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🎵Now Playing: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up from Below (2009)

Their tiny desk concert found its way on one of my feeds and I remembered how great this album is. 2009 is frighteningly becoming ancient history.

Favourite Tracks:

  • 40 Day Daydream
  • Jangling
  • Carries on
  • Home
  • Desert Song

🎵Now Playing: Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1994)

They might be coming to an end, but Wu-Tang will live forever. The beats are glorious, the rhymes victorious. It’s a classic for a reason.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Shame on a N**a
  • Can It Be All So Simple
  • Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing ta F' Wit
  • C.R.E.A.M.
  • Method Man

It really is amazing what a bit of 🌞 does for the old noggin, a thoroughly productive weekend.

I always feel a bit smug about not having kids, but never more than on World Book Day.

🎵Now Playing: REM - Document (1987)

No idea why R.E.M came into my head while I worked out what I wanted to listen to this afternoon. But I’m glad I did.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Finest Worksong
  • Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
  • The One I Love

🎵Now Playing: Hinds - VIVA HINDS (2025)

I heard the Spanish band’s live session with Craig Charles on 6Music the other week and they seemed like a whole lot of fun and so, it turns out, is this album.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Boom Boom Back
  • Stranger
  • Superstar
  • En Forma

🎵Now Playing: Sam Fender - People Watching (2025)

I missed his standout Glastonbury set in 2022 which I imagine will turn him into a future headliner. This new album sounds very accomplished and it’s vital to have working class voices in the mainstream. For all the good, I still think it’s a little bit…. boring? It could be a grower though.

Favourite Tracks

  • People Watching
  • Wild Long Lie
  • Something Heavy