On my show this month:
Leo's April show slips between the cracks and hums in the margins, opening with the soft-focus spell of Katy J Pearson & H. Hawkline before lurching-grinning-into the sweaty absurdity of The Fat White Family live at Konk. From there, the mood fractures: The Twilight Sad 's anxious pulse gives way to PVA 's clipped cool and Mandy, Indiana 's shadowy insistence.
There's a wiry backbone running through this set-Mclusky 's serrated snarl, The Nicked 's wiry post-punk twitch-offset by moments of strange clarity. Ulrika Spacek and Peter Evans stretch time and texture, while Noémi Büchi dissolves the body entirely. Elsewhere, Aldous Harding offers a crooked kind of grace before Thee Oh Sees kick the doors back open.
We drift outward and inward in turns: Fever Ray 's haunted bloom, Blak Saagan 's narcotic haze, and the restless circuitry of 2D0GS. There's bite here too-Modeselektor 's blunt-force politics, Fontaines D.C. 's stark reimagining-before things loosen into jazz-damaged corners and curious miniatures.
The final stretch feels like a slow exhale. From Kin'Gongolo Kiniata 's kinetic rhythms to Cinder Well 's dusk-lit folk, the show gathers warmth without losing its edge. Joshua Idehen brings us back to earth-domestic, human-before Natalie Wildgoose and Fauna carry us northward into something elemental and unresolved.
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Biography:
I am in many ways your typical John Peel fan. I grew up listening to his shows from the era of punk rock until his death, and, with increasing obsessiveness, compiled cassettes, mini discs and finally mp3 playlists of the best tunes. Music runs through my family’s veins, and in me this takes the form of a compulsive search for new sounds. As John Peel used to put it, what I really want to hear is something I haven’t heard before.
Envy fills me when I read what my Dandelion collaborators have achieved in promoting, making and playing music, but my life as a teacher for the past quarter of a century has squeezed out any time for, well, pretty much anything apart from listening to and appreciating what continues to be made musically across the world. At last, though, I have found the space to pursue what has long been an ambition and can attempt to meet the stellar broadcasting standards set by my volunteer colleagues by sharing my love of new music with Dandelion listeners. I really hope at least some of what you hear gets its hooks into you.
Tracklistings and listen again to the previous shows:
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