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- CMYKJames Blake This emo softboi had my heart from this moment on. My heart soared as he performed medleys of his older electronica during the interludes between his serenades.
- SpiralSCALER Ooaggh just listen to that riff against the percussion and electronic artefacts ⚡️🥴✨ this is how you tickle my brain. Looking forward to this EP release!
- Anything but OrdinaryAvril Lavigne This has become one of my favourites to sing at karaoke, for the sheer vocal dynamic range. And the lyric “somebody rip my heart out and leave me here to bleed” 🥲
- UnwantedAvril Lavigne Another underdog of the era-defining record. Similarly to Losing Grip, the use of panning with that flanger synth was *wild* to 11/12YO me.
- Losing GripAvril Lavigne One of my favourite album openers of all time, and appallingly underrated. That introductory riff still scratches the corners of my brain like the first time I heard them.
- Howling WolfSonia Calico My electronic dig of the year, and I reckon this one will stay as a staple in my DJ library. So glad to see Sonia still putting out interesting dancefloor bangers. Big inspo.
- AlyseShygirl Craig Charles put this on his BBC Radio 6 show and made me so excited to hear this sound on brunch time radio!
- Crossing GuardModel/Actriz The sub movement in the intro really excites my insides — is it just me?
- Rational EcstasyAFAR A light bulb moment; the songs I make in my head sound very similar to this 💡
- The Way It BreaksLoathe I seem to have a pattern of picking the rogue/breakdown track of a record as my favourite. There is tantalising beauty in the lull following the journey’s climax.
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CMYK
James Blake · 2010
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Spiral
SCALER · 2026
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Let Go
Avril Lavigne · 2002
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Moonlight
Sonia Calico · 2024
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Alyse
Shygirl · 2026
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Dogsbody
Model/Actriz · 2023
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Rational Ecstasy
AFAR · 2021
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A Stranger To You
Loathe · 2026
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Hysterical Strength
DEADLETTER · 2024
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a.s.o.
a.s.o., Alias Error, Tornado Wallace · 2023
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Caspian
Caspian · 2026
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CMYK
James Blake · 2010
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Spiral
SCALER · 2026
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Let Go
Avril Lavigne · 2002
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Moonlight
Sonia Calico · 2024
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Alyse
Shygirl · 2026
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Dogsbody
Model/Actriz · 2023
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Rational Ecstasy
AFAR · 2021
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A Stranger To You
Loathe · 2026
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Hysterical Strength
DEADLETTER · 2024
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a.s.o.
a.s.o., Alias Error, Tornado Wallace · 2023
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Caspian
Caspian · 2026
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22 October
a.s.o. a.s.o., Alias Error, Tornado Wallace
My Baby's Got It Out For MeOne of the joys of working in a music shop is getting shown new music by customers. Thanks Steve!
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26 September
Dogsbody Model/Actriz
SlateA wonderful recommendation/discovery to wrap up a gorgeous weekend of XMTR sound arts by the sea. Thanks Theo x
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August · ArcTanGent Festival, UK
SCALER
Remain in StasisBetter late than never.
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23 June
Gurriers
Nobody's Coming To Save YouMy pal René has been smashing the recommendations lately.
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19 June
DEADLETTER
It Comes Creeping“Moody Franz Ferdinand” Thanks René x
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April
Back to Shilmarine HAAL
To Be A MachineLove it when I fall immediately in love with the support act of a seminal band (toe).
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Spring
HYDRA Grove
BREAK A SWEATFriends in empowering places.
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March
Trying Times James Blake
Doesn't Just HappenThe full circle.
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February
Even In Arcadia Sleep Token
Even In ArcadiaWill you halt this eclipse in me?
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January
A Sky Without Stars ELIZA
Everywhere I'll Ever BeWhen music lovers share music made by music lovers.
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October
West End Girl Lily Allen
RelapseThe most cathartic revenge album made to date for the modern survivor of man-children.
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Autumn
Ex Agent
Jessie's ChristThe beginning of my post-punk/noise dive of this ilk.
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Autumn
For the first time Black Country, New Road
OpusShown to me in exchange of Ex Agent — consider me hooked.
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August · ArcTanGent Festival, UK
...And Everything In Between Unprocessed
HellCrowdsurfed for the first time in 15 years!
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August · ArcTanGent Festival, UK
The Callous Daoboys
LemonThey won me over when they told the crowd to “stand for the national anthem” and proceeded to play Sorry You’re Not A Winner by Enter Shikari 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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July
A Complicated Woman Self Esteem
MotherNot my usual bag of candy, but the goosebumps were raised. Thank you for lamenting the strife of this tired and beaten generation of women.
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April
Wet Leg
catch these fistsThe joy of finding weirdo girlies I’d be friends and total menaces with.
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Summer
Narrow Line Mama's Broke
The Ones That I LoveAlbum of the season.
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May
HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish
WILDFLOWERI know I’m not the only elder emo who’s glad for Billie’s music.
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Autumn
Radiate Like This Warpaint
Hard To Tell YouThis album held and kept me warm through a cold and difficult divorce, living out of a suitcase between spare rooms.
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Spring
Modern Escapism Blanket
Where the Light Takes UsThe season of rediscovering the sound that fuels, moves and touches me.
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Autumn
Softcult
Perfect BlueFeed me shoegazey gals that sing about the grey darkness of life, anytime. Thanks Al x
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Summer
Telltale Signs Sobs
Telltale SignsAlbum of the season. It was a great soundtrack for a big mooch around Bristol as I explored the city.
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Applause Balthazar
Blood Like WineMy years in music feel hazy here, but this album was on heavy rotation.
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Tri-State Above & Beyond
IndonesiaThe beginning of my DJ journey. Euphoric trance and deep house were on heavy rotation for a few years here.
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Signs and Wonders Consider the Thief
On HighThis record means so much to me — it was the first band I’d discovered on my own without the influence of my peers. They disbanded soon after the release of this record and it saddens me to no end that I’ll never experience this album live.
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7 February
Killing With A Smile Parkway Drive
It's So Hard To Speak Without A TongueMy first crowd surf. They performed in one of the halls of the Singapore Art Museum. It got so hot in there that there was a sweaty mist lingering above the crowd, and I couldn’t reenter the hall after I returned from the bathroom due to the wall of humid ☠️
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All Is Violent, All Is Bright God Is An Astronaut
Suicide by StarCinematic stories within every track, an epic journey as a whole record. Probably the only instrumental album I truly know back to front. This album would go on to hold me in multiple victories, defeats and heartbreaks for years to come.
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Gauntlet Of Solitude The Devil Wears Prada
Gauntlet Of SolitudeThis band was peak MySpace Fi era.
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the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety toe
CAn ex showed me the live album DVD and started me down this math-rock rabbit hole 🕳️
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9 August · SINGfest 2007, Singapore
Avenged Sevenfold
Bat CountryThe beginning of my descent into the heavier side of Alt Rock, thanks to a friend’s obsession with Synyster Gates.
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9 August · SINGfest 2007, Singapore
Warpaint
UndertowThe first band I fell in love with at first watch/listen, and the beginning of my journey into shoegaze and post-rock.
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April
Favourite Worst Nightmare Arctic Monkeys
If You Were There, BewareThe sound of this record excited me so much I had a different favourite track every other day whilst it was on rinse-repeat.
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Anberlin
Paperthin HymnThis was where I started to actively seek new music (hello Last.FM) instead of solely listening to the radio or watching MTV.
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Black Holes and Revelations Muse
Knights of CydoniaSupermassive Black Hole broke my trance away from generic pop music and possibly the beginning of me watching MTV religiously. First band I got to see live with my friends unchaperoned.
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April
Songs About Jane Maroon 5
SecretThe first CD gifted to me by a friend. Honestly still bangs, and the singles are the weakest tracks on the record apart from Harder to Breathe.
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September
七里香 Jay Chou
止戰之殤The OG mumble rapper. I feel that his lyrical poetry lends itself to my own.
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Let Go Avril Lavigne
Losing GripA seminal album for the teenage emo misfit trying to make sense of the world and feel connected.
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November
Under Construction Missy Elliott
Gossip Folks (feat. Ludacris)The first CD I ever owned — I won it via an online contest by MTV.
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June
The Eminem Show Eminem
Cleanin' Out My ClosetThe first rap lyrics I learned and memorised, much to my mum’s shock and confusion.
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Cineleisure, Singapore
By the Way Red Hot Chili Peppers
By the WayMy parents brought my sister and I to a mall in town every Sunday morning to join the queue at the cinema box office for free movie tickets. There were about 8-10 music videos on rotation at the waiting lounge and this one stood out the most for me.
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Clint Eastwood Gorillaz, Del The Funky Homosapien
Clint EastwoodI first saw/heard this on Yahoo! Music. One of the first rap lyrics I’d memorised.
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Hybrid Theory Linkin Park
A Place for My HeadThe CD booklet of this record was the beginning of my special interest in book arts. Most underrated track of the record here.
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Millennium Backstreet Boys
Show Me the Meaning of Being LonelyGirls are swaying to Britney’s Lucky, and the boys bopping to BSB’s Larger Than Life. I, on the other hand, wondering what this feeling of yearning is within me as I rinsed this belter on repeat.
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Spiceworld Spice Girls
Viva ForeverThis music video was hypnotic to my lil’ mind. The next time I felt that same emptiness within me would be the ending of Spirited Away.
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To the Moon & Back Savage Garden
To the Moon & BackI’m sitting in the backseat of my dad’s red Toyota, looking out the window, possibly feeling melancholy for the first time.
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餓狼傳說 Jacky Cheung
餓狼傳說I remember insisting my parents to put this song on repeat. This music video is pure 90’s Mandopop kitschy bonkers and I loved watching my dad *perform* it at karaoke.