This week’s Side Effects finds beauty in the in-between — where endings hum quietly and the season exhales its last warmth.

We’re leaning into the tender and the defiant with new sounds and familiar ghosts. Ash & Graham Coxon return with “Fun People” from the forthcoming Ad Astra (October 2025) — sharp, bittersweet, and irresistibly melodic — while Kingfishr’s “I Cried, I Wept” brings their emotive alt-folk into focus from Halcyon (August 2025).

They sit alongside a lineage of emotional heavyweights: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Morrissey, The Charlatans, Blur, Richard Hawley, Oasis, and Jeff Buckley — each adding their shade to this late-summer palette of longing, memory, and resolve.

From Velocity Girl’s bright ache to Dry Cleaning’s hypnotic tension, it’s a journey through the afterglow — the music you play when you’re not quite ready to turn the page.

Tune in and drift with us — the air’s still warm, the skies a little dimmer, but the feeling’s still alive.

As promised, we’re Making Mondays Happy Again!

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