Here's my latest monthly mix to catch you up on all the new and newly re-release indie gems that have been coming out this past month.
Exclusively new (and newly reissued) indie releases from mid September to mid October 2025, featuring: The Cords, Chatham Rise, Strange Passage, Eades, Big Bite, Lighters, Just Mustard, Rocket, The Melody Chamber, The Telephone Numbers, The Lions Constellation, The Caroline's, Hibou, Cathedral Bells, Mumrunner, Saccades, Peel Dream Magazine, Sister Ray Davies, motifs, Automatic, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, Sugar, Doves, "The Reds, Pinks & Purples", The Lemonheads, David Bowie, Supergrass, Oasis, A Certain Ratio, New Order, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Spandau Ballet, Ash, Metronomy, The Besnard Lakes, Shaki Tavi, Heartworms, The City Gates, Bass Drum of Death, Golden Apples, Honey Smugglers, Jeff Tweedy, My Morning Jacket, and The Orb
2011 - Chronolology The Very Best of Robyn Hitchcock @320
1. “I Wanna Destroy You” (The Soft Boys)
2. “Kingdom of Love” (The Soft Boys)
3. “Only the Stones Remain” (The Soft Boys)
4. “The Man Who Invented Himself ” (Robyn Hitchcock)
5. “I Often Dream Of Trains” (Robyn Hitchcock)
6. “My Wife and My Dead Wife” (Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians)
7. “If You Were a Priest” (Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians)
8. “Balloon Man” (Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians)
9. “Madonna of the Wasps” (Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians)
10. “So You Think You’re in Love” (Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians)
11. “Queen Elvis” (Robyn Hitchcock)
12. “I Feel Beautiful” (Robyn Hitchcock)
13. “Mr. Kennedy” (The Soft Boys)
14. “Full Moon in My Soul” (Robyn Hitchcock)
15. “Adventure Rocket Ship” (Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3)
16. “Goodnight Oslo” (Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3)
For a man who included a working phenakistoscope – an early 19th-century animation device – in a recent live reworking of his legendary album I Often Dream of Trains, Robyn Hitchcock lives and creates very much in the present.
While during the past several years musical completism and deluxe physical CD and vinyl offerings – the I Wanna Go Backwards & Luminous Groove collections and I Often Dream of Trains for example – have been Robyn’s philosophy regarding the content comprising his legendary career, the artist feels 2011 calls for a bit of brevity.
As a result, he has released Chronolology, a digital format-only Best-of collection; both firsts in his forty-plus year creative journey. Remarks Hitchcock, “There’s never been a ‘best of me’ before; this is specifically corralled together for the internet, which is currently the dominant medium, just as vinyl was 40 years ago.“
Chronolology was carefully curated by Hitchcock himself and as its title suggests, it is a temporal journey through his forty-plus year career as a solo artist, member of The Soft Boys and leader of The Egyptians and Venus 3. “The songs are a series of dots which, if you join them together, make a continuous line: like stations on the London Underground. So Piccadilly Circus is ‘Madonna Of The Wasps’ and Hammersmith is ‘I Feel Beautiful.’ Which means King’s Cross is ‘I Wanna Destroy You.’”
Continues Robyn, “Chronolology is an attempt to collect my work so far, in its most straightforward form, and make it available in one place.” Easily accessible, straightforward Hitchock. Hell is surely an icy wonderland.
2018 -The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Shout The Essential Alex Harvey (Flac)
This box set offers an extensive compilation of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band's most iconic tracks, ensuring that fans experience the full range of their eclectic sound and musical journey. Includes rare tracks and additional material not found in standard releases, providing collectors and new fans alike with unparalleled insight into Alex Harvey's artistic legacy.
Ok, I am taking a break from posting for a few days, need to do some sorting and cleaning in my external HD's. I will be back on Monday or Tuesday, I would guess.
Well Andy's wonderful Observer Dub Catalog series is queued and there will be one per day. Concha will still be posting stuff as well. So plenty new to take, look at the archive of Vibes we have 1,288 posts in just over a year, not bad at all for a new blog.
I want to catch up with music, have a massive list of new albums, I want to catch up with. A live band to see on Saturday.
Have albums that need the tags sorting out.
Have some reading to do and some films (mainly music Docs, surprise surprise!!) and some tv series, I want to catch up with. We (me & my girlfriend) had two very busy months, something on every weekend. Will be good to relax a bit, no travelling to do either.
Time for some me / us time.
There is never enough hours in the day!!
Thanks to all the visitors to Vibes and especially the ones that take the time to comment.
Thanks to the great team posting at the moment, Andy, Concha and Cosmas!!
If you would like to share something here, feel free to add a link, together with info about your share as a comment on a post, or send it via email to 4vibessite(at)proton just change (at) for @
A few days ago I shared David Bowie - Pretty Rare (2011), but 4 tracks were below the 320 mark I like to share in. Well I asked if anyone had them at a better rate would they please either drop them in the comments or send them via email, well someone sent me an upgrade of the four tracks.
So will post them here now and put a link to this post on the original post.
Track 6 has gone from 96 to 128
Track 7 has gone from 128 to 320
Track 8 has gone from 128 to 320
Track 14 has gone from 128 to 320
Many thanks to the anonymous sharer for the upgrades.
