Onwards, ever onwards, our oars paddling hard against the current, with this episode, the middle child, so to speak, traditionally struggling to find its identity within the family. But in fact a confident set of tracks of some diversity.
There was justified commentary of the first tranche in the previous episode that it was rather guitar-dominated which, on reflection, it rather was.
So this time round, by way of contrast, there are instrumentals and a fair bit of electronic experimentation.
Some old friends such as Four Tet, but also many artists never featured before on the show, such as M L Buch, Allegra Krieger, Ex Easter Island Head, Packs, Jessica Pratt and Moin. And also a couple of deep cuts from 2024’s more popular albums from Clairo (sounding like Broadcast here) and, of course, Charli XCX with a track of immense vulnerability. It wouldn’t have sounded at all out of place on this year’s Insecurity episode.
Without more ado …
