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.

Rainy Miller's 'Joseph, What Have You Done?' Modern hymns in the Northern Gothic, documenting "verdant dank" memories of recent modernity and the fates they promise. tQ25.H.15 - Explore.

Circuit des Yeux's 'Halo On The Inside' In a different world this album is filling stadiums with its theatrical dubstep cabaret take on the Greek epic. It's so huge there's a "Director's Cut". tQ25.H.16 - 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.H.17 - Explore.

Haress' 'Skylarks' A band with delicate interplay and mutual respect weaving the air around us into long form instrumental stories that command rapt attention. tQ25.H.18 - Buy.

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Real Lies' 'We Will Annihilate Our Enemies' This immersion into the emotion of longing falls headlong into rave poet love with last night, year, decade, ignoring the reality that it's always been about the coming weekend. tQ25.H.19 - Ignore.

Baths' 'Gut' Melodic, innovative electronic tracks unpin me/I lyrics in a poppy gift box. tQ25.H.20 - Ignore.

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Quinie's 'Forefowk, Mind Me' Scots language, pipe led folk lean on an earnest sense of history and the difficulty of living a simple life. tQ25.H.21 - Ignore.

Patrick Wolf's 'Crying The Neck' A re-evaluation of self in the context of nation, history, mental illness and grief. Not that it's po-faced; there's a lightness of touch on the arrangements and a deft mind behind the lyrics. tQ25.H.22 - Ignore.

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 peerleas at creating communal experience, which is hard to capture on record. tQ25.H.23 - Ignore.

Osmium's 'Osmium' The flow state of work with hands and voice. Exhorted menial, augmented by machine, surpasses the present to a place independent of reality where the thought weary and mind blistered can escape at the forge. tQ25.H.24 - Buy.

Billy Woods' 'GOLLIWOG' There is no sugaring of the horror here. A bear with a sore head casts the state of hatred into spells on the wrong headed. Haltingly unsettling. tQ25.H.25 - Ignore.

Richard Skelton's 'The Second Chamber' An extensive collection of lovingly distressed instruments create a sense of musing and meander through field and vale tQ25.H.26 - Ignore.

Jim Ghedi's 'Wasteland' You can tell when an artist has fully committed to the form, and so it is here with a trust fall off the slate cliff into dark pools of lost craft, exaggerated diction and anthemic folk of auld England. tQ25.H.27 - Ignore.

Jules Reidy's 'Ghost/Spirit' Polyrhythmic, harmonic guitar rings the bell in a maelstrom of songs where the vocal creates a sense of earnest journey... of partial moments after the departure and before the arrival. tQ25.H.28 - Ignore.

Cosey Fanni Tutti's '2t2' You are flolloping around the top floor chillout room in Club Industriale, secretly hitting a blood orange vape and your smuggled litre of pinot. Life is sinister and delicious. tQ25.H.29 - Ignore.

Sam Amidon's 'Salt River' Worldly and warm hearted songs build a sense of community and togetherness. While the folkiness is rooted in tradition there are hints of modern arrangement and sound. tQ25.H.30 - Ignore.

Andy Bell's 'Ten Crowns' Grafting clubby euphoria to Hi-NRG hooks in a foam party of fleeting encounters makes for smiling reminiscence and wryful wit. tQ25.H.31 - Ignore.

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.H.32 - Buy.

Squid's 'Cowards' Two styles of work. There's professional, america-forward, first-person art-rock... and then there's softer, brass led, songs of honesty and cleaner intent. tQ25.H.33 - Ignore.

Golem Mecanique's 'Siamo tutti in pericolo' Layers of menace heighten your anxiety to unsustainable levels and expose your nerves to the melodic beauty of terrifying, flaying song. tQ25.H.34 - Buy.

Moin's 'Belly Up' Knowing call backs and meta repetition drive adept and clever jazz. tQ25.H.35 - Ignore.

Sublux's 'Disorder In The Machinery' Riff driven punk rock which shouts noisily about disregard at the societal edge of physical accessibility. tQ25.H.36 - Explore.

Los Thuthananka's 'Los Thuthanaka' A disjointed jam of confounding moods, careening to the next loop before transcendence takes hold. tQ25.H.37 - Ignore.

Sami Galbi's 'Ylh Bye Bye' Catchy tunes underpin processed Arabic vocals with poppy aplomb. There is so much to enjoy in these 35 minutes of perfectly crafted arrangements. tQ25.H.38 - Buy.

Marie Davidson's 'City Of Clowns' Lyrical and musical themes of data politics, user herds and the asymmetry of social network power provide a delicious motivation to thrash your body in the techno throb of a club bass bin. tQ25.H.39 - Buy.

Laibach's 'Alamut' Bartol's 1938 historical novel frames the nine movements of this epic symphony. Throat song and timpani, ululation and brass, are used to build themes of manipulation, fascism, deceit and tragedy to harrowing effect. tQ25.H.40 - Explore.

Saba & No I.D.'s 'From The Private Collection Of Saba & No I.D.' A love letter to No I.D.'s enormous history of production... and it's gorgeous... a delight to spend time with. tQ25.H.41 - Buy.

Lost Crowns' 'The Heart Is In The Body' Spiky, arty rock which reinforces the amplitude constraints of the harpsichord by tying its pitch to the vocal line in a nod to medieval folk. tQ25.H.42 - Ignore.

Masaaki Takano's 'Shizukutachi' Two exceptionally high quality recordings of water droplets provide a meditative introduction into the sculpted nature traditions of Japan and the recording techniques of an obsessive sound man. tQ25.H.43 - Explore.

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Kinski's 'Stumbledown Terrace' A crocheted pastiche of nineties indie rock by a late nineties indie rock band. Impeccable niche guitar kawaii. tQ25.H.44 - Ignore.

Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko's 'Гільдеґарда (Hildegard)' Two of the abbess' feathers float and spin on vibrations of synthesis. Slowed to an oscillation stall and stripped of cathedral reverb the fire is a cleansing, the branch foretells sweet vengeance. tQ25.H.45 - Buy.

Bb Trickz's '80’z' Eight charming songs deliver more smiles, joy and optimism in eleven minutes than I've heard in eleven years. tQ25.H.46 - Buy.