In this episode, we count down a definitive Top 20 tracklist sourced straight from the music curators of the X timeline. We’re spinning everything from the kaleidoscopic, genre-shifting blog-rock of Animal Collective and the haunting, nocturnal synth-pop of Bat for Lashes, to the arena-sized alternative anthems of Kings of Leon and Depeche Mode. Finally, we build all the way down to the minimalist, nocturnal masterpiece from a group of south London teenagers that completely redefined the sound of the decade: The xx.
Broadcast 29 March 2026
Tracklist
- James — P.S. — Laid
- Animal Collective — My Girls — Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Manic Street Preachers — Jackie Collins Existential Question Time — Journal For Plague Lovers
- Radiohead — These Are My Twisted Words
- The Temper Trap — Sweet Disposition — (500) Days of Summer (Music from the Motion Picture)
- White Lies — Death — To Lose My Life...
- Doves — Kingdom Of Rust
- Editors — Papillon — In This Light and on This Evening
- Morrissey — I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris — Years of Refusal
- Thom Yorke — Hearing Damage
- Owl City — Fireflies — Ocean Eyes
- Kings Of Leon — Notion — Only By The Night
- P!nk — Please Don't Leave Me — Funhouse (Expanded Edition)
- Grizzly Bear — Ready, Able — Veckatimest
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Zero — It's Blitz! (Deluxe digital album)
- La Roux — Bulletproof — La Roux
- Bat For Lashes — Daniel — Two Suns
- Pet Shop Boys — More Than a Dream (2018 Remaster) — Yes: Further Listening 2008 - 2010 (2018 Remaster)
- Florence + the Machine — Cosmic Love — Between Two Lungs
- Depeche Mode — Wrong — Sounds of the Universe (Deluxe)
- The xx — Crystalised — xx
