We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland

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We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland episodes

April 09, 2024 New Music - Sahra Halgan! Gustaf! Jane Weaver! Khruangbin! Daisy Rickman! Diving Horse!
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Home-improvement hounds Iain and Andrew put down their paintbrushes and rollers long enough to play and pore over new musical offerings from Somali freedom fighter Sahra Halgan, Brooklyn no-wavers Gustaf, psychedelic national treasure Jane Weaver, sub-zero Texan synthesists Khruangbin and “Cornish high priestess” Daisy Rickman. 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 support the show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show’s bio).
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1 hr 30 min
April 04, 2024 New Music - Waxahatchee! LAIR! Adrianne Lenker! Julia Holter! Oisin Leech!
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After a few weeks away, Iain and Andrew reconvene to catch up and cast their critical eye over three of the year’s most hotly tipped and anticipated releases - Waxahatchee, Adrianne Lenker and Julia Holter - as well as something eyebrow-raising from Indonesian psych collective LAIR and something decidedly more low-key from Steve Gunn-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 support the show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show’s bio).

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1 hr 35 min
February 28, 2024 New Music - Nadine Shah! Real Estate! Mohammad Syfkhan! MGMT! Ghost Funk Orchestra!
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On this week’s @weheardwonders, soaring singer-songwriter Nadine Shah sings her life, MGMT add slacker alt-rock shagginess to their usual neo-psych, and Real Estate return. We also discuss the remarkable story of how Kurdish/Syrian singer & bouzouki player Mohammad Syfkhan found himself performing at the Cork Opera House, and spin a 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-statesman for 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 show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show’s bio).
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1 hr 32 min
February 20, 2024 New Music - Les Amazones d’Afrique! Brittany Howard! Dina Ögon! Grandaddy! Yirinda!
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There’s only one didgeridoo thing to do! It’s another globetrotting edition of @weheardwonders, with intrepid explorers Iain and Andrew delving into new music from all around the world. Up for discussion are five tracks by artists from four continents, including Sweden’s Dina Ögon, Brittany Howard and Grandaddy from North America, 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 back; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show’s bio).
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1 hr 22 min
February 10, 2024 New Music - David Nance! The Last Dinner Party! Bolts Of Melody! YG Marley! Beth Gibbons!
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On the latest @weheardwonders, one track inspired our Iain to reach for the “G” word, while another offended him so much that he had to reach for the “mute” button mid-recording. Can you guess which artists and tracks inspired such visceral and opposing reactions? Up for debate this week are rollicking barn-rockers David Nance & The 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 brilliant has The Vinyl Word. Apologies for the slight lag in sound in the opening section of the episode. 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 show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show’s bio).
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1 hr 48 min
January 31, 2024 New Music - The Smile! Gruff Rhys! Ty Segall! They Hate Change! Daudi Matsiko!
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No effort required on Iain or Andrew’s part to crowbar the R-word into this week’s @weheardwonders discussion - the big alternative music release being, of course, the second full-length from The Smile, featuring a certain Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood. We’ve cast our eyes (and ears) over Wall Of Eyes - find out what we make of it. 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 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 show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show’s bio).
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1 hr 40 min
January 24, 2024 New Music - YĪN YĪN! Rosali! Omni! Kali Uchis! SLIFT!
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Yes indeedy, @weheardwonders are back to put some pep in the step of your blustery seemingly-never-ending January. Iain and Andrew play and review a veritable smorgasbord of new musical treats, including: YĪN YĪN’s Asian-inspired disco-funk; graceful Crazy Horse-play from Rosali; Omni’s arch art-punk; a diaphanous Spanish-language 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 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 show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show’s bio).
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1 hr 31 min
January 11, 2024 New Music - Liam Gallagher & John Squire! Plantoid! Muireann Bradley! Bill Ryder-Jones! Nino Gvilia!
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How about some new reviews of new music to kick this new year off in style? Iain and Andrew are back back BACK, and they’re doing what they love best: casting their eyes and ears over a selection of box-fresh tuneage on @weheardwonders. Is Liam Gallagher & John Squire’s long-threatened collaboration just another rainbow-dyed baggy/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 biggest conundrum of all - just who is Nino Gvilia? All this, plus something simultaneously backwards and forward-facing 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 show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show’s bio).
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1 hr 30 min
June 07, 2023 New Music - Cory Hanson! Bob Dylan! Per Svensson! BCUC! Ivan Moult!
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Music by Masters Of Song of various stripe is up for discussion on the latest @weheardwonders pod: Cory Hanson’s country-rock guitar explorations inspire some uncharacteristically blue (Crazy) Horsin’ around from your cherubic hosts; Swedish psychedelicist Per Svensson aims to take the listener on a magic trip; Ivan Moult’s hushed third LP leaves a lasting impression; and there’s a new release from an evergreen recording artist by the name of Bob Dylan - you may have heard of him. Afro-futurist collective BCUC raise the blood-rate and a trusty Sunday morning classic has 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’s bio).
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1 hr 29 min
June 02, 2023 New Music - Teenage Fanclub! The Lemon Twigs! Mong Tong! Kassa Overall! Emma Tricca!
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After a fine run of guest interviews, Iain and Andrew are back in “classic” pod mode this week, catching up on five recent tracks, played and contextualised for your listening pleasure. Thirty-plus years in, can Teenage Fanclub still deliver the melodic, bittersweet goods? Is ‘Everything Harmony’ a fitting album title for high-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. Finally, a 10/10 indie-pop gem has 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’s bio).
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1 hr 45 min