July Sounds

Summer holidays, Glastonbury on the BBC, stressing about the health of others and the fragile state of mortality, work, life, work/life, many loads of washing!

• As Alive As You Need Me To Be - Nine Inch Nails

  Still making huge dancy, rocky, industrial sounds.

• Vampire (Glastonbury 2025) - Olivia Rodrigo

  How many decibels was the scream at the end of the set?

• Green Light (Glastonbury 2025) - Lorde

  New album energy. What Was That rocks.

• I Want To Be Your Girlfriend (Glastonbury 2025) - girl in red

  The crowd surf. Girls. My Girl. I Want To Be Your Girlfriend.

• Last Man On The Earth (Glastonbury 2025) - Wolf Alice

  Goosebumps.

• Fucking Wizardry (Glastonbury 2025) - Self Esteem

  When the choral/trumpet bit hits, it hits hard!

• Chaise Longue (Glastonbury 2025) - Wet Leg

  Still a summer banger.

• Los Ageless (Glastonbury 2025) - St. Vincent

  Manic.

• End of Beginning (Glastonbury 2025) - Djo

  A billion streams can’t be wrong.

• Nightshift (Glastonbury 2025) - Lucy Dacus

  When the overdrive/distortion hits.

• Leave a Trace (Glastonbury 2025) - Four Tet

  CHVRCHES!

• Many Of Horror (Glastonbury 2025) - Biffy Clyro

  Not their best vocal performance but rich as always

• Somebody You Loved (Glastonbury 2025) - Lewis Capaldi

  Brought the tears

• Take Me Out (Glastonbury 2025) - Franz Ferdinand

  Brought the party. And Peter.

• Full Set (Glastonbury 2025) - Weezer

  Weezer Weezered 100%

• Mr Crowley - Jack Black feat. Roman Morello, Revel Ian, Yoyoka Soma & Hugo Weiss

  When you compare to the original it’s wild.

• First Signs Of Intimacy - Quiet Years

  Only one song on Spotify? Why bother making any more when it’s this good.

• Seer - Witch

  I don’t know about this festival, but I do know the camera and sound engineers NAILED IT.

• Live Aid 1985 - Queen

  Maybe the single most iconic live set ever performed?

• Mycale Strait - Fionnlagh

  Beautiful drones.

• Ghost - Delivery Service

  You can’t tell me this isn’t from the 90s.

• Sisyphus - Hotgirl

  Loving the sing-along chorus.

• anything - Adrianne Lenker

  “Christmas Eve with your mother and sis; Don’t wanna fight but your mother insists” Big Thief’s All Day All Night has also been getting some love this month.

• Man Of The House - Rachel Zegler

  Jack Antonoff writing and production at its finest. The vocals are the cherry on the top.

• Pretty Girls - Reneé Rapp

  The auto harmony is where this song is at.

• Swedish Girl - Saga Faye

  BBC6 Music played it but not much info on the artist - love the bleepy bloopy bit.

• I quit (Album) - HAIM

  Shame they only got one song of coverage on the BBC but the album is great. Take me back, Down to be wrong, All over me and Gone are all great tracks.

• Dylan Thomas - Better Oblivion Community Center

  Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers nailing it. See also

• What You Doing - Pacifica

  This album is great. Hotel Bar, Fantasies and Change Your Mind all rock.

• If It Makes You Happy (Sheryl Crow Cover) - Hamish Hawick

  I had to check if the verse lyrics were original or not they are so Hamish Hawk-y.

• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Feat. Black Thought) - Brian Jackson

  “You will not be able to block, unfollow, mute or swipe left to disengage with the revolution. It will be immersive, live streaming in its entirety and uninterrupted on every platform But the revolution will not be televised.” A glorious take on the Gil Scott-Heron piece.