End of Year Thoughts

Well, that’s the end of another year and what a year for music it’s been. Looking back, I’ve written twice as much as I have any other year with over 100 blogs published. That’s twice as many bands championed and hopefully as many new fans created.

Static Sounds Club exists for me to enthuse about music that excites me but this year, more than any other, I’ve begun to notice people are actually listening to my warbling’s. To those of you who’ve dropped me messages or left comments on my posts thank you so much. Sometimes I need a wee reminder of why I do this and you have been consistently there, giving me the nudge I need to start hammering the keyboard again,

My DKFM Radio show has been going from strength to strength, 2025 was the first year I have produced the full twelve shows. This speaks volumes about how focused I’ve been and how positive my mindset has been. Achieving a number two chart position on the Dream Pop and Shoegaze charts on Mixcloud has just been the icing on the cake. Let’s see if we can get a number one in 2026.

I thoroughly enjoyed looking back at 2025 over December with my advent calendar of the year’s best albums. Given I limited myself to 25 records there’s at least 75 missing from that list so if your bands album never appeared just know if I wrote about you, your music is amazing and you are appreciated!

Here’s to you dear reader, Happy New Year and I hope 2026 brings you all the joy and good fortune you richly deserve.

In case you missed it here’s my advent calendar of the year. See ya in 2026 where I’ll be writing about Calliere, Blanket, Baleen, Studio Kosmische and of course, the new album from Nothing!

1/ Kevin Atwater – Achilles

2/ Slow Crush – Thirst

3/ Cloth – Pink Silence

4/ Teethe – Magic of the Sale

5/ Hotline TNT – Raspberry Moon

6/ Guitar – We’re Heading To The Lake

7/ Cyanide Sisters – Cyanide Sisters

8/ The Miracle Seeds – Nuclear Watermelon

9/ Sister Ray Davies – Holy Island

10/ Midlake – A Bridge To Far

11/ Tvål – Tvål

12/ F.O. Machete – Mother of a Thousand

13/ Everything Else – Another One Making Clouds

14/ Throwing Muses – Moonlight Concessions

15/ Horsegirl – Phonetics On and on

16/ Great Grandpa – Patience, Moonbeam

17/ Goon – Dream 3

18/ Blankenberge – Decisions

19/ The Stargazer Lilies – Love Pedals

20/ Just Mustard – We Were Just Here

21/ Flock of Dimes – The Life You Save

22/ Tremours – Fragments

23/ Korb – Korb IV

24/ The Cords – The Cords

25/ Mogwai – The Bad Fire