October 2025 (Part 3)

My friends, it's time to discuss the final nine songs that were added to the official Horse Combinations October 2025 playlist, a mix of cool new releases and classic older tracks that I listened to and loved at some point last month. Here's parts one and two if you missed those, otherwise we'll get right down to business:

Daily Toll - “Mountain Song”
Just some classic indie rock from Australia, I’m always gonna go for someone sing/speaking oblique lyrics over cowboy chords and a Pavement ass guitar line.

Edna Lee - “You Can’t Decieve Me”
One of the coolest songs from Numero Group's overall very good new Barnyard Beehive comp, which collects a bunch of forgotten singles from aspiring country divas recorded in the 1960s and 70s. Really charming stuff from start to finish!

Benjamin Sauzereau REMORQUE - “Limite”
A very nice track from Belgian composer Benjamin Sauzereau’s ongoing REMORQUE project. This latest iteration features Sauzereau incorporating a pedal steel into swirling arrangements for strings and acoustic guitar.

Les McCann - “Beaux J. Poo Boo”
Got a care package from Dylan a few weeks ago that included a copy of Les McCann’s awesome spiritual jazz/fusion LP Invitation to Openness, a collaboration with jazz legends like Bernard Purdie, Alphonse Mouzon, and Yusef Lateef. I threw “Beaux J. Poo Boo” on this month’s mix mostly because the incredible title track is like 26 minutes long and it felt rude to drop something of that length into a playlist 3/4ths of the way through.

bloodsports - “Rot”
This new album from NYC’s bloodsports synthesizes a bunch of different types of guitar music I like into a pretty enthralling listen. The dissonance and crushing heaviness of the Spartan shoegaze tune “Rot” is really doing it for me as the weather turns.

Parts Work - “Clowd”
Loving the new EP from Frances Quinlan’s new band Parts Work! On a recent listen the handmade feel of the production and crazy vocal processing effects on “Clowd” really stood out to me, but all four tracks on this too brief release are bangers.

Posse - “Trapped”
Posse is probably the most obscure band I’d also call one of my favorite bands ever. Three brainy, sad weirdos from the Pacific Northwest teamed up to see what would happen if Yo La Tengo was also Galaxie 500 and the result is some of the greatest music ever recorded. “Trapped” is the final track from their final release, 2017’s Horse Blanket, a softspoken and spare exit for a band that should be a hundred times more popular than they are.

Snocaps - “Cherry Hard Candy”
For me, the best record from either Crutchfield sister is the first Swearin’ album, so I was pretty happy to see that Allison Crutchfield is back making music, sharing songwriting duties in Snocaps with her sister Katie, accompanied by ringers Brad Cook and MJ Lenderman. “Cherry Hard Candy” was an immediate standout when listening through the new record over the last week or two, a stomping, anthemic ramble that’s admittedly closer to vintage Waxahatchee than the sugary pop punk of those early Swearin’ songs.

Eve Matin - “Pilgrimage”
The new Eve Matin record is a pretty out there and surprisingly abrasive listen for a release from titans of the LA new age scene Leaving Records. Culled from an hourlong improvisation, TRANSMUTANCIA captures Matin’s intuitive and cerebral approach to the harp, ranging from tactile soundscapes like opening track “Azam and Eve” to sparkling compositions like “Pilgrimage,” built in real time through a series of loops and effects pedals.

Check the full October 2025 playlist below and stay tuned for some November songs soon!