (Fat Cat Records)
5. Bella Wakame – Shades of Nambei (Umor-Rex)
6. Lightheaded – Same drop (Slumberland Records/Skep Wax)
7. Elaine Howley – Hold me in a new way (Modern Love)
8. Lael Neale – Tell me how to be here (Sub Pop Records)
9. Cloth – Pink silence (Rock Action)
10. Albertine Sarges – Stand near your fire (Moshi Moshi)
11. M(h)aol – Pursuit (Tulle)
12. The Chills – Dolphins (Fire Records)
13. Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne – Talk to me (Fat Cat Records)
14. Echolalia – Little bird (Full Time Hobby)
15. Oh No Noh – Dog years (Teleskop)
16. Adrian Crowley – Brother was a runaway (Valley of Eyes Records)
17. Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek – Cool hand (Big Crown Records)
18. I Dreamed I Dream – Fags (bandcamp)
19. Quinie – Macaphee turn the cattle (Upset The Rhythm)
20. Lucy Gooch – Like clay (Fire Records)
21. Robin Kester – Happy sad (It’s a party) (Memphis Industries)
22. Chalk – Pool scene (Nice Swan)
23. Junk Drawer – Nids Niteca (Pizza Pizza Records)
24. Deradoorian – Digital gravestone (Fire Records)
25. Eddie Marcon – Slow na yume (Morr Music)
26. Jamie Lidell – The center (Todo Records)

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