RALLY's Festive Digest
A digital digest to glide you through the Holidays - whatever your mood or motive.
Dive into a selection of albums, mixes, reads, podcasts and radio shows we’ve been enjoying lately to guide you into the Holidays. Chosen to suit whatever mood or motive you find yourself in this holiday season.
Self Soothe with Marg.mp3 on NTS Radio (weekly)
A weekly listen for us here in the RALLY office. Settle in for weekly shows from friend of the festival Margeaux aka @marg.mp3, soothing with an hour of selections, offering an eclectic range of sounds old and new.
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Blood Orange — Essex Honey (2025)
Dev Hynes at his most reflective. Goes without saying - our album of the year!
Mount Kimbie for RALLY on NTS Radio (2024)
A RALLY favourite, revisited.
NTS Guide to: Synthmas
Bored of the Xmas classics? Oscillating your festive frequencies with this NTS Christmas synthesiser special.
Live from Visionaire at RALLY 2025
One of our favourite DJ sets from this summer’s festival: Vlada’s signature hypnotic grooves closing out a day beneath the trees on Visionaire. We’ve also released Courtesy and Sophie McAlister’s sets from this year, with more special recordings dropping in the new year.
No Tags Podcast
A podcast and newsletter from Chal Ravens and Tom Lea. Expect deep dives and nuanced discussion on underground music and subcultures. Kickstart with - what the hell was indie sleaze?!
Nourished by Time – The Passionate Ones
A stand-out 2025 album from an artist who graced our Agnes stage back in ‘24.
Sugababes — Christmas (NTS Special)
Who remembers Two Shell dropping their Sugababes remix of Round at Agnes at RALLY 2024?! Their homage to one of the 00s’ most iconic girl groups had us all moving — and this NTS Christmas special is not to be missed.
Blood Orange — 6 Music Live Session
A recent live session worth tucking into. Dev joins Lauren Laverne in the studio.
Space Afrika — Honest Labour (2024)
Intimate, nocturnal listening that blurs ambient, spoken word and memory. One for solitary walks and headphone moments. Flashback vibes to the opening of Visionaire in '23.
ARPOZINE by Call Super.
Friend of the festival Call Super closed out Visionaire back in 2024. His zine and Substack ARPO is named after his album of the same name and is a wonderful digest spinning through music, film thoughts, fashion, poems, gossip and the odd art chat too!
Smerz — Big City Life (2025)
We can’t stop listening to this one. A few of you mentioned Smerz in your top act requests for next summer’s RALLY, so we know this is already on your radar. After a run of sold-out shows at MOTH Club, we’re excited to see what they do next...
That's all folks. See you on the other side.