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We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland

Iain McKinstry and Andrew Hall

Two Scottish music fans, Iain McKinstry and Andrew Hall, review tracks, albums and artists old, new and some with a personal twist.

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All Episodes

104:31

Pop Soap Opera & Global Grooves: Lily Allen, pôt-pot,...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2025/11/05

Send us a text No, but who is Madeline, actually? Iain and Andrew have their say on the big pop story of the moment, Lily Allen’s audio soap-opera West End Girl. Also on the slate are the menacingly shady psych of pôt-pot, Sudan Archives’ Afro-dance hybrids, the Californian baroque-folk of Madison Cunningham, and Daniel Caesar’s fluid, multi-phase R&B. Something frosty and lovely has The Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice; tell your friends; like, su...

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92:08

Dead-Cert or Dud-Beat?: Tame Impala, Maruja, Titanic,...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2025/10/22

Send us a text Dead-cert or dud-beat? Tune into the latest @weheardwonders pod to find out where Andrew and Iain land on the big new release from Aussie psych hermit Tame Impala. We also play and review new music from Mancunian post-rock emoters Maruja, avant-rock Mexico City duo Titanic, French-Senegalese progressive-soul singer anaiis and nineties alt-rock supergroup Drink The Sea. Something sleepy and starry has The Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform of choice;...

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107:50

Frills, Feathers & Feelings: Geese, CMAT, The New...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2025/10/08

Send us a text Five recent music releases are road-tested and reviewed on the latest @weheardwonders pod. What makes Geese stand out from the alt-rock flock? Does CMAT’s “Irish country rock’n’roll” raise a smile? Are The New Eves novel or more novelty? Is Ami Taf Ra’s maximalist jazz awe-inspiring or yawn-inducing? And what emotions does Blood Orange alternative-R&B stir? Tune in to find out the answers. Talk also (inevitably) turns to Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl, and something ...

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85:13

Carnal and Catchy: Wolf Alice, Dijon, Water From Your...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2025/08/27

Send us a text It’s a bumper week for new releases on @weheardwonders with four Album Of The Year contenders (Wolf Alice, Dijon, Water From Your Eyes, Nourished By Time) and a much-touted newcomer (Tyler Ballgame) lined up on the starting grid. But what did Iain and Andrew make of the runners ‘n’ riders? Which ones elicit excitable swearing and declarations of their genius, and which ones fall just short? Something carnal and catchy has The Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podca...

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79:27

Scotland in Stereo: Barry Can’t Swim, Lavinia...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2025/08/22

Send us a text Even more so than usual, this week’s episode of the @weheardwonders podcast is one made in Scotland, with all five acts up for review hailing from north of the border. It’s an eclectic bunch too, taking in Barry Can’t Swim’s bangin’ and increasingly ubiquitous dance-pop, Lavinia Blackwall’s out-of-time folk-rock, the youthful exuberance of The Cords, the worldly, old-worldy storytelling of Ian Humberstone, and Colin Steele Quartet stepping out into the night with their interpre...

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98:33

We’re Back! Life Updates, NEW Music News & Reviews –...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2025/08/13

Send us a text Yes folks, @weheardwonders is back, back, back, as Iain and Andrew dust off their microphones after an extended summer break. We chat about Iain's recent Significant Life Event, as well as discuss some of the bigger music news stories that have occurred in the time that we've been away. Then it's down to the main business at hand: reviewing standout (for better or worse) 2025 releases from post-rock emoters caroline, alt-country raconteur Ryan Davis & His Roadhouse Band, Ni...

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88:09

Yorke, Knives & Other Wonders: Mark Pritchard & Thom...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2025/05/14

Send us a text You are all invited to @weheardwonders' infinite garden of musical delights! Tune in for Iain and Andrew's takes on the new collaborative album by electronic musician/producer Mark Pritchard and a certain Thomas Edward Yorke, the Aussie alt-rock experimentation of Mess Esque, Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals' confounding and confrontational brand of alternative hip-hop, Barker's textured techno, and Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto's psych-blues interplay. Something unrelent...

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102:35

Bold Voices: Matt Carmichael Interview + Sault &...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2025/05/07

Send us a text Joining the @weheardwonders boys for this week's pod is Scottish saxophonist and composer Matt Carmichael. Matt discusses his wonderful new LP Dancing With Embers, the art of improvising and taking inspiration from folk singer-songwriters, as well as selecting some fantastic music to play. Elsewhere, with Iain talking Animals and Andrew enthusing about At Pompeii, is 2025 going to be a Floyd Summer? New releases by mysterious groove merchants Sault and intense alternative hip-h...

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87:50

Newish Music - Bon Iver! Japanese Breakfast! The...

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2025/04/17

Send us a text We Heard Wonderers Iain and Andrew return in one piece (just about) following their European exploits. We have our say on high-profile new indie releases from Bon Iver, Japanese Breakfast and The Horrors - do they hit the mark, or leave something to be desired? Exciting projects from contemporary composer Daniel Paul O’Sullivan and gospel-soul family unit Annie & The Caldwells are also up for discussion. Something beguiling and beautiful has The Vinyl Word. Listen to We Hea...

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99:26

New Music - Lady Gaga! Fust! Melin Melyn! Candi...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2025/03/19

Send us a text Don’t let it ever be said that @weheardwonders don’t have range! On the latest pod, Iain and Andrew discuss the potential reemergence of Radiohead, before playing and reviewing new records by returning pop royalty Lady Gaga, none-more-American alternative country band Fust, mellifluous Welsh millers Melin Melyn, sensational soul survivor Candi Staton and avant-classical-folk-metal world-weaver Maud The Moth. Something strutting of a sixties vintage has The Vinyl Word. Listen to...

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90:41

New Music - The Limiñanas! DARKSIDE! Everything is...

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2025/03/05

Send us a text Fascinating, sometimes unexpected pairings and groupings are the name of the game on this week’s @weheardwonders podcast. Iain and Andrew share their favourite musical mash-ups, before moving on to review five collaboration-heavy new projects. Bobby Gillespie lives out his noirish, faded glamour fantasies alongside Mr & Mrs of French garage-rock The Limiñanas; DARKSIDE expand to a trio and jam out; Richard Russell and assorted friends turn existential on the latest Everythi...

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87:35

New Music - HONESTY! John Glacier! Oklou! Richard...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2025/02/26

Send us a text Mystery hangs in the air and cloaks many of the artists played and discussed on this week's @weheardwonders pod: whether it be shadowy, alt-electro collective HONESTY; the endlessly intriguing, expectation-defying John Glacier; Oklou's introspective approach to futurist-medieval-Y2K dance-pop; progressive folk musician Richard Dawson's obtuse quest for the divine in day-time TV; or the hazy, daydream-folk-hop of South London rapper Confucius MC's new collaboration with producer...

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91:05

New Music - FKA Twigs! Benjamin Booker! Anna B...

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2025/02/14

Send us a text Podcasting late at night in their pants surrounded by a week’s worth of washing is when Iain and Andrew are at their most Eusexua. Tune into @weheardwonders to hear their opinions on some intriguing new music: FKA twigs discovers the best version of herself on the dance-floor; Benjamin Booker takes a dramatic left-turn and asks “what would happen if I mixed Mobb Deep and the Mary Chain?”; tender singer-songwriter Anna B Savage tests our Irish pronunciation; Sam Amidon brings a ...

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76:29

New Music - Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta! Ex-Vöid! Sophie...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2025/01/22

Send us a textLooking for some intriguing artists and box-fresh tunes to kick-start your year? @weheardwonders have you covered! Yes, indeed, Iain and Andrew are back with their first new music show of 2025: played and discussed are a novel merging of old and new, Congolese and Peruvian; scuzzy, fuzzy indie-rock featuring a Joanna Gruesome twosome; stirringly intense alternative-folk courtesy of Bella Union; exuberantly provocative South African "future ghetto funk"; and cosmic jams from down...

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87:48

Episode 100 - Best of 2024

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2025/01/08

Send us a textThey said it couldn’t be done! Many questioned whether it SHOULD be done! But here it is - Episode 100 of the @weheardwonders podcast! What better way to commemorate this astonishing achievement in content-creation than by Iain and Andrew sitting down and reflecting on the year that was 2024? We play and enthuse about some of our standout records of the past 12 months, as well as discussing many of the wider trends. Which releases did Iain return to again and again? Did Andrew’s...

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81:19

New Music - Sam Fender! MEMORIALS! Denzel Curry!...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2024/11/27

Send us a textMUSTAAAARD! The latest @weheardwonders is burnin' HOT, with Andrew and Iain discussing GNX, the surprise new album from Kendrick Lamar, before playing and sharing their thoughts on new tracks from Top 5 single hit-maker and man-of-the-people Sam Fender, exploratory art-rock duo MEMORIALS, mischievous Southern hip-hop king Denzel Curry, space-funk trumpeter Emma-Jean Thackray and very talented friend-o'-pod Jill Lorean. Something obscenely, moreishly groovy has the Vinyl Word. Li...

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95:28

New Music - Doves! Fievel is Glauque! Kim Deal!...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2024/11/13

Send us a textThree is the magic number this week on @weheardwonders as Iain and Andrew are joined by The Talent from Glasgow band The Deadline Shakes, Greg Dingwall. Greg shares his love of Field Music and joins us to listen to and review new music from the broodingly majestic Doves, progressive jazz-pop jesters Fievel Is Glauque, alt-rock legend Kim Deal, 80s-obsessed word-of-mouth sensation Mk.Gee and British soul stylist Olive Jones. Something beardy and jauntily acousticy has the Vinyl W...

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111:39

New Music - Yasmin Williams! Blood Incantation! Field...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2024/11/06

Send us a textIain and Andrew return for a @weheardwonders round-up, featuring some of the most interesting new music releases from the past month or so. Finger-picking virtuoso Yasmin Williams, sci-fi-death-metal-progsters Blood Incantation, art-rock cottage-industry Field Music, hip-hop polymath Tyler, The Creator and former-Wild Beast One True Pairing are all played and reviewed. Something raw and rockin’ from Thailand has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast platform...

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100:56

New Music - Kosmischer Läufer! Alan Sparhawk! Ezra...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2024/10/08

Send us a textYippie-yi-o! Yippie-yi-yay! Pod-casters in the sky! Yer loyal @weheardwonders cowboys Iain and Andrew round up and review the latest musical offerings from cosmic runner and hoaxer(?) Kosmischer Läufer, quiet titan of alternative music Alan Sparhawk, London jazz party-starters Ezra Collective, acid-folk-psych-rock mountain-dweller Upupayãma and sax ’n’ string supremo Nubya Garcia. Something lovely and lunar-related has the Vinyl Word. Listen to We Heard Wonders on your podcast p...

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97:29

New Music - Bon Iver! Etran de L'Aïr! Lady Blackbird!...

We Heard Wonders - music review podcast from Scotland ·

2024/09/27

Send us a textIain and Andrew deliver their opinions on the freshest new music with scalpel-sharp incisiveness on the latest @weheardwonders pod. Indie-folk phenomenon Bon Iver go back to basics, 100% Saharan guitar-band Etran de L’Aïr step into a proper studio for the first time, “the Grace Jones of jazz” Lady Blackbird expands her horizons, Lisbon psych-folk collective Beautify Junkyards team up with Modfather Paul Weller with the sole intention of freaking out Iain, and Chrysanths (aka Emi...

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