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A Night Walk in The Underground Forest - December 2025

Welcome to A Night Walk in The Underground Forest - a series which highlights some of the best alternative underground music.

Featuring Aran Sheehy, Kate Nash, Bimini, Vitesse X,anni xo, Allegories, Patchwork Rattlebag,Genuine Leather, Swim Swim Naked & Madison Margot.

By Eimear O SullivanMusicngear Editor

This month's edition features: a glowing electronic song that has the dreamy cloudiness of the best 1990s electronic music; a song that is a rallying cry against the terrifying rise of TERFism; an ethereal song that sounds like a mermaid submerged under the artificial chlorine green of a public swimming pool; a song that feels like it is sprinkled with cinnamon; a song that feels like a glimpse into other realities with some early 00s subnautica vibes; a song that sounds like you are in a wooden cabin writing in your diary; a song that sounds like it is from the wilderness of the 2010s internet; and more!

A Night Walk in The Underground Forest 🌙  Synth Pop  • Electronic Pop  •  Alt Pop & Electronic

Sparkx - Aran Sheehy

Taken from the Irish artist’s debut album Overseer; this brings you into a shimmering meadow within your subconscious, with warm, house adjacent chords that bring to mind Deadmau5’s ‘Some Chords’ (albeit a very different vibe). This is gentle, cloud-like, and maintains its dreamy, otherworldly quality when the beat kicks in, making it all the more surreal. This is a glowing orb containing everything you loved about 1990s electronic music.

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GERM - Kate Nash (Bimini Remix)

Bimini’s remix of Kate Nash’s song GERM, an acronym that re-frames TERFS (trans-exclusionary feminists) as ‘Girl, Exclusionary, Regressive, Misogynist’, (which you can read more about here). Nash’s opening lines, “Girl/Listen up/ You’re not radical/You’re not rad at all” serve as a crucial reminder, that even though TERFS do try to paint themselves as somehow being rebels, they are in fact quite the opposite, upholding regressive and old fashioned ideas on gender, and, painting a minority group who simply want to exist, have human rights and have access to health care; as a group to be feared - a tactic that has been used by every oppressive establishment throughout history.

Bimini comes in with the lyrics ‘Moral panics about something so magic/As living authentically/Now darling that’s radical’. This song is ferocious, and will serve as a life force for people who feel like they have no voice to let them know that they can find community and safety in a world that feels hostile to their very existence and, most importantly, that they are not alone. 

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Vitesse X - Memori 

I was so happy to discover Vitesse X is back (thanks to the YouTube channel David Dean Burkhart, which I would highly recommend for new music). ‘Memori’ makes me think of a mermaid at a public swimming pool, her glittering sapphire tail shimmering underneath the artificial, chlorine green water.

This feels like somewhere between a dream and reality; it is a truly heavenly, slightly aquatic soundscape.

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RED EYE- anni xo

This feels like being in a cabin on a moonlit night, wrapped in a crochet blanket, writing in your diary. ‘RED EYE’, the newest song from queer musician anni xo, is a blend of alt-pop and dream pop, with some fun DIY elements that make it all the more immersive.

The chorus details ‘I wish I could fall in love/With the person I’ve become’, as a crystalline wall of heavenly, sugar-plum textures rise behind the lyrics, wrapping you up within it, like a duvet on a winter’s night.

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Mid Century Nothing - Allegories

ARTWORK CREDIT: DAVID DUNHAM

I have been very impressed with Allegories' recent releases, and this continues with ‘Mid Century Nothing’. This opens with gentle percussion, accompanied by a wave of electronic textures rising and falling. ‘Mid Century Nothing’ has an organic, thoroughly alive quality to it, like the electronic soundscape is flavored with the sounds of a biosphere. I like how it ebbs and flows, like the wind, and trusts the listener to follow them along on this journey, in a way that makes it feel deeply human.

On the song, the duo says, “It came from our ukulele songs and slowly turned into one of our weirdo electronic tracks," the duo shares. "We were about 85 percent of the way through arranging it when we decided to perform it at a winter festival. We don't play live very often – we've only done it twice in the last 10 years. Something about rehearsing and being on stage changes the way we approach the music. This song became more defiant, touched on what's happening in the world, and ended up way more assertive and confrontational than anything we made in the studio."

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Fragment 2 - Patchwork Rattlebag

This is taken from the album ‘Fragments 1’ from Salford electronica collective Patchwork Rattlebag. ‘Fragment 2’ feels like the rush of a train going by your face, blended with sounds that remind me of subnautical flavoured early 00s dance/electronic. This flows into disjointed vocals and percussion, making you feel like you are underwater (hence the subnautical reference).

It also kind of reminds me of some of the imaginative sonic landscapes from Björk, where you can’t fully tell what lies around each corner. 

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hold u close - Genuine Leather 

This new release from Texas artist Genuine Leather feels like you came across it in the unregulated wilderness that was the 2010s internet; a blend of deliciously smooth R&B blended with mish-mashed electronic textures that result in something thoroughly endearing and so much fun to listen to.

A creamy, velvety and thoroughly euphoric soundscape awaits you.

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Apple pie - Swim Swim Naked 

I absolutely love the music video for this, in which an apple pie is baked from scratch; it feels as if the music video itself is flavoured with cinnamon, as it radiates warmth and comfort.

‘Apple Pie’ is taken from the Budapest-based duo's new album ‘Sepiida’ (which you can buy here), opening with synths that bring to mind Mort Garson’s Mother Earth’s Plantasia in their playfulness, giving way to warm pads and a DIY electronic beat laced with blissful vocals.

I love the lyrics “Teach me to appreciate/That seasons change”.

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Madison Margot - But I Do 

The T-Shirt the artist is wearing in the above photo is merch that will donate all the profits to the LA Regional Food Bank for the month of December.

This new song from LA-based artist Madison Margot opens with gentle, warm textures, building to a bombshell of a chorus, which descends to you from the glittering pop heavens.

On the song, the artist says, "I wrote "But I Do" about emotional relapse. When you're feeling great and think you're fully healed, but then something happens that pulls you right back into the place you thought you outgrew. This song embraces that vulnerability and finds the beauty in letting yourself feel everything fully."

This is a resonant message; as the temptation is to shame yourself for feeling a certain way, which makes you feel so much worse. This song is an invitation to let go and just let yourself feel what you feel, as you are human after all.

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About Eimear O Sullivan

Eimear Ann O Sullivan is a multi-genre music producer, audio engineer and vocalist. After receiving a Masters in Music Technology from the CIT Cork School of Music, she went on to operate as a producer under the name Blakkheart. Her releases have received critical acclaim from Ireland's biggest music publications, such as District Magazine and Nialler9, alongside receiving heavy commercial radio airplay. She currently works in Cork recording studio Flashpoint CC. Previous clients of hers include the likes of Comedy Central’s Dragony Aunt star Candy Warhol, rapper Darce and Outsider YP. (Photo credit @Fabian Boros)

Contact Eimear O Sullivan at eimear.o.sullivan@musicngear.com

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