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We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandYorke, Knives & Other Wonders: Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke, Mess Esque, Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals, Barker, Little Barrie & Malcolm CattoSend us a textYou are all invited to @weheardwonders' infinite garden of musical delights! Tune in for Iain and Andrew's takes on the new collaborative album by electronic musician/producer Mark Pritchard and a certain Thomas Edward Yorke, the Aussie alt-rock experimentation of Mess Esque, Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals' confounding and confrontational brand of alternative hip-hop, Barker's textured techno, and Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto's psych-blues interplay. Something unrelenting and bug-eyed has The Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous...2025-05-141h 28
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandBold Voices: Matt Carmichael Interview + Sault & Backxwash Fresh CutsSend us a textJoining the @weheardwonders boys for this week's pod is Scottish saxophonist and composer Matt Carmichael. Matt discusses his wonderful new LP Dancing With Embers, the art of improvising and taking inspiration from folk singer-songwriters, as well as selecting some fantastic music to play. Elsewhere, with Iain talking Animals and Andrew enthusing about At Pompeii, is 2025 going to be a Floyd Summer? New releases by mysterious groove merchants Sault and intense alternative hip-hop artist Backxwash are also up for review. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends...2025-05-071h 42
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNewish Music - Bon Iver! Japanese Breakfast! The Horrors! Daniel Paul O'Sullivan! Annie and the Caldwells!Send us a textWe Heard Wonderers Iain and Andrew return in one piece (just about) following their European exploits. We have our say on high-profile new indie releases from Bon Iver, Japanese Breakfast and The Horrors - do they hit the mark, or leave something to be desired? Exciting projects from contemporary composer Daniel Paul O’Sullivan and gospel-soul family unit Annie & The Caldwells are also up for discussion. Something beguiling and beautiful has The Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up...2025-04-171h 27
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Lady Gaga! Fust! Melin Melyn! Candi Staton! Maud the Moth!Send us a textDon’t let it ever be said that @weheardwonders don’t have range! On the latest pod, Iain and Andrew discuss the potential reemergence of Radiohead, before playing and reviewing new records by returning pop royalty Lady Gaga, none-more-American alternative country band Fust, mellifluous Welsh millers Melin Melyn, sensational soul survivor Candi Staton and avant-classical-folk-metal world-weaver Maud The Moth. Something strutting of a sixties vintage has The Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and supp...2025-03-191h 39
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - The Limiñanas! DARKSIDE! Everything is Recorded! Marshall Allen! Ichiko Aoba!Send us a textFascinating, sometimes unexpected pairings and groupings are the name of the game on this week’s @weheardwonders podcast. Iain and Andrew share their favourite musical mash-ups, before moving on to review five collaboration-heavy new projects. Bobby Gillespie lives out his noirish, faded glamour fantasies alongside Mr & Mrs of French garage-rock The Limiñanas; DARKSIDE expand to a trio and jam out; Richard Russell and assorted friends turn existential on the latest Everything Is Recorded document; Sun Ra acolyte Marshall Allen enlists Neneh Cherry and proves it’s never too late to take centre-stage; while...2025-03-051h 30
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - HONESTY! John Glacier! Oklou! Richard Dawson! Confucius MC & Bastien Keb!Send us a textMystery hangs in the air and cloaks many of the artists played and discussed on this week's @weheardwonders pod: whether it be shadowy, alt-electro collective HONESTY; the endlessly intriguing, expectation-defying John Glacier; Oklou's introspective approach to futurist-medieval-Y2K dance-pop; progressive folk musician Richard Dawson's obtuse quest for the divine in day-time TV; or the hazy, daydream-folk-hop of South London rapper Confucius MC's new collaboration with producer/multi-instrumentalist Bastien Keb. As well as this, Iain and Andrew pay tribute to two talented recently-departed artists. Something cosmic and swelling with humanity has The Vinyl Word...2025-02-261h 27
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - FKA Twigs! Benjamin Booker! Anna B Savage! Sam Amidon! Thandii!Send us a textPodcasting late at night in their pants surrounded by a week’s worth of washing is when Iain and Andrew are at their most Eusexua. Tune into @weheardwonders to hear their opinions on some intriguing new music: FKA twigs discovers the best version of herself on the dance-floor; Benjamin Booker takes a dramatic left-turn and asks “what would happen if I mixed Mobb Deep and the Mary Chain?”; tender singer-songwriter Anna B Savage tests our Irish pronunciation; Sam Amidon brings a salty freshness to traditional folk; while Thandii lend some soulful succour and casual...2025-02-141h 31
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta! Ex-Vöid! Sophie Jamieson! Moonchild Sanelly! Brown Spirits!Send us a textLooking for some intriguing artists and box-fresh tunes to kick-start your year? @weheardwonders have you covered! Yes, indeed, Iain and Andrew are back with their first new music show of 2025: played and discussed are a novel merging of old and new, Congolese and Peruvian; scuzzy, fuzzy indie-rock featuring a Joanna Gruesome twosome; stirringly intense alternative-folk courtesy of Bella Union; exuberantly provocative South African "future ghetto funk"; and cosmic jams from down-under. Something enchanting and idiosyncratic has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends...2025-01-221h 16
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandEpisode 100 - Best of 2024Send us a textThey said it couldn’t be done! Many questioned whether it SHOULD be done! But here it is - Episode 100 of the @weheardwonders podcast! What better way to commemorate this astonishing achievement in content-creation than by Iain and Andrew sitting down and reflecting on the year that was 2024? We play and enthuse about some of our standout records of the past 12 months, as well as discussing many of the wider trends. Which releases did Iain return to again and again? Did Andrew’s epic Album Of The Year rundown finally break him? Tune in t...2025-01-081h 27
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Sam Fender! MEMORIALS! Denzel Curry! Emma-Jean Thackray! Jill Lorean! Plus Kendrick Lamar!Send us a textMUSTAAAARD! 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 Curry, space-funk trumpeter Emma-Jean Thackray and very talented friend-o'-pod Jill Lorean. Something obscenely, moreishly groovy has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the show by...2024-11-271h 21
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Doves! Fievel is Glauque! Kim Deal! Mk.gee! Olive Jones!Send us a textThree 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 Kim Deal, 80s-obsessed word-of-mouth sensation Mk.Gee and British soul stylist Olive Jones. Something beardy and jauntily acousticy has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends; like...2024-11-131h 35
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Yasmin Williams! Blood Incantation! Field Music! Tyler, The Creator! One True Pairing!Send us a textIain 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 Pairing are all played and reviewed. Something raw and rockin’ from Thailand has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the show by buying us a Coffee (link in...2024-11-061h 51
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Kosmischer Läufer! Alan Sparhawk! Ezra Collective! Upupayãma! Nubya Garcia!Send us a textYippie-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 Upupayãma and sax ’n’ string supremo Nubya Garcia. Something lovely and lunar-related has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the show by buying us a Coffee (link in the...2024-10-081h 40
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Bon Iver! Etran de L'Aïr! Lady Blackbird! Beautify Junkyards w/Paul Weller! Chrysanths!Send us a textIain 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, Lisbon psych-folk collective Beautify Junkyards team up with Modfather Paul Weller with the sole intention of freaking out Iain, and Chrysanths (aka Emily Scott from Glasgow chamber-pop darlings Modern Studies) does some miraculous things with strings. Something venomous and omnivorous has the...2024-09-271h 37
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - MJ Lenderman! Mercury Rev! Nala Sinephro! Brooke Combe! Christopher Haddow!Send us a textThe 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, Scottish soul-sister Brooke Combe and ambient-folk axeman Christopher Haddow. Something iridescent and electronic has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the show by...2024-09-181h 43
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Yannis & The Yaw! Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds! Bananagun! The Soundcarriers! Ezra Feinberg!Send us a textAt 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 shimmering and stunning has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the show by...2024-09-041h 45
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Fontaines D.C.! Geordie Greep! Gillian Welch & David Rawlings! Thee Heart Tones! Magdalena Bay! Plus Oasis reunion chat!Send us a textBe 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 new music from indie-rock kings-in-waiting Fontaines D.C., black midi showman Geordie Greep, Americana royalty Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Chicano soul upstarts Thee Heart Tones, and avant-pop adventurers Magdalena Bay. Something intensely, soaringly euphoric has...2024-08-281h 43
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Billie Eilish! The Lovely Eggs! Villagers! Ugly (UK)! Myriam Gendron!Send us a textWe 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 new album by pop sensation Billie Eilish, Northern indie cottage-industry The Lovely Eggs, Ivor Novella darlings Villagers, creatively restless and ambitious six-piece Ugly (UK) and Quebecois Queen Myriam Gendro...2024-05-281h 30
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Mdou Moctar! The Lemon Twigs! Ibibio Sound Machine! Jessica Pratt! Fergus McCreadie!Send us a textGigantic! 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 Ibibio Sound Machine and the ever-beguiling Jessica Pratt. Something splintering, sprawling and fitting has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the show by b...2024-05-101h 36
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Taylor Swift! Friko! Ederlezi! Fabiana Palladino! Guests!Send us a textWe’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. It’s not exclusively planet-swallowing superstars on their 11th album on @weheardwonders, however - we also play and share our thoughts on tracks from four of 2024’s more notable debut LPs, courtesy o...2024-04-261h 33
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Hannah Frances! Cindy Lee! English Teacher! Shabaka! Magick Brother & Mystic Sister!Send us a textIain 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 Barcelona’s psych-fantasists Magick Brother & Mystic Sister. Finally, a whoop-inducing flute-led banger has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends that we’re back; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the sh...2024-04-201h 53
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Sahra Halgan! Gustaf! Jane Weaver! Khruangbin! Daisy Rickman! Diving Horse!Send us a textHome-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. Central Belt upstarts Diving Horse make a splash, and one side of a classic Brit-psych 45 has The Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends that we’re back; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and suppor...2024-04-101h 29
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Waxahatchee! LAIR! Adrianne Lenker! Julia Holter! Oisin Leech!Send us a textAfter 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-collaborating Irish songwriter Oisin Leech. Finally, something “Something”-related has The Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends that we’re back; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and supp...2024-04-051h 34
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Nadine Shah! Real Estate! Mohammad Syfkhan! MGMT! Ghost Funk Orchestra!Send us a textOn 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 track from Ghost Funk Orchestra’s new “jazz-funk space odyssey” - are we along for the trip? Finally, Andrew won’t let the small matter of his records being in storage get in the way of selecting something stately by an art-pop elder-stat...2024-02-281h 31
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Les Amazones d’Afrique! Brittany Howard! Dina Ögon! Grandaddy! Yirinda!Send us a textThere’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, Australia’s Yirinda, and Les Amazones d’Afrique from, er, Africa. A heart-melter from one of Andrew’s ultimate musical icons has The Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends that we’re ba...2024-02-201h 21
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - David Nance! The Last Dinner Party! Bolts Of Melody! YG Marley! Beth Gibbons!Send us a textOn 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 Mowed Sound, new great hopes The Last Dinner Party, cinematic shoegazers Bolts Of Melody, heir-to-the-reggae-spoils YG Marley and returning queen Beth Gibbons. The worst greatest hits by your favourite artists are discussed, while something big, blustery and brillian...2024-02-101h 47
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - The Smile! Gruff Rhys! Ty Segall! They Hate Change! Daudi Matsiko!Send us a textNo 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. Also played and dissected are new releases from mind-bending pop-mage Gruff Rhys, dog-loving psych-punk-rocker Ty Segall, hyperactive hip-hop upstarts They Hate Change, and confessional contemporary-folk artist Daudi Matsiko. Something classic and egg-related has Th...2024-01-311h 39
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - YĪN YĪN! Rosali! Omni! Kali Uchis! SLIFT!Send us a textYes 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 bop from Kali Uchis, and a monolithic, monochromatic interstellar epic from doomy space-rockers SLIFT (it’s what they do!). We also play the new track by Scottish singer-songwriter Kevin Bennett, and pay tribute to a great soul voice in The Vinyl Word. Listen t...2024-01-241h 30
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Liam Gallagher & John Squire! Plantoid! Muireann Bradley! Bill Ryder-Jones! Nino Gvilia!Send us a textHow 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/Britpop throwback? Just how PROG are progressive upstarts Plantoid? Has anybody had a better start to 2024 than Irish country-blues guitarist & singer Muireann Bradley? Will Bill Ryder-Jones’ cinematic return leave us all aquiver? And - perhaps the bigges...2024-01-111h 29
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Teenage Fanclub! The Lemon Twigs! Mong Tong! Kassa Overall! Emma Tricca!Send us a textAfter 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-kickingly glamorous siblings-of-song The Lemon Twigs? And what will we make of Mong Tong’s sample-based Taiwanese psychedelia? Kassa Overall’s distinctly contemporary collisions of jazz, neo-soul and hip-hop and Emma Tricca’s progressive take on acid-folk are also given room to breathe. Fi...2023-06-021h 44
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Blur! Alogte Oho & His Sounds Of Joy! The Ironsides! Plus our interview with EYES OF OTHERS!Send us a textPractitioner 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 tunes for us to play. Not only this, Iain and Andrew have three new music reviews for ya, sharing thoughts on Blur’s big return, Alogte Oho & His Sounds Of Joy and the Ironsides. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast plat...2023-05-242h 10
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Queens Of The Stone Age! Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints! Fatoumata Diawara! Plus our interview with NIGHT CALLER!Send us a textIain 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 Andrew review fresh tunes from hard-rock heavyweights Queens Of The Stone Age, brand-new-retro soulsters Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints and Mali’s “first female solo electric guitar player” Fatoumata Diawara. All this, plus a live report from this year’s Liverpool...2023-05-172h 01
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - BC Camplight! Modern Cosmology! Plus our interview with MICHAEL M PHYSICS!Send us a textOn 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 record Slime City Death Club, manifestos, mangling pop’s past, and eye-popping encounters with Art Brut and Jared Leto’s Thirty Seconds To Mars, while Michael selects some ace tracks that are important to him. Iain also can’t resist...2023-05-101h 54We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Jessie Ware! Nabihah Iqbal! The Dream Machine! Isolde Lasoen! Rudy De Anda!Send us a textA 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 capable of transforming the most modest of kitchen discos into an opulent party palace? Why does Nabihah Iqbal’s post-punk/new-wave leave Iain feeling so nostalgic? Wirral-upstarts The Dream Machine make us feel very o...2023-05-051h 32We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Durand Jones! PJ Harvey! Kara Jackson! Spencer Cullum! Scott William Urquhart & Constant Follower!Send us a textThis 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 Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson, and a wonderful collaboration between Constant Follower, Scott William Urquhart and Scottish titan Norman MacCaig. Also, Durand Jones steps out on his own without his Indications, and Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection spli...2023-04-271h 35We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Lael Neale! Jonathan Wilson! Metallica!Send us a textAt 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-horns-aloft - tells Metallica-neophyte Andrew what he finds so deathly magnetic about the legendary metal survivors and we share our thoughts on their eleventh studio offering 72 Seasons. Finally, something eccentric and orchestral and wonderful has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We H...2023-04-221h 25We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Mokoomba! Immaterial Possession! El Michels Affair, Black Thought & Kirby! James Ellis Ford! Powers / Pulice / Rolin!Send us a textA 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 to producer-extraordinaire James Ellis Ford’s idiosyncratic lurch centre-stage, and the warmly soothing and quietly profound Appalachian trance of Powers / Pulice / Rolin. Andrew discusses his Great Vinyl Migration, Iain freestyles about freestyle, and something swampy and funky has the Viny...2023-04-131h 31We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Murray A. Lightburn! Altin Gün! Eddie Chacon! James Holden! Anona!Send us a textIain 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; progressive-dance producer James Holden finds the cosmic in the communal; and “Goddess of the Harvest” Anona delivers gentle jazz-folk. Go-to motivational tunes are shared, transporting new genres are invented, and something grandiose and miserablist has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders o...2023-04-051h 23We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Lankum! Lana del Rey! Plus our interview with GURRY WURRY!Send us a textThere’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 Dave’s inspired and eclectic musical selections. We also spin and review hefty new offerings from contemporary folk doomsters Lankum and the increasingly iconic Lana Del Rey. Sounds good, right! Listen to We Heard Wond...2023-03-291h 51We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNow That's What I Call New(ish) Music Vol. 2!Send us a textJoin 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-collaborative return of industrial-gospel revolutionaries Algiers; Lil Yachty’s Questlove-approved psych-pop-funk-soul pivot; Rogê’s fresh update on the Brazilian masters; Marlene Ribeiro’s deeply psychedelic sonic patchworks; Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall’s surging new team-up The Waeve. Which one has Iain re...2023-03-091h 28We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNow That’s What I Call New(ish) Music Vol. 1!Send us a textWe’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 of The Duke Spirit’s Liela Moss continues apace; African psych-rockers Orchestra Gold again deliver what they say on the tin with new LP Medicine; Juni Habel invites us into her world of delicately pretty Norwe...2023-03-011h 34We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandAlbums of the Year 2022 - part three!Send us a textPraise 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, vintage-sounding biker-psych, devilishly dexterous hip-hop, sublime seventies-influenced song-craft, and kosmische-folk. What did you think of our selections? What have been some of your musical highlights of 2022? We’d love to know! Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; like...2022-12-211h 29We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandAlbums of the Year 2022 - part two!Send us a textIt’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 baroque-rock, throwback R&B, otherworldly neo-classical, and wonky progressive folk. What did you think of our selections? What have been some of your musical highlights of 2022? We’d love to know! Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choi...2022-12-141h 28We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandAlbums of the Year 2022 - part one!Send us a textIt’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 and Andrew also have their say on two of the year’s most ambitious and talked-about LPs. What did you think of our selections? What have been some of your musical highlights of 2022? We’d love to know! Listen to We Heard Wonders...2022-12-071h 57We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Crazy P! Ghost Woman! SOYUZ! Temps (James Acaster)! Florence Adooni!Send us a textOne 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 international posse Temps, the sprawlingly ambitious musical project spearheaded by James Acaster - will it be a tasty morsel or a hot mess? All this, plus Andrew is shook by Iain’s admission about a certain song, and a millennial alt-folk update of This Mortal Coil ha...2022-11-161h 37We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Heather Trost! A. Wesley Chung! Ghost Funk Orchestra! Andrew Wasylyk! June McDoom!Send us a textWe 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 determined to put all the lugubrious lounge lizards of the world out of work; the brilliant-named June McDoom rewards repeated listens, while Andrew Wasylyk’s stunning music speaks for itself. We also salute the majestic Mimi Parker, and play out the show w...2022-11-091h 22We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandOur interview with Greg from The Deadline Shakes! Plus Benjamin Clementine! Rahill! GIFT!Send us a textThings 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 ‘Documentaries’. Guitarist Iain is also here. Iain and Andrew then play and review new tunes by Benjamin Clementine, Rahill and GIFT: rest assured, there is much to discuss. A far-out country-rock collage from the late sixties has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast...2022-11-022h 15We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandOur interview with Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai! Plus Peter Matthew Bauer! Alvvays! Eyes Of Others!Send us a textA 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 songs”, the perils of performing on poppers and acid, and so much more. Stuart also selects some tunes for us to spin! All before Iain and Andrew share their thoughts on the latest offerings from former-Walkman Peter Matthew Bauer, dream-pop darlings of the moment Alvvays, and my...2022-10-191h 31We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - LCD Soundsystem! Run Logan Run! Polyphia!Send us a textNY’s hippest hipsters LCD Soundsystem are under the @weheardwonders microscope this week: we discuss our respective listening histories with the band, before offering up our thoughts on their latest comeback comeback track. Elsewhere, does Polyphia’s all-the-genres-all-of-the-time, why-play-one-note-when-I-can-play-twelve? approach to music make for an enjoyable listening experience? And could progressive psych-noir-jazz outfit Run Logan Run be any further up Andrew’s alley? Something simultaneously primitive and space-age has the Vinyl Word. Plus, ‘Documentaries’-maker Iain is finally free to spill the beans and give us all the juicy goss regarding The Deadline Shakes’ fo...2022-10-051h 09We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - WITCH! Loyle Carner! The Mars Volta! Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin! Ari Lennox!Send us a textAndrew files a weekend gig report and salutes a departing @weheardwonders hero, before the guys share some thoughts on modern listening habits. Then it’s on to the matter of New Music: are Zamrock legends WITCH still capable of causing havoc? Where do we stand on The Mars Volta’s streamlined new direction and self-titled LP? And can Vieux Farka Toure, with Khruangbin in tow, take the acclaimed work of his father into an interesting new space? Elsewhere, lovely South London lad Loyle Carner returns with something simultaneously personal and grandstanding, and Ari Lenn...2022-09-281h 35We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandScreen Dreams: Music Biopic Special!Send us a textThis week @weheardwonders take a trip to the movies discussing the good, the bad, the ugly and best-in-show in the genre that is The Music Biopic! Joining Iain and Andrew to separate the Hits from the Misses, the Curios from the Admirable Failures is film enthusiast and expert in American cultural studies, Fraser McCallum. We identify and dissect the top tropes used in the telling of so many of these often-mythic tales of rock’n’roll excess (from Ray and Walk The Line to Bohemian Rhapsody and Elvis), as well as considering the...2022-09-211h 41We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Charlie Clark! Weyes Blood! Alex G! Jockstrap!Send us a textIain’s in his element, while Andrew is slightly more trepidatious, as @weheardwonders - having had to abandon their previously scheduled programming at the eleventh hour - soldier on in order to furnish you, dear listener, with precious content. We play and give our instant reactions to new music from Glasgow power-popper Charlie Clark, sensationally sumptuous songstress Weyes Blood, the now-not-so-lo-fi Alex G, and the inscrutable, uncategorisable Jockstrap. Finally, the Vinyl Word tips its hat to something lovely (kind of) celebrating a big anniversary. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast pl...2022-09-141h 01We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Arctic Monkeys! Caitlin Rose! Goat! Silvana Estrada! Cass McCombs!Send us a textWe’re feeling the love this week on @weheardwonders. Andrew gives his verdict on last weekend’s @connectfestsco and Iain salutes a singular album celebrating its 28th anniversary. Then it’s down to the new releases: big returns from Arctic Monkeys (now that he’s checked out of the Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, where will Alex Turner take up residency next?), alt-country singer-songwriter Caitlin Rose and pagan psychedelists Goat (will Iain be tempted to join fully-paid-up card-carrying tribe-member Andrew in the group’s commune?), plus beguiling tunes from Silvana Estrada and Cass McCombs ri...2022-08-311h 22We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandFIDDYSend us a textIn celebration of their 50th episode and a full one year of podding, Iain and Andrew play jazz with the @weheardwonders format! We field queries from our lovely listeners (discussions include the Best Year For Music Evz and The Most Powerful Spice Girl), play out comments and spin some choice tunes - each selecting a stand-out song from the pod archive, as well as a Track That You Just HAVE To Hear. We also feature exclusive new music from @thedeadlineshakes. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; like, subscribe...2022-08-242h 09We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - U.S. Girls! Big Joanie! Chat Pile! Twain! The Utopia Strong!Send us a textIain and Andrew offer some thoughts on the runners and riders in contention for this year’s Mercury Prize, before getting down to reviewing some fresh tuneage. Does U.S. Girls’ pivot towards the eighties make for a welcome return? Does Big Joanie’s brand of “black feminist punk” raise a pulse and a smile? Does the murky noise-rock of Chat Pile captivate, as well as challenge and confront? Does Matthew Davidson’s output as Twain stand up to his work with alternative-folksters The Low Anthem? And does The Utopia Strong’s second LP represent t...2022-08-031h 20We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandOur interview with The Wife Guys Of Reddit! Plus Killer Mike! Automatic! BKO!Send us a textJoin us on @weheardwonders for a chat with exuberant “purveyors of soupy rock” The Wife Guys Of Reddit. We discuss The Wife Guys’ short, sharp and entertainingly absurdist new EP, as well as our favourite Will Ferrell performances, the joy of jamming, and the lack of diversity on festival bills. They also select tracks by turns trippy, mellifluous and grungey. Andrew and Iain then review new music from hip-hop activist Killer Mike, dance-funk humanoids Automatic, and Malian afro-rockers BKO. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; like, subscribe and re...2022-07-131h 22We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Sampa The Great! Dungen! Preoccupations! Valerie June! Tumi Mogorosi!Send us a textBless our cotton socks, we’re in the news! Or in The List, at least. On this week’s @weheardwonders, your loyal hosts provide further evidence of their three-star-worthy “easy rapport”, with Iain reporting back from his pop-tastic weekend in the Big Smoke. Then it’s down to the main business at hand: playing and reviewing five exciting new tracks from Zambian superstar-in-waiting Sampa The Great, neo-psych magicians Dungen, post-punk gloomsters Preoccupations, “organic moonshine roots music”-maker Valerie June, and South African drummer/bandleader Tumi Mogorosi. Andrew describes one of those tracks as being arguably...2022-07-071h 18We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Julia Jacklin! Minami Deutsch! Gorillaz feat. Thundercat! JPW! Alison Cotton!Send us a textOn this week’s @weheardwonders, GORILLAZ join forces with THE THUNDERCATS in the greatest cartoon crossover team-up OF ALL TIME!!! Er, sorry, our mistake - it’s actually Gorillaz featuring elastic-bass-supremo Thundercat...still pretty cool though, right! Elsewhere, singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin returns with something strident; Iain Googles Japanese kosmische-rockers Minami Deutsch with baffling results; Aquarium Drunkard contributor Jason P. Woodbury turns creator of wonderful widescreen music on his project JPW; and experimental folk artist Alison Cotton produces something appealingly eerie. Plus, obligatory Glastonbury chat and the Vinyl Word. www.buyme...2022-06-291h 18We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Auntie Flo & Sarathy Korwar! Beyonce! Wax Machine! MUNA! Naima Bock!Send us a textWhere else but @weheardwonders will you find Queen Bey mingling with yer Auntie Flo and a former Goat Girl? Yep - praise Bey! - Beyoncé is back with the first taster from her eagerly-anticipated follow-up to Lemonade. But is it any good? We also share our thoughts on Auntie Flo & Sarathy Korwar’s minimal electronica-Indian classical synthesis, Wax Machine’s psychedelic paean to Springtime, Naima Bock’s green-fingered progressive folk, and a “sexy, happy song” from MUNA. A freshly reissued Record Collector record from 1970 has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your pod...2022-06-221h 24We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Ruby Goon! Yaya Bey! Adrian Quesada! Nikki Lane! Heal & Harrow!Send us a textEp 40(!) of @weheardwonders and we’re in a reflective mood - we each recommend an episode from the archive to explore/revisit before getting on with the new music business at hand. Tracks played and dissected come from exciting new Phantasy signings Ruby Goon, NY multidisciplinary mischief Yaya Bey, Latin-music-steeped Black Pumas guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada, strutting “Highway Queen” Nikki Lane, and Scottish folk artists (word chosen advisedly) Heal & Harrow. A wonderfully epic track by a returning act has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; like...2022-06-151h 25We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandOur interview with Susan Bear! Plus Yeah Yeah Yeahs! Orgone! Johnny Ray Daniels!Send us a textSongwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Susan Bear joins us on @weheardwonders on the eve of the release of their splendid, strikingly personal new record Alter. We chat programmed drums, house prices and the ultimate running song, and Susan maps out the many steps that have lead to the album’s completion. Andrew and Iain then review new music from returning NYC art-punk-royalty Yeah Yeah Yeahs, hard-rocking-hard-funking collective Orgone and sacred-soul stirrer Johnny Ray Daniels. Threads are tied together for a contemplative Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; li...2022-06-081h 23We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Gold Panda! Rachel Chinouriri! Helge Iberg! RJ McKendree! Yama Warashi! AND A SPECIAL VINYL WORD BEATLES EDITION!Send us a textAndrew and Iain look back at their younger student selves with a mixture of fondness and shame, before bringing things bang up to date with another @weheardwonders new music podcast. Tunes played and dissected come courtesy of returning glitchy-geezer Gold Panda, on-the-rise pop stylist Rachel Chinouriri, fab classical pianist Helge Iberg, mysterious Californian psych-folk shaman RJ McKendree and Japanese art-pop surrealists Yama Warashi. Both of your hosts then have their say in a special Beatles-related Vinyl Word.www.buymeacoffee.com/weheardwondersSupport the show2022-06-011h 31We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Diana Ross & Tame Impala! Daniel Avery! Alex Izenberg! Rina Sawayama! Daniel Villarreal!Send us a textYou can always rely on your pals at @weheardwonders to turn up the sunshine! This week, Andrew has been reunited with some prized possessions, while Iain has been observing - and judging - his mates’ listening habits. New Music-wise, we unpack an unlikely (but welcome) coming-together of disco diva Diana Ross, neo-psych mastermind Tame Impala and multiple tiny yellow henchmen; aided by a pair of electric friends, Daniel Avery descends into darkness; Alex Izenberg’s chamber-pop brings the class; Rina Sawayama’s lassoing empowerment-pop takes aim at the upper reaches of the charts; and In...2022-05-251h 22We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Ecstatic Vision! Kendrick Lamar! Madalitso Band! Maria Chiara Argirò! Astrel K!Send us a textOnce again, we cast our musical net far and wide on @weheardwonders. Philadelphian “troglodyte rockers” Ecstatic Vision kick things off in bracing fashion, before we attempt to unpick the multiple layers of Kendrick Lamar’s long-awaited new material. Musician, composer and producer Maria Chiara Argirò takes us somewhere nice and dreamy, Astrel K’s space-age art-pop is very much in Andrew’s wheelhouse, and joyous Malawian duo Madalitso Band may well be Iain’s favourite new discovery. Finally, Kendrick also provides the inspiration for an irresistibly funky Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on yo...2022-05-181h 30We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandOur interview with Isik Kural! Plus Kikagaku Moyo! Sharon Van Etten! Daniel Caesar feat. BADBADNOTGOOD!Send us a textWe’re back and raring to go with a very seasonal edition of @weheardwonders. The man behind Andrew’s soundtrack to Spring ‘22, Isik Kural invites us into a polyrhythmic dreamworld through his lovely selections, while a recently reissued record - as bright and breezy as a May day - has the Vinyl Word. We also play and review new music from Tokyo’s psychedelic tricksters Kikagaku Moyo, expert-emoter Sharon Van Etten and BADBADNOTGOOD-backed gospel-soul sensation Daniel Caesar. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with...2022-05-111h 40We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Large Plants! Good Looks! Ben Marc & Judi Jackson! Held by Trees! The Lazy Eyes!Send us a textOn this week’s @weheardwonders, we grab our figurative spades and root around in the Indie Landfill of the mid-noughties, before engaging in some lively debate regarding five newly-minted tunes. Andrew’s plucked something from one of his stand-out albums of the year so far, while another track finds Iain once again dropping the “G” bomb! The contenders include the heavy-folk-rock of one-organism-band Large Plants, blue-collar barroom-rockers Good Looks, glass-ceiling-shattering multi-instrumentalist Ben Marc, Talk Talk-affiliated Held By Trees and Oz-born garage-psychlists The Lazy Eyes. Something nice ‘n’ deep and contemplative has the Vinyl Word. Listen...2022-04-271h 36We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Jamie xx! Sun's Signature! Akusmi! Phoebe Bridgers! SAULT!Send us a textWe’re in “classic” New Music Podcast mode on this week’s @weheardwonders. Andrew fills Iain in on the two big live gigs he caught over the Easter weekend, and then it’s time for your faithful hosts to examine five newly-mined musical nuggets. Jamie xx does it again (“it” being a dancefloor-ready banger); new Liz Fraser-fronted project Sun’s Signature takes us somewhere pastoral and pretty; French-born composer Akusmi leaves us searching for the words to describe his jazzy avant-pop; Coachella-conquering Phoebe Bridgers returns with a one-off conversation-starter; and Andrew - surprising absolutely no-on...2022-04-201h 28We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandOur interview with Jill Lorean! Plus Pusha T! Jack White! Chronixx!Send us a textThe very excellent Jill Lorean (@jilllorean) joins us on @weheardwonders this week to discuss her dynamic, painterly debut LP ‘This Rock’. Jill tells us about the origins of the project, her fabulously “wild” grandmother, and the “cool little dudes” she considers to be “the underdogs of the bird world”. She gives a fascinating account of how she went out of her way not to meet one of her heroes, and picks some fantastic tunes into the bargain. Iain and Andrew then give their thoughts on new material from Pusha T, Jack White and Chronixx, before...2022-04-131h 51We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandOur interview with Fergus McCreadie! Plus Angel Olsen! Terakaft! Holland Andrews!Send us a textSupremely-talented jazz-folk pianist Fergus McCreadie is our guest on the latest @weheardwonders! We chat with Fergus about his stunning new LP Forest Floor, how he’s inspired by The Great Outdoors, why it’s important to know your jazz history, and what he considers to be the finest Big Thief-related project. He also talks us through some of his favourite tunes. Iain and Andrew then review new releases from Big Time chanteuse Angel Olsen, Malian desert rockers Terakaft and avant-electronic artist Holland Andrews, before a truly unique project has the beguiling, faintly sinister Viny...2022-04-061h 49We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Sudan Archives! Say She She! Aldous Harding! Arun Sood! Joel Ross!Send us a textOn this week’s @weheardwonders, we engage in a spot of light hate-listening (“one of the worst songs that I can remember by a major recording artist”), before swiftly pivoting to The Good Stuff. The super-talented Sudan Archives sets up home in our heart, discodelic-soul trio Say She She leave Andrew a little hot under the collar, and Joel Ross encourages us to join him on a spiritual jazz journey. We also discuss the many voices of indie darling Aldous Harding and the fascinating inspiration behind Scottish-Indian artist Arun Sood’s Searching Erskine. A gorgeo...2022-03-291h 23We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandOur interview with Duncan Marquiss! Plus Monophonics! Arcade Fire! WEMA!Send us a textMusician, artist, gent and guitarist in excellent Glasgow outfit The Phantom Band Duncan Marquiss joins us on @weheardwonders this week. In an illuminating conversation, Duncan talks us through the making of his splendid solo record Wires Turned Sideways In Time, as well as some of his musical inspirations and touchstones. We also dissect three new tracks from hurdy-gurdy-wielding alt-rock juggernaut Arcade Fire - is their long-anticipated return a welcome one? - “the world’s premier psychedelic soul band” Monophonics and electronic Afro-Latin act WEMA. Let us know your opinions on the show and whereab...2022-03-231h 59We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandOur interview with Pictish Trail! Plus Dave! Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul! Soul Revivers & Ken Boothe!Send us a textGOO GOO G’JOOB! @weheardwonders are extremely excited to welcome our first guest onto the podcast: psychedelic Eigg-man Pictish Trail AKA Johnny Lynch! We chat to Johnny about his exuberant new LP Island Family, getting back on the road, his true feelings regarding “belonging” and the natural world, pod-favourites Mercury Rev, and why Ringo Starr is the greatest. Iain and Andrew then play and discuss something funkily post-modern from Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul, something soulfully revivalist from Soul Revivers with Ken Boothe, and something chart-conquering from Dave, before a monumental slab of cons...2022-03-161h 44We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Pictish Trail! Gwenno! Kevin Morby! Project Gemini! Latarnik!Send us a textBiff! Bang! Pow! Your caped (and miked) crusaders return for the latest instalment of the @weheardwonders extended universe. There’s a raucous climate-change-charged opener from Eigg-man Pictish Trail, Gwenno continues to find the cosmic in the Cornish, Project Gemini dishes out psych breaks with a deadly sting in the tail, Kevin Morby paints a vivid sound picture, and keys-virtuoso Latarnik shines on a deeply personal solo project. An electronic act who helped broaden Andrew’s musical horizons have the Vinyl Word, with an album that will, terrifyingly, turn 20 in September. What do you make...2022-03-091h 31We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Mystic Jungle! Skiftande Enheter! Jordan Rakei! Pneumatic Tubes! HAAi!Send us a textThe @weheardwonders pod marches into March, with Iain and Andrew each bigging up a just-released album by a previously-discussed artist before getting stuck into five new off-the-beaten-track tunes. Mystic Jungle kick things off in deviantly delirious disco fashion; neo-soulster Jordan Rakei threatens one thing then delivers another; Swedish DIY supergroup Skiftande Enheter split the panel; Midlake and Mercury Rev-affiliated project Pneumatic Tubes reminisces; and we say a very enthusiastic “Hi!” to HAAi. Iain has the Vinyl Word this week, paying tribute to a voice and a band that had a profound impact on him...2022-03-021h 41We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Şatellites! Dana Gavanski! Sea Power! Lucidvox! Rebecca Vasmant!Send us a textSo welcome in! There's an outward-looking, internationalist feel to proceedings on this week's @weheardwonders. Iain and Andrew share their respective histories with EU-hearting indie institution Sea Power, before offering their thoughts on the group's recent name change and long-awaited new material. Elsewhere, Israeli six-piece Şatellites serve up some slinky disco-funk, Canadian-Serbian singer-songwriter Dana Gavanski sets phasers to "charm", Russian "girl group" Lucidvox bring the murk and the mystery, while Glasgow's own Rebecca Vasmant leaves us longing for a night on the tiles. All this plus an oud-aciously groovy little record with a striking s...2022-02-231h 25We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - MELTS! Big Thief! Claude Cooper! Evan Wright! Gonora Sounds!Send us a textSecond time’s a charm for this week’s @weheardwonders. We give our thoughts on Big Thief’s sprawling new LP, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You: is their biggest statement also their grandest, or is it a case of too much of a good thing? We also have our say on dynamic Dublin five-piece MELTS, library-jazz-funk mystery man Claude Cooper, Zimbabwe’s word-of-mouth sensations Gonora Sounds, and the bedroom psych-pop of practical man-out-of-time Evan Wright. Finally, a fantastically groovy track by a recently-departed musician has The Vinyl Word and gets our bodi...2022-02-181h 20We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandA quick one...while they're away!Send us a textA quick message to explain what's happened to your regularly scheduled and hotly anticipated new music podcast this week!FULL PODCAST COMING ON 18/2/22!Support the showwww.instagram.com/weheardwonderswww.buymeacoffee.com/weheardwonders2022-02-1608 minWe Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Kamasi Washington! SASAMI! Firecityfunk! GABO! Kathryn Joseph!Send us a textDiverse musical delights ripe for discussion on this week’s @weheardwonders. Kathryn Joseph and GABO represent the best of Scottish, SASAMI genre-bends with style, while Kamasi Washington throws in everything INCLUDING the kitchen sink on his comeback track. An old tune enjoys its moment in the sun via a very modern route, then Andrew brings together two of the week’s main threads for a high-kicking Vinyl Word. What do you make of the tracks up for discussion? Do you agree with our opinions? Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of c...2022-02-091h 34We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Sofia Kourtesis! Erin Rae! Los Bitchos! Cate Le Bon! Amber Mark! Plus a bonkers Vinyl Word!Send us a textIt’s ladies’ might 💪 and the feeling’s right. Yep, the superior sex are firmly in charge on this week’s episode of @weheardwonders. Sofia Kourtesis and Los Bitchos leave us longing for the summer, Cate Le Bon delivers something predictably amazing, and Erin Rae has us wondering aloud why they aren’t a household name. We also discuss the much-anticipated album from Amber Mark - does it have what it takes to be one of 2022’s defining releases? If that wasn’t enough, for the Vinyl Word, we play one of the most mind-bogglin...2022-02-031h 19
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Melody's Echo Chamber! Daniel Rossen! Pastor Champion! Nilüfer Yanya! Robert Glasper and chums!Send us a textA music podcast fit to burst with delectably diverting new sounds, you say? You took the words right out of our mouth! Is it a welcome return for neo-psych chanteuse Melody’s Echo Chamber? Does Pastor Champion’s music live up to his incredible backstory? And which slice of mid-sixties soul perfection has been selected to have the Vinyl Word? We also discuss new music from Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen, Pitchfork-favourite Nilüfer Yanya, and conscious jazz-hopper Robert Glasper with his immaculately-assembled friends. What do you make of the tracks up for discuss...2022-01-261h 14
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Jeff Tobias! Lady Wray! FKA twigs! Nala Sinephro! Midlake!Send us a textAnother carefully curated selection of new sounds from @weheardwonders. The closer from Jeff Tobias’s debut full-length serves as an ideal opener and Lady Wray’s marathon album-rollout is almost complete. Both the medium and the message of FKA twigs’ new mixtape are ripe for discussion, while Midlake’s yearning for the past is - we learn - personal. Plus, we finally give Nala Sinephro’s incredible Space 1.8 the time and attention it deserves, and a rollickingly rootsy slice of rock’n’roll has the Vinyl Word. What do you make of the tracks up for...2022-01-191h 28We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - The Smile! The Order of the 12! Father John Misty! The Weeknd! Black Flower!Send us a text2022 ain't hanging around, with several musical big-hitters back and hitting some big ol' high notes! Iain and Andrew review the first studio offering from The Smile, a bracing new project spearheaded by - bingo cards at the ready! - Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood; The Weeknd accesses random memories and shoots for a Thriller!-sized blockbuster; while Father John Misty returns after giving the world a chance to miss him. Two less headline-grabbing but no less worthy projects are also up for discussion: Richard Norris’s psych-folk outfit The Order Of The 12 and fl...2022-01-121h 23We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - The Soundcarriers! Khruangbin & Leon Bridges! David Bowie! Combo Chimbita! Annie Booth!Send us a textNew Year, new music! @weheardwonders roar into 2022 and Series 2 with the long-awaited return of the superb Soundcarriers, and a discussion of something simultaneously old and new from pod Hero, David Bowie - the official release of his “lost” 2000 album Toy. Elsewhere, there’s fresh-as-a-January-morning tuneage from Texas, Edinburgh and Columbia-via-New York. Andrew then recommends another kickin’ “lost” LP in The Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show bio...2022-01-051h 22We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2021 EPISODE FOUR! Cassandra Jenkins! Sault! Ryley Walker! Gazelle Twin & NYX! Loraine James! Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders! Plus a 'Vinyl Word' on Bright Eyes!Send us a textIt’s the last pod before Christmas and there’s a distinct end-of-term vibe to the final of our four @weheardwonders Albums Of The Year 2021 specials! We discuss some festival favourites, before diving enthusiastically into six more fantastic records from this very strange year. Who has us reaching for superlatives like “masterpiece”, “genius” and “masterwork”? Which track has a connection to one of our big shared loves? And just what IS that Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and LSO record? Driven delirious by list-making, Andrew cracks open the egg-nog, while Iain picks something deceptively jaunty for the V...2021-12-221h 39We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2021 EPISODE THREE! Little Simz! black midi! Villagers! Hannah Peel! Nightshift! Yasmin Williams! Plus a 'Vinyl Word' on Amy Winehouse!Send us a textThree is the magic number on this week’s @weheardwonders as the chaps reconvene in person for their third and penultimate Best Of 2021 roundup. Andrew selects six more diverse artists and albums from his epic Insta countdown to unpick with Iain. Which artist has Iain marvelling at their technical ability? Who prompts him to ponder aloud “what’s that all about then?!”? And who are the “local” talent under the microscope? All this before Iain pays tribute to a certain Miss Winehouse in the Vinyl Word. As ever, we really appreciate your support and welcome...2021-12-151h 35We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2021 EPISODE TWO! Fuzzy Lights! Upper Wilds! Spellling! Madlib! Jane Weaver! Arooj Aftab! Plus a 'Vinyl Word' on The Beatles!Send us a textList Season is well underway, and @weheardwonders are back with the second of our four festive extravaganzas. Andrew brings in a further six albums still to pop up in his faintly ludicrous, frankly over-ambitious Best Of 2021 countdown - trusty faithfuls rubbing shoulders with some of his favourite discoveries of the year. Will Iain be equally enamoured? Then it’s over to Iain for a truly fab selection in the Vinyl Word. As ever, we really appreciate your support and welcome your feedback: get in touch, tell us what you make of the tracks/al...2021-12-081h 20We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2021 EPISODE ONE! The Weather Station! Mdou Moctar! Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio! Cory Hanson! Yola! Lael Neale! Plus discussion of 'Get Back' and a 'Vinyl Word' on The Smiths!Send us a textSimply having a Wonders-filled Christmastime! In the first of four festive episodes, your faithful hosts begin to look back at the year that was. Andrew gives a sneak preview of six albums sure to feature prominently in his End of Year rundown: come for him explaining why he rates each disc so highly, stay for Iain's fresh, typically incisive takes. Iain has the Vinyl Word this week, dissecting a track that has deep personal resonance for him, and it’d be rude not to have at least a little Get Back chat, right? As...2021-12-011h 35We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Tallies! Sylvie! Group Listening! Robert Plant & Alison Krauss! Cleo Sol!Send us a textUp for discussion on the final @weheardwonders New Music Edition of 2021 are indie-pop dreamers Tallies, the seventies singer-songwriter worship of Sylvie, and Group Listening’s piano & clarinet contemplations. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss reconvene 14 years after their first Grammy-guzzling collab, but does their new material see and raise Raising Sand’s hand? And Sol by name, Soul by nature: we have our say on a track from Cleo Sol’s critically-acclaimed album, Mother. All this, plus we reveal the WINNER of our first ever COMPETITION and Andrew bigs up a striking LP in his newly...2021-11-241h 15We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Hand Habits! El Michels Affair! Silk Sonic! Modern Studies!Send us a textHigh fidelity, can you hear me? The audio gremlins of last week have been banished and @weheardwonders are coming through loud and clear! New tracks up for discussion come from your favourite alt-rock guitar band’s go-to guitarist Hand Habits, party-starter-with-Hindi-credentials El Michels Affair, Scottish orchestral choralists Modern Studies, plus Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak’s blockbuster throwback outfit Silk Sonic. Andrew salutes a sadly-departed sixties singer-songwriter in his soon-to-be-named vinyl segment, and gives details of how you (yes, YOU!) could win a shiny gold vinyl disc in our very first *COMPETITION* (send us your...2021-11-1754 minWe Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Witch Fever! Snail Mail! Cola! The Brkn Record! Spiritualized!Send us a textThis pod series goes up to eleven! All-female firebrands Witch Fever and The Brkn Record (the new project from Heliocentrics co-founder Jake Ferguson) bring the intensity to this week’s proceedings. The never-knowingly-understated Spiritualized make their latest grand return, Snail Mail’s Valentine hints at something swoon-worthy, while post-Ought post-modernists Cola have us stroking our chins, scratching our heads and reaching for our metronomes. All that, plus Andrew highlighting an exemplary modern example of arty post-punk in his vinyl segment. Please listen, rate and subscribe on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music and Google podcasts. Your...2021-11-101h 15We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Hurray for the Riff Raff! Bodega! Jake Xerxes Fussell! Curtis Harding! Chelsea Carmichael!Send us a textOk, so our small talk regarding the climate change conference happening in Glasgow isn’t much COP, but the five juicy new tracks up for discussion on @weheardwonders more than make up for it. Hurray For The Riff-Raff makes her heroic and long-awaited return (hurray, indeed!); art-punks BODEGA, folk-master Jake Xerxes Fussell and soul-man Curtis Harding get us thinking, contemplating and nodding; while UK saxophonist Chelsea Carmichael finally takes centre-stage. Andrew then grabs an album of “outer-space caveman music” out of the racks for your consideration and consumption. Please listen, rate and subscribe on Spo...2021-11-031h 04We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Pigeon! Michael Kiwanuka! Lana del Rey! Pale Jay! April Magazine!Send us a textAnother dizzyingly diverse selection of sounds courtesy of @weheardwonders. Why did Pigeon’s disco-funk just HAVE to be this week’s opening gambit? Where do we stand on Lana Del Rey, and her latest dose of American Life? Is Michael Kiwanuka in his creative prime? And do either the balaclava-clad Pale Jay or the none-more-lo-fi April Magazine have “a certain charm”? As if that weren’t enough, Andrew plays a cruel game on Iain in his latest, still-to-be-named vinyl segment. Please listen, rate and subscribe on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music and Google podcasts. Your five...2021-10-271h 15We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandBonus - Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Awards!Send us a textNo Scotland, no party! Iain and Andrew keep it close to home in this bonus episode, a SAY Awards special! We reconvene to discuss our relationship with the prize and give our thoughts on the ten records shortlisted for Scottish Album Of The Year 2021. Who were our surprise discoveries? Who should consider themselves unlucky not to make the cut? And who do we predict will pick up the cheque and take home the trophy on Saturday night? There’s only one way to find out! Please listen, rate and subscribe on Spotify, Apple, Am...2021-10-221h 06We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Johnny! Mewn! Le Ren! Kuunatic! Adele!Send us a textEpisode seven, and @weheardwonders are on an International jet-set, journeying first to Ghana-via-Germany (fuzz-rock!), then to Manchester (light-on-its-feet-art-pop!) and Montreal (dream-folk!), and finally over to Japan (interplanetary-power-trio-psych!). Your selfless hosts also give some much-needed publicity to a little-known act called Adele: we predict big things! Finally, Andrew reaches into his vinyl racks and recommends an album you HAVE to hear in the first instalment of a new regular segment. www.buymeacoffee.com/weheardwondersSupport the showwww.instagram.com/weheardwonderswww.buymeacoffee.c...2021-10-201h 05We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandFrank Ocean's 'Blonde'Send us a textIain and Andrew reunite to review a future classic LP - Frank Ocean's 'Blonde'. This is Andrew and Iain's third deep dive on a classic record and takes them into some new territory.Both guys found a shared love of this powerful album and hope to share it with you, their listeners!Please continue to support on Instagram: comments; likes; reviews - we love getting your feedback! Subscribe to our podcast!www.buymeacoffee.com/weheardwondersSupport the showwww.instagram.com/w...2021-10-131h 06We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandLove's 'Forever Changes'Send us a textIn their second 'deep dive' episode on a highly influential album, Andrew and Iain discuss the seminal rock record 'Forever Changes' by Love. We get into why it is considered such an important record, both for us and rock music in general, and why it might not be the flower power, psych trip out its painted to be by the music press.Please continue to support us on Instagram - write to us, review to us, subscribe! We love your feedback.www.buymeacoffee.com/weheardwonders2021-10-0652 minWe Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Alt J! Gabriels! Vanishing Twin! Plus bonus birthday discussion of Nirvana and Primal Scream!Send us a textWe’re back with a fourth episode that is STACKED! It’s an aesthete’s paradise in this week’s new release review section with Alt J, Gabriels and Vanishing Twin welcoming the listener into their sound-worlds. Andrew has his say on Rolling Stone’s revised Top 500 Songs List, and your faithful hosts raise a glass to two seminal albums celebrating their 30-year anniversaries: Nirvana’s Nevermind and Primal Scream’s Screamadelica.www.buymeacoffee.com/weheardwondersSupport the showwww.instagram.com/weheardwonders...2021-09-2900 minWe Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Radiohead! Penelope Isles! Lady Blackbird!Send us a textWho’s for a box-fresh pod of tip-top content? Episode 3 of We Heard Wonders is HERE, where we review something simultaneously old and new from Radiohead (In Rainbows fans, Andrew freely gives you permission to @ Iain regarding his opinions on that album); Bella Union group Penelope Isles take the Great Leap Forward, while the miraculous Lady Blackbird makes time stand still.www.buymeacoffee.com/weheardwondersSupport the showwww.instagram.com/weheardwonderswww.buymeacoffee.com/weheardwonders2021-09-2237 minWe Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandNew Music - Parquet Courts! BADBADNOTGOOD! Neal Francis!Send us a textIain and Andrew are back with the first in their recurring new music shows. Taster tracks from forthcoming full-lengths by Parquet Courts, BADBADNOTGOOD and Neal Francis are chewed over and reviewed! Iain tests the very limits of what can be defined a “rain-related song”, while Andrew’s quest to get Iain into modern jazz begins with a nine-minute monster. www.buymeacoffee.com/weheardwondersSupport the showwww.instagram.com/weheardwonderswww.buymeacoffee.com/weheardwonders2021-09-1537 min
We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from ScotlandMercury Rev's 'Deserter's Songs'Send us a textIn this inaugural podcast, Iain and Andrew discuss an album that had a profound and formative impact on their younger selves, Mercury Rev's 1998 masterwork Deserter's Songs. Discover how the LP broadened Iain's musical horizons and rescued Andrew from pop-punk purgatory. Which other two records combine with it to form the "Holy Trinity of Cosmic Americana"? What does Jonathan Donahue keep in his shed? And, if you're ever in the Catskill Mountains, where are you most likely to bump into a member of The Band? All this and more in our epic first recording.2021-09-0941 min