swervedriver - 'red queen arms race'

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Their comeback album 'I Wasn't Born to Lose You' is a bit of a mixed bag in my opinion. The quality is consistently high but a few of the tracks sound a little safe, not what you'd expect from such a gritty shoegaze band such as this. I do like this track a lot though, it's classic Swervedriver with all the right elements in place for a very powerful few minutes.

matthew e. white - 'holy moly'

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His 2015 album 'Fresh Blood' has thrown up some wonderful tunes, none more so than this.

definition of sound - 'boom boom'

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...and a quite simply brilliant track that samples the Moody Blues 'Go Now'. God, I love this track.

moody blues - 'go now'

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One of those 60s classics that I know all the words to. Trust me, that's a huge list of tunes but this is a particular favourite.

roberta flack - 'killing me softly'

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It's a classic.

question mark and the mysterians - '96 tears'

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The original and possibly the best version of this tune. Still as cool as you like too.

say lou lou - 'games for girls (feat. lindstrøm)'

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A very radio-friendly affair with some exquisite mixing from Lindstrøm.

vakula - 'new sensations'

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Wonderful techno. Just wonderful.

wolf colony - 'pleasure'

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The second track off their new album that I've blogged and I really could have posted each and every single song on it, they're all that good.

dalton - 'new time'

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I love the hook in this track - a lovely deep bass guitar sound reminiscent of The XX. 

peaking lights - 'all the sun that shines'

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Something mellow to ease us into Monday.

sophie hunger - 'supermoon'

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Not the greatest of days if I'm perfectly honest but this album is making things far more chilled.

steve mason - 'all come down (acoustic version)'

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It doesn't get much better than this. Great music to listen to as I twiddle my thumbs at home all ready for Brighton's last home game of the season.

doctor flake - 'women in dub'

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Some beautiful French trip-hop to finish the night, I think. This is quite excellent, seriously good in fact.

the leisure society - 'tall black cabins'

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A great Brighton/London band is The Leisure Society. They've had to deal with one of those excruciating prefixes of "Britain's answer to...[insert US indie folk band]" but thankfully they look like shaking that off so that they can be assessed as an act by themselves. Their new album was released earlier this month and I would like to hear it at the earliest possible juncture because if it's anything like this track then it's a corker, for sure.

the chemical brothers - 'sometimes i feel so deserted'

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It's their first release for something like 5 years and has all the hallmarks of being classic Chemical Brothers. There's a long intro, bring in the heavy bass, take the bass out, tease and tease and then the drop. Add a bit of acid house in the middle and take the bass out again...bigger tease and huge drop and key changes aplenty. It's a formula that works well for them. Actually, I do like the tune a lot.

looper - 'mondo '77'

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I've had this tune on loop (excuse the pun) for about 3 times now and it's the perfect accompaniment, headphones on as I read in bed. It's a bloody fantastic tune, that's what it is.

this is the kit - 'all in cahoots'

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I've been waiting for a stream of this track to come online so I can blog it. It's up there as one of my favourite tracks of the year so far. Not too many tracks can give me goosebumps but this one knows all the buttons to press. Incredible tune.

westkust - 'swirl'

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Oh my. My Bloody Valentine-esque guitars? Swedish?  Dream-pop? Tick, tick, tick. Love, love, love this tune.

we are scientists - 'dumb luck'

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We're all tired so let's chill out to something ethereal. This reminds me a bit of the Mamas and Papas singing Elliott Smith. Obviously - that never happened but it sounds like it.