WhoOdyssey

Each week, 8 new releases are selected to go head to head, with one weekly winner which will then go up against future weekly winners later in the year at the end of each quarter of the year, and then again at the end of the year to determine the ultimate winner of 2025. Last week's results: FKA twigs - HARD [5] Charli xcx (feat. John Cale) - House [4] Poppy - Bruised Sky [2] Dominic Fike - White Keys [1] Oliver Tree - Joyride [1] Squeeze - Trixies, Pt. 1 [1] Dry Cleaning - Cruise Ship Designer [0] Megadeth - I Don't Care! [0] Here are this week's contenders: Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD - Wild Woman Artemas - you and i could never be friends Bad Omens - Left For Good Bastille - SAVE MY SOUL DON BROCO - Euphoria Fleet Foxes - Angel in the Snow Sam Fender - I'm Always On Stage Sleaford Mods - Bad Santa 2025 Indie/Rock/Alt Track of the Week Winners Week 1: N/A Week 2: Ethel Cain – Amber Waves Week 3: Mumford & Sons – Rushmere Week 4: Nova Twins – Monsters Week 5: SOFIA ISELLA – Dog's Dinner Week 6: Oklou – blade bird Week 7: Sam Fender – Remember My Name Week 8: Fontaines D.C. – It's Amazing To Be Young Week 9: Doves - A Drop In The Ocean Week 10: Black Country, New Road – Happy Birthday Week 11: Sleep Token – Emergence Week 12: SOFT PLAY (feat. Kate Nash) – Slushy Week 13: Linkin Park - Up From The Bottom Week 14: Wet Leg - catch these fists Week 15: Lana Del Rey - Henry, come on Week 16: Lana Del Rey – Bluebird Week 17: Lorde – What Was That Week 18: Nilüfer Yanya - Cold Heart Week 19: Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia Week 20: Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom Week 21: Pulp - Got to Have Love Week 22: Pendulum - Save The Cat Week 23: Ethel Cain - Nettles Week 24: Twenty One Pilots - The Contract Week 25: Muse - Unravelling Week 26: Lorde - Shapeshifter Week 27: Ethel Cain - F*ck Me Eyes Week 28: Wolf Alice - The Sofa Week 29: The Last Dinner Party - This is the Killer Speaking Week 30: Tame Impala - End Of Summer Week 31: Fat Dog - Pray To That Week 32: Wolf Alice - White Horses Week 33: Steve Lacy - Nice Shoes Week 34: Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream Week 35: Hayley Williams - Parachute Week 36: Tame Impala - Losers Week 37: Gorillaz (feat. Sparks) - The Happy Dictator Week 38: Nine Inch Nails - Who Wants To Live Forever? Week 39: Tame Impala - Dracula Week 40: Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day Week 41: Of Monsters and Men - Fruit Bat Week 42: Sam Fender (feat. Elton John) - Talk to You Week 43: Mumford & Sons & Hozier - Rubber Band Man Week 44: ROSALÍA (feat. Björk & Yves Tumor) - Berghain Week 45: ROSALÍA (feat. Yahritza Y Su Esencia) - La Perla Week 46: FKA twigs - HARD

Only heard their Jona Lewie cover so far, but it’s fantastic!

Out now:

Surprise - 'I'm Always On Stage' is out tomorrow!

Luvcat is another name that seems to have a bit of hype around her currently too.

My favourites: The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys' Christmas Album Ben Folds - Sleigher Bowling For Soup - Merry Flippin’ Christmas Dolly Parton - A Holly Dolly Christmas Dolly Parton - Home for Christmas John Denver - Rocky Mountain Christmas John Williams - Home Alone (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Kacey Musgraves - A Very Kacey Christmas Louis Armstrong - Louis Wishes You a Cool Yule Michael Ball & Alfie Boe - Together at Christmas Pokemon Christmas Bash Slade - Crackers Smash Mouth - The Gift of Rock Sufjan Stevens - Songs for Christmas Train - Christmas in Tahoe Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve and Other Stories Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas

Not a very festive tune, but 'Bad Santa' is out today:

Last day to vote!

Out on Friday!

They tend to do places that don’t have another major festival, I can’t imagine they’ll do London again.

They’ve been climbing for the last few weeks - the series finale is out today, so they’ll be around for at least one more week.

EsDeeKid has definitely got to be in with a shot.

If they can playlist the likes of Sombr, Sam Fender, Gigi Perez, etc - Dua's new music definitely isn't too alt-pop for them (and I'm not sure I'd describe it as that).

Should this thread be in The Music Lounge these days, perhaps?

A video for 'Wild Woman' is out with the EP on Friday - so that'll be the second single.

More votes please!

They haven't yet, good shout though - although they haven't had many American rock bands nominated before. I think the last was HAIM in 2013! And they’re more on the indie pop side.

Semi 1: +25: 1975 - If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know) +24: 1975 - Somebody Else +23: Sam Fender – People Watching +22: Arctic Monkeys - Four Out of Five +21: Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out +20: Ghost - Mary On A Cross +19: Wet Leg - Chaise Longue +18: Djo - End of Beginning +17: Killers - The Man +16: Paramore - Hard Times +15: Glass Animals - Heat Waves +14: Zach Bryan - Something in the Orange +13: My Chemical Romance - The Foundations of Decay +12: Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still +11: Chemical Brothers (feat. Q-Tip) - Go +10: xx – On Hold +9: Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower +8: 5 Seconds Of Summer – Youngblood +7: Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams +6: Hozier - Take Me To Church +5: Kygo (feat. Conrad Sewell) - Firestone Semi 2: +25: 1975 - The Sound +24: Fontaines D.C. - Starburster +23: Blossoms - Charlemagne +22: Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better +21: Linkin Park - The Emptiness Machine +20: Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles +19: Måneskin - Zitti E Buoni +18: Marshmello & Bastille - Happier +17: Zach Bryan & Kacey Musgraves - I Remember Everything +16: Dominic Fike - 3 Nights +15: Anxiety - Meet Me At Our Spot +14: Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes +13: Harry Styles - Adore You +12: Harry Styles - Sign of the Times +11: Steve Lacy - Bad Habit +10: George Ezra - Paradise +9: Harry Styles - Late Night Talking +8: Fat Dog - King of the Slugs +7: Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance +6: MGMT - Little Dark Age +5: Metric - Doomscroller

+5: Rein Me In +4: Man I Need +3: So Easy (To Fall in Love) +2: Opalite +1: The Fate of Ophelia -1: Elizabeth Taylor -2: Golden -3: How It's Done -4: Where Is My Husband? -5: Raindance

I think it could be Geese’s year…

It won’t…

New releases I've saved so far this year: aron! (feat. Hohnen Ford) - cozy you (christmas) aron! - mother i'll be late Brad Paisley - Counting Down The Days Fall Out Boy - It Feels Like Christmas (Spotify Singles Holiday) Forrest Frank & JVKE - CHRISTMAS MORNING Jordan Davis - O Come All Ye Faithful (Spotify Singles Holiday) Jonas Brothers (feat. Kenny G) - Coming Home This Christmas Jonas Brothers - Time Lainey Wilson & Bing Crosby - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Lainey Wilson - Peace, Love, and Cowboys - Holiday Edition Laufey - Christmas Magic (new on all platforms) Laufey - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town Luke Bryan & Ella Langley - Winter Wonderland Old Crow Medicine Show - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Pentatonix - Christmas Movie Poppy - Last Christmas (Spotify Singles Holiday) The Pretty Reckless - Christmas Is Killing Me The Pretty Reckless - Where Are You Christmas? Punk Rock Factory.- Slay the Bells Ravyn Lenae - O Holy Night (Spotify Singles Holiday) Trisha Yearwood - Christmas Time Is Here Willie Nelson - Christmas Love Song Zach Top - Blue Christmas (new on all platforms)

Indeed. Catfish and the Bottlemen are technically a one-hit wonder with 'Longshot' - but that's absolutely not their only (or even by far their biggest) hit!

A video for 'Sail Away' has been released:

Voted!