#MusicMonday Review - October 2025 Part 2

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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 October's Part 1 review for more music.

We continue our music listening journey with five unique genres, with different takes in what reality means nowadays, and, as usual, do not disappoint. Give them a listen, with a word from the artists themselves. 🎧

NEVEN – 12 Bars

I love the twelve-bar blues alright,

but the twelve-bar windows ain't for me,

I stood my ground you locked me up,

drug lords and killers walking free,

I got twelve bars on my window baby,

I sing twelve-bar blues tonight

Our journey lands us in Liverpool, England, for a Blues Rock track about having strong convictions, and putting up a fight for them when necessary:

"It's a mix of personal experience and just something that we see everyday as well really - people getting penalized and locked up for speaking up their mind while a lot of big criminals get away with what they do.

Basically it's criticism of corrupt justice systems globally. But of course it's also wordplay on 12 bars, which in this context represents the bars on a prison-cell window as well as 12 bars in the traditional blues structure."

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Cranc. – Something Don't Feel Right

I'm tired off all these pound shop lad bands
going on about how working class they are
My dad was born in a council estate, my mum came here on a boat
but you don't hear me going on about it... wait?

"All my life I felt like something was wrong in this land," she said
But there ain't not secret plot or dark forces
trying to implant microchips in your bloodstream

The rot... the rot! It's inside us; it's us

We travel now to Barcelona, Spain for a Post Punk track about being uneasy, without being able to explain or ignore why. All you can see is the emptiness in people's eyes:

"The track grew out of feelings of otherness. The seemingly progressive protagonist purports to loathe the mining of working class experience for artistic respect, while arguably doing the same thing himself.

Conspiratorial apocalyptic movements instinctively feel how wrong the world is, but their alienation leads them astray. Everything is not quite as it seems. The song was written in a single night in a kind of inchoate fury against where we are right now."

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Moss Side Sauna Club – MY WEIRD APPETITE

Up on the English coastline,
Up where the air is clearer,
I'm getting weird effing looks,
From everyone I hold dear,

Don't send me any postcards,
Not least till I get better,
Go tell the English coastguard,
To readdress my letters,

Let's travel back to Manchester, England for an ElectroClash song about the desire for the new, wanting all of everything, all the time. Is it a crime?:

"the song’s a satire on how people see bisexuality - so it was a way of owning the caricature! NYC dance punk, Peaches & M.I.A were an influence."

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RxGhost – Sponsored Content

Even the dullest setting on that light’s too bright
Some of us are trying to sleep

Being around is not the same as being here
Neither of us are in this room

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Looking at pictures of the places we won’t go
I’d much rather stay indoors

We now to Kansas City, MO.  for a shoegazey Danger Pop track about what social gatherings, and reality in general, have become: sitting tight, and doom scroll. The content on the screen is just more real:

"There were times when we were all hanging out and everyone was on their device and it got me thinking about how it’s just kind of a strange new option that wasn’t even available ten years ago, how you never really have to be bored at all anymore and how you can be in a group of people but everyone is in their own world.

I feel like boredom can be helpful, in that it can trigger creativity, and now that there’s the option to never be bored, it’s a struggle to get people to try hard things or invent ways to entertain themselves, it’s just so easy and comfortable to scroll.

And then that kind of spiraled into thinking about how inauthentic most of what we see is, and how advertising is creeping its way deeper and deeper into the content, so that the lines are super blurred between a real endorsement of something by someone you follow and a paid ad."

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Suspire – Deepstate Dive

Say about your day,
The thought fell away,
You stare,

Deep into my mind's eye,
I'll take a step if you say,
Bye,

You think that you went for the one you wanted,
You thought that you would get the gift of time,
You said I could solve the case you're solving,
Guess lies hard to do while the courts adjourned

We end up in Oxford, England for an Indie Rock track with a punky bass that takes you on a blindsided trip down to nowhere and back, where nothing is what it was before:

"Deepstate Dive explores a moment, or an encounter, that pushes the subject to a deeper level of consciousness. What follows is a spiral of reevaluating past choices that were made, and struggling to come to terms with how a newfound world view, doesn’t fit with the path of life they’ve walked down to date. The track treads a tightrope of ominous anthemia, reminiscent of Skinty Fia-era Fontaines DC."

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Listen to them and much more on the complete playlist

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See you next time!