Best Tsugi Podcasts (2024)

Send us a text MUSTAAAARD! The latest @weheardwonders is burnin' HOT, with Andrew and Iain discussing GNX, the surprise new album from Kendrick Lamar, before playing and sharing their thoughts on new tracks from Top 5 single hit-maker and man-of-the-people Sam Fender, exploratory art-rock duo MEMORIALS, mischievous Southern hip-hop king Denzel Curr…

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New Music - Doves! Fievel is Glauque! Kim Deal! Mk.gee! Olive Jones! 1:35:28

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Send us a text Three is the magic number this week on @weheardwonders as Iain and Andrew are joined by The Talent from Glasgow band The Deadline Shakes, Greg Dingwall. Greg shares his love of Field Music and joins us to listen to and review new music from the broodingly majestic Doves, progressive jazz-pop jesters Fievel Is Glauque, alt-rock legend…

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New Music - Yasmin Williams! Blood Incantation! Field Music! Tyler, The Creator! One True Pairing! 1:51:39

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Send us a text Iain and Andrew return for a @weheardwonders round-up, featuring some of the most interesting new music releases from the past month or so. Finger-picking virtuoso Yasmin Williams, sci-fi-death-metal-progsters Blood Incantation, art-rock cottage-industry Field Music, hip-hop polymath Tyler, The Creator and former-Wild Beast One True …

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New Music - Kosmischer Läufer! Alan Sparhawk! Ezra Collective! Upupayãma! Nubya Garcia! 1:40:56

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Send us a text Yippie-yi-o! Yippie-yi-yay! Pod-casters in the sky! Yer loyal @weheardwonders cowboys Iain and Andrew round up and review the latest musical offerings from cosmic runner and hoaxer(?) Kosmischer Läufer, quiet titan of alternative music Alan Sparhawk, London jazz party-starters Ezra Collective, acid-folk-psych-rock mountain-dweller Up…

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New Music - Bon Iver! Etran de L'Aïr! Lady Blackbird! Beautify Junkyards w/Paul Weller! Chrysanths! 1:37:29

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Send us a text Iain and Andrew deliver their opinions on the freshest new music with scalpel-sharp incisiveness on the latest @weheardwonders pod. Indie-folk phenomenon Bon Iver go back to basics, 100% Saharan guitar-band Etran de L’Aïr step into a proper studio for the first time, “the Grace Jones of jazz” Lady Blackbird expands her horizons, Lisb…

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New Music - MJ Lenderman! Mercury Rev! Nala Sinephro! Brooke Combe! Christopher Haddow! 1:43:45

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Send us a text The Spice Girls above Beck?!?! Nineties bangers are ranked on this week’s @weheardwonders, before Iain and Andrew get on to the main business at hand: casting their critical ear over new releases from alt-rock man-of-the-moment MJ Lenderman, neo-psych legends/pod-heroes Mercury Rev, spiralling synth-jazz spellcaster Nala Sinephro, Sc…

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New Music - Yannis & The Yaw! Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds! Bananagun! The Soundcarriers! Ezra Feinberg! 1:45:54

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Send us a text At the top of this week’s @weheardwonders, Andrew has a surprise quiz sprung on him - will he be triumphant or left in a sulk with Iain for the remainder of the recording? New music from Yannis & The Yaw, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Bananagun, The Soundcarriers and Ezra Feinberg is played and reviewed for your consideration. Something…

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New Music - Fontaines D.C.! Geordie Greep! Gillian Welch & David Rawlings! Thee Heart Tones! Magdalena Bay! Plus Oasis reunion chat! 1:43:05

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Send us a text Be here now! Iain and Andrew share their thoughts on the announcement of Oasis’ feverishly-anticipated reunion tour - are they intending to get mad wit’ it next summer or does the public’s appetite for reliving past glories have them looking back in anger and wondering “where did it all go wrong”? Then it’s time to play and review ne…

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New Music - This Is Lorelei! Ari Tsugi! Hamish Hawk! Club Kuru! Liana Flores! 1:26:13

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Send us a text Following a summer break which heralded the arrival of the latest addition to the @weheardwonders dynasty, normal podcasting service is resumed! We preview the forthcoming album from Leith’s premier practitioner of bittersweet wonk-pop Gurry Wurry, and share our thoughts on new music from one-man indie-rock-jukebox This Is Lorelei, e…

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ELECTROSEXUAL at OXI CLUB - Berlin Golosa Extravaganza 1:53:57

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Live recording of my set at OXI CLUB Berlin for Golosa in May 2024By Electrosexual

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New Music - Billie Eilish! The Lovely Eggs! Villagers! Ugly (UK)! Myriam Gendron! 1:30:36

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Send us a text We hit this pod runnin’ - like a nosebleed! Andrew provides a roundup of some of the recent big music releases - those to check out as well as those that are probably best avoided. Then it’s on to this episode’s playlist and the five fresh projects which made the cut: Iain and Andrew play tracks from and share their opinions on the n…

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New Music - Mdou Moctar! The Lemon Twigs! Ibibio Sound Machine! Jessica Pratt! Fergus McCreadie! 1:36:44

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Send us a text Gigantic! A big, big love! Iain and Andrew salute the late great Steve Albini, the immeasurably-influential ‘recording engineer’ and sonic architect of alternative rock. We then play and review new music from pod heroes Mdou Moctar and Fergus McCreadie, as well as boys-of-melody/siblings-of-song The Lemon Twigs, UK Afro-funkers Ibibi…

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New Music - Corridor! St. Vincent! Iron & Wine with Fiona Apple! Ganavya! Amelia Coburn! 1:45:59

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Send us a text A discursive quality and literary bent to this week’s @weheardwonders, with references to John Dunne, Dylan Thomas and, er, Eddie Van Halen. We play and review new music from transporting indie-rockers Corridor, art-rock auteur St. Vincent, Americana mainstay Iron & Wine, South Indian ambient-jazz scholar Ganavya and exciting, uke-wi…

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New Music - Taylor Swift! Friko! Ederlezi! Fabiana Palladino! Guests! 1:33:47

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Send us a text We’re a music review podcast, so of course we have some thoughts on the biggest music release of the year (deepest sympathies, Cowboy Carter, it was fun while it lasted) from the biggest pop star of her era(s). Find out what Iain and Andrew (podcasters don’t come more tortured or poetic) make of Taylor Swift’s latest grand statement.…

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New Music - Hannah Frances! Cindy Lee! English Teacher! Shabaka! Magick Brother & Mystic Sister! 1:53:16

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Send us a text Iain and Andrew are Taking Care Of Business on the latest @weheardwonders (don’t ask them why - it just felt right, alright?). Join them for juicy music-based discussion covering avant-folk artist Hannah Frances, word-of-mouth indie-sensation Cindy Lee, the accomplished, well-read English Teacher, reed-master Shabaka Hutchings, and B…

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New Music - Sahra Halgan! Gustaf! Jane Weaver! Khruangbin! Daisy Rickman! Diving Horse! 1:29:44

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Send us a text Home-improvement hounds Iain and Andrew put down their paintbrushes and rollers long enough to play and pore over new musical offerings from Somali freedom fighter Sahra Halgan, Brooklyn no-wavers Gustaf, psychedelic national treasure Jane Weaver, sub-zero Texan synthesists Khruangbin and “Cornish high priestess” Daisy Rickman. Centr…

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New Music - Waxahatchee! LAIR! Adrianne Lenker! Julia Holter! Oisin Leech! 1:34:47

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Send us a text After a few weeks away, Iain and Andrew reconvene to catch up and cast their critical eye over three of the year’s most hotly tipped and anticipated releases - Waxahatchee, Adrianne Lenker and Julia Holter - as well as something eyebrow-raising from Indonesian psych collective LAIR and something decidedly more low-key from Steve Gunn…

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Electrosexual - MIX FOR GOLOSA 2:36:22

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Set recorded live at Golosa BerlinBy Electrosexual

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New Music - Nadine Shah! Real Estate! Mohammad Syfkhan! MGMT! Ghost Funk Orchestra! 1:31:38

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Send us a text On this week’s @weheardwonders, soaring singer-songwriter Nadine Shah sings her life, MGMT add slacker alt-rock shagginess to their usual neo-psych, and Real Estate return. We also discuss the remarkable story of how Kurdish/Syrian singer & bouzouki player Mohammad Syfkhan found himself performing at the Cork Opera House, and spin a …

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New Music - Les Amazones d’Afrique! Brittany Howard! Dina Ögon! Grandaddy! Yirinda! 1:21:26

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Send us a text There’s only one didgeridoo thing to do! It’s another globetrotting edition of @weheardwonders, with intrepid explorers Iain and Andrew delving into new music from all around the world. Up for discussion are five tracks by artists from four continents, including Sweden’s Dina Ögon, Brittany Howard and Grandaddy from North America, Au…

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New Music - David Nance! The Last Dinner Party! Bolts Of Melody! YG Marley! Beth Gibbons! 1:47:20

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Send us a text On the latest @weheardwonders, one track inspired our Iain to reach for the “G” word, while another offended him so much that he had to reach for the “mute” button mid-recording. Can you guess which artists and tracks inspired such visceral and opposing reactions? Up for debate this week are rollicking barn-rockers David Nance & The …

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New Music - The Smile! Gruff Rhys! Ty Segall! They Hate Change! Daudi Matsiko! 1:39:25

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Send us a text No effort required on Iain or Andrew’s part to crowbar the R-word into this week’s @weheardwonders discussion - the big alternative music release being, of course, the second full-length from The Smile, featuring a certain Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood. We’ve cast our eyes (and ears) over Wall Of Eyes - find out what we make of it. …

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New Music - YĪN YĪN! Rosali! Omni! Kali Uchis! SLIFT! 1:30:57

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Send us a text Yes indeedy, @weheardwonders are back to put some pep in the step of your blustery seemingly-never-ending January. Iain and Andrew play and review a veritable smorgasbord of new musical treats, including: YĪN YĪN’s Asian-inspired disco-funk; graceful Crazy Horse-play from Rosali; Omni’s arch art-punk; a diaphanous Spanish-language bo…

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New Music - Liam Gallagher & John Squire! Plantoid! Muireann Bradley! Bill Ryder-Jones! Nino Gvilia! 1:29:50

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Send us a text How about some new reviews of new music to kick this new year off in style? Iain and Andrew are back back BACK, and they’re doing what they love best: casting their eyes and ears over a selection of box-fresh tuneage on @weheardwonders. Is Liam Gallagher & John Squire’s long-threatened collaboration just another rainbow-dyed baggy/Br…

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ELECTROSEXUAL pour TSUGI RADIO - Les Disques du Lobby 1:02:25

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Just recorded a new mix for @tsugiradio & @lesdisquesdulobby with a hot selection of my favourite tracks this month! Check it out on #Soundcloud Je viens d'enregistrer un mix pour #Tsugi avec mes titres favoris du moment. À écouter en replay sur Soundcloud! Shero – Juicy Lips [Klubkid Records] Sylvio B – Luvin´U Lupe - The Invocation (Alinka Remix)…

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New Music - Cory Hanson! Bob Dylan! Per Svensson! BCUC! Ivan Moult! 1:28:52

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Send us a text Music by Masters Of Song of various stripe is up for discussion on the latest @weheardwonders pod: Cory Hanson’s country-rock guitar explorations inspire some uncharacteristically blue (Crazy) Horsin’ around from your cherubic hosts; Swedish psychedelicist Per Svensson aims to take the listener on a magic trip; Ivan Moult’s hushed th…

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New Music - Teenage Fanclub! The Lemon Twigs! Mong Tong! Kassa Overall! Emma Tricca! 1:44:38

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Send us a text After a fine run of guest interviews, Iain and Andrew are back in “classic” pod mode this week, catching up on five recent tracks, played and contextualised for your listening pleasure. Thirty-plus years in, can Teenage Fanclub still deliver the melodic, bittersweet goods? Is ‘Everything Harmony’ a fitting album title for high-kickin…

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New Music - Blur! Alogte Oho & His Sounds Of Joy! The Ironsides! Plus our interview with EYES OF OTHERS! 2:10:48

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Send us a text Practitioner of post-genre, post-pub-couldn’t-get-in-the-club music John Bryden aka Eyes Of Others is the latest guest in We Heard Wonders-land. John chats to us about ice-baths, sun-beds, and the wonderful and frightening world of Nico, as well as his ace debut LP, just-released on Heavenly Recordings. He also selects four cool tune…

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New Music - Queens Of The Stone Age! Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints! Fatoumata Diawara! Plus our interview with NIGHT CALLER! 2:01:47

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Send us a text Iain and Andrew have a date with the Night (Caller) on the latest instalment of @weheardwonders pod. Danny from Leith gutter-pop lotharios Night Caller joins us to chat Grease, break-ups, cats and the group’s devilishly catchy debut single and EP. Danny also picks and plays five slickly-produced, thematically-linked tracks. Iain and …

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New Music - BC Camplight! Modern Cosmology! Plus our interview with MICHAEL M PHYSICS! 1:54:24

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Send us a text On this week’s @weheardwonders, Andrew and Iain - especially fanboy Iain - are buzzing to be joined by Michael M Physics, offa purveyors of “fast existentialist nerd rock for people who like sighing but also fighting” Slime City, We Are The Physics and Twitter. Topics up for discussion include Slime City’s highly entertaining new rec…

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New Music - Jessie Ware! Nabihah Iqbal! The Dream Machine! Isolde Lasoen! Rudy De Anda! 1:32:47

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Send us a text A GROOVY selection of tracks on this week’s @weheardwonders - either groovy in the “this’ll get you outta your seat, get you moving” kind of way, or groovy in the hip, sixties-inspired sense of the word. Following the triumphant What’s Your Pleasure?, Jessie Ware’s new record finds her in disco-diva mode once more - but is she still …

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New Music - Durand Jones! PJ Harvey! Kara Jackson! Spencer Cullum! Scott William Urquhart & Constant Follower! 1:35:02

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Send us a text This week’s selections give Andrew and Iain even more of an opportunity than usual to flex their analytical muscles with not one, not two, but THREE published poets among the artists up for discussion. We dive into the hotly-anticipated and hot-off-the-press new track from PJ Harvey, the meaty debut album by former U.S. National Yout…

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New Music - Lael Neale! Jonathan Wilson! Metallica! 1:25:19

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Send us a text At the third time of asking, a new precious @weheardwonders pod is here! It’s yours, take it! New music by graveyard-dwelling Sub Popper Lael Neale and your favourite singer-songwriter’s favourite producer & singer-songwriter in his own right Jonathan Wilson is put under the miscoscope. Plus, we ride the lightning: Iain - his devil-h…

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New Music - Mokoomba! Immaterial Possession! El Michels Affair, Black Thought & Kirby! James Ellis Ford! Powers / Pulice / Rolin! 1:31:53

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Send us a text A vast expanse of musical ground is covered on the latest @weheardwonders podcast. Hey, it’s what we do! We move from the sunlit Zimrock of Mokoomba to the mysterious medieval hijinks and levitating bananas of Immaterial Possession; from the latest inspired team-up (this time with El Michels Affair) of hip-hop firebrand Black Thought…

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New Music - Murray A. Lightburn! Altin Gün! Eddie Chacon! James Holden! Anona! 1:23:35

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Send us a text Iain and Andrew reconvene for more reviews and rambles of a musical persuasion. On this week’s @weheardwonders, you will hear something graceful and tasteful and made with obvious affection from Murray A. Lightburn; Altin Gün are up to their old Anatolian-psych-rock antics; Eddie Chacon’s career resurgence continues apace; progressiv…

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New Music - Lankum! Lana del Rey! Plus our interview with GURRY WURRY! 1:51:51

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Send us a text There’s a gurry wurry at @weheardwonders headquarters this week! No, Iain and Andrew haven’t come to blows…on the contrary, they’re getting along famously with Dave King, the brains behind ambitious weirdo-pop outfit Gurry Wurry. We discuss new album Not As Bad As It Sounds, home recording, the joy of a sad song, and play some of Dav…

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New Music - Taylor Swift 'Eras' chat! Ulrika Spacek! Clark! Death and Vanilla! Yves Tumor! Baby Rose & Smino! 1:18:16

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Send us a text Hear thee! Hear thee! It’s another episode of We Heard Wonders-ee! Yep, @weheardwonders are back with five smoking hot new platters to revolve and review: the bad-trip psychedelia of Ulrika Spacek; the impossible-to-ignore rave ramblings of Clark’s Town Crank; the diaphanous dream-psych of Death and Vanilla; the post-genre posturing …

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Now That's What I Call New(ish) Music Vol. 2! 1:28:13

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Send us a text Join us for the second and - likely final - volume of @weheardwonders’ short-lived but celebrated “Now That’s What I Call Newish Music!” series (that’s right, from next week, it’ll be nothing but box-fresh bangers guaranteed!). Iain and Andrew review more tracks from noteworthy albums released between January and now: the highly-coll…

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Now That’s What I Call New(ish) Music Vol. 1! 1:34:17

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Send us a text We’re back, baby! After a longer than anticipated break, it feels good to be back behind the mics and serving up the first @weheardwonders of 2023, an episode we’re catchily titling “Now That’s What I Call Newish Music Vol. 1!” Iain and Andrew play and dissect tracks from noteworthy albums released in January and Feb: the solo career…

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www.electrosexual-official.com SC: @electrosexual BC: electrosexual.bandcamp.comBy Electrosexual

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ELECTROSEXUAL - SHERO Mix for BEATPORT PRIDE 28-07-22 Watch The stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ed2lKnsc7Y&ab_channel=ELECTROSEXUALBy Electrosexual

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Electrosexual - Back Alley Sallys - Berlin 2:02:57

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Tracklist: Unconscious Honey – darkroom Tease (Electrosexual Remix) Snecker - Mandemic feat. Captain Comatose (Romain FX Remix) Antoni Maiovvi - Valencia Forever Shero Human Electrosexual Free Yourself Massi - I feel romantica Machinegewehr - Move Like Rays (I-Robots Reconstruction) Theodora - Wreckin' My Soul (Massimiliano Pagliara Acid Dub) Corma…

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Albums of the Year 2022 - part three! 1:29:16

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Send us a text Praise be! The third instalment of the @weheardwonders 2022 Review is upon us! Iain and Andrew again reflect on the year that was, playing and discussing seven tracks from seven of the albums to have found their way onto Andrew’s epic album rundown. Expect pastoral orchestral loveliness, restless future-soul, fuzzy power-balladry, vi…

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Albums of the Year 2022 - part two! 1:28:01

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Send us a text It’s part 2 in a proposed trilogy: The Two Towers of the @weheardwonders End Of Year review, if you will - but with nary a talking tree in sight. Iain and Andrew highlight six more standout albums from 2022, playing and discussing selected tracks for your delectation. Genres include country-soul, globe-swallowing disco-pop, spidery b…

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Albums of the Year 2022 - part one! 1:57:00

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Send us a text It’s the most wonderful time of the year…especially for list-loving music fanatics like us! In the first of three End Of Year specials, @weheardwonders spin and reflect upon a typically diverse batch of stand-out 2022 releases, with jazz, electronica, psychedelic folk-rock, and even Zimbabwean street-music thrown into the mix. Iain a…

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New Music - Crazy P! Ghost Woman! SOYUZ! Temps (James Acaster)! Florence Adooni! 1:37:07

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Send us a text One November spawned a monster in the shape of this podcast: @weheardwonders play and review new tunes from disco-house collective Crazy P, scuzzy garage-rock apparition Ghost Woman, Brazilian-music-besotted Belarusians SOYUZ, and wonderful Ghanaian gospel singer Florence Adooni. We also share our thoughts on the first offering from …

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New Music - Heather Trost! A. Wesley Chung! Ghost Funk Orchestra! Andrew Wasylyk! June McDoom! 1:22:40

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Send us a text We may be hurtling towards End Of Year List Season, but @weheardwonders still comes through with a mighty fine crop of just-released new tunes. Heather Trost’s persuasive kosmische leaves us hypnotised; power-pop craftsman A. Wesley Chung serves up Something Old, Something New; Ghost Funk Orchestra’s suavely skronking fish-men seem d…

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Our interview with Greg from The Deadline Shakes! Plus Benjamin Clementine! Rahill! GIFT! 2:15:33

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Send us a text Things get Heavy, Baby on @weheardwonders this week as we’re joined by Greg Dingwall - vocalist, keyboardist, guitarist and presumably brains-of-the-operation in Glasgow art-pop combo @thedeadlineshakes. We talk theatricality, friendship and tipples of choice, as well as the band’s fine new album, the eagerly-anticipated ‘Documentari…

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Our interview with Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai! Plus Peter Matthew Bauer! Alvvays! Eyes Of Others! 1:31:16

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Send us a text A happy pod for happy people this week, as @weheardwonders hosts singer/songwriter/guitarist and founding member of Mogwai, Stuart Braithwaite (@plasmatron). We discuss Stuart’s excellent just-released memoir Spaceships Over Glasgow, the thrill of sonic assaults, the magic of the Barras, “The Conjuring series of instrumental rock son…

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