The Listening Club - 2nd August 2026

Greetings folks,

Hope you're all doing okay - warm and sunny here in Amsterdam, but it's been a very quiet day, mainly due to a good chunk of the city being several shades of hungover following yesterday's Pride celebrations, which, being as Amsterdam is the city for this year's "World Pride", saw even more folks than usual decend on the city to party their asses off. And they certainly did. So today's a quiet day for most, myself included, apart from the folks over at Dekmantel, who are still bopping their way through the remainder of the weekend like the troopers they are (live stream of one of the stages here if you want a taste).

Last Sunday chez #LC, as it was the end of the month, therefore a #vortex, and this time a rather unusual #EarwormVortex was called for - could have been a painful listen, but many folks submitted some very pleasurable examples and the end result was highly enjoyable indeed. Thanks to all for submissions, and to @saucer for doing the expert assembly work.

Looking back, we see @ThatNewSound holding the frisb with this to say by way of introduction to today's pick...

"This one has been sitting in my back pocket for a few LC picks now and listening through my options for this time around it feels like just the right record to share. 

It comes from someone now recording under their own name after releasing a pretty banging series of records under a pseudonym. This stuff is decidedly less banging, in that their previous outfit was an occasionally pretty industrial electropop band and this is, well, not, though it certainly bangs in its own way. That said I think this album is incredibly tightly produced, a really great selection of sounds that you can tell have been diligently crafted. The track list flows really well and you'll also find a couple of surprise features. Ten points to the first person to shout it out. I hope you enjoy it. 

Drinking Club, get yourself a nice cup of tea or if you fancy something stronger maybe a nice Gin and Tonic."

Right then, download's here and the stream's below:

See yoiu 20:00 BST (GMT+1) later today.