#MusicMonday Review - October 2025 Part 1

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#MusicMonday 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 September's review for more music.

While the world ponders about the ethics of interpolation, and AI-assisted music, let's take the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being original. Give them a listen, with a word from the artists themselves. 🎧

Pylon Poets – Accidental Optimist

Undercover
Is where you feel safe
You hide from the life you
Feel destined to hate

Cause in the land of hopes and dreams
You find yourself caught in between
The battles you've been fighting from the start

Chase them all away from your heart

Our journey starts in Torquay, Devon, UK. for an Alternative Rock track about the innocence of wanting to save a scarred soul with your love, hoping to hold and guide it through the dark:

"The track is a narrative of two lovers, one who see’s all the possibilities of life together, against the other who struggles to cope with a tumultuous past.

The verses describe the feelings of the ‘Accidental Optimist’ who is madly in love with someone who has been affected from past traumatic relationships whilst also delving in to the feelings of the pessimist. 

The chorus asks the eternal ‘what if’ question that will inevitably haunt each person at some point in their life. ‘What if we could be something spectacular’, pleads with the other to not give up on a future that could be more than what either of them could imagine."

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The Lines – Anguish

Your eyes don't know the anguish
Of a good man gone to war
The atom bomb, electric car
To you it's all the same.

Just one big game, you want to play
Like there's nothing more to life.

Keeping the Alternative Rock theme, we move to Glasgow, Scotland for a track about that special companion that knows everything about loyalty, even if it knows nothing about the language:

"The song is written about my dog. I was sitting at the piano one day playing around with a nice chord progression with him by my side, the song kind of wrote itself from there.

The themes of mortality, time, etc all came quite naturally, probably just the mood I was in."

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Midland Railway – A Song For Hannah-Beth

It's not your fault I worry, I have no doubt at all
That you're as genuine as can be
It's just that in the past no girl as great as you
Has ever really much liked me

And I'm dizzy on this pedestal, there's way too far to fall
Your adoration for me makes no sense at all
I get so worried I'm consumed by vertigo
I don't want to ever let you go

From Manchester, UK. we get a Punk Rock infused Indie Pop track about feeling fortunate of having the love you're not sure you deserve, and the fear of eventually losing it:

"I remember thinking about how a lot of the very early songs I had written seemed quite bitter and kind of mean. Although turning anger and resentment into music is quite an effective way of processing such emotions, I had wanted to try to make music out of other feelings, to better represent the overall human experience.

I decided to try to write something based on that sense of hope that a new relationship can bring, but at the time, my recent relationships had been completely disastrous, and as I was writing the lyrics, it felt like I was trying to persuade myself to overlook all the reasons to question how authentic the supposedly wonderful new relationship was. I ended up with a song that I think gives people things to think about and can be interpreted in multiple ways, and maybe it’s a better song because of that.

Perhaps the doubts are just my own insecurities being projected on to the relationship, but what if they are well-founded doubts that should not be overlooked?"

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The Bruvs – The Kiss

Walk with me
Say that you need me, I am so needy
Spill the tea
I am so lonely, since somebody told me

I wanna be free but I lock myself up
I don't believe but I pray for good luck
And I won't admit when I've fallen in love
That's the problem with me

We continue with an Indie Pop track about the many feelings you get when you close your eyes, and lock lips with that special someone:

"Ultimately it’s named after my favourite painting “The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt. Had fun with the lyrics linking this metaphorically in the verses. I had a chorus for a while and didn’t know what to do with it. Then the melodies of the verse came to me so so thought they might work well with the orphaned chorus. I just put them together. Was also inspired by Roy Orbison for the middle 8th to introduce a 1950’s rock’n roll feel to it. So a mix match of things went into the track."

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By The Waves – Grey Car

Through the haze comes
A different kind of bully
One that hits you where it hurts

Maybe love has gone
To run off with another
It's chess not checkers

rise and shine

so I say...

These days
It's getting hard to stomach
To see you on your knees

We finish up in Stockport, Manchester, England for an Indie Dream Rock track about how hard is to keep going when nothing's for sure. Today, a smile won't cut it:

"It was very much inspired by driving on a motorway with that feeling that you are in a film and things are moving in slow motion. I was singing the chorus out loud on the road and it just felt like it needed to have that sense of dream like escape to it that probably comes from doing something automatically that is essentially somewhat terrifying (driving on a motorway)."

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Listen to them and much more on the complete playlist

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See you next time!