🎵Now Playing: Tune-Yards - Better Dreaming (2025)

It’s always a good day when a new Tune-Yards record is released. Today is that day! (There’s quite a few good records out today)

Favourite Tracks:

  • Swarm
  • Limelight
  • Get Through
  • Better Dreaming
  • How Big Is The Rainbow
  • Sanctuary

🎵Now Playing: Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston (1973)

Continuing with the reggae theme we move from one legend to another in Toots and his Maytals. I was lucky enough to see them play at midnight on the Truth Stage in Shangri-La at Glastonbury 2017 and they were still going strong. This is a classic.

Favourite Tracks:

  • In the Dark
  • Funky Kingston
  • Louie Louie
  • Pomps & Pride
  • Pressure Drop

🎵Now Playing: Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus (1977)

It is hot and ☀️ in the UK this week and so what else, but reggae. I thought I’d start with Bob and move onwards from there. I don’t think I’ve heard this album in it’s entirety before. Great.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Exodus
  • Jamming
  • Waiting in Vain
  • Three Little Birds
  • One Love/People Get Ready

🎵Now Playing: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz! (2009)

I thought I didn’t know what I wanted to listen this afternoon, but yes yes yes it’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Zero
  • Heads Will Roll
  • Soft Shock
  • Runaway
  • Dragon Queen

🎵Now Playing: Snapped Ankles - Hard Times Furious Dancing (2025)

The lead single Raoul was an instant hit for me. The rest of the new songs continue in that vein - weird, thumping, agitating- the album title speaks for itself.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Pay The Rent
  • Raoul
  • Bai Lan

🎵Now Playing: Blondie @ Glastonbury (2023)

I make a playlist of most of the gigs I attend, to try and recapture those moments. With the sad news that Blondie’s drummer Clem Burke has passed away, I thought I’d listen to the set list from the only time I saw them live, a sunny Glastonbury Sunday in 2023. They still sounded great after all these years.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Hanging on the Telephone
  • Call Me
  • Atomic
  • Rapture
  • Maria
  • Heart of Glass

🎵Now Playing: Tune-Yards - W H O K I L L (2011)

Tune-Yards have a new album coming out, and I wanted to revisit this album. I actually discovered them live, before I’d heard anything, at Manchester’s famous Deaf Institute back in 2011. They blew me away, sounded like no-one else, and this album is still a favourite. I hope she’s touring the new album and keeping some classics in the setlist, I want to hear Bizness live again.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Gangsta
  • Powa
  • Bizness
  • Doorstep
  • Killa

🎵Now Playing: Tom Vek - We Have Sound (2005)

This album is exactly the kind of sloppy indie/electronic music I need on a sunny Friday afternoon. Weekend ahoy!

Favourite Tracks:

  • C-C (You Set The Fire In Me)
  • A Little Word In Your Ear
  • Cover
  • Nothing But Green Lights

🎵Now Playing: SBTRKT - SBTRKT (2011)

I needed some momentum so I could fit all my work in this afternoon. This provided that momentum. Tunes.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Hold On
  • Wildfire
  • Pharaohs
  • Never Never
  • Living Like I Do

🎵Now Playing: Divorce - Drive to Goldenhammer (2025)

I assume I heard this band on 6Music sometime, but I saw this album in my “to-listen” pile and for this chilly, sunny, Salford day it was pretty perfect from the get-go. They play Manchester in April so I’ll definitely be getting a ticket to see how they are live.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Antarctica
  • Karen
  • Jet Fuel
  • Hangman
  • Mercy