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Podcasts

Tune into our podcast for hopeful, future-facing conversations with extraordinary musicians, cultural innovators, and organisers reshaping t

Drowned in Sound's podcast returned in 2023 and we've had an incredibly busy 2025 interviewing musicians like Idlewild, Maximo Park, Enter Shikari, The Linda Lindas, Sofia Isella, Mynabirds, Kadjha Monet, Mary Spender and many more.

We've also been making space for campaigners and activists, running projects and being part of movements to address class inequality, youth access to music, misogyny, the climate crisis, and corporate over-reach that impacts fans.

We aim to empower music fans and create space for conversations that music journalism often covers but rarely provides solutions to the issues.

Season 5 kicks off in January 2026 with conversations with DiS favourites Kelly Lee Owens, Gazelle Twin, and the podcaster behind over 500 episodes of 101 Part Time Jobs speaking to musicians about their side hustles.

Search for Drowned in Sound on YouTube, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. drownedinsound.org/podcasts

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🚨 Introducing… Browser’s Digest 🚨

A monthly compilation of the best journalism about music, media, technology and the future

Podcasts, a few investigative long reads, short form videos, and news stories

The sorts of things the algo hides from you

Live music in crisis + 16 recommended reads, podcasts and videos

Welcome to the first edition of Drowned in Sound’s monthly Browser’s Digest.

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Season two of the Drowned in Sound podcast is all about the future of music journalism

With media in peril, I’ve spoken to fellow website founders, tech writers, climate critics, TikTokkers and more

My Editor’s Letter intro is now available wherever you get your podcasts (12mins)

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How have you liked supporting the musicians you love?

What’s felt grubby?

What feels fine for “creators” (podcasters, YouTubers, journalism, etc), but doesn’t make sense for music?

I’m working on something about 💰 the financialization of fandom 💰 and curious of your thoughts.

I’ve not kept up Patreon subs for some podcasts as I don’t have time/£ to justify the costs (most music pods are marketing)

I really love a few Substacks but I have email overwhelm and don’t always have time to keep across them so haven’t upgraded to premium

And most musicians use mailing lists as marketing tools, rather than an enriching newsletter (Patti Smith’s feels like an exception to that)

Mostly I support the artists I love through buying merch and gig tickets

Have sometimes felt like my pay what you can Bandcamp purchases have been more like donations than because I want/need to own the files

Perhaps because collecting files klangs with access to the music

Bandcamp Friday will reach its third anniversary in a few weeks time and I’m doing a range of podcast interviews and pieces about what’s next for music and what else is/isn’t currently working

Search for “Drowned in Sound” wherever you get your podcasts and sign up to my new newsletter for more on this http://drownedinsound.substack.com

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I didn’t make this but yes.

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Are we doing this again?

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Hi All, This week is my last week compiling this playlist that acts as an alternative to New Music Friday. Thank you for listening and supporting this playlist. The in-house team [PIAS] will take over from next week. You’ll find me over on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram. - Sean Adams

This week’s tracklisting:

The Kills - Desperado - Non-Electric Lucy Rose - No Good At All alt-J - Adeline Soulwax - Do You Want To Get Into Trouble? - Edit RIDE - All I Want - Glok Remix RHAIN - Tall Ships - Henry Green Remix Washed Out - Get Lost Saint Etienne- Magpie Eyes - Villagers Remix Jen Miller - Fire Songhoy Blues ft. Elf Kid - Mali Nord Kojey Radical - AFTER WINTER Shabazz Palaces ft. Quazarz - Since C.A.Y.A. CARGO Time - Nos vies DAF - Der Mussolini - Giorgio Moroder & Denis Naidanow Remix Mew - In A Better Place (Purity Ring Remix) Carl Craig - Sandstorms (feat. Francesco Tristano, Les Siècles & François-Xavier Roth) Agnes Obel - Mary - Instrumental Marika Hackman - Cigarette Sam Airey - Station Approach The Districts - If Before I Wake Kamikaze Girls - Deathcap The Orielles - I Only Bought It for the Bottle Big French - The Troll Someone - The Deep Tender - Nadir Fyfe - Closing Time Ben Ottewell - A Man Apart Micah P. Hinson - Lover’s Lane POSTILJONEN - Crazy Low Island - That Kind of Love LUMER - Gruel Bellevue Days - Secret Love Jakob Ogawa ft Clairo - You Might Be Sleeping Slowes - U Eivør - Slør Beach House - Chariot The Charlatans - Different Days Girlhood - Together HAN ft. REMAIN - Cliché Crystal Fighters - In Your Arms - Glacci Remix Chewii - PuNoni (feat. GOVALES & KAYTRANADA) St. Jude the Obscure - Ruins Luna Shadows - Thorns James Heather - Oizys Mink’s Miracle Medicine - The Rift Pale Seas - Into the Night (Radio Edit) The Gravity Drive - Wake of the Dawn Elise LeGrow - You Never Can Tell James Vincent McMorrow - National Quiet Boy - Redeem Diamond Thug - Eclipsed New Atlas - Twins Girls In Hawaii - This Light Peter Perrett - An Epic Story Slow Dancer - I Would Currents - Withered DBFC - New Life The Hairem - Like a Snake 3RD MAN - Surreal - Radio Edit Artbreak - Will To Survive

Subscribe on Spotify here.

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It's the last goodbye...

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Here's the 2017 edition of my Music for Office Workers series. It's a playlist of gently euphoric electronic soundscapes, ambient gems, and modern classical compositioto ease you into or enliven your work day, without distracting you.

Tracklisting to kick it off - I'll update it each time I discover something worth adding so check back throughout the year.

Mary Lattimore - It Was Late and We Watched the Motel Burn Jean-Michel Blais & CFCF - In a Landscape - Rework Earlham Mystics - Hera Clark - Peak Magnetic Kelly Lee Owens - CBM Noveller - Rituals Yann Novak - Surroundings Nicolas Jaar - Fight New Jackson - Electric Blue - Original R.Seiliog - Myopia Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - We Forget Who We Are A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Gare du Nord, Pt. 1 Toydrum - I've Got a Future - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Rework William Ryan Fritch - Tending the Herd Jean-Michel Blais & CFCF - Hasselblad 1 Ben Frost - Welcome To Fortitude Agnes Obel - Citizen Of Glass - Instrumental The Bug & Earth - Agoraphobia Nathan Fake;Prurient - DEGREELESSNESS Mary Lattimore - Wawa by the Ocean The Black Madonna - He Is the Voice I Hear Lambert - Sweet Apocalypse Sebastian Plano - Blue Loving Serotonin

Listen on Spotify here.

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Austra, Maximo Park, Frank Carter, AFI, CocoRosie, and lots more on this week’s #IndependentMusicMonday

Every Monday the editor of Drowned in Sound compiles an alternative to #NewMusicFriday. The playlist celebrates the best new releases from Independent labels.

Subscribe on your platform of choice and every week you’ll find 20-50 new releases from independent labels and independent artists. Some choices tracks arrived online in the past few days from brand new acts or forthcoming albums, whilst others are select cuts from new albums that were just released.

How to submit? You can submit tracks by emailing Spotify links to [email protected].

Track of the Week

‘I Love You More Than You Love Yourself’ by Austra

Our track of the week is 'I Love You More Than You Love Yourself’, it sounds like a soothing slap, and is taken from Austra’s sensational new album Future Politics (out now on Domino). Fans of Depeche Mode synth grooves and Bjorky operatics are sure to love it.

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You can also subscribe to the playlist on Deezer, YouTube and more services - including AppleMusic - are coming soon.

This Week’s New Additions

Austra - I Love You More Than You Love Yourself CocoRosie - Smoke 'Em Out (feat. ANOHNI) Maximo Park - Risk to Exist Cherry Glazerr - Nurse Ratched Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Vampires AFI - Above The Bridge Ronika - Make Your Move Dirty Projectors - Up In Hudson Nadine Khouri - Surface of the Sea Charlie Cunningham - Minimum Throwing Snow - Helical Crystal Fighters - Good Girls - Airia Remix Dutch Uncles - Oh Yeah MENACE BEACH - Maybe We’ll Drown Joan of Arc Band - This Must Be the Placenta Fufanu - Liability Témé Tan - Ça Va Pas La Tête? Duke Garwood - Coldblooded Cloud Nothings - Enter Entirely Foxygen - Mrs. Adams Gemini Brothers - Thesalli Noir (feat. Shahin Badar)

ICYMI - Listen to: Best of 2016 Spotify Playlist

Miss something? Browse the 2017 archive playlist on Spotify.

Posted by Sean Adams (@seaninsound).

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This week's alternative to NewMusicFriday, curated by me.

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Laura Marling, Flaming Lips, Nine Inch Nails, Los Campesinos!, The xx, and lots more on this week’s #IndependentMusicMonday

Every Monday the editor of Drowned in Sound compiles an alternative to #NewMusicFriday. The playlist celebrates the best new releases from Independent labels.

Subscribe on your platform of choice and every week you’ll find 20-50 new releases from independent labels and independent artists. Some choices tracks arrived online in the past few days from brand new acts or forthcoming albums, whilst others are select cuts from new albums that were just released.

How to submit? You can submit tracks by emailing Spotify links to [email protected].

Track of the Week

‘Wild Fire’ by Laura Marling

Proving that age ain’t nothin’ but a number, Laura Marling once again delivers something with the heft and heart of artists three times her years. This track is taken from Semper Femina, her first release since leaving the major label system, and with this newfound freedom you can hear her melodies and production fluttering into ever more exciting corners, leaving her gliding on that course to become the greatest living songwriter.

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This Week’s New Additions

Laura Marling - Wild Fire Blaenavon - Orthodox Man Minus The Bear - Invisible All Them Witches - 3-5-7 Los Campesinos! - 5 Flucloxacillin Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular R.Seiliog - Myopia The Flaming Lips - How?? Nine Inch Nails - Dear World, Anna Of The North - Oslo Matthew Dear - Wrong With Us - DJ-Kicks The xx - Lips Lydia Ainsworth - The Road Bonobo - Break Apart (feat. Rhye) Peter Silberman - New York Minor Victories - Scattered Ashes - Orchestral Variation Brian Eno - Reflection (Excerpt) A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Gare du Nord, Pt. 1 Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - We Forget Who We Are Soft Error - You Caught Up Alexis Taylor& Green Gartside - Repair Man - Blended Mix CUT_ - Undertow SOHN - Dead Wrong VÉRITÉ - Phase Me Out KLARA - Breathe Harlea - You Don’t Get It Alice Jemima - No Diggity Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White - Suzanne Johnny Flynn - Raising the Dead Julie Byrne - Follow My Voice Zooey - Time to Get Alone Diet Cig - Tummy Ache Cabbage - Free Steven Avery (Wrong America) You Me At Six - Take on the World Less Than Jake - Things Change Pissed Jeans - Ignorecam Ten Fé - Twist Your Arm Carson Cox & Sam York & Austin Brown - Fire Dance Mick Harvey;Channthy Kak - Contact The Balconies - Middle of the Night Black Star Riders - Testify or Say Goodbye Emptyset - Border The Gravity Drive - Kaleidoscope CHRISTON - Bonfire MALKA - Breakout Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Don’t Fight Back Flume feat. Tove Lo - Say It (Illenium Remix) Hippo Campus - way it goes Tinariwen - Sastanàqqàm Turbostaat - Die Tricks der Verlierer The Raveonettes - PENDEJO

ICYMI - Listen to: Best of 2016 Spotify Playlist

Miss something? Browse the archive playlist on Spotify.

Posted by Sean Adams (@seaninsound).

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If you're not already a subscriber (or are and forgot to check it for a while) here's this week's selection of the best new releases.

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#IndependentMusicMonday’s Tracks of the Year: 2016 Edition

Every Monday throughout 2016 we have compiled the week’s best new releases. We’ve featured over 1000 tracks, which you can find compiled in our Archive Spotify playlist.

It’s been a real joy rummaging through the new releases from Independent labels throughout this year, and I hope that this best of the year playlist featuring 70 of my favourites gives you a taste of some of what a great year it has been. LISTEN to the IMM tracks of the year playlist on Spotify here.

Track of the Year: ‘Three Sides of Nazareth’ by Nicolas Jaar

A pummelling beat and children chattering and tiger-growlin’ greets you at the start of this almost ten-minute masterpiece. Jaar has seemingly thrown his downbeat hyper-dub trunk off a cliff and whilst diving behind it into the infinite abyss he’s managed to make one of biggest floor-fillers of the year. If anyone was going to soundtrack a Party in the Sky, with lightning flickering at your feet, then you could bet Jaar would do it. Of course, it remains a production masterclass with the slinky, snarling, super-smart, shape-shifting, almost philosophical exercise. It’s a voyage that revels in making your synapses shake as much as your hips, but boy oh boy, if this isn’t one of the songs of the year then you better hurry up and tell me what is better than this utter bliss. “I found my broken bones by the side of the road…”

Tracklisting

Nicolas Jaar - Three Sides of Nazareth Jean-Michel Blais - Nostos (feat. BUFFLO) Snow Ghosts - Undertow School Of Seven Bells - On My Heart El Perro Del Mar - Breadandbutter Junior Boys - Over It Primal Scream - Where The Light Gets In (feat. Sky Ferreira) Eagulls - Lemontrees FEWS - The Zoo Future Of The Left - Animals Beginning With a B Sløtface - Sponge State The Kills - Doing It To Death Kate Jackson - Metropolis The Duke Spirit - Wounded Wing Innerspace Orchestra - One Way Glass Guy Andrews - Paganism Pet Shop Boys - The Pop Kids - Radio Edit The Dandy Warhols - STYGGO Marissa Nadler - Janie in Love Jesca Hoop - The Lost Sky Minor Victories - A Hundred Ropes Nils Frahm - Chant Julianna Barwick - Same Fear of Men - Island ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me Animal Collective - FloriDada Radiohead - Daydreaming Ulver - Moody Stix Fiona Brice - Dallas Hammock - Dissonance Garbage - Even Though Our Love Is Doomed Sleigh Bells - Lightning Turns Sawdust Gold The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra (Extended Mix) Soulwax- Heaven Scent (feat. Chloe Sevigny) Shearwater - Radio Silence Amber Arcades - Fading Lines The Raveonettes - This World Is Empty (Without You) Angel Olsen - Intern Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities Hilary Woods - Sabbath Julia Jacklin - Pool Party Wild Beasts - Big Cat Femme - Light Me Up BadBadNotGood - Confessions Pt II (feat. Colin Stetson) Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - A 1000 Times Lost Under Heaven - I&I Tim Hecker - Castrati Stack Agnes Obel - Familiar Jenny Hval - Conceptual Romance C Duncan - Like You Do Warpaint - New Song Black Honey - All My Pride Eluvium - Fugue State Dead Light - Blooms Sharon Van Etten - Not Myself The Anchoress - Long Year (Acoustic Version) Hannah Lou Clark - It’s Your Love Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jesus Alone Merchandise - Lonesome Sound Flock of Dimes - Everything Is Happening Today Daughter - The End The Blow - Think About Me Austra - Utopia Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross & Gustavo Santaolalla - Before the Flood Worriedaboutsatan - This Restless Wing (feat. Vincent Cavanagh) Lucy Claire- Kawaita Tsuki / The Barren Moon (feat. Yuri Kono) (worriedaboutsatan Remix) On Dead Waves - Blue Inside The Moonlandingz - Black Hanz (Radio Mix) Gruff Rhys - I Love EU New Order - Singularity - Erol Alkan’s Extended Rework

LISTEN to the IMM tracks of the year playlist on Spotify here.

Posted by playlist curator Sean Adams of Drowned in Sound

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Give this a spin when you get a moment. The first taste of Juanita Stein from Howling Bells' debut solo album (due in Spring 2017) that has all kinds of dark-country vibes. This one is a dreamy alt-Xmas track. You can follow her on Tumblr here: http://www.juanitastein.com

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“I fell into it ass backwards."

A conversation with actress, composer, lyricist and author, Claudia Corrieri.

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Julia Jacklin, Kate Tempest, The Anchoress, Ani Difranco, You Me At Six, NOFX, and lots more on this week’s #IndependentMusicMonday

Every Monday the editor of Drowned in Sound compiles a playlist celebrating the best new releases from Independent labels. The concept is a little like those New Music Friday playlists that you might be aware of, but on a Monday, and with no major labels.

Each week, we compile 20-50 new releases from independent labels and independent artists. Some tracks arrived online in the past few days, whilst others are cuts from albums that were released on Friday.

Track of the Week

‘Coming Of Age’ by Julia Jacklin

Julia Jacklin has got that vibe. You know the one, where country music fades into indie-rock. Where First Aid Kit meets Sharon Van Etten. That little bit of film grain on a photo of a field full of straw. Is it alt-country? Is it Americana? Does it really matter. Her debut album Don’t Let The Kids Win was released by Polyvinyl & Transgressive on Friday to rapturous reviews and with tracks like this, it’s easy to see why.

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This Week’s New Additions

Julia Jacklin - Coming Of Age Kate Tempest - Lionmouth Door Knocker D.D Dumbo - Walrus Agnes Obel - Stretch Your Eyes The Anchoress - What Goes Around (Acoustic) Ani Difranco - Play God Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - Black Crow Sleigh Bells - I Can Only Stare Factory Floor - Wave - Jlin Remix Slam - Ecclesiastic Acid Arab - A3ssifa (feat. Rizan Said) Archive - Driving In Nails Ten Fé - Turn - Ewan Pearson Remix DILLY DALLY - Desire - Odonis Odonis Remix You Me At Six - Plus One American Football - Desire Gets in the Way Blaenavon - My Bark Is Your Bite JONES - Tomorrow Is New Boston Manor - Laika Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like a Levee MV & EE - Yr My Jam White Lies - Hold Back Your Love Joyce Manor - Eighteen NOFX - Sid and Nancy Luke Haines - Power of the Witch Meshuggah - Monstrocity Aliocha - Flash in the Pan Andrea Terrano - Woodlands Bazart - Chaos Jean-Michel Blais - il Joseph Lawrenson - Ljubljana Lisa Mitchell - Warhol Oasis - Stand By Me (Mustique Demo) Shovels & Rope - Buffalo Nickel Nilufer Yanya - Keep On Calling

ICYMI - Listen to: 50 Finest Tracks of the First Half of 2016

Miss something? Browse the archive playlist on Spotify.

Posted by Sean Adams (@seaninsound).

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This week's Independent Music Monday playlist is here.

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Marissa Nadler, Warpaint, Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam, Honeyblood, Roisin Murphy, and lots more on this week’s #IndependentMusicMonday

Every Monday the editor of Drowned in Sound compiles a playlist celebrating the best new releases from Independent labels. The concept is a little like those New Music Friday playlists that you might be aware of, but on a Monday, and with no major labels.

Each week, we compile 15-30 new releases from independent labels and independent artists. Some tracks arrived online in the past few days, whilst others are cuts from albums that were released on Friday.

Track of the Week

‘Give Me Your Gun’ by Marissa Nadler

Marissa Nadler has always had a way of haunting everything she touches. Her voice is rich with its own ghostly wisp whilst her melodies swirl and swirl until time stands still like a frozen waterfall. She’s one of the most consistently brilliant musicians in the world and we’re lucky to have her. Those of a fragile disposition should investigate her new EP of home-recordings Bury Your Name (out now on Bella Union) and her entire back catalogue at your peril, as it’s quite likely you’ll get utterly obsessed and begin to forget that other music exists.

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This Week’s New Additions

Marissa Nadler - Give Me Your Gun Petrels - Terra Nullius Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - A 1000 Times Temples - Certainty Honeyblood - Sea Hearts Merchandise - Lonesome Sound Beach Slang - Spin the Dial NxWorries - Lyk Dis Warpaint - Heads Up MADEIRA - Come on Thru Flock of Dimes - Everything Is Happening Today Negative Gemini - Real Virtual Unison (Fake Edit) Róisín Murphy - Whatever Lucius - Pulling Teeth Archive - Driving In Nails - Guy Andrews Remix Kamera - Ventoux - Throwing Snow Remix Junk Son - Picture - Ghost Culture remix Tender - Violence Alice Jemima - Dodged a Bullet - Bodhi Remix JONES - Indulge - HONNE Remix How To Dress Well - What’s Up Archy Marshall - Swell Meadowlark - Headlights Happyness - Friend of the Revolution Terry - 8 Girls LVL UP - She Sustains Us Skinny Girl Diet - Lazy Eye Scarlet Rascal - Strange Every Time I Die - C++ (Love Will Get You Killed) Boxed In - Shadowboxing True Widow - Theurgist Stick To Your Guns - Universal Language God Damn - Again Again Flyying Colours - Long Holiday Pixelord - Operator Michael Nau - Maralou Holy Sons - Robbed and Gifted Ilya Beshevli - Tears of a Tiger - Taken From Night Forest Tad - Stumblin’ Man - Remastered Attila - Ignite

ICYMI - Listen to: 50 Finest Tracks of the First Half of 2016

Miss something? Browse the archive playlist on Spotify.

Posted by Sean Adams (@seaninsound).

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This is probably the third time in less than a year I've made Marissa Nadler track of the week. #fanboy

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#9: From ANOHNI to Bat for Lashes - Best of Q2 2016

April, May and June 2016’s finest album releases are considered and evaluated by Drowned in Sound founder Sean Adams and Absolute Radio’s Danielle Perry. The show kicks off with Amber Arcades and ends with Fiona Brice, and there’s plenty more including Minor Victories, Ala.ni. ANOHNI, Bat for Lashes, Fiona Brice, Black Honey, Minor Victories, Marissa Nadler and we chat about more stuff too.

Please note: this show was recorded the day after Brexit. Sorry for the delay on this podcast going live, we had issues with our Spotify uploader but it’s now up there as a playlist with full tracks too, and on all the podcatcher websites with audio clips amongst the chatter.

Tracks played on this episode

‘Fading Lines’ by Amber Arcades 'All My Pride’ by Black Honey '4 Degrees’ by ANOHNI 'Cherry Blossom’ by ALA.NI 'Give It Your Worst’ by False Advertising 'A Hundred Ropes’ by Minor Victories 'Janie in Love’ by Marissa Nadler 'In God’s House’ by Bat for Lashes 'Echo of Creation’ by JAMBINAI 'Berlin’ by Fiona Brice

PODCAST

The podcast version only includes clips of the tracks but is available to download for free. You can browse our previous podcasts here. You can also get this podcast via RSS, Stitcher and most likely via your 'podcatcher’ of choice.

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New episode of our podcast now available!

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Ed Harcourt’s new album FURNACES is OUT NOW

The album features artwork by legendary gonzo artist Ralph Steadman (Hunter S. Thompson, New Statesman, etc) and was produced by Flood (PJ Harvey, Nine Inch Nails, Nick Cave, U2, Foals, etc).

Here’s a taste of the the critical praise.

“A big beast of an album” Album of the Week THE TELEGRAPH

“His fiercest yet…” Album of the Week THE SUNDAY TIMES

Album of the Week VIRGIN RADIO

“Superb… almost Bowie-esque” ★★★★★ SUNDAY EXPRESS

Album of the Day BBC 6 MUSIC

“Politically aghast… Harcourt’s best record yet” ★★★★ MOJO

“A masterpiece” MARK LANEGAN

“Phenomenal” GREG DULLI (Afghan Whigs)

“Amazing” JAMIE CULLUM

“Completely engrossing” ★★★★ EVENING STANDARD

“Excellent” ★★★★ THE INDEPENDENT

“A very English exercise in social commentary” GQ

“Flaming greatness” 8/10 UNCUT

“Powerful stuff” ★★★★ THE SUN

“Career-defining” ★★★★ Q

“Full of fury” ★★★★ CLASSIC POP

“Bold and unrepentant" THE TIMES

★★★★ FT

★★★★ THE i

“Apocalyptic pop” THE GUARDIAN

“Wonderfully evil” ABC

“Satan licking your earlobe” 9/10 GIGWISE

“A welcome left turn” LA TIMES

8/10 UNDER THE RADAR

“Utterly absorbing” ★★★★ MUSIC OMH

“Big, bold and beautiful” METRO

“…arresting ear candy… a stirring, often searing look at the "menace” of men in the world.“ NPR

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I've been managing Mr Harcourt for 4 years now, and this new record arrived on Friday. If you get chance to give it a stream or pick up the record in a store, you're in for a treat.