Nourished By Time's
'The Passionate Ones'
The sounds of a deep soul bursting out of a basement studio flat.
tQ25.F.18 - Explore.

Nadeem Din-Gabisi's
'Offshore'
Character driven bars describe the experiences and emotions of life as an nth generation Brit over poppy West African musical traditions. Movement for body and pause for thought.
tQ25.F.19 - Buy.

Matmos'
'Metallic Life'
Somewhere in an industrial age this is playing at the aristocratic cocktail bar of a private members' club.
tQ25.F.20 - Ignore.

Suede's
'Antidepressants'
You're playing the villain. It's a club chase scene. There's a band on stage. For a moment you lock eyes with the singer, misjudging the whump of the hero's double's impact. "CUT". You shake your head and go again.
tQ25.F.21 - Ignore.

OsamaSon's
'Jump Out'
In a glitchy, chaotic amusement arcade OsamaSon rages about his desire for clothes and cash, women and war.
tQ25.F.22 - Ignore.

Eiko Ishibashi's
'Antigone'
Despite the grandeur and sweeping romaticism, the primary projection is of enclaved bourgeousie. It's music to accompany a catered dinner party for one.
tQ25.F.23 - Ignore.

Leo Chadburn's
'Sleep In The Shadow Of The Alternator'
Lulling spoken word in a serious tone over tasteful electronica which requires either active listening or scant attention.
tQ25.F.24 - Ignore.

Širom's
'In The Wind Of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper'
Pastoral romance emerges from the improvised folk on which this trio builds their fizzing polyphonic vignettes.
tQ25.F.25 - Ignore.

Širom's
'In The Wind Of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper'
Pastoral romance emerges from the improvised folk on which this trio builds their fizzing polyphonic vignettes.
tQ25.F.25 - Ignore.

DJ K's
'Radio Libertadora !'
Like putting an emergency service vehicle's siren through autotune xored with sin. An excellent cacaphony.
tQ25.F.26 - 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.F.27 - 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.F.28 - Ignore.

Microcorps'
'CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER'
Like barely hearing a row at the other end of an independent M.O.T. centre.
tQ25.F.29 - Ignore.

Stereolab's
'Instant Holograms On Metal Film'
A traverse of the electronic monophonic and vox glacier from a prior century. Photos of a time capsule. The aroma of aspic.
tQ25.F.30 - Ignore.

Danny Brown's
'Stardust'
Post-sobriety post-hip-hop concept album formed as the musical biography of a period fictional popstar... hopping genres and veering the oblique as it cannons down the cushioned walls of overly long corridors.
tQ25.F.31 - Ignore.

Frequency provides safety.
Cadence gives predictability.
Speed is your friend.

Geoffrey Burgon's framing of Nunc Dimittis is so good that I always watch the end credits. It's such a perfect representation of Smiley.

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 in the arrangements and a deft mind behind the lyrics.
tQ25.F.32 - Ignore.

Rosalía's
'LUX'
The kind of music that makes you feel like you are windmilling your arms while teetering on a cliff edge. An overwhelming sense of scale, danger and expression.
tQ25.F.33 - 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.F.34 - Ignore.

The Worm's
'Pantilde'
A pastoral journey on hope's muscled wave. From Wide Eye Gate through Sinister Copse, into Whimsy Meadow and over the Warbling Stile to tumble down the hayfield; your amble is fragrant and delightful.
tQ25.F.35 - Ignore.

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.F.36 - 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.F.37 - Explore.

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.F.38 - Ignore.

Lost Crowns'
'The Heart Is In The Body'
After the child's blurt, the emporer's jesters learned the weavers' trick. They opened a garden of thistles and pointed haughty nose and important fingers. "Wonder at your swollen ears!"
tQ25.F.39 - 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.F.40 - Ignore.

BTW, fellow casters of Pooh Sticks, It's always worth re-reading @swordsjew.bsky.social

Jim Legxacy's
'Black British Music (2025)'
It's brave to structure actual songs in this musical epoch. You know... with hooks and verses and whatnot. And when they are this catchy and tasteful, this laden with sense memory, it's both brave and delightful.
tQ25.F.41 - Buy.

Chicago Underground Duo's
'Hyperglyph'
You attack the day like it's a lawful killing, hair whipped, eyes bulging. Your coffee tastes of blood and the entire world is tinted by the acid streaks of cortisol bathwater.
tQ25.F.42 - 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.F.43 - Buy.