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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 ScotlandNew Music - Poster Paints! Young Fathers! Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon! Danger Mouse & Black Thought! John Moods!Send us a textHot town, summer in the city! In this most sweltering of weeks, think of @weheardwonders as an appealingly air-conditioned sanctuary where ice-cool blasts of musical awesomeness are paired with long drinks of diverting chat. For our money, this is one of our strongest new music line-ups of the year: fab new Scottish indie-pop project Poster Paints; returning genre-unto-themselves Young Fathers; Ghana-meets-Leeds “Afrolktronica” act Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon; hip-hop double-threat Danger Mouse & Black Thought (with added Michael Kiwanuka); Berlin bedroom-pop dreamer John Moods. A future-soul future-classic has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We H...2022-07-201h 07We 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 18