06/01/2026
Cool lists made by cool humans
Thank you Operation X-RAY
OPERATION XRAY EP 211 - Jan 3, 2026
BEST OF 2025 POST PUNK EDITION
4hrs05m30s - 67 songs - Intro plus 6 Chapters
LINK: https://on.soundcloud.com/btNYKLbO07uNJSJ2FL
Song of the Year: 0hr11m20s
Blue Youth “Patient Patient”
Album: Defeatist
(April 15, 2025) Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Zegema Beach Records The Ghost Is Clear Records
Vo**ur “The Burden Of Desire”
Album: The Burden Of Desire
(Nov 5, 2025) NY, NY, USA
Spares “Grease Stains”
Album: Spares
(Feb 14, 2025) Portland, Oregon, USA
Album Of The Year: 0hr23m41s
Care Home “Stained Glass”
Album: For Nothing
(April 25, 2025) Leeds, UK
Belted Sweater
“More Rack Toms (than people in the audience)“
Album: S/T cassetteLP
(Feb 22, 2025) LA, CA, USA
Softseed Music
University “Diamond Song”
Album: McCartney, It'll Be OK
(June 20, 2025) Crewe, UK
Albums of The Year (Double Trouble): 0hr38m12s
Sentries “Charmed Houses”
Album: Gem of the West
Album: Gem of the West (Disc 2)
Nape Neck “The Shallowest End”
Album: The Shallowest End (Sept 2025)
Album: S/T (Mar 2025)
Comp Of The Year: 0hr44m31s
Album: Farther Than Ever Before - A tribute to Transatlanticism
Drought “Death Of An Interior Designer (Death Cab for Cutie Cover)”
(March 7, 2025) CA, USA - Iodine Recordings
Chapter 1 - 0hr47m18s
1. Water Margin “Plague Runner”
2. Cure For Youth “The Trap”
3. Vexations - Edinburgh “Let Me In”
4. This Is Wreckage “Truncheon”
5. Stratford Rise “Gunshow”
6. Unstable Shapes “You’ve Been Selected To Become Bones”
7. Gloin “controlfreak69”
8. FACS “You Future”
9. Crowd Of Chairs “The Watcher”
10. Corker “Distant Dawn”
Chapter 2 - 1hr23m38s
11. Hubert Selby Jr. Infants “Jail Money”
12. Makeshift Art Bar “Sonic Shelf”
13. Heet Deth “King of Swords”
14. Bambara “Pray To Me”
15. DITZ “Space Smile”
16. Alpha Hopper “Night’s Calling”
17. Haunted Horses “Grey Eminence”
18. Die Spitz “American Porn”
19. Last Waltzon “Fat Piss”
20. Marcel “basho basho basho”
Chapter 3 - 1hr56m34s
21. Model/Actriz “Cinderella”
22. SOWT “One More Fu***ng Love Song”
23. Lifeguard “It Will Get Worse”
24. Strange Pink “My Friend And You”
25. KLAMP “Wet Leather“
26. Chemical Bank “Go With the Faux”
27. Heavy Lungs “Call It In”
28. Lung “The Mattress”
29. AAA Gripper “Wasp Women”
30. Taxidermy “Impending”
Chapter 4 - 2hr32m32s
31. GUCK “Gubar”
32. Force Model “Barricade”
33. Murina “Sugar Free”
34. KNIVES “Rhinestone Cowboy”
35. Thought Partner “Nub City”
36. Pleasure Dome “Nightwatcher”
37. No Hoper “Trait Maps”
38. Docents “Double Fantasy”
39. Chore “Cowards Can”
40. Virgin Mother “Limp Condition”
Chapter 5 - 3hr04m18s
41. Wife “Wish On A Number”
42. Bloodsports “Anything Can Be A Hammer”
43. TV Face “Get What We’re Given”
44. Midnight Peg “Swallow”
45. Blood Cookie “Out At Sea”
46. Humour “Neighbors”
47. Frana “Ferns With Benefits”
48. Pile “Born At Night”
49. Computer “Concrete Ships”
50. Flender “Wasp Salad”
Chapter 6 - 3hr40m00s
51. GI JINX “My Secret Passion“
52. Editrix “The Big E”
53. Spite House “Ashen Grey”
54. Marrowbone “The Chase, The Sweat, The Fear”
55. No Violet “Migraine”
56. YHWH Nailgun “Iron Feet”
57. Baxter No One “Death Trips”
58. PONS “Knuckolas”
LINK: https://on.soundcloud.com/btNYKLbO07uNJSJ2FL
