/Countdown /2025 /Tracks
Continuing the /amodelofcontrol.com review of 2025 – which this week is the twentieth /Tracks of the Year list on this site. Next week will be the wrap of the best albums of 2025.
Author: adam
/Countdown /2025 /Compilations & Re-issues
Welcome to /Countdown/2025 – this year’s wrap-up of the best new music that I’ve heard across the year, and the 22nd year of me starting to do such annual roundups (which began on LiveJournal before moving to this site). I begin as usual, with the best compilations and reissues in no particular order, although it […]
/Welcome to the Future /299 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 28-Nov 2025
We’re at the end of the year, nearly, and so my annual roundup of the best music of the year, in the form of /Countdown /2025, begins on Tuesday. As usual there will be four posts across four Tuesdays in December, looking at (in turn) the best compilations and reissues, then the best tracks, best […]
/Tuesday Ten /615 /All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit
Yes, it’s the last days of November, yes, it’s one month until Christmas today, and yes, this is the last /Tuesday Ten of 2025.
/Tuesday Ten /614 /There’s No Future In Optimism
By a quirk of fate, I wrote a /Tuesday Ten on positivity eleven years ago today, and a late change of plan over the weekend as to what subject I was going to write about meant that I settled on pessimism, without realising the significance of it.
/Tuesday Ten /613 /No Medicine For Regret
Regret is a funny human condition, isn’t it? The concept that you can obsess over past mistakes, when you can do little or nothing other than acknowledge what happened, apologise and move on.
/Welcome to the Future /298 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 07-Nov 2025
An avalanche of new releases this past few weeks, making my upcoming end of year lists even harder to compile… This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a catchup of what I’ve posted […]
/Tuesday Ten /612 /Tracks of the Month /Oct-25
The last /Tracks of the Month of the year has come around quickly – from the beginning of December, of course, I’ll be posting /Countdown /2025 over four weeks as I look at the best music of the year.
/Tuesday Ten /611 /Denial Is A River
Denial can take many forms. It can be public denials, it can be denials to friends and lovers, it can be denial to yourself.
/Tuesday Ten /610 /Keep It Clean
After last week’s filth and dirt, let us wipe the slate and this week, clean things up.
/Welcome to the Future /297 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 17-Oct 2025
A few more weeks closer to the end of the year, and we’re now starting to see new releases for 2026 announced already… This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a catchup of […]
/Tuesday Ten /609 /Filthy Underneath
In the latest instalment of “why didn’t I consider this subject before?”, this week and next cover twin subjects that I’m genuinely surprised that it took this long to think about.
/Tuesday Ten /608 /Tracks of the Month /Sep-25
Blimey, 2025 is flashing by. I’m now just two months out from /Countdown /2025 beginning (the best music of the year on /amodelofcontrol.com), and so I’m now seriously considering what the best of the year actually is.
/Tuesday Ten /607 /In This Together
This week’s post has been written from our remote cottages in the East Hampshire countryside, where we’re staying for the week with friends.
/Welcome to the Future /296 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 26-Sep 2025
Bloody hell, there’s a lot going on at the moment: an avalanche of new releases, and new release announcements, recently. This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a catchup of what I’ve posted […]
/Tuesday Ten /606 /I Pity Inanimate Objects
This is another of those /Tuesday Tens where the original inspiration for asking about this subject is likely lost to time. But, just to make sure we know what we’re talking about: “A living thing may be an object, and is distinguished from non-living things by the designation of the latter as inanimate objects. Inanimate […]
/DJ /Guest /108 /Bruise Violet
Back at Bruise Violet for another fun night.
/Tuesday Ten /605 /Kitchen
Sometimes, I ask for submissions on a subject that I think will have loads of easy-to-use suggestions, and the reality is rather different: and so, it gets shelved for a while until the right time to use it comes up. This subject was one of those.
/Tuesday Ten /604 /Eat It
This is one of the rare times where I’m returning to a subject. I first wrote about food (and drink) on /Tuesday Ten /124, way back in March 2011, but the more I thought about it, the more I realised that most of the songs that I’d used at the time were barely about food, […]
/Welcome To The Future /295 /Events, Livestreams and New Releases 05-Sep 2025
It is the first Bandcamp Friday of the autumn, and don’t I know about it, judging on the groaning inbox this morning, and the large number of releases and release announcements recently. Also, the events page has had a significant revamp (links below). This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and […]