Sounds of Nostalgia - melancholy to soothe your soul - October 2025
A soft collection of new releases for quiet days and slower evenings.
Featuring Beatrix, Serious Child, The Bros. Landreth, Ben Denny Mo, Ger Eaton, Victoria Staff, David Jane, Niall McNamee, and John Muirhead
sounds of nostalgia - melancholy to soothe your soul 🍂 Indie Folk /Pop · Chamber Pop · Folktronica
Songs that hold your hand through change, that bring comfort, that sound a little like the past and a little like hope.
Here are the ones that stayed with me this month:
Beatrix - Ghosts Of Tennessee
Photo credit: Rogue Bonaventura
Listening to Ghosts of Tennessee feels like finding an old photograph you'd forgotten you kept; faded but full of feeling. Beatrix's voice drifts through the song like smoke, with a gentleness that stays under your skin, floating over pedal steel and strings that feel almost like a memory humming in the background.
"Ghosts of you & me are wandering the grounds" - you can almost smell the autumn leaves and feel that eerie ache of something once loved, now gone. A song for autumn days when the air feels heavy with things left unsaid.
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Serious Child - Dusk on the 33’
There's something quietly cinematic about Dusk on the 33. It unfolds like a late-autumn afternoon viewed through a bus window; muted light, passing faces, stories untold.
Serious Child (Alan Young) turns an everyday scene into something transcendent: an old woman riding the bus to keep warm, her loneliness mirrored in the song's hypnotic piano lilt and orchestral melancholy.
Featuring contributions by David Grubb, Anna Perry, My Girl The River, and producer Chris Pepper, Dusk on the 33 is taken from his upcoming album What Lies Beneath (7th November) - an album that looks closely at the lives we pass every day but rarely see.
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The Bros. Landreth - Knuckles feat. Bonnie Raitt
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A quiet ache that feels both tender and redemptive runs through Knuckles. The Bros. Landreth and Bonnie Raitt breathe rare soul into this beautifully restrained piece, their voices intertwining like two old friends sharing one last, honest conversation.
It unfolds slowly, like the gentle letting go of something you still love. It's a song about grace in pain, and it lands like a healing injection straight to the heart; deeply compelling, profoundly human.
Taken from their forthcoming album Dog Ear, it's one of those moments where music feels like refuge.
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Ben Denny Mo - You & I
"You & I" from Ben Denny Mo's EP, The Norfkl Tapes, is a quiet jewel at its heart that turns heartache into something softly glowing. The song wrestles with the pain of letting go, and in its stripped-back beauty - just guitar and his emotive, raspy voice - it feels like being wrapped in a soft blanket on a crisp autumn evening; warm, intimate, and serene.
Listen to this late at night, when the world outside feels still.
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Ger Eaton - Hollow
Taken from Ger Eaton's debut album Season Changes, Hollow reflects on the pain of a love's ending, written during the final days of his marriage.
A graceful melancholy runs throughout the song that soothes rather than saddens. His voice trembles between sorrow and serenity, wrapped in lush, cinematic arrangements. Rather than mourning, it feels like acceptance, every note reminding you that even endings can feel gentle.
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Victoria Staff - Love Should Feel
Love Should Feel sounds like a moment of clarity - the one that comes when you finally remember what you deserve. Victoria Staff sings with warmth and simplicity, her voice glowing through soft indie-pop production that feels both tender and grounded.
It's about rediscovering love in its truest form: kind, real, and steady. One of those songs that quietly reminds you to be gentle with yourself.
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David Jane - Story of a Night
Story of a Night plays like a film you once lived through - fragments of memory, emotion, and time stitched into song. David recalls a fleeting love that somehow became everything: "I’ve come to realize that the story of my life is the story of a night with you".
His voice holds that bittersweet balance between remembering and moving on. No grand gestures, just the truth of how a single night can mark a lifetime, realizing that nostalgia doesn't always hurt - sometimes it just glows softly, like a scene you never wanted to end.
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Niall McNamee - Rose of Marylebone
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Niall McNamee's sunlit tune Rose of Marylebone from his latest album, Glass and Mirrors, is a tender and cheeky ballad wrapped in gentle guitars, and McNamee's lush storytelling as he recounts a bright romance.
"I fell in love with a girl from a really wealthy background" he explains. "And truthfully, I liked the disparity between us, I liked driving this princess in my shit van. I think I was her bit of rough for a bit".
The Celtic roots of the album overflow beneath the rhythm, wrapped in playful guitars and fiddle. This is the music you'd want playing in the background of a cozy pub, with friends, laughter, stories, and wine flowing freely.
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John Muirhead - Everything, Everywhere
Taken from his album The Nomad, John Muirhead's Everything, Everywhere feels like flipping through the pages of a love story you still can't close. With lines like "You're everything, everywhere, all of the time", he captures that pain of missing someone who's somehow still in every thought, every city light, every quiet space.
His voice carries both ache and affection, as if learning to live with what remains after love. A song that makes you pause mid-sip of coffee, remembering a name you don't say out loud anymore.
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About Eugenia Roditis
Eugenia's passion for music was ignited from an early age as she grew up in a family of musicians. She loves attending concerts and festivals, while constantly seeking fresh and exciting new artists across diverse genres. Eugenia joined the MusicnGear team in 2012.
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