Every week the team individually pick tracks that make up the listening post but there are always “ones that got away”.

These are the alternative picks and some words by our moderators on each one. You can find the tracks in one playlist here.

Featured this week:

MAYA WASSERMAN
MAX AVOIDANCE
FABIAN
BLURRY GIRL
JACK GABY
ALEXANDER CARSON
TOM HOUSTON
JJ LOVEGROVE
PETER McDONNELL
DIGSBY
SHAPES LIKE PEOPLE
FOR BREAKFAST.
STACEY COHEN
MARIA MIHAILIK
LUNAR ISLES
AIMING

ALAN DREEZER:

MAYA WASSERMAN – Wanna Dance (Fill The Void)

This is a classy piece of Dance/Pop with some excellent production touches!

Max Avoidance – Easy

This floaty slice of pop took me away with it. Hypnotic & a super catchy chorus!

DEL OSEI-OWUSU/PLATINUMMIND:

FABIAN -You’d Be Mine

The vocals on this remind me a little of Leon Russell, with a hint of Van Morrison, very hypnotic track great melody.

BLURRY GIRL Who Knows?

This has a bit of an indie vibe to it, I love the delay on the guitar in the intro. Also a bit of an 80s thing going on with the chord progression.

JOHN MICHIE:

JACK GABY – Lion & Lobster

Breezy indie rock ballad with great storytelling lyrics. Some really sweet trippy textural work as well. When coupled with the airy backing vocals it is reminiscent of Smiley Smile era of the Beach Boys. Really worth a listen.

ALEXANDER CARSON – Corporeal & Complete

Intimate indie folk track that feels incredibly cinematic. The composition is atmospheric from start to finish from its ambient textural splashes to sweeping orchestrations. Absolutely enchanting!

NEIL MARCH:

TOM HOUSTON – Entonox

The ever-reliable Tom Houston, from Central Scotland, continues his return to songwriting activity with a characteristically clever, thoughtful and engaging story-telling track with his distinctive voice and strummed guitar adorned by airy keyboards and spy movie guitar.

JJ LOVEGROVE – Celandine

Judi, from Nottingham in the English East Midlands, can always be depended upon for originality and Celandine finds her expressive voice soaring and swooping over extended piano chords and ethereal ambient tones, creating a growing intensity on a highly individual track.

SHARON PEARCE:

PETER McDONNELL – In Toxicate

An interesting instrumental journey that weaves a variety of melodic sounds with ambient atmospheres, giving it a soothing relaxing quality that I really enjoyed.

DIGSBY – Catch A Wave

A breezy, upbeat track with bright guitars and a relaxed rhythm, pairing catchy energy with lyrics that hint at emotional ups and downs.

Sheena Cameron

SHAPES LIKE PEOPLE – Lately

I love the dreamy, jangle-pop of Shapes Like People. They blend in a nice touch of Americana too. The signature harmonies are soothing on this, the jangly guitar lifts an introspective mood, and the song soars to an optimistic close making you feel that everything really will be alright.

FOR BREAKFAST – The Moon And The Canyon Guide

This is like a post-rock, slowcore epic but with psychedelic folk rock, chamber pop, and jazz in the mix-and it all sounds perfectly organic. It’s brooding but it’s also bright and ethereal and dramatic. An inspired mystical, atmospheric journey which I was happy to lose myself in.

SHERRY SAHAYARAJ:

STACEY COHEN – Don’t Fall

‘Don’t Fall’ is catchy with a soft, haunting vocals over dreamy layers.
Feels hypnotic and eerie. Track that could be in a medival movie soundtrack.

MARIA MIHAILIK – Mary

The track catches you with soft folk vibes and Maria’s clear, heartfelt vocals.
Simple acoustic strums building a quiet story that sticks.

TONY HARDY:

LUNAR ISLES – Second Chances

A lovely dose of dream pop from Lunar Isles, aka David Skimming, recently returned to his native Scotland after living in South Korea for some years. The aura of the Land of the Morning Calm seems to be infused in the gentle circular melodies he layers onto this gauzy synth and guitar woven piece. Lyrically minimalist, he seems to be hoping rather than banking on a second chance.

AIMING – First At The Accident

Aiming announces itself on Bandcamp as ‘scuzzy synthy shoewave from Yorkshire’ wryly adding ‘better than it sounds.’ Well, the York trio sounds pretty good to me here. Warm synth textures are blended with dramatic bass notes while the measured vocal carries the raw depth of a confessional, referencing personal stuff about a relationship fallout in a series of vivid metaphors.