article #MusicMonday Review - December 2025 in Community Blog

article #MusicMonday Review - December 2025 in Community Blog https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-December-2025/ba-p/7202558 <P class="lia-align-justify"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/bg-p/spotifyct/label-name/music%20monday" target="_self">#MusicMonday</A> is the hashtag I've been using for quite a while to share music recommendations from up-and-coming artists. Always fresh, and always different, trying to look for trends before they become one. You can check <A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-November-2025/ba-p/7200116" target="_self">November's review</A> for more music.</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">To finish the year, we bring you an all UK lineup, covering a whole range of genres, themes, and moods. Give them a listen, with a word from the artists themselves. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":headphone:">🎧</span></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P><STRONG>Delves In Time – Big in Berlin</STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="DelvesInTime.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/203064iC1F0461E29A25381/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="DelvesInTime.jpg" alt="DelvesInTime.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P><EM>Grey blocks rise in the freezing night</EM><BR /><EM>The City life fades in the fading light</EM><BR /><EM>Sound club calls and the lights go low</EM><BR /><EM>High heels click where the young ones go</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>I’m big in Berlin</EM><BR /><EM>Under the shadow of the wall</EM><BR /><EM>I hear David Bowie call</EM><BR /><EM>Bahnhof Zoo is where we ran</EM><BR /><EM>Losing more than we began</EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">We begin with an energetic Post Punk track, featuring an 80s inspired synth bass line that takes you to the 'Sound', a sonic evocation of german nightclubbing:</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"Big in Berlin was inspired by the cult 1981 film Christiane F. — I was struck by how young the kids were when they fell into that world. A trip to Berlin and visiting the film’s locations gave me a deeper connection to the story, and that atmosphere shaped the song."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:1KK9IR9hwtJGMWMro719cM:small" target="_self">spotify:track:1KK9IR9hwtJGMWMro719cM:small</A></P> <P> </P> <P><STRONG><SPAN>Cheap Escape – Man Of The People</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="CheapEscape.jpg" style="width: 225px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/203065i46D1F08F2C12B2C0/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="CheapEscape.jpg" alt="CheapEscape.jpg" /></span>Man of the people</EM></P> <P><EM>name your price</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>You're only messing with people's lives</EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">We now travel to Kirkcaldy, Scotland for a high energy Punk Rock song featuring a catchy baseline every elected official could dance to:</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"Man of the People was written in the run up to the UK General Election in 2024. The song takes aim at populists from all political persuasions, in the age of social media, culture wars and disinformation.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">We were all just a bit annoyed at the state of things in the world, and it came out in the form of the song! The whole EP was inspired by the hopelessness brought about by the people in power and it carries a lot of that in the lyrics."</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><A href="spotify:track:6CboAX9rZMCNE5yYmHUmFi:small" target="_self">spotify:track:6CboAX9rZMCNE5yYmHUmFi:small</A></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P><STRONG>Midnight Housework – Just to be Enough</STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="MidnightHousework.jpg" style="width: 225px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/203066iA304E87E7696C8A7/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="MidnightHousework.jpg" alt="MidnightHousework.jpg" /></span>It felt like love<BR />When she came around<BR />But it hurt like hell<BR />When she ran away</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>We went different ways<BR />Down the road of life<BR />On the lonely days<BR />I still see you in my mind</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Do you fear the past<BR />Will taint your future life<BR />Even weary minds<BR />Will one day find the light<BR /></EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Next stop, an bittersweet Alt Ambient Rock track from Belfast, Ireland that knows that there's no right way to live your life, just hold on tight, and enjoy the ride:</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"Instrumentally the song came from a guitar part that was meant to be in another song, but the band felt like the idea was strong enough to stand on its own feet and we went from there. So there wasn’t anyone or anything we were directly wanting to take influence from, it was a more organic, almost improvised process."</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><A href="spotify:track:4O5SBAdGF5AIuBdOOeGGFN:small" target="_self">spotify:track:4O5SBAdGF5AIuBdOOeGGFN:small</A></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P><STRONG>Future Theory – The Haze</STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="FutureTheory.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/203067i13ACCD2C0D135E54/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="FutureTheory.jpg" alt="FutureTheory.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Get out the way I need you</EM><BR /><EM>Leave me to settle </EM><BR /><EM>Think I'm a fool</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Thoughts are like whispers </EM><BR /><EM>Dreams are like ghosts</EM><BR /><EM>Maybe I'm young maybe I'm old</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>We now move to Lincolnshire, England, for an atmospheric, psychedelic Alternative track about being a complicated self half the time, but positive in our minds. Are we wasting our lives? Band member Max explains:</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"The guitar part and vocal melody came first then [band member] Jacob added some bass.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">I got the lyric inspiration from things I see around me and how I've felt and how many people have felt. Something that can connect with people and that's being lost in life, not knowing your purpose, so many people seem lost. Like you feel like you're stuck in a haze that you can't get out of.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Sounds a little depressing but then the song has much hope and the end really makes use of that. A sense of working your purpose out."</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><A href="spotify:track:6JtgtGwxUeeSg2tbvZh3sd:small" target="_self">spotify:track:6JtgtGwxUeeSg2tbvZh3sd:small</A></P> <P> </P> <P><STRONG>The Blooms – Reminisce</STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="TheBlooms.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/203068i5F3C43A3364AE72F/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="TheBlooms.jpg" alt="TheBlooms.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>See my soul being changed my way</EM><BR /><EM>I think I'm getting weaker day by day</EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">We finish in Derby, England, for an Indie Rock track whose distorted guitar sound takes us to an Indie scene gone by. Reminisce:</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"As simple as it sounds it just came from a writing session of taking a step back and thinking about things in the past and how times have changed within the band, all of our personal lives and within the city of Derby where we’re from, it’s mainly just a song about looking back on the past and how you can interpret it with many different moods."</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><A href="spotify:track:4fYjRF2l5vGAxZVAz62BnI:small" target="_self">spotify:track:4fYjRF2l5vGAxZVAz62BnI:small</A></P> <P> </P> <P><STRONG>Listen to them and much more on the complete playlist</STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:playlist:71fadol0hgsdSjLpM828HZ" target="_self">spotify:playlist:71fadol0hgsdSjLpM828HZ</A></P> <P> </P> <P>See you next time!</P> Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:59:41 GMT osornios 2026-01-06T00:59:41Z #MusicMonday Review - December 2025 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-December-2025/ba-p/7202558 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="music-blog.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/173766i39FAE7A484005229/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="music-blog.jpg" alt="music-blog.jpg" /></span></P> Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:59:41 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-December-2025/ba-p/7202558 osornios 2026-01-06T00:59:41Z Re: #MusicMonday Review - December 2025 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-December-2025/bc-p/7296755#M25161 <P>Great to see some Scottish punk in your shortlist! </P> Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:48:36 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-December-2025/bc-p/7296755#M25161 Loneliest_Cabin 2026-01-08T15:48:36Z