Traidora's 'Una Mujer Trans Sin País' Hard, fast and noisy punk raging against a world which is building prejudice against trans folk simply being. tQ25.F.76 - Buy.

Double Virgo's 'Shakedown' Hyperreal presentation of period British indie... well read and perfectly executed. tQ25.F.77 - Ignore.

Lyra Pramuk's 'Hymnal' Songs which aim to evoke the emotional states common to both devotional music and raving. It needs to take a stance, to decide on worship or transcendence. tQ25.F.78 - Ignore.

Mei Semones' 'Animaru' Tinkling laughter while hop-scotching sun-dappled rainwater puddles. A carefree promenade through new emotions in stylish sixties light-entertainment. tQ25.F.79 - Ignore.

Rattle's 'Encircle' Two drummers augment themselves with repeated vocal refrains to capture hypnotic grooves which tear down genre fences in service of spells of stretched moments. tQ25.F.80 - Explore.

MIKE's 'Showbiz!' The innovation here is the use of samples to inject more extreme emotions into MIKE's laidback observations. Themes are established by mood and skit, then a rapped story is weaved to establish calm narrative. tQ25.F.81 - Buy.

Melvin Gibbs' 'Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2' The ominous opener and glomming of dark d&b sounds a ragdoll cascade into busy jazz. tQ25.F.82 - Ignore.

Rafael Toral's 'Travelling Light' A migration of the synthetic birb from last year's pastoral setting to a more polluted environment of neon and guitar inflected ambient jazz. tQ25.F.83 - Ignore.

Gelli Haha's 'Switcheroo' Perfect synth-pop wiggles its white jeans on trainer-shod roller skates while twirling the straw in a strawberry ice-cream and dandelion & burdock float's with its pink-pink tongue... and you blush. tQ25.F.84 - Ignore.

Throwing Muses' 'Moonlight Concessions' The fuse burns down half way through 'Moonlight Concessions'; half way through 'Albatross'. The implosion gives more focus, higher density: Hersh's howl, percussion-cap guitars, a wisp tailed cello combine to form rending, whirling inertia. tQ25.F.85 - Buy.

Worldpeace DMT's 'The Velvet Underground & Rowan' Sometimes at a childs' party you wonder how the entertainer ended up there. That's the day job. This is the artistic endeavour. tQ25.F.86 - Ignore.

The Necks' 'Disquiet' Like mountain weather, The Necks trio roll implacably through glinting rays, the plink of melt, a chatter of edge on slate. A three hour tour of mood evolution. tQ25.F.87 - Ignore.

Jade's 'That’s Showbiz Baby!' The Faustian pact played out as adulation and attention in return for the horrors of showbiz documented as modern fables in a perfect popout cake. A wise and glistening delight. tQ25.F.88 - Buy.

Neptunian Maximalism's 'Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu' A live recording of Neptunian Maximalism's three movement psychedelic concept of the mystical. Judgement Hall are peerless at creating communal experiences which are hard to capture on record. tQ25.F.89 - Ignore.

Anna von Hausswolff's 'Iconoclasts' von Hausswolf sounds like she's pick sliding the scars of her vocal chords in delivering the resigned truth of gothic blues. Features, collabs and orchestration make for a compelling and epic album. tQ25.F.90 - Buy.

Messa's 'The Spin' Stadium appropriate rock at a level of precision and professionalism that calls to mind world bestriding spandex. There are enough modern touches to avoid reminiscence and Sara Bianchin's voice is wondrous. tQ25.F.91 - Ignore.

Lucy Liyou's 'Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name' You gaze around the piano bar, order a bottle of overpriced whiskey and the detail of electronic noise and autotune make the anxiety, relief and hope of sharing your feelings with a new love mattter. tQ25.F.92 - Ignore.

Orcutt Shelley Miller's 'Orcutt Shelley Miller' A storied rhythm section provide a sturdy bench for the singing guitar to wring out its songs. Filed and struck, sawn and turned. Psychedlic swarf and blued bars spun across the workshop floor. tQ25.F.93 - Ignore.

Facta's 'GULP' A collection of production studies unified under a satin sheen. It's the soundtrack to a brand sponsored party on a middle class activity holiday. tQ25.F.94 - Ignore.

Pulp's 'More' You smirk at the corruscating wit, shake it to the northern soul, sing-a-long to the anthemic homily and hit the traps Pulp map because you miss the satire. tQ25.F.95 - Ignore.

Holden & Zimpel's 'The Universe Will Take Care Of You' Wonderment scores your stargaze. A smell of crackling fire confirms your wellbeing. There's endless detail in the void. tQ25.F.96 - Ignore.

Rien Virgule's 'Berceuses des Deux Mondes' This sounds like a fork of space... there are recognisable motifs and musical conventions and yet it sounds so otherworldly. Chirrups and marching bands, dances and lullabies bring us to the courts and communes of another place. tQ25.F.97 - Buy.

Real Lies' 'We Will Annihilate Our Enemies' This immersion into longing falls in rave poet love with last night, year, decade, ignoring that it's always been about the coming weekend. tQ25.F.98 - Ignore.

Amelia Cuni's 'Melopea' Two raag bhoop; a lament and a release. A fitting bookend to Cuni's commitment to her art and voice in the form she pursued. tQ25.F.99 - Ignore.

Angela Hartnett's fridge is glorious.

Moundabout's 'Goat Skull Table' You are knelt before the cult pulpit, veering between menace and promise, from gurning dervish to cold purpose. What you get used for depends on which song is playing when the incantation stops. tQ25.F.100 - Buy.

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Aya's 'Hexed!' That sense of unnerved wonderment when you hear gobby mania on the top deck of an outbound night bus... a charismatic lilt through raging, cute, knowing wisdom in a meter that's strange and welcoming. tQ25.H.1 - Buy.

Decius' 'Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience)' The second night out in a row. You're still in the same clothes and everyone loves you. tQ25.H.2 - Buy.

Richard Dawson's 'End Of The Middle' Observational folk documenting the small things that have a big impact on ordinary life. tQ25.H.3 - Ignore.

John Glacier's 'Like A Ribbon' Loops fret like beads on a rope, vocals are pasted refrains, emotions are painted from palleted decades and spattered genres. A canvass of identity and modernity; clever and musical; honest and captivating. tQ25.H.4 - Buy.

These New Puritans' 'Crooked Wing' Occasionally beautiful; frequently indulgent. Another's tongue coated in chocolate. tQ25.H.5 - Ignore.

Milkweed's 'Remscéla' You are woozy but sat. You don't understand what happened today. Your hair smells of fire and you can taste blood. The bard weaves partials and wefts earshot of unsafe cattle and depleted mates. tQ25.H.6 - Buy.

"Nothing on this planet had so forcefully hammered into here the ultimate value of beer. Not the beer-sellers, not the dried skins of the snacks, nor the beer jackets or the rules of beer discipline. Here there was a substance more precious than all others." Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

One of the coolest things I've ever seen - @clppng.bsky.social used a bunch of tiny robots and everyday junk and trash to create the backing tracks live for a tiny desk concert. I'm seeing them in February, I wonder if the robots will be hitting the road?

Elijah Jamal Asani's ',,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,,' In an espalier'd garden a goat butts its windchimed post, keeping loose time with bumbling birds. You can smell citrus, pine and honeysuckle. You roll memories chewed from rhubarb around your mouth. tQ25.H.7 - Buy.

caroline's 'caroline 2' The sound of people falling to assumptions about each other and circumstance during unfinished thoughts regarding themselves. The crescendos are great. tQ25.H.8 - Ignore.

Matmos' 'Metallic Life Review' Somewhere in an industrial age this is playing at the aristocratic cocktail bar of a private members' club. tQ25.H.9 - Ignore.

Maria Somerville's 'Luster' A hyperreal facsimile of ethereal eighties Èire. tQ25.H.10 - Ignore.

OsamaSon's 'Jump Out' In a glitchy, chaotic amusement arcade OsamaSon rages about his desire for clothes and cash, women and war. tQ25.H.11 - Ignore.

Lyra Pramuk's 'Hymnal' Songs which aim to evoke the emotional state common to devotional music and raving on an album which probably needs to pick a lane. tQ25.H.12 - Ignore.

Los Pirañas' 'Una Oportunidad Más De Triunfar En La Vida' Frenetic Columbian party-time music. There are obvious foundations but every now and again there's a two step of ska or a bass line of oompah to pull you out of the wild abandonment. tQ25.H.13 - Ignore.

Laura Cannell's 'LYRELYRELYRE' A fantasia from which the Lover of Lyres magicks a weaver of sonic pictures; each title a prompt, each piece its representation. This isn't the Zauberlehrling's fumbled control, though. Cannell is the sourcerer of sound. tQ25.H.14 - Buy.