14/01/2026
ANORAK CITY GOES CHRISTMAS + 2025 IN REVIEW
Anorak City invites you to the only festive year‑end show that admits two inconvenient truths: there are already hundreds of 2025 year‑in‑review specials, and Christmas is, in fact, long gone. Still, we’ll be merrily nostalgic and mildly smug about it — the smashing indie way to celebrate a year that sounded like a mixtape left in a sunbeam.
Expect a gentle avalanche of indie, indiepop, twee, bedroompop, janglepop and dreampop: the best albums that made us sigh, the singles that refused to leave our heads, and the hidden song treasures that only true anoraks remember. We’ll run through the year’s standout records, pick the songs that defined late‑night playlists, and assemble a cheeky little chart of the tracks you’ll pretend you discovered first.
Yes, there will be charts — annual, affectionate, and slightly opinionated — plus seasonal detours: lo‑fi carols, wistful synth wreaths, and the occasional sleigh‑bell sampled into a jangly guitar line. It’s a Christmas show for people who know the holiday ended weeks ago but still want to hear one more perfect chorus before January fully takes hold.
We’ll say it plainly: this is the best radio show of its kind. Not because we’re modest, but because we’ve curated it with the kind of obsessive love only anoraks possess. Tune in for warmth, wry commentary, and music that makes the end of 2025 feel like a very good beginning.
Playlist:
1.) Another Sunny Day - Anorak City
2.) Les Bicyclettes de Belsize - A Very Indie Christmas
3.) Babyshambles - Dandy Hooligan
4.) Brideshead - The Light I'm Running To
5.) Die Sterne - Ich nehme das Amt nicht an
6.) Silver Factory Superstars - Santa
7.) Manic Street Preachers - Dear Stephen
8.) The Perfect English Weather - London-By-The-Sea
9.) Die Liga der gewöhnlichen Gentlemen - Wenn Du ein Problem hast
10.) Knabenkraut - Hot Winter Rain
11.) The Divine Comedy - All The Pretty Lights
12.) Les Freluquets - Memorie
13.) Tocotronic - Golden Years
14.) The Streets - Brave St. Andrew
15.) Christian Steiffen - Du gehst niemals allein
16.) Die Liga der gewöhnlichen Gentlemen - Alleine auf Parties (Live)
17.) The Waterboys - Andy ( A Guy Like You)
18.) Dreamcoaster - Catch Me When I Fall
19.) Shame - Quiet Life
20.) Brian Bilston & The Catenary Wires - Alexa, What is There to Know About Love?
21.) Sylvie Kreusch - Cloud 9
22.) The Apartments - Another Sun Gone Down
23.) Matching Outfits - Ditch Me
24.) Comet Gain - Danbury Road
25.) James - Wake Up Superman
26.) Jens Lekman - On a Pier, On The Hudson
27.) Crucchi Gang (Sven Regener) - Mille Rose
28.) The Mary Onettes Official Facebook - Without This Body
29.) Florian Paul und Die Kapelle der letzten Hoffnung - Erstmal für Immer
30.) Deacon Blue - Turn Up Your Radio!
31.) Suede - Dancing With The Europeans
32.) Massage - When You Go
33.) Mega Ran, Kimya Dawson - Why Do People Go?
34.) The Apartments - A Handful Of Tomorrow
35.) Miss Allie - Die Kiste
36.) Telephonist - Gegen die Wand
37.) Herr Wade - Kongress der Pfefferkuchenmänner
38.) The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York
by Anorak City on hearthis.at | Indie, shoegaze, janglepop, bedroompop, Alternative, dreampo
