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Arliston

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Data updated on 2025-07-13 23:13:17 UTC
Arliston are poised to become the UK’s unofficial ambassadors of gloom – self-described “sad song specialists”. Their music is concerned with that particularly fraught time of life – the late twenties and early thirties – and all of the confusion that accompanies it. Yet the music itself is far from chaotic. Instead, it is steeped in an inky black pool of sparse but sprawling Americana; minimalist pianos are paired with gloopy synths and singer Jack Ratcliffe’s striking, morose baritone. The songwriting, too, is stark but striking. We hear the faint buzzing of static, monologues, snatches of half-conversations. They are the sounds of someone stumbling and tripping their way through life, offering the listener an opportunity for a kind of melancholy catharsis. - Roisin O'Connor

Wonderland "Cerebral songwriting and soaring instrumentals"
EARMILK "Indie gems"
Backseat Mafia "A must for music lovers"
CLASH magazine “Beguiling experimental pop”

Total plays

4.2 million
Updated on 2025-07-13

Country

United Kingdom

Monthly listeners

10,526

Followers

2,599

Top Cities

  1. United Kingdom
    420 listeners
  2. Australia
    206 listeners
  3. Australia
    164 listeners
  4. United Kingdom
    150 listeners
  5. United Kingdom
    114 listeners

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Most popular tracks

Track Plays Duration Release date
Mountaineer
Mountaineer
2,722,431 3:42 2021-11-26
Language of Strangers
Language of Strangers
314,461 3:29 2018-08-03
Pisco Sours
Pisco Sours
109,847 3:44 2023-04-21
What Did I Think Would Happen
What Did I Think Would Happen
93,573 3:22 2024-10-11
Monks of Lindisfarne
Monks of Lindisfarne
69,797 3:55 2024-06-06
Mothering
Mothering
65,837 3:24 2022-08-12
Hold My Wine
Hold My Wine
65,388 3:18 2022-09-23
Sydenham Place
Sydenham Place
48,555 3:44 2022-11-04
Time Lost
Time Lost
47,817 3:20 2025-02-07
Disappointment Machine
Disappointment Machine
41,133 3:10 2024-12-06
I Have No Honour
I Have No Honour
36,905 2:50 2019-06-14
South
South
36,198 3:34 2020-03-13
Centre
Centre
33,910 3:39 2021-10-01
Camomile
Camomile
33,588 3:11 2022-01-28
The Older I Get
The Older I Get
31,794 2:47 2025-02-07
Enough
Enough
30,256 3:55 2018-06-29
Nests
Nests
29,209 3:25 2025-02-07
Parliament
Parliament
29,096 4:03 2019-07-19
Loud
Loud
26,926 3:18 2019-05-01
Vertical
Vertical
25,264 3:34 2024-07-26
451
451
24,464 4:42 2023-06-09
Chasing Birds
Chasing Birds
20,740 3:37 2023-07-14
How in Heaven
How in Heaven
20,536 3:28 2023-03-10
Two Times
Two Times
18,777 4:10 2019-08-30
Scratches
Scratches
17,785 3:26 2025-02-07
Paralysed
Paralysed
16,786 3:40 2018-10-12
The Ground Might Disappear
The Ground Might Disappear
16,074 3:39 2022-01-28
Sleep Well Bean
Sleep Well Bean
14,166 3:31 2025-02-07
Tombstone Teeth
Tombstone Teeth
14,085 2:38 2022-11-04
TV Dinner
TV Dinner
13,569 4:29 2022-11-04
Thawed
Thawed
12,788 3:21 2023-11-24
Politics
Politics
11,457 3:60 2018-10-12
Stay in Brixton
Stay in Brixton
11,185 3:10 2025-02-07
C.A.T.S
C.A.T.S
10,893 3:42 2025-02-07
Cold Comfort
Cold Comfort
10,865 4:34 2018-10-12
Any Raft Will Do
Any Raft Will Do
9,085 1:26 2025-02-07
Camomile - The Fairmount Sessions
Camomile - The Fairmount Sessions
7,548 3:22 2022-04-22
The Ground Might Disappear - The Fairmount Sessions
The Ground Might Disappear - The Fairmount Sessions
6,841 3:59 2022-04-22
Backwards
Backwards
5,679 3:19 2023-07-14
Park
Park
5,393 3:57 2022-01-28
Mountaineer - The Fairmount Sessions
Mountaineer - The Fairmount Sessions
2,413 3:47 2022-04-22
Centre - The Fairmount Sessions
Centre - The Fairmount Sessions
2,311 3:17 2022-04-22

New releases

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What Did I Think Would Happen
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Vertical
Vertical
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Monks of Lindisfarne
Monks of Lindisfarne
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[Sob Story Records]
Thawed
Thawed
2023-11-24
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How In Heaven
How In Heaven
2023-07-14
[Sob Story Records]
451
451
2023-06-09
[Sob Story Records]
Pisco Sours
Pisco Sours
2023-04-21
[Sob Story Records]
How in Heaven
How in Heaven
2023-03-10
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Even In The Shade
Even In The Shade
2022-11-04
[Sob Story Records]
Hold My Wine
Hold My Wine
2022-09-23
[Sob Story Records]
Mothering
Mothering
2022-08-12
[Sob Story Records]
The Ground Might Disappear (The Fairmount Sessions)
The Ground Might Disappear (The Fairmount Sessions)
2022-04-22
[Sob Story Records]
The Ground Might Disappear
The Ground Might Disappear
2022-01-28
[Sob Story Records]
Mountaineer
Mountaineer
2021-11-26
[Sob Story Records]
Centre
Centre
2021-10-01
[Sob Story Records]
South
South
2020-03-13
[Reavers Music]
Two Times
Two Times
2019-08-30
[Reavers Music]
Parliament
Parliament
2019-07-19
[Arliston]
I have no honour
I have no honour
2019-06-14
[Arliston]
Loud
Loud
2019-05-01
[Arliston]
Hawser
Hawser
2018-10-12
[Reavers Music]
Language of Strangers
Language of Strangers
2018-08-03
[Reavers Music]
Enough
Enough
2018-06-29
[Reavers Music]