Category: Digital Music

2025x12 Playlist Artwork (photo: Ewan Spence AFAS Live, April 2025)

2025×12: My Favourite New Songs Of This Year

Posted on December 30, 2025January 2, 2026 by Ewan Spence

From crunchy power chords, through introspective gothic, to angry raging against the world and beyond, these are my twelve favourite music tracks released during 2025.

Mor Ve Otesi, SXSW (cc Flickr / Ewan Spence)

2024×12: My Favourite New Songs This Year

Posted on December 27, 2024November 19, 2025 by Ewan Spence

These are my twelve favourite music tracks released during 2024.

Studio 1 at Leith FM (cc Flickr/Ewan Spence)

Spotify Wrapped And The Need For Emotion

Posted on December 9, 2024December 9, 2024 by Ewan Spence

Spotify Unwrapped may offer a statistical look at your listening, but it can’t measure the emotional impact of music.

The 2023x12 nightclub dancefloor (bing.com / AI)

2023×12: My Favourite New Songs This Year

Posted on December 11, 2023January 1, 2024 by Ewan Spence

These are my twelve favourite music tracks released during 2023.

Red headphones artwork (Creative Commons)

2022×12: My Favourite New Songs This Year

Posted on December 19, 2022July 1, 2023 by Ewan Spence

These are my twelve favourite music tracks released during 2022.

Apple iPod Yellow Man Advert (www.apple.com)

Beware Of Streaming Music’s Emotional Lock-in

Posted on October 27, 2022July 25, 2023 by Ewan Spence

Apple Music is set to join other streaming music services by raising its monthly subscription. You should beware of the soft lock-in streaming music has created as it pushes your music behind a paywall you have no control over.