🎵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

🎵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

🎵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

🎵Now Playing: Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R (2000)

They’ve announced a massive show in Sheffield and while I have seen them live before, my favourite memory is when Daniel Avery played Feel Good Hit of the Summer at the end of his incredible Glasto set in the early hours of the morning.

Favourite Tracks

  • Feel Good Hit of the Summer
  • The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
  • Better Living Through Chemistry
  • In The Fade

🎵Now Playing: Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal (2024)

Late to the hype but wanted to check it out. Sounds old and fresh at the same time, which is a tough thing to do. Some superb tracks and considering this is a mixtape of 19 songs pretty much all under 3mins, I’m looking forward to what she can do with a focused album.

Favourite Tracks:

  • BOILED PEANUTS
  • DENIAL IS A RIVER
  • CATFISH
  • NISSAN ALTIMA

🎵Now Playing: Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (1975)

Haven’t seen A Complete Unknown yet. But today felt like a Bob day, and this is currently my favourite album of his. He’s a genius.

Favourite tracks:

  • Tangled Up In Blue
  • Simple Twist of Fate
  • Idiot Wind
  • If You See Her, Say Hello
  • Shelter from the Storm
  • Buckets of Rain