THE BEST:
‘Recess’ – Snooper
Snooper’s Worldwide was one of my favourite albums of2025. The Nashville group’s latest single ‘Recess’ is a surprise pivot from egg
punk to jungle – they've still got the same rambunctious energy and contrastingly
nonchalant vocals as before, but they’ve swapped the fuzzy guitars and live drums for
rave stabs and break beats. I'm excited to see what comes next!
‘Pen I S Mall’ – Chat Pile
This might be the Oklahoma metal outfit’s most monstrous song
to date (which is saying something if you’re at all familiar with their back
catalogue). Vocalist Raygun Busch unleashes some of his most bloodcurdling
screeches, while the guitars are tuned to drop Z and sound sludgy as a Victorian sewer. It's a great
song about the fury of having a micropenis (I’m assuming that’s what it’s about.
I can’t make out much of the lyrics aside from the cries of ‘degradation!!!’). A new album titled Who Loves The Sun is scheduled to be released in September.
‘Something Else To Give’ - Man/Woman/Chainsaw
I’ve been blogging about Man/Woman/Chainsaw since 2022 and
it seems like the London art rockers are finally dropping their debut album Cannonball this
year in August. ‘Something Else To Give’ sees the band in
slowburner mode and features some pained lyrics about unrequited love and dramatic
blasts of violin at the end.
‘If I Let You’ – The Womack Sisters
Nepo babies though they may be (they’re the grandchildren of Sam Cooke), these girls sure do know how to make satisfying soul music. For this single, they've infused a mambo rhythm while delivering vocals in a 60s Motown style. It's deliciously groovy.
THE WORST:
‘Jealous Lover’ – The Rolling Stones
'Jealous Lover' has certainly got more bite than some of the recent
ex-Beatles singles, but Jagger’s screechy falsettos make this new single otherwise unlistenable. He sounds like a Muppet being strangled.
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