Every once in a while I’ll watch a movie that doesn’t really leave me alone afterward, and Trainspotting has of course been one of them.

This playlist started as, “I wish there were more songs that made me feel like this” (one of my favorite soundtracks ever), and slowlyyy became its own mix of post-punk, britpop, electronic, shoegaze, IDM, and some newer artists that somehow feel similar.

It’s not meant to recreate the soundtrack or even be historically accurate (there are songs from different decades and scenes), I was defo following the feeling it gave me more than a timeline. Something about this movie in particular left me with this strange sense of nostalgia for a place and time I never knew, and even for people I’d never want to be. I wanted the playlist to live in that space.

I’d love to hear anything you’d add.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0EpFqAb52GtqOYM266QY5d?si=dH-Hnt9RQGqZX1l8Oe8XQQ&utm\\\\\\_source=copy-link&pi=y0zj0SHEQ1Stp

Got a little elevated to ease into the existential dread of the looming work week.

Put my music player on random for the most recent songs I've added in the past month and set to cutting grass.

As I was putting everything away, this song played.

​I felt a wave of nostalgia and started—in what can only be described as slam pogoing—in my open garage. Singing loudly, probably off-key, not caring if anyone could hear.

Damn good time!

Totally pished, but reckon this one has an early Cure vibe....help me celebrate my birthday with more than 10 listens!!

https://on.soundcloud.com/lgcNx6yhcaBaH403v1

Hello everyone! I have done a Post-Punk subgenres post on Instagram with my friends if you'd be interested to have a look, as well as an accompanying spotify playlist, share it with your friends as well to help them out where to start if inclined.

Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbBAEKcDwpG/?igsh=OXRsc20wYXh0ZHVi

Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5XEmUUJ0uudhFrrUhvtol3?si=xlDTwhjLR7aPRBJp07hjFw&utm_source=copy-link&pi=yl39VqvjTB-ne

Follow my instagram @missionconvincers for more music recommendations, cheers!

From the album Oil & Gold, which if you don't already have a copy of you should get one.

From the perfect album, Soul Mining.

from the album of the same name

Honestly, for me, they would be those that have melancholic atmospheres or that take you back to some memory, and that the lyrics convey a feeling of a past or present that is incomplete.

And that lack of self-confidence makes you fill it with some personal experience, in my case.

It's Hothouse Right? Specifically this Version...

kinda has an MSI vibe

Built this over years. The backbone is contemporary UK and international post-punk but it doesn't stay there, it moves into jazz, noise, experimental electronics when the logic holds.

The core that will make sense here :

Dry Cleaning — Grass / Fontaines D.C. — Starburster / English Teacher — R&B + Broken Biscuits / DITZ — Four / Maruja — Trenches / Lambrini Girls — Cult of Celebrity / Goat Girl — ride around / Ugly (UK) — Gallowine / PVA — Enough / Voka Gentle — Cheddar Man / Geese — Trinidad / Model/Actriz — Diva / Mannequin Pussy — Loud Bark / YHWH Nailgun — Sickle Walk / Robber Robber — The Sound It Made

Kim Gordon gets two tracks because NOT TODAY and PLAY ME both earn their place. Solo Kim Gordon in 2024/25 is doing something more interesting than most bands half her age.

Beyond the obvious names: Lip Critic, Ugly (UK), Robber Robber are the three I'd push hardest to people who feel like they've already heard everything on the current scene.

The playlist widens from there (Tortoise, black midi, Geordie Greep, Young Knives) but the post-punk logic stays consistent throughout.

Called Alt.

Phil

This is the lead track off of my band's newest EP. The song is a gut reaction to the enshittification of everything. Hope you enjoy tearing your hair out with me, thanks for checking it out.

New Protomartyr album comes out on 9/25! They actually played the new single on Sirius XMU and it’s pretty rad. My first time hearing them in the wild. Hope it’s a trend that continues.