Moderate Rock

2025! We made it guys. And it sounds like the future to me. But I’m not sure it feels like anything has changed. Where’s my hoverboard, where’s my off-world vacations, where’s my virtual reality. Instead we’ve got war and warmongers and the cost of my weekly shop doubling.

You know what I can rely on though. You know what we can all rely on. Music. Music is the thing.

This month I relied on grungegaze from Singapore, UK post-punk rock, the unexpected return of a metalcore cornerstone (and one of my favourite bands ever), Poison the Well, and so many more.

I hope you find something to love.

• DEEP SEA DIVER- ‘Shovel’
• PIT PONY- ‘Vacancy’
• THE NIGHTMARES- ‘Hell Is Gonna Happen’
• VIOLA ODETTE HARLOW- ‘Scorsese’
• PLEASURE CENTRE- ‘Heart’
• CUCAMARAS- ‘Laughing’
• WONDERBUG- ‘What a Waste of Time’
• AIMING- ‘Brainiac (Radio Edit)’
• PHANTOM HAZE- ‘Infinite Gaze’
• FYOUNERAL- ‘St. Arry Night’
• HIGH.- ‘Flowers’
• CARPET OF FLOWERS- ‘Linears’
• FRANK FUTILITY- ‘Anyway’
• AMPULE- ‘Earth All Along’
• DRIVING AT NIGHT- ‘Willow Tree’
• MY SISTER MAURA- ‘Immensely’
• BRIGHT BRIGHT- ‘Cavity Dreams’
• PALEHORSE/PALERIDER- ‘Don’t Leave Me Behind’
• MOGWAI- ‘If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Other Ones’
• IMMERSION/SUSS- ‘State of Motion’
• BLACK BRUNSWICKER- ‘On a Cold Winter’s Morning’
• BEN SERETAN- ‘They Wanna Hear Another Heater’
• TIM HECKER- ‘Sunset Key Melt’
• DIIV- ‘Brown Paper Bag (Upsammy Remix)’
• REAL LIES- ‘Towards Horses’
• CHALK- ‘Afraid’
• POISON THE WELL- ‘Trembling Levels’