Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2026 - April Albums

• The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene
  
  1. IT'S THE LONG GOODBYE  (LP)   ...  The Twilight Sad  (Rock Action Records)
  2. MAYBE NOT TONIGHT  (LP)  ...  Lime Garden  (So Young Records)
  3. BIRDING  (LP)  ...  Deary  (Bella Union)
  4. ALL CLOUDS BRING NOT RAIN  (LP)  ...  Memorials  (Fire Records)
  5. PAIN WILL POLISH ME  (LP)  ...  New German Cinema  (Felte)
  6. MY NEW BAND BELIEVE  (LP)  ...  My New Band Believe  (Rough Trade)
  7. GROWTH  (LP)  ...  Wildernesses  (Floodlit Recordings)
  8. A WAVE THAT WILL NEVER BREAK  (LP)  ...  WU LYF  (LYF Recordings) 
  9. THIS IS...THE BLUEBELLS  (LP)  ...  The Bluebells  (Last Night From Glasgow)
  10. IN A SPACE OUTTA DUB  (LP)  ...  Nightmares On Wax vs Adrian Sherwood  (Warp)
  11. I SURE AM GETTING SICK OF THIS BOWLING ALLEY  (LP)  ...  Mclusky  (Ipecac Recordings)
  12. DOUBLE EXPOSURE  (LP)  ...  Penny Arcade  (Tapete Records)
  13. THE ENTERTAINMENT  (LP)   ...  The Clockworks  (V2) 
  14. UNHOLY DRUM  (LP)  ...  Cult Of Dom Keller  (Fuzz Club Records)
  15. MURMURS  (LP)  ...  Butler, Blake & Grant  (355 Recordings)
  16. AD.UN.IAD  (LP)  ...  Rhydian Dafydd  (Rhydian Dafydd)
  17. DAPS IN A WASHING MACHINE  (LP)  ...  Stanways  (Stanways)
  18. BRONTËS  (LP)  ...  Brontës  (Last Night Glasgow)
  19. CASH RICH  (LP)  ...  Snake Eyes  (Alcopop! Records)
  20. SMILE  (LP)  ...  Thrillhouse  (Spirit Of Spike Island)
  
  Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for April 2026 

Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2026 - April Singles

• The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene
  
  1. SLICED BY A FINGERNAIL ...  Dry Cleaning  (4AD)
  2. CULT OF CELEBRITY  ...  Lambrini Girls  (City Slang)
  3. TEARS WON’T LIE  ...  Brooke Combe  (Fontana Records)
  4. QUEENS OF HIGHGATE EP  ...  Gifthorse  (Fitzroy Square Recordings)
  5. SHE FLIES  ...  Waterpistol  (Waterpistol)
  6. IN THE MUD / FIRING LINE  ...  The Slow Country  (Heist or Hit Records)
  7. ONLY FREE WHEN SLEEPING  ...  Big Special  (SO Recordings)
  8. BOOTS ON THE GROUND  ...  Massive Attack feat Tom Waits  (PIAS Recordings)
  9. VENDETTA  ...  Temples  (V2 Records)
  10. ISLAND OF ONE  ...  Miki Berenyi Trio  (Bella Union)
  11. THE FALL  ...  Theatre  (ECHO)
  12. NOSEDIVE   ...  Man/Woman/Chainsaw  (Fiction Recordings)
  13. TAPE 05  ...  Boards of Canada  (Warp)
  14. TURNING IN  ...  Life  (EMI North) 
  15. CRASH LANDING   ...  Mary In The Junkyard  (AMF Records)
  16. I HAD A BABY NOT A LOBOTOMY  ...  The Anchoress  (Last Night From Glasgow)
  17. SNAPDRAGON  ...  Sandhouse  (Broke Records)
  18. DOG  ...  Grandmas House  (Brace Yourself Records)
  19. HOMECOMING  ...  These Sleeping Hands  (These Sleeping Hands)
  20. THESE THINGS TAKE TIME EP  ...   Goodbye  (Goodbye) 
  
  Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for April 2026 

Let's Make Plans For The Weekend! Show tracks for Sat. May 2/26

• english teacher & graham coxon - parasite
  arlo parks - floette
  blood wizard - lucky life
  -----    
  good day father - carving bones
  winter gardens - adored
  sunday (1994) - silver ford
  gifthorse - stranger baby
  gently tender - wild in the uplands
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  morn - the standard model
  divil - thanks  a million
  basht. - perfume
  simple minds - chelsea girl
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  cq wrestling - finish line
  tooth - restless in bloom
  mouth ulcers - closer to you
  -----northern soul spotlight
  righteous brothers band - rat race
  bobby hebb - you want to change me
  charles wright - keep saying (you don't love nobody)
  the millionaires - never for me
  jamo thomas - i spy (for the fbi)
  -----lp session - martin carr      What Future    
  martin carr - canton rockers
  martin carr - in the hall
  martin carr - new brighton baths 1983
  martin carr - what future
  -----
  beth orton - waiting
  the slow country - firing line
  brown horse - comeback loading
  jjerome87 - track and field
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  carla j easton - let's make plans for the weekend
  heavenly - skep wax
  brontës - thelma and louise
  the lilacs - girl behind the bar
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  night swimming - nothing safe is technicolour
  lotusbliss - animal
  so, reverie - days go by
  inspiral carpets - mermaid
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  blossoms - joke about divorce
  big truck - central reservation blues
  aka - it grows on trees (money)
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  panda bear and sonic boom - graveyard
  tricky - out of place feat marta
  heroic mr kemmer - horizon
  widget - what if phones but too much
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  a.a. williams - poison
  my new band believe - numerology
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  flea - traffic lights feat thom yorke
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20260502-2100-t1777752000.mp3 

Silent Disco! Show tracks for Sat. Apr. 25/26

• waterpistol - she flies
  bleach lab - my favourite game
  deary - alma
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  gifthorse - silent disco
  saint sappho - between the lines
  the slow country - in the mud
  westside cowboy - don't throw rocks
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  massive attack - boots on the ground feat tom waits
  big special - only free when sleeping
  holybones - slugboy feat baxter dury
  heavy lungs - godkiller
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  the anchoress feat gwenno - i had a baby not a lobotomy
  railcard - born in '62
  lunge - milky pinks feat neil halstead
  disgusting sisters - weirdo magnet
  -----northern soul spotlight    
  ronnie walker - you're the one
  toni basil - breakaway
  madeleine bell - picture me gone
  kelly garrett - love is the only answer
  cobblestones - trick me, treat me
  -----lp session - the bluebells    This Is...The Bluebells    
  the bluebells - what i see up on the roof
  the bluebells - indian summer
  the bluebells - see what the morning brings
  the bluebells - art school
  the bluebells - in our time
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  temples - vendetta
  boards of canada - tape 05
  warm coat - expert
  the itch - no more sprechgesang
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  white flowers - heart breaks
  the tears - refugees
  gay dad - to earth with love
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  lime garden - lifestyle
  prima queen - crumb
  manic street preachers - a design for life
  jesus and mary chain - april skies
  -----lp session - penny arcade     Double Exposure    
  penny arcade - regrets
  penny arcade - you've got the key
  penny arcade - time
  penny arcade - we used to be good friends
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  man/woman/chainsaw - nosedive
  wings of desire - just to survive
  theatre - the fall
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  nightmares on wax vs adrian sherwood - on the seven seas dub
  the clash - magnificent seven
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  graham coxon - billy says
  deathcrash - wrong to suffer
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20260425-2100-t1777147200.mp3 

Sleeper In Metropolis! Show tracks for Sat. Apr. 18/26

• punchbag - pile of clothes
  bis - sweetshop avenger
  shampoo - viva le megababes
  kenickie - in your car
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  the would-be-goods - dance monkey dance
  brontës - wouldn't be mine
  lost signal and the happy somethings - falling and rising
  thrillhouse - the tide
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  newdad - kick the curb
  new german cinema - water drops
  silk - auralux
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  modern woman - johnny's dreamworld
  grandmas house - dog
  life - turning in
  conscious pilot - human poultry
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  brooke combe - tears won't lie
  jungle - carry on
  hollie cook - dub me in your arms
  nightmares on wax vs adrian sherwood - on purpose
  -----lp session - lime garden     Maybe Not Tonight    
  lime garden - cross my heart
  lime garden - body
  lime garden - undressed
  lime garden - always talking about you
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  my new band believe - in the blink of an eye
  wu lyf - robe of glory
  rhydian dafydd - unravelling
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  gang of four - no kings here!
  sleaford mods feat aldous harding - elitist g.o.a.t. (the prodigy acid thunder remix)
  just mustard - endless deathless (daniel avery remix)
  snake eyes - no cars
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  these sleeping hands - homecoming
  modern english - mesh & lace
  julian cope - spacehopper
  -----lp session - cult of dom keller     Unholy Drum    
  cult of dom keller - live without life
  cult of dom keller - shoot my mind
  cult of dom keller - galaxies sos
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  marseille - hallelujah (my baby's free)
  world news - sidestep
  pynch - revolve around you
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  primal scream - kill all hippies
  massive attack - safe from harm feat shara nelson
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  anne clark - sleeper in metropolis (extended remix)
  seefeel - until now
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20260418-2100-t1776542400.mp3 

• pva - enough
  mandy, indiana - ist halt so
  cranes - here comes the snow
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  gently tender - a mound a field
  butler, blake & grant - planets
  stay lunar - metro song
  blood red shoes - screams
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  dry cleaning - sliced by a fingernail
  lambrini girls - cult of celebrity
  tv for cats - where did the time go?
  ugly ozo - jackpot
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  kasabian - great pretender
  y - duplicate
  divorce attorney - blind eye
  1000 rabbits - rubik's cube
  -----northern soul spotlight    
  wynder k frog - green door
  the flamingos - boogaloo party
  bob brady - more, more, more of your love
  the ambers - potion of love
  the formations - at the top of the stairs
  -----lp session - deary      Birding
  deary - baby's breath
  deary - blue ribbon
  deary - garden of eden
  deary - terra fable
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  wu lyf - the fool
  wildernesses - (dread)
  martial arts - too much fun
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  the boo radleys - bring them back again
  slaney bay - that's cool
  my precious bunny - kookie cannibal
  peiriant - velfed
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  keeley - seeing for the last time
  doves - here it comes
  the chameleons - in shreds
  -----lp session - the clockworks   The Entertainment    
  the clockworks - getaway car
  the clockworks - the actor
  the clockworks - through the looking glass
  the clockworks - true romance
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  the bug club - yours (if you want me)
  breakup haircut - the algorithim is trying to kill me
  bedroom tax - week after next
  getdown services - the radiator
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  opus kink - come one over, do me wrong
  black rebel motorcycle club - spread your love
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  beth orton - the ground above
  ladytron - heatwaves
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20260411-2100-t1775937600.mp3 

Cold Call On The Hot Line! Show tracks for Sat. Apr. 04/26

• heavenly - deflicted
  the suncharms - a snowstorm
  the orielles - tiny beads reflecting light
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  beth gibbons - sunday morning
  mary in the junkyard - crash landing
  the dandy warhols - she sells sanctuary (cult cover)
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  strawberry switchblade - spanish song (don't go)
  stanways - wishing
  bikini mutants - empty
  the femcels - indiest girl at school
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  blueboy - stardust
  miki berenyi trio - island of one
  the loft - campervan
  cubzoa - choked
  -----northern soul spotlight
  jerry butler - moody woman
  julian covey & the machine - a little bit hurt
  alfie davison - love is a serious business
  don covay - it's better to have (and don't need)
  jimmy cliff - waterfall
  -----lp session - the twilight sad     It's The Long Goodbye    
  the twilight sad - inhospitable/hospital
  the twilight sad - chest wound to the chest
  the twilight sad - tv people still throwing tvs at people
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  waterpistol - she flies
  sandhouse - snapdragon
  child of prague - cooley's reel
  goodbye - take time
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  trashcan sinatras feat traceyanne campbell - bad husband
  embrace - stop
  the hanging stars - the glasshouse
  chartreuse - enough to make you laugh
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  warm coat - slowly fade
  new german cinema - eyes
  lime garden - age of consent (abbey road session)
  overpass - heaven
  -----lp session - memorials    All Clouds Bring Not Rain    
  memorials - mediocre demon
  memorials - bell miner
  memorials - watching the moon
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  bugeye - comfortably numb
  davey woodward - we are leaving you
  carla j easton - really, really, really, really, sad
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  pulp - cold call on the hot line
  yttling jazz & bobby gillespie - strange
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  the rifles - local boy
  thin lizzy - emerald
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20260404-2100-t1775332800.mp3