Tangled

PLAYLIST

The December Collection

By David Rea

13 December 2025

Photo: Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabon / Unsplash


Every month, having scoured open mic nights, local radio airwaves and the deepest corners of the Internet, we publish a playlist of under-the-radar talent. This is your portal to the best music from the evergreen grassroots.

Tangled The December Collection is an album-length playlist for intentional listening, which evokes the atmosphere, weather and flavours of the final month of the year. The Bookshop Band fill their small room sound with fireside warmth, Adrian Crowley explores the icy expanses outside misted windows and the delicious subtlety of Chantal Acda and James Yorkston should be savoured like fine wine. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

Tracklist

1. ‘Brother Was a Runaway’, Adrian Crowley

2. ‘The Whale’, Chantal Acda

3. ‘The Night We Came to Wigtown’, The Bookshop Band

4. ‘Measure of Joy’, Adrian Crowley

5. ‘Faith in the Weather’, The Bookshop Band

6. ‘Tangled’, Adrian Crowley

7. ‘Summer Song’, James Yorkston

8. ‘Why I Travel this Way’, The Bookshop Band

9. ‘Hit the Verge’, Chantal Acda

10. ‘I Awoke’, James Yorkston

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