We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland

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Hot 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 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).

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Join 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 recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show bio).

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Bless 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 the best thing he’s heard all year - but of which track does he speak? A barnstorming bolt of rock’n’roll 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 bio). 

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On 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. 

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Where 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 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).

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Ep 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, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show bio).

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Songwriter, 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; like, subscribe and recommend; catch up with previous editions and support the show by buying us a Coffee (link in the show bio).

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Andrew 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.

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You 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 International Anthem drummer and DJ Daniel Villarreal moves centre stage. Finally, something symphonic and coolly urbane 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 bio).

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Once 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 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).

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