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.

Artists featured this week:

TACITURNITY
NOONZY
THE K.I.J. EXPERIENCE
King Zepha
NTNH
TOM BURTON
THE SILVER LININGS
JUSTIN SCONZA
PINLIGHT
MONOLAND
S.W.O.R.N
THE DESPERATE ARTIST
DANIELA GALHOZ
PARK DAYS
CAFE TOTEM
PAUL JACK
LOUISE AUBRIE.
HAPPY AS YOU LIKE

ALAN DREEZER

TACITURNITY – Control

It’s the driving drum track along with some cool production touches and a passionate vocal performance that made this one of my favourite tracks of the week.

NOONZY – Easy

There’s a real familiarity to this sound with its warm synths and super catchy chorus. It felt like a hug from an old friend.

DEL OSEI-OWUSU/PLATINUMMIND:

The K.I.J. EXPERIENCE – Dance Till The Sun Comes Up

This track is a banger! I could imagine this having a drum n bass remix with just hte chorus. It would be one to set the dancefloors alight.

KING ZEPHA – Let’s Get This One Thing Right

Thiis a soulful number those opening chords are lovely. I love the way that it starts out in one key and goes up. This has 70’s blues all over it, reminding me a little of Eric Clapton, especially the 461 Ocean Boulevard era.

GRUBBY:

NTNH – In The Rain

Atmosphere for days – a brooding track that feels like a late night drive through the city. Loved the contrast between the sung vocal and the rap section. Nice!

Tom Burton – Chickens

A crazy fever dream which feels like you’ve entered an Alice In Wonderland-type fantasy world where Bob Dylan is ranting about chickens. Bizarre!

JOHN MICHIE:

THE SILVER LININGS – Arabella Isadora

Built around an absorbing groove, this psychedelic-leaning indie rock track unfolds with a fluid, hypnotic vibe. The song has some great tempo shifts and feels increasingly like a lost gem from the late 1960s the deeper you get into it.

JUSTIN SCONZA – Let’s Take A Train Downtown

One of the more vintage sounding songs I have come across in a while. The track really does feel like it has been lifted out of the mid 1960s. This is a pleasant upbeat track and comes off a decent album by Justin Sconza.

NEIL MARCH:

PINLIGHT – Over And Over

Jenny Lahs from Edinburgh is Pinlight and her track Over And Over mixes some great dynamic and textural contrasts with elements of staccato synthop riffs, squelchy synth choons, echoing tenor sax, cool filter effects and sumptuous multi-tracked harmonies.

MONOLAND – P.SERVEY

Monoland’s P.Servey is presumably not a misspelt study of urination (!!) although, if it was, we wouldn’t know as the vocal is buried deep beneath layers of reverberant and fuzzy guitars. These mix in with bass and drums foundations to produce inventive and introspective post-shoegaze that is well worth hearing.

SHARON PEARCE:

S.W.O.R.N – Talent Hawk

A gently unfolding ambient soundtrack piece built around piano and subtle textures. It gradually builds moments of drama while still maintaining a soothing reflective feel.

THE DESPERATE ARTIST – Water In The Desert

A sincere country-pop love ballad with strong vocals and a warm reflective atmosphere that feels both heartfelt and uplifting.

Sheena Cameron

DANIELA GALHOZ – Either Way

Daniela’s beautiful, expressive voice is central to this acoustic track but so is her power as she delivers a heartfelt ultimatum to a partner. There’s a lot of character in Daniela’s voice as her tone shifts from reflection to irony and assertion in a moment of realisation.

PARK DAYS – Summer Days

It feels like summer-instantly catchy, evocative indie pop with a lovely jangly Telecaster shining through it.

SHERRY SAHAYARAJ

CAFE TOTEM – Beside You

I always love a track that has a saxophone. The song is catchy from the start with a late night pub vibes.

PAUL JACK – Let’s Bury Our Hearts At The Landfill

The vocals, melody, and the harmonies on the track are very ethereal. I love how the track is very cinematic and epic with lots of layers. The unexpected harmonies in between are pure ear candy.

TONY HARDY:

LOUISE AUBRIE – Vienna

An homage to the Billy Joel track of the same name rather than a rival to Ultravox, “Vienna” is an intriguing song packed with cinematic imagery and personal reflections on being together and being apart. I love the way it opens with a brief flourish of keyboard and guitar from which Louise Aubrie’s seductive vocal takes over mixing downbeat indie with impassioned crescendos. The chorus is an earworm too.

HAPPY AS YOU LIKE – Something Good

Happy’s solo excursions from The Happy Somethings always provide food for thought and this superficially whimsical song is no exception. Tuneful as always, Happy has a signature way of bemoaning the status quo while letting the light in on better times to come. His sentiments could be applied to anytime over the past decade or so but more pertinently to the state we are in now. Let’s vote for hope!