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#TheTwen2ie5 HM 4:
Park Jiha - Grounding (🇰🇷, 2025)
Mesmeric blend of traditional Korean instruments and electronics
youtu.be/5NHO6ZV15iY?...
#TheTwen2ie5 HM 3:
Destroyer ft Fiver (2025, 🇨🇦, Ice Spice fail)
Starting a run of 2025 tracks that will go on into the main list - the last six songs that had to go into three
youtu.be/LCEqe50p8Bw?...
![Janelle Monáe - Lipstick Lover [Official Music Video]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3bj4dovidxewudjr7ene3sem/bafkreifqyocde2ezox36hfbnyuyotfdzpvh2jebzmxqix6gtsqkc2pqmla@jpeg)
#TheTwen2ie5 HM 2:
Janelle Monae - Lipstick Lover (2023, 🇺🇸)
We’ll see if Bluesky allows everyone to see the video!
youtu.be/Y7S6wLP_vsY?...
#TheTwen2ie5 HM 1:
Sault - Wildfires (2020, 🇬🇧)
Excoriating lyric, doesn’t make the main list as I don’t think the music quite backs it up
youtu.be/GRC4Ac6IB1w?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 25:
Momma - Speeding 72 (2022, 🇺🇸, unranked)
One to add to the list of great driving songs
youtu.be/nZWxWsEiGBQ?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 24:
Michael Kiwanuka - Lowdown (2024, 🇬🇧, unranked)
Fantastically mellow guitar solo in the second part
youtu.be/agx-kVgC3sg?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 23:
L’Rain - Two Face (2021, 🇺🇸, unranked)
Another People’s Pop Poll discovery - a sort of deconstructed r&b that sounds like nothing else
youtu.be/LWmN7vXnnCo?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 22:
Laura Marling - Alexandra (2020, 🇬🇧, unranked)
Marling’s response to Leonard Cohen’s Alexandra Leaving (which is eligible for the Noughties challenge!)
youtu.be/oOIxtDuLwSQ?...
Windsor Davies and Don Estelle in khaki with large microphones
21.10.2025 17:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Richard Blackwood?
Jimmy Nail? Although I think he may be the UK’s Bruce Willis
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 21:
The Last Dinner Party - Sinner (2023, 🇬🇧, unranked)
If they’re an industry plant, the industry should do more plants
youtu.be/IfVpq86tOw8?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 20:
Kenya Grace - Strangers (2023, 🇬🇧, unranked)
First of two UK number ones in my list
youtu.be/qmfOaREwYew?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 19:
Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler - The Eagle and the Dove (2022, 🇨🇮/🇬🇧, unranked)
Another established/new act pairing. Olivier Award, Oscar and BAFTA nominations - is there no end to Jessie’s talents?
youtu.be/4oqGqbFHxvA?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 18:
Japanese Breakfast - Be Sweet (2021, 🇺🇸, unranked)
A serving of 80s-inspired indie pop
youtu.be/2ZfcZEIo6Bw?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 17:
Jane Weaver - Love In Constant Spectacle (2024, 🇬🇧, unranked, Ice Spice Fail)
Sublime vocals over hypnotic backing
youtu.be/To6d6zPyffs?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 16:
Jack White - Archbishop Harold Holmes (2024, 🇺🇸, unranked)
Jack returns to the White Stripes sound to thrilling effect
youtu.be/ru5afNNSPeU?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 15:
Heartworms - Retributions of an Awful Life (2023, 🇬🇧, unranked)
Post-punk that doesn’t just sound like a Joy Division knock-off
youtu.be/thC-C_Bk8H0?...
![Hayley Williams - Simmer [Official Music Video]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3bj4dovidxewudjr7ene3sem/bafkreia4d5j3kf36jrjpgcqp27agzobxdtexaazhu4pfv2gmzl4jyyvoum@jpeg)
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 14:
Hayley Williams - Simmer (2020, 🇺🇸, unranked)
I wouldn’t cross her!
youtu.be/8lSj5k2K7w0?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 13:
Elbow - Balu (2024, 🇬🇧, unranked, Ice Spice fail)
After a decade of pleasant but unmemorable albums, they’ve woken up again
youtu.be/B0zYKdfu6Zo?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 12:
Dry Cleaning - Leafy (2021, 🇬🇧, unranked)
“It was chucking it down when I stepped out
It's not now”
youtu.be/twqNuW7Q6-Y?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 11:
The Delines - This Ain’t No Getaway (2022, 🇺🇸, unranked)
Gorgeous piece of country soul
youtu.be/cQSX80CCy4Y?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 10:
David Gilmour ft Romany Gilmour - Between Two Points (2024, 🇬🇧, unranked, Ice Spice fail)
Heartbreaking cover of obscure 90s indie pop track
youtu.be/A9qdvkx9E3o?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 9:
Chvrches & Robert Smith - How Not To Drown (2021, 🇬🇧, unranked)
First but not last pairing of a veteran and a new(er) artist in my list
youtu.be/7U_LhzgwJ4U?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 8:
Cassandra Jenkins - Hard Drive (2021, 🇺🇸, unranked)
One of a few songs on my list that particularly resonated in the pandemic
youtu.be/eW8XoovSlsM?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 7:
The Brother Moves On - You Think You Know Me (2021, 🇿🇦, unranked)
Another People’s Pop Poll discovery
youtu.be/aQNqrdbjB1M?...
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 6:
Boygenius - Not Strong Enough (2023, 🇺🇸, unranked)
One of the supergroup will also be along later as a solo artist
youtu.be/bIX_ouNJsTs?...
Going back to my childhood, I’ve never seen the Goonies. For adulthood, I’ve only seen the first half hour of Silence of the Lambs (which I saw in a hotel before going out for dinner). Not exactly my generation, but it’s being going on so long it probably counts for everyone - never seen a MCU film
05.10.2025 18:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 5:
Bob Dylan - I Contain Multitudes (2020, 🇺🇸, unranked, Ice Spice fail)
He’s still got it. His near namesake may make an appearance later
youtu.be/pgEP8teNXwY?...
Spike by Elvis Costello
Features a song wishing ill-will to a prominent woman of the day
04.10.2025 22:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 4:
Billy Nomates - The Test (2025, 🇬🇧, unranked)
She does the wall of death
youtu.be/BxMrKNp0Tr0?...
