#NewMusicFriday 19/07/2024

I must admit to having been utterly exhausted and frazzled by the time I got on air on Friday morning. Add to this Marty’s concern and mine that the global IT outage might affect all our playout systems, and some of me was wishing I hadn’t agreed to doing the show. Phone sound on, as I was expecting to need to multi-task and needed in-my-face notifications despite having the cans on.

Oddly enough (actually unsurprisingly) a kind of calm took me over the minute I pushed the button on the lead-in jingle, and the connecting to the server went more smoothly than last week (rediscovered routines and timing, I suppose). The only mistake I’d made was to forget to cue my NewMusicFriday jingle, but made up for that by playing it after the first track. Anyway, enough chatter. Here are those tracks:

Paper Anthem – Speed Trap
Moodymoody – Feels Like This
The Pursuit Of Pleasure – Lived A Life
Jekyll – Divine Standards
Julia Dales – Bite It
hotsponges – Hey Crocodile
Manilla Times – Mona Lisa
Humblebee – Big Thump
Chest – Pangolin
Gorstey Lea AKA & The Junkyard Of Silenced Poets – The Dragons of Mont Blanc (Parts I & II) 2022
Cara Knox – I Take Pictures
Alice Offley – Black Dog
TIJ – Hot Plastic Moon (Demo)
Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No1 in B-Flat Minor, Op23, 1st movement
Meryl Streek – Paddy
The Nightmares – Something In The Dark
Shivani Sen – You’re Not Coming
Tashkezar – Ya Gharib (2023)
Zeny Bux – Better Dreams
Nathalie Miranda – U Got Soul
Elvis Presley – If I Can Dream
Catbear – Rush
Ten Hands High – Happiness By Design Record Of The Week
Reel Big Fish – Good Thing
Percy (UK) – Greedy People
ALT BLK ERA – My Drummer’s Girlfriend
Pylon Poets – Temptation
New Order – Temptation (1987) (2023 Digital Master)
Tim McInnes – An Even Sadder Song
WaveMachine – Attention
Northern Hospitality – Break Free
Occasional Dreams – Shimmer In Your Eye
Adult DVD – Doomsday Prepper
thistle. – bitebitebite
Dog Race – The Leader
Indoor Foxes – White Rabbit
Hank – Angel Says

And there you have it. I probably say that every week. So much good music, especially in 3 hours, which makes this post a touch of an ordeal, but it’s gladly done. Music is the most important thing in our lives – all arts are, really. Don’t limit yourselves by genre. Now go stream the hell out of these brilliant people who make music.