Episódios

  • As usual, our show was stacked full of innovative, creative, extraordinary new music - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts. This was the final time that we produced a show as a playlist with no intros.
    Playlist:
    Amber – Maria BC

    Devices – Kaidi Akinnibi

    Babel – Marina Herlop

    Only Nineteen – Caleb Francis

    The Tower – Future Islands

    Sleeper – BADBADNOTGOOD, Charlotte Day Wilson

    Switch It On, Switch It Off – Chartreuse

    Lords – Barbarism

    Backtrack – Ruby J

    Clarity – PRIM

    Moons Melt Milk Light – Anenon

    Sucker – Ian Sweet

    Seraglio – UNA

    Dark Corner - Omyügen

    paracetamol – SJD

    Imagine What Could Happen (Hollow Comet remix) – Dari Bay, Hollow Comet

    Montagnard People – Katie Von Schleicher

    Premonition – Kudu Joy

    Alien – Rangleklods
    Glorious – Tony Njoku

    I Care – Fabiana Palladino, Jai Paul

    Fringe – pen pin

    Machine – Phoebe Coco

    B.I.A. – Moonlight Eclipse

    Melting – Arctic Lights

    GWACTER – Sybs

    Rapture – Jackson Wagner

    Circula – Alex Seel

    Songs I’ll Never Sing – Paula O’Reilly

    Hoso Michi – foodman

    nap – Sipper

    worlds greatest emoter – bar italia

    Голод- MOHOHOKE

    Face – Gabby’s World

    All The Times (The KVB remix) – gae vinci, The KVB

  • Another great show stacked full of innovative, creative, extraordinary new music - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts. At this time, we were producing the show as a playlist with no intros - that changed soon after this one.
    Playlist:
    Passenger – Will Epstein

    witches’ brew – Luna Shadows

    Time Lost – New Age Doom, Tuvaband

    Calibrate – Slowe

    Minerals – Illuminine, Shellter

    Animals – August Gilde

    Long For Light – Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening

    Juniper – Andrea von Kampen

    The Truth (Acoustic) – Moonchild

    Silvre – World Had A Plan

    Western Station – Regena Hoye

    brightest – Mica Sinclair

    Lose Control – Safar (FR), TOSZ

    Just Shy of Why – Wuzy Bambussy, Kat Harrison

    People Pleaser – Marianna Winter

    Turning Time – Evie Asio

    Faraway – Belau, Hien

    Awaria – PRZESTRZENIE

    Over You – Lady Hayes

    Inner Voices – Justin Walter

    Gray – Scott Orr

    Night looping – Colleen

    Magic – Kat Milk Blu

    Naughty Little Love – Yellow Light Hansa

    Feathers – Belle Mt.

    What I Wouldn’t Do – Elizabeth Liddle

    The Angel – Northern System

    By The Lake – Oister Boy

    Recently - grassmell

    Justice and The Thief - Hippy

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  • Another great show stacked full of innovative, creative, extraordinary new music - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts.
    Playlist:
    Lanterns Lit (Among The Living) – Son Lux

    Right or Wrong (Moortega! Remix) – Camp Claude, Diane Sagnier

    Holy Mountain – Grandamme

    A Barely Lit Path – Oneohtrix Point Never

    Sibomandi – Alabaster DePlume, Falle Nioke

    All The Way – Mighty Glad

    Dust Bowl – Black Heart Drifters

    Admeta Harmony – Dawda Jobarteh, Jens Christian ‘Chappe’ Jensen, Admeta String Quartet

    Go Easy, Kid – Monica Martin

    How Do You Leave (Billie Martin & Ellie Mason Re-edit) – Bess Atwell, Voka Gentle, Ellie Mason, Billie Martin

    Dulce Puella – PeTer FRYD

    Rainbows and Dreams – George FitzGerald, SOAK

    Pyromid – Niilas, Erlend Apneseth

    Love Fight – King’s Division

    call me up sunshine - Oddnesse

    Selfish Soul (ODESZA Remix) – Sudan Archives, ODESZA

    Weaver’s Beam – David Eugene Edwards

    basis (Kinnship remix) – Lara Somogyi, Kinnship

    There Was A Hope – Smoke Fairies

    Dopehead – VELOUR FOG

    Aggression Level: Medium – Norwegian Soft Kitten

    Love Sabbatical – Zeeland, Nana Adjoa

    The Transformation of Acceptance – The Irrepressibles

    Våg - Geir Sundstøl

    Landkjenning – Maridalen

    14 Days – Simon Morley

    Deep in the wild wood – SYREL

    To The River – Dorsten

    Shut Them Down – Sinful Maggie

    Eruption - AUDREZ

  • More innovative, creative, extraordinary new music in this week's episode - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts. Playlist:
    A Closer Touch - AVR
    Animals – The Bones of J.R. Jones
    Rag Child – Allison Russell
    More Than A Love Song – Black Pumas
    Perfect Heaven – 15 15
    shanty – Slowdive
    Can’t escape from the sun – The Burning Feathers
    Kakariki Avenue – Neon Gru
    Respirar – Grace Aneglique, Jordan LaFaver
    Flutestargate - Carlos Niño & Friends
    Lovesong – Kin Leonn
    Other Doors – Soft Machine
    Pumpkin – Reincarnated – Tricky, Lucia
    My Noise Is Nothing – Lord Of The Isles, Ellen Renton
    Kulu – N’Gou Bagayoko
    Wolf Moon – Daniel Land
    Matte Grey Wrap - CASISDEAD
    In Electric Time – Jeremiah Chiu
    Mole In The Ground – John Francis Flynn
    Summer – Francesca Guerra
    Desert Song - säje
    Temperate red – Get The Blessing
    Inti Watana – El Retorno del Sol – Luzmila Carpio
    Magic Wand - Ezul
    Literally Everything – Brimheim
    Cabaret – Peach Panic
    borealis dancing – jaimie branch
    Humanz are Bastardz – John E Vistic

  • More innovative, creative, extraordinary new music in this week's episode - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts:
    Crocodile – Uma
    Swedish Water – Chartreuse
    Café Godot – Stefano Mastonardi
    Holy Dazed. (radio edit) - TANGO GOLF TANGO
    Colour Code – Breakfast Cat
    There Is No End – New Age Doom
    Apples For My Love – Praises
    Marriage – The Bug Club
    Hurt People Hurt People – Broken Bear
    The Turning Ground – Tara Clerkin Trio
    Lucid Dreaming – emzae
    Echo In The Chamber – Say She She
    Lost When I’m Around You – Sans Soucis
    Mother Tongue – Silver Moth
    i only hear you in my song – la loye
    The Mirror – Samantha Whates
    With the Wind – Ida Wenøe
    Mountains – Gotts Street Park, ENNY
    reason – Omah Lay
    Mama – Maher Cissoko
    Love Can Heal – Peter Gabriel (Bright Side mix)
    Alligator – Gia Ford
    Ultraviolet Ray – UFOm
    Ring-a-Ling – Tiffani Vinyard
    It must have been the sound – Sound on High
    My Intent – Lucy Bullock
    Gymnopédie – Tapir!
    Am I Human? – LIA LIA

  • More innovative, creative, extraordinary new music in this week's episode - mostly by artists and bands that struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts:

    Sugar – Yellow Belly

    A Little Bit Of Love – Duo Decad

    I Say Not As I – Palm Skin Productions

    Tanzania – Turtle

    Bringing Murder to the Land – Anton Newcombe, Dot Allison

    Shark – Sharky

    Gone – So Below

    Logika - Thee Marloes

    Head Down – Steven Bamidele

    Fallen Air – Ruby Haunt

    Crocodiles – Dead Anyway

    Dove – Tash Sultana

    Lazy Days – STR4TA, Wallace, Emma-Jean Thackray

    Close To The Clouds – Art School Girlfriend

    Future Lover - Daughter

    Empty Drive – The Self Help Group

    Stupid Words – Bellza

    All the Rains – John Fahey

    Elle – Mari Boine, Bugge Wesseltoft

    The Secret History – Anyone’s Ghost

    Icon – Song 1 – Jen Lush

    Luna Star – Alex Seel

    Year of Love – Jenny Hval

    137 Pages – Repulsive Woman

    Snakelife – Allison Russell

    Blue V2 – Wildflowers

    Breathe – SHKHR, Asch-Rose

    Muddy Funster – DJ Koze, Kurt Wagner

  • We're back!

    It's been just over 2 years since we last broadcast our show. It will be a different show now - just a playlist of wonderful new music that has been sent in to us. That and a few new releases by well known artists to us - maybe not so well known to our listeners.

    It's wall to wall gorgeousness - beautiful, innovative, stunning new music that just doesn't get heard on big commercial and public broadcasting radio.

    Playlist:
    Oh Mother – Kan Wakan, Jessica Childress

    Playgod – Poppy Ajudha

    Make Your Heart Beat – The Dying Seconds

    Nsera – Fatoumata Diawara, Damon Albarn

    Lagmami – Electric Jalaba

    D 4 N – laura Groves, Sampha

    Art for Art’s Sake – FiFi Rong

    This Foolish Heart Could Love You (The Paris Sessions) – Melody Gardot, Philippe Powell

    You Got Me – Tora Woloshin

    Bang On The Gong – Twin Atlantic

    Feelings Agency – Spirits of Saturn

    Grace – Iris Lune

    Green Book – Ghostly Kisses

    Pick Up! – Ian Simmonds

    Don’t Rush It – The Breath
    Old Note – Lisa O’Neill

    for the both of us – Ego Ella May

    I Wish – Debra Buesking

    Desiderium – Classical Glass

    You Are (Live) – Ny Oh

    Every Stranger – Jessie Reid

    No Crimes (New History) – Son Lux, Jordan Munson, Isaiah Robinson

    Plain Boring Disaster – Madeline Kenney

    Gem Of the Ocean – Aves, JFDR

    Boyhood – The Japanese House

    What You Don’t See – Saint Martyn

    Tell Him – Moonchild, Lala Hathaway

    Meet Me On The Lake – emma miller

    Ghosts in the Autumn Sky – The Evolving 9th Hour

  • The FINAL episode of the After Eight Show for radio. But don't despair - we will be making the occasional podcast in the future with, as before, an eclectic mix of new music that you just don't hear anywhere else!

    This week's show was a 'Best of the Best of the Best' compilation - some favourite tracks from more than 8000 we've played since the first episode in January 2014. And the VERY final track, still one of our all time favourites, will be the same track that we opened our very first show with. It's a track by Lamb that will send shivers down your spine!

    It's wall to wall gorgeousness - beautiful, innovative, stunning new music that just doesn't get heard on big commercial and public broadcasting radio.

    Lineup:
    Still – The Japanese House

    Off the Shelf – little hurricane

    I Used To – Oddnesse

    Lunette – Made In Heights

    Alkali Lake – Bird Watcher, Alfonso Belloso

    Appointments – Julien Baker

    Prism – Submotion Orchestra

    Captivate – Midst

    Taken Away – Moodymann

    Let The Cards Fall – The Breath

    Moonlight (Live) - Neon Gru

    Southern Winds – Guillemots

    Wasteland – Emma Miller

    Weird Fishes – Lianne La Havas

    Sparkle – aYia

    Edca – Eyre Llew

    I Will Follow You (Cotton Socks mix) – Beauty In Chaos, Evi Vine

    Always – Cosmo – Selah Sue

    In the Morning (The Battersea Sessions) – Eliza Shaddad

    Groceries – Gia Margaret

    He Was In His Bubble – Tuvaband

    Condition White (Bare Island remix) – Yellow Belly, Bare Island

    Merge – Nic Evennett

    Gabriel - Lamb

  • *** BEST OF 2021! ***

    This episode comprises some of our favourite tracks selected from more than a thousand that we have played during the year.

    It's wall to wall gorgeousness - beautiful, innovative, stunning new music that just doesn't get heard on big commercial and public broadcasting radio. With the exception of a short intro and outro, it is uninterrupted music.

    Playlist:
    Liquidity – Gyða Valtýsdóttir, Kjartan Sveinsson

    Click Click Domino – Ida Mae, Marcus King

    Prisencolinensinainciusol – Marianne Dissard

    Robber – The Weather Station

    3017 – Lexxy

    Torch Song – Lucinda Chua

    The Lovely Divers – Dead Anyway

    Keep Checking Up On Me – Chartreuse

    Movement 1 – Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra

    Shame - Örvar Smárason, Sin Fang, Sóley

    Mogoya - Oumou Sangaré

    Ecouché – Amai Kuda Et Les Bois

    Nervous – Penelope Trappes

    Condition White (Bare Island remix) – Yellow Belly, Bare Island

    Doctor Frazer Mcglinchey – Out of the Ordinary – Edinburgh, Joseph Malik

    Scratchcard Lanyard – Dry Cleaning

    In the Morning (The Battersea Sessions) – Eliza Shaddad

    Love Dancer – Hemai, FiFi Robo

    damn – Ada Lea

    LTWYLM – Abi Ocia

    Stories – Sarah Neufeld

    Merge – Nic Evennett

    Moonlight – Neon Gru

    Oliver – Gal Musette

    Put My Bones into the Ground – Mark Remmington

    Dream My Life Away – Tash Sultana, Josh Cashman



  • This week's show was a 'BEST OF THE BEST' compilation - our favourite two tracks from each of the last ten shows. It's wall to wall gorgeousness - beautiful new music that just doesn't get heard on big commercial and public broadcasting radio.

    New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else!

    Playlist:
    Bad with time – Sun June

    Meet Ya – Full Flower Moon Band

    Oliver – Gal Musette

    Something / Anything – Zach James Douglas

    damn – Ada Lea

    “Quotations” – Water From Your Eyes

    In the Morning (The Battersea Sessions) – Eliza Shaddad

    Watching The Beams – Chorusing

    LTWYLM – Abi Ocia

    Move Right Through Me (Slowly remix) – Anushka, Slowly

    Get My Bearings – Joan As Police Woman, Tony Allen, Dave Okumu, Damon Albarn

    Change – Tusks

    Blackbirds – Ghostly Kisses

    Heavenly (A Real Birds remix) – Cold Heaven

    Soar – Indi Faulkner

    Flowers by the Roadside – Whitney Tai, Michael Trainor

    The Wounded Wolf – Eberson

    Merge – Nic Evennett

    Vacancy (No One Near) – Son Lux, lojii

    Whole Heart – Jessie Reid

    Caring – Mathias Eick

    Cosmic Dust – Kasia Konstance

    Julia – Gal Musette

    Grow (Submotion Orchestra remix) – Kidnap, Leo Stannard, Submotion Orchestra

  • This is the final *weekly* episode of The After Eight Show thougfh we are doing three 'Best Of''s in the coming weeks.

    Lots of beautiful new music that we've been saving up over the past 12 months. It really is a fabulous selection this week!

    In our LUVVA COVER feature, we played a stripped back version of one of Tori Amos's most amazing songs. Jo Beth Young was asked to contribute a cover version to a tribute album which will be released in 2022. It truly is stunning and is a VERY appropriate way in which to close this feature in which we have played some really interesting takes on some fabulous songs.

    NEW MUSIC YOU JUST DON'T HEAR ANYWHERE ELSE!

    Playlist:
    Until I Fall – Lucinda Chua

    Sick Bed Blues – Buffalo Nichols

    Too Long – Cid Rim

    Wildfires – SAULT

    Pick Me Up – Milan Ring, Jean Deaux

    You Got One – Moonchild, Alex Isley

    When it Gets Dark – Jamire Williams, Kenneth Whalum

    Impossible - Sin Fang, Sóley, and Örvar Smárason

    Magpie Nest – Schlutius

    Day After Tomorrow – Phoebe Bridgers

    Be Free – Ny Oh

    Bittersweet – Garonique

    Pandora’s Aquarium – Tori Amos

    Pandora’s Aquarium – Jo Beth Young (Luvva Cover feature)

    The Wounded Wolf – Eberson

    roads – Bugge Wesseltoft, Håkon Kornstad

    New Wings - Alyssa Bonagura

    Midnight Chorus – Kathryn Williams, Carol Ann Duffy

    The Bad Thing – The Mysterines

    In Blur – Deafheaven

    Caring – Mathias Eick

    Lotus – Orions Belte

    Merge – Nic Evennett

  • More fabulous inventive, creative, extraordinary new music in this week's show.

    In our LUVVA COVER feature, we played a 'hard rocking' version of one of Björk's best known songs. It's by Chuck Wright - bass player with Quiet Riot. He has assembled a stellar band including the magnificent vocalist Whitney Tai who is the singer on another of tonight's tracks which could not be more different , in mood, to this one!


    New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else!

    Playlist:
    The Great Hope Design – Sevdaliza

    De Parade (Weval remix) – Eefje de Visser, Weval

    Tears on Your Heart – Bev Lee Harling

    Light Years – Georgi Krastev

    LONDON’S BURNING – Poppy Ajudha

    Heron – Scrimshire, Miryam Solomon

    Must Be a Cop – Husbands

    Hypernormal – Gdansk81

    Fingertips (SKL Heartbeat remix) – Flunk, SKL

    You’re My Home (Thrupence remix) – Appleby, Thrupence

    Army Of Me - Björk

    Army Of Me – Chuck Wright’s Sheltering Sky, Whitney Tai (Luvva Cover feature)

    Grow (Submotion Orchestra remix) – Kidnap, Leo Stannard, Submotion Orchestra

    Out Of Clock – Fifi Rong

    Warriors (remix) – mAncient

    Holy Holy – Indigo Maya

    Stökigt hjärta – Moto Boy, MIA

    Sióg (Todchaí) – Micko Roche

    Creation – B’licious

    Soar – Indi Faulkner

    Call It Fate – Water’s Edge

    Chaos - Axel Flóvent, Plàsi

    Flowers by the Roadside – Whitney Tai, Michael Trainor

  • More great New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else! in this week's episode.

    Our our ALBUM OF THE WEEK actually comes from last year but we have only just become aware of it and it is sensational! The album is 'Two Of Me' and it's by Momma. They're a brilliant 4-piece indie rock band from LA.

    "Momma's Two Of Me is a twisted, enchanting carnival ride ... the music itself, which draws you in with grungy yet sunwashed chords. It’s the aural version of when you close your eyes on a sunny day, heat pouring in red through the lids. “Bug House,” the sprawling opener, lulls you into a false sense of security before escalating into a vortex of heavy distortion." Paste

    In our Luvva Cover feature, we will be playing a really inventive version of one of The Beach Boys' best known songs. It's by Shovels and Rope and also features the incredible Sharon Van Etten - give it a listen and decide for yourself!

    New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else!

    Playlist:
    Blackbirds – Ghostly Kisses

    Spoonful – The Reverend Shawn Amos

    Bloom Rapids – L-space

    Nea Kypseli – Keep Shelly In Athens

    Biohazard – Momma (Album of the Week)

    A Mouthful Of Magnificent Spite – Salvation Jayne

    Fall Back – Asiahn

    Carry On – Akemi Fox

    Heavenly (A Real Birds remix) – Cold Heaven

    Strange Town (Julia Holter remix) – Buzzy Lee, Julia Holter

    In My Room – The Beach Boys

    In My Room – Shovels & Rope, Sharon Van Etten (Luvva Cover feature)

    Now That’s All Changed – Hugo Kant

    Soft Warm Good – Erothyme

    Not A Runner - Momma

    True Love – Hovvdy

    N’yanyan - Rokia Koné, Jacknife Lee

    Moreno (El Búho remix) – Dom La Nena, El Búho

    Coldhearted, Lately – Khushi

    Sam – Asch-Rose

    Stay – Valerie June

    October – Juliet & Nanette

    Habitat - Momma

  • Lots more New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else in this week's show!

    This week, our ALBUM OF THE WEEK was 'Invisible Things' by Mari Conti.
    "Mari Conti’s new album delves into the darkness and light that can be found in life and the invisible ties that connect us all.
    It’s refreshing to listen to an album that pushes the boundaries on what constitutes the mainstream way to create a song. The typical blueprint of tracks with an ABABCB structure has been chucked out the window on Mari Conti’s album. “Invisible Things” is an album that is inherently its own in sound, style and structure. A breath of fresh air to listen to!" Pop Mag

    In our LUVVA COVER feature, we played a VERY atmospheric cover of a beautiful song by Moses Sumney. Kee'ahn is a young Australian singer - a proud Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. Kee'ahn weaves lush melodies and words reminiscent of heartbreak and healing. Her rich vocals and hopeful lyrics champion the idea that finding strength in our struggles, encourages us to reflect, reinvent, and rejoice in all of our own individual healing journeys. This cover was commissioned as part of the Uprising festival in Melbourne. It really is stunning - give it a listen!

    New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else!

    Playlist:
    Change – Tusks

    Down to Your Mask – Keller Williams, Erothyme

    Under – Lonely Guest, Oh Land

    Get My Bearings – Joan As Police Woman, Tony Allen, Dave Okumu, Damon Albarn

    Invisible Things – Mari Conti (Album of the Week)

    Shiny Things – Kat Frankie

    Time Zone – UNA

    Love Like Mine – fika, Bambie
    Something so Good – Niamh Regan

    It’s Hard to be Human – Lawrence Rothman, Marissa Nadler

    Man on the Moon – Moses Sumney

    Man on the Moon – Kee’ahn (Luvva Cover feature)

    A Conversation at Trials – Cellista, Rykarda Parasol

    Suite Pour L’Invisible – Ana Roxanne

    Chances – Mari Conti

    Don’t Wanna Know – Kasia Konstance, Lorenz Okello

    Fuzz Jam – The Lazy Eyes

    Fem Chem – Nice Biscuit

    Lunático (remix) – Cielo Pordomingo

    An Ocean of Joy – Giacomo Bondi, Vibraphile

    Grey Rock – 2PrivateMatters, Josienne Clarke, Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke

    Coast – Participant

    Hangin’ on a Kiss – Mari Conti

  • Our ambition every week is to introduce you to the music of at least 3 artists / bands who are new to you and whose music you'll want to explore.

    Our ALBUM OF THE WEEK, this week, is 'Area 52 Truck Stop' by Sylvia Bullett.

    "I have been visualising post plague dance parties spinning this!"

    It features two members of iconic band Television – Fred Smith on bass and Richard Lloyd on guitar. The album is so named because she recorded it during Covid time and actually finished one of the earliest songs pulling up her truck alongside the legendary Area 52 Studios: Dave "Loveshack" Cook ran cables out to the truck cab for vocal mic and earphones- thus the inspiration for the album's name.

    In our LUVVA COVER feature, we will be playing an amazing instrumental cover of an iconic Radiohead song by a Lebanese violinist. Ara Malikian was a child prodigy, studied in Hanover and London, and now includes classical, experimental, ethnic (e.g. gipsy, Klezmer, Spanish and Argentinian) and modern compositions. This cover, released about 5 years ago, is so exciting, original and energetic! Give it a listen!

    Playlist:
    LTWYLM – Abi Ocia

    Generation Calling – Bluhauz

    Run – edapollo, Akacia

    Delusions of Grandeur – Bad Waitress

    Fire & Ice – Sylvia Bullett (Album of the Week)

    Pipe Dreams- Lonely Guest, Rina Mushonga

    Move Right Through Me (Slowly remix) – Anushka, Slowly

    Reminders – BECAH

    Prodigal Daughter – Aoife O’Donovan, Allison Russell

    The Limes – Sarah Goodson

    No Surprises – Radiohead

    No Surprises – Ara Malikian (Luvva Over feature)

    Romance – Miryam Solomon

    The Resilience Born in Fire – Those Who Ride With Giants

    Area 52 Truck Stop – Sylvia Bullett
    Taking Flight – Zar, Sahala

    Come Together – Malone Sibun

    Freaky Boys and Freaky Girls – Tbelly

    Paradise – LYRAS

    1.am – Woves

    Girls & Boys – Sylvia Bullett

    Under – Lonely Guest, Oh Land

  • More New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else in this week's show!

    Our ALBUM OF THE WEEK, this week, is 'Half Mirror' by Chorusing.

    "From his home in the hills of North Carolina, recording as Chorusing, Matthew O’Connell has created a piece of music that manages to create new language and meaning by meticulously crafting the sounds and lyrics that make Half Mirror something totally unique." Folk Radio UK

    In our LUVVA COVER feature, we will be playing a cover of a massive Tik Tok viral hit by Beach Bunny in 2020. The cover version, by Paravi, is a complete transformation of the song and became a Tik Tok viral hit earlier this year!
    "Paravi’s version of the song opens with her her softly stating, “I hate all men, but…” She then begins to sing in a deeply rich lower register transforming the upbeat garage song into one filled with loss and longing." Give it a listen and see what you think!

    Playlist:
    In the Morning (The Battersea Sessions) – Eliza Shaddad

    ‘Til This Pain Goes Away – Jackie Venson

    Cosmic Dust – Kasia Konstance

    I Feel Something – Ego Ella May

    Watching The Beams – Chorusing (Album of the Week)

    Kelso (Blue Sky) – Grouper

    Handsome Man- Wednesday

    Close Your Eyes – Dahlia Sleeps

    We Don’t Know – 3 Little Wolves

    Seasons Change – noelle

    Cloud 9 – Beach Bunny

    Cloud 9 – Paravi (Luvva Cover feature)

    What If We Could Fly – Moseqar

    Rain – Stoneygate, Fake Filmscore

    Cold – Chorusing

    Crow – Cooza

    TRIPPING OVER MYSELF – COLLAR

    You Know The Mayor – Full Flower Moon Band

    Sweet & Dandy – Tash Sultana

    Get A Rocket – Melpo Mene

    No Rush – The Northern Belle, Siv Jakobsen, Louien

    Bright New World – Darling West, The Small Glories

    Blue Ridge - Chorusing

  • Our ambition every week is to introduce you to the music of at least 3 artists / bands who are new to you and whose music you'll want to explore.

    Our ALBUM OF THE WEEK was 'Technicolour' by Geo Jordan.

    Haste magazine: "Multi-instrumentalist, producer, writer and, let’s face it, musical expert, Geo Jordan just keeps getting better and better. Piano, bass and jazz drums are just some of the musical talents that Geo holds."

    "Jordan does not hold back with experimentation, allowing each track to take unexpected turns that surprise on the first listen, and delight on the second.

    One thing which is stark throughout is Jordan’s vulnerability. His candid vocals sit in the eye of each sonic storm pulling together each of the musical elements to form an intense and emotional record." LICKS Mag review of Technicolour.

    In our Luvva Cover feature, we played a cover of an iconic song by Nirvana. The cover is by Memorial and it completely transforms the mood of the song and amplifies the lyrics. The song was released in 1992 (on Nirvana's second album, Nevermind). Two years later, Kurt Cobain committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Music journalist Mark Deming suggested that hearing "Cobain sing 'and I swear that I don't have a gun' gives 'Come as You Are' an edge it was never meant to have when [Nevermind] was first released in 1991." Deming reasons that the "I don't have a gun" lyric is Cobain's "attempt to reassure listeners that ... his target is the world at large rather than the individuals in it, and that there was still room in this damaged world for everyone". Give it a listen and hear this beautifully tragic song interpreted in a new light.

    New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else!

    Playlist:
    damn – Ada Lea

    Back on Top – Buffalo Nichols

    Vacancy (No One Near) – Son Lux, lojii

    Hide With You – Milan Ring

    Figure It Out – Geo Jordan (Album of the Week)

    Happy Man (Full Orbit radio Edit) – MEI

    “Quotations” – Water From Your Eyes

    Eating Up The Sky – Wasuremono

    She’s the One – Outline

    Mouthful of Glass – Macie Stewart

    Come As You Are – Nirvana

    Come As You Are – Memorial (Luvva Cover feature)

    Chameleon – Anthony Naples

    Zheng ‘21 (Hibernation’s Glitch Jazz remix) – Kaya Project, Hibernation

    In Too Deep – Geo Jordan

    Nobody Does It Like Me – Kaysha Louvain

    Florida – Lost Horizons, KookieLou

    My Courtesan – Robin Guthrie

    Rambling Radio – Richard Townend and the Mighty Bosscats

    Shadows of the Night – David Goundry

    For You – Kahdja Bonet

    Fear in You – Thomas Murphy Young, Charles Berkeley

    Let Go – Geo Jordan

  • Lots more innovative, melodic, fascinating new music in this week's show!

    Our ALBUM OF THE WEEK is the amazing debut album of Gal Musette. She is a musical prodigy who began writing piano based lyrical compositions and performing at open mics in her home city of San Clemente, CA at the age of 10. 'Backwards Lullaby' explores the pangs of hopeless romances and unrequited love, what it’s like to move beyond idealized love into the acceptance of what is real and constant, as well as the cyclical nature of life and love in relationships.
    "baroque pop songs inspired by lost love, yearning & hopelessness"
    "breathtakingly beautiful layered vocals ... heartfelt & vibrant mix of indie pop & folk laced confessions"

    In our LUVVA COVER feature, we will be playing a cover of a gorgeous song by Big Thief. The cover is by 'bedroom pop sensation' Cavetown.
    "The tenderness in the cover is on display from the jump. The vocals are doubled to give a bit of an Elliott Smith feel here as things roll out with a beautiful tone. The song takes on a bit of a new life without steering from the original. The guitar and vocals together drive home the softness in the cover. There's a harmonic note deliver on the song that takes hold as the vocals are the driving factor. It's a simple cover but it works with earnest and sincere intentions." closedcap

    We are also incredibly proud to be raising awareness of the #v4velindre fundraising project in aid of the NHS Velindre Cancer Centre. The great Kevin McGrath has compiled a brilliant album of 50 songs by artists from the UK, Italy, USA and elsewhere and all proceeds will be donated to a great cause. We will be playing Apathy by Little Rêd - please visit https://v4velindre.bandcamp.com/album/v4velindre and show your support by downloading the album which is stacked full of great music!

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    Playlist:
    The First Time – LYR

    I Don’t Want to See You Cry (Dr R.e.y’s Melodica Dub) – Ghetto Priest, Dr REY

    Like Me – Caveman

    Athens, France – Black Country, New Road

    Oliver – Gal Musette (Album of the Week)

    Something / Anything – Zach James Douglas

    Apathy – Little Rêd

    Spider – Dallas Tamaira

    Fall In To You – Tusks

    Hasta la Vista (Alternate version) – Allie Crow Buckley, Nailah Hunter

    Paul – Big Thief

    Paul – Cavetown (Luvva Cover feature)

    haze – [.que]

    Thick_flowy_glowy_sparkly_stingy_pain.mpeg – Fire-Toolz

    Julia – Gal Musette

    Hegemony – chalk horse music

    better – Joy Orbison, Léa Sen

    My Bones – Hannah Jadagu

    Complicated By Both – Maliki

    Illuminate – Slowly Rolling Camera, Sachal Vasandani

    Summertime – Gal Musette

    Kindness – Samuel Organ, BABii

  • A festival of new music again this week. With, perhaps, a bit of an electronic / nu jazz feel about it.

    This week, our ALBUM OF THE WEEK is 'somewhere' by Sun June. Sun June is an American indie pop band from Austin, Texas.
    "Somewhere showcases a gentle maturation of Sun June's sound, a second record full of quiet revelation, eleven songs that bristle with love and longing. It finds a band at the height of their collective potency, able to transport the listener into a fascinating new landscape, one that lies somewhere between the town and the city, between the head and the heart, neither here nor there, but certainly somewhere."

    In our LUVVA COVER feature, we will be playing a cover of a Beatles standard by a bedroom pop duo, Memoryhouse. They are from Toronto and have released an EP of Beatles covers called 'Mania'.
    "Mania is a lush and bold exploration of The Beatles that reflects the chaos and longing of the year - and our desperate need to cling to whatever joy we can find. It has that trademark Memoryhouse feeling of melancholy, taking that familiar Beatles classic and giving it a whole new spin, and meaning along the way."

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    Playlist:
    Latter Days – Big Red Machine, Anaïs Mitchell

    Meet Ya – Full Flower Moon Band

    Hall of Mirrors – Let’s Eat Grandma

    Precious Drop – Sulcus

    Bad with time – Sun June (Album of the Week)

    Typhoon – Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards

    12:12 – Jack Murphy, jena keating

    Red Moon – Lola BNF

    Jawbone – Ruby Haunt

    Pinetrees – Peter Sandberg, Henry Green

    This Boy – The Beatles

    This Boy – Memoryhouse (Luvva Cover feature)

    Found Footage Of The Second Lost Mission To Titan – Benny Braun

    Lullaby for the Distance – 1010 Ensemble

    Karen O – Sun June

    Whole Heart – Jessie Reid

    This Year (Piano) – Beach Fossils

    Summer in the City – Lyra

    Pace (Moses Boyd remix) – Nubya Garcia, Moses Boyd

    Angel’s Flight – Biosphere

    Bad Girl – Sun June

    On My Mind – Daz Cadwallander

  • This week's show was a ' Best of the Best' compilation - our favourite two tracks from each of the last ten shows. It's wall to wall gorgeousness - beautiful new music that just doesn't get heard on big commercial and public broadcasting radio.

    Playlist:
    Stretch Armstrong – Dead Anyway

    Different Kind Of Love – Adia Victoria

    Bossa Nova Hangover – Stables

    Sofia – Askjell, iris, AURORA

    Boogie Woogie – One Rusty Band

    I Built You (Alaskalaska remix) – WOOM, ALASKALASKA

    Epi – Moonlight Benjamin

    Blossom – Eliza Shaddad

    Condition White (Bare Island remix) – Yellow Belly, Bare Island

    Wait A Minute – Mozez

    Electric Feel – Nataly Dawn

    Someone To Rely On – All Eyes

    This Time – Nite Jewel

    Bombs – Kenneth Whalum

    Ice – Helaine Vis

    Movement 1 – Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders, London

    Even When It’s Bent – Night Teacher

    Everything I Thought – Kmodo, Thomas Murphy Young

    Mother - Markéta Irglová, The Webb Sisters

    Ouija Board – French For Rabbits

    I Am A Bird – Neon Gru