Toby Curl

Top Artists This Week (Jul 11 – Jul 17, 2025)

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 09:19:58 +0100

Sunset Valley – 15 plays
Bloc Party – 14 plays
Good Neighbours – 10 plays
Lone Striker – 10 plays
Downtown Binary – 9 plays

Top Artists This Week (Jul 4 – Jul 10, 2025)

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 11:58:11 +0100

The Long Winters – 34 plays
Anamanaguchi – 32 plays
Bloc Party – 21 plays
Red Hot Chili Peppers – 16 plays
Hard-Fi – 14 plays

Top Artists This Week (Jun 27 – Jul 3, 2025)

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 11:46:53 +0100

Weezer – 35 plays
Muse – 34 plays
Anamanaguchi – 24 plays
The Long Winters – 12 plays
Arctic Monkeys – 9 plays

All of the Anamanaguchi plays are the two singles from their upcoming album Anyway. Darcie which sounds like a good Weezer song and Magnet which is more rock. Both great.

Top Artists This Week (Jun 20 – Jun 26, 2025)

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 10:04:51 +0100

The Shins – 44 plays
Lone Striker – 33 plays
The Long Winters – 27 plays
Manic Street Preachers – 20 plays
Suede – 14 plays

Top Artists This Week (Jun 13 – Jun 19, 2025)

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:51:11 +0100

Weezer – 44 plays
Bloc Party – 20 plays
The Killers – 11 plays
Gorillaz – 10 plays
Western State Hurricanes – 10 plays

Top Artists This Week (Jun 6 – Jun 12, 2025)

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 12:08:00 +0100

The Long Winters – 27 plays
Western State Hurricanes – 10 plays
The Lemon Twigs – 8 plays
Anbuu – 6 plays
Towerz – 4 plays

Those last 2 are definitely from the Lofi Girl playlist.

Whitby

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 10:41:39 +0100

Had a lovely week in Whitby last week.

A lot of walking around the town and beaches, finding places to eat. You can’t go wrong with any of the fish and chip shops. We had great meals at Pizza West and Crocodile (tapas). Crocodile was such a small place and had the best atmosphere.

We spent a few hours at the museum one day. The whole place reminded me of the museum in Animal Crossing: old, quiet, and calm.

Top Artists This Week (May 23 – May 29, 2025)

Sat, 31 May 2025 09:44:13 +0100

Manic Street Preachers – 14 plays
Lone Striker – 12 plays
The Lemon Twigs – 12 plays
Anamanaguchi – 4 plays
Blur – 2 plays

Top Artists This Week (May 16 – May 22, 2025)

Mon, 26 May 2025 10:47:50 +0100

The Long Winters – 16 plays
The Killers – 13 plays
Lone Striker – 11 plays
Western State Hurricanes – 10 plays
Anamanaguchi – 7 plays

Top New Artist

Sleep Token – 6 plays

One of my friends has been recommending Sleep Token. I have only listened to a few but they are pretty good. Mostly not my kind of music though. Quite varied but a bit too metal for me (occasionally very shouty metal!). The tracks can also be a bit long as well.

Top Artists This Week (May 9 – May 15, 2025)

Wed, 21 May 2025 18:26:53 +0100

Weezer – 57 plays
Foo Fighters – 31 plays
Rifti Beats – 21 plays
Anamanaguchi – 15 plays
The White Stripes – 14 plays

Top Artists This Week (May 2 – May 8, 2025)

Mon, 12 May 2025 07:16:58 +0100

Gorillaz – 58 plays
The Long Winters – 34 plays
Arctic Monkeys – 25 plays
The Smiths – 20 plays
The Killers – 13 plays

Top Artists This Week (Apr 25 – May 1, 2025)

Sun, 04 May 2025 09:21:25 +0100

Lone Striker – 33 plays
Weezer – 33 plays
Lofi Tokyo – 26 plays
Semisonic – 16 plays
Modest Mouse – 15 plays

Top Artists This Week (Apr 18 – Apr 24, 2025)

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:39:19 +0100

Foo Fighters – 35 plays
Lone Striker – 11 plays
Oasis – 9 plays
Good Neighbours – 7 plays
Sex Bob-Omb – 4 plays

The Scott Pilgrim vs. the World soundtrack is very good.

Top Artists This Week (Apr 11 – Apr 17, 2025)

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 09:01:54 +0100

The Long Winters – 42 plays
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – 41 plays
Weezer – 34 plays
Lone Striker – 33 plays
Arctic Monkeys – 25 plays

Marathon Preview

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:31:22 +0100

Bungie always get me with their announcements and hype for upcoming releases and they showed off some Marathon gameplay last week. It does look excellent.

I play a lot of Destiny so I have no doubt the gameplay will feel brilliant but I don’t know if I will personally enjoy the extraction shooter part. It sounds stressful and potentially frustrating. My main fear is there will be a lot of being killed by invisible players out of nowhere if Destiny PvP is anything to go by. I will give it a go at least.

The cinematic they made is also extremely good.

Top Artists This Week (Apr 4 – Apr 10, 2025)

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:27:59 +0100

Lone Striker – 78 plays
Good Neighbours – 22 plays
Weezer – 22 plays
Manic Street Preachers – 18 plays
Modest Mouse – 16 plays

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:32:00 +0100

Top Artists This Week (Mar 28 – Apr 3, 2025)

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 10:26:17 +0100

Lone Striker – 55 plays
The Long Winters – 36 plays
Manic Street Preachers – 18 plays
Good Neighbours – 14 plays
Modest Mouse – 14 plays

I have had the Lone Striker album on again all week. It stuck in my head so much that when I went to buy it I ordered the vinyl as well!

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:39:57 +0100

Top Artists This Week (Mar 21 – Mar 27, 2025)

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:39:26 +0100

Good Neighbours – 63 plays
Lone Striker – 55 plays
The Long Winters – 34 plays
Rural France – 31 plays
Teenage Tom Petties – 29 plays

Really enjoying Starry Eyed by Good Neighbours this week along with their other songs.

Lone Striker’s album has also been at the top of my list to listen to most days. Dunno and Pinnochio are the two stand out tracks for me.

Top Artists This Week (Mar 14 – Mar 20, 2025)

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:34:01 +0100

The Shins – 44 plays
Arctic Monkeys – 42 plays
Weezer – 31 plays
Modest Mouse – 15 plays
Les Savy Fav – 13 plays

Top Artists This Week (Mar 7 – Mar 13, 2025)

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 11:01:04 +0100

Foo Fighters – 30 plays
The Long Winters – 27 plays
Red Hot Chili Peppers – 19 plays
Two Door Cinema Club – 12 plays
Death Cab for Cutie – 11 plays

Nothing exciting again this week. I had a few best alternative and indie playlists on.

Top Artists This Week (Feb 28 – Mar 6, 2025)

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 10:29:22 +0100

The Shins – 54 plays
The Long Winters – 35 plays
The Smiths – 29 plays
Spoon – 12 plays
Gorillaz – 11 plays

Top Artists This Week (Feb 21 – Feb 27, 2025)

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 11:28:06 +0100

Death Cab for Cutie – 23 plays
Protocols – 5 plays
Virtua & Akraa – 5 plays
Hotel Pools – 4 plays
Le Metroid – 4 plays

Barely listened to anything this week for some reason. Mostly had the Lofi playlists on (which include some of the artists at ranks 2-4 above).