Category: Indie

I published 12 singles round ups for 2022, one per month (OK, so maybe some were slightly delayed…) which amount to a rough total of 350 – 400 songs in total. The fact that I featured the songs meant I liked all the songs in each list, so when I thought – I’ll do a Festive 50 like John Peel used to do, I failed miserably, so here is my Effervescent Eighty, first off, my top 15, then the rest in no particular order…

1. Monica Queen – Where is Home?
2. Water Machine -Hot Real Estate
3. Pizza Crunch – Wilting Youth
4. Horsegirl – Anti Glory
5. Junk Pups – Miss Behave
6. Sacred Noise – Part of Me
7. Jemma Freeman and the Cosmic Something – Easy Peelers
8. Brontes – First Hand Arrogance
9. His Lordship – All Cranked Up
10. Keeley – Shadows on the Hill
11. Collars – Baby I’m Bored
12. The Bobby Lees – Monkey Mind
13. Syvdoh – As I Lay Dying
14. Dream Wife -Leech
15. Dumb Poets – Magic Happens

The rest (in no particular order)

• Sloan Brothers – Songs Like This
• Wife Guys of Reddit – Pig Fat
• Dead Pony – Bullet Farm
• Bikini Bottoms – The Game
• Port Sulphur – Kone Trips
• pMad – Broken
• Gentle Sinners – Face to Fire (After Nyman)
• Earl of Hell – Hang ’em High
• The Kaplans – Get Inside It
• Jill Lorean – Black Dog
• Run into the Night – Common Stream of Consciousness
• Panic Shack – Mannequin Man
• Savage Cut – The Debt
• Sister John – Young at Heart/The Bluebells – Glasgow is a Rainbow
• Trashcan Sinatras – Lay of the Land
• Bunkhouse – RIP ie
• Katherine Aly – Hype Up
• Tallies – Special
• Spyres – Honestly
• Butcher Boy – So Far So What
• HiFi Sean and David McAlmont – The Skin I’m In
• Dead Thatchers – Nae Pasaran
• Jo Jo and the Teeth – Don’t Get Too Heavy
• London Plane – Come Out of the Dark
• bdrmm – Three
• Marianne Dissard – When Somebody Thinks You’re Wonderful
• The Best Bad Influence – Boomstick
• Vulture Party – Bad Wolf Moon
• The Courettes – Daydream
• Deux Furieuses – Bring Down the Government
• Cloth – Lucid
• Simon Bromide – Not That Type
• Scorpio Leisure – Give Us Our Space
• The Claudettes – Exposure
• Suede -15 Again
• Pete Astor- Fine and Dandy
• Girls in Synthesis – Watch with Mother
• Lloyds House – Heather
• Tina Sandwich – Fast Cars (and Movie Stars)
• Simon Love – L.O.T.H.A.R.I.O.