On my show this month:
Leo's show this month moves like a fault line: slow pressure, sudden slips, strange beauty in the breaks. It opens in a hush and a hum - Prewn's Cavity and Prolapse 's Swearing For Decoration sketch a world where language frays and rhythm becomes ritual - before drifting into electronic naturalism and nocturnal pulse via Dominik Eulberg , Lord Of The Isles and Clark .
From there, the programme leans hard into voices: confrontational, devotional, folk-warped, and uncomfortably intimate. R/A/D with Brisa Roché and Don Nino bring sun-faded unease; Pain Magazine and collaborators push post-metal intensity into emotional freefall; Leila and Daniel Knox deal in menace and restraint. Traditional forms are bent and re-rooted by Elspeth Anne , Colleen , Jaydawn & Wukir Suryadi , and Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver , where old songs carry new ghosts.
Midway, things turn raw and wired: Daniel Avery 's remix work, PVA 's precision pop, Ancient Hostility's blunt-force realism, and Eveline Breaker's restless structures all speak to systems under strain. There's room too for sardonic bite and ecstatic noise - Sleaford Mods , Kim Gordon , Shackleton , The Fat White Family - each refusing comfort in their own way.
The final stretch opens outward: cosmic myth from Zu , uneasy tenderness from Sault , roving melancholia, collapsing architecture via Royal Commission, and dawn-light psychedelia from Sven Wunder . We end not with resolution, but with questions hanging in the air - Krista Papista 's 2 THEES closing the loop on a set that listens closely to fractures, contradictions, and the fragile hope that leaks through them.
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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.
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