Category: Music
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WIS 6 Jun 2025
Sounds Made By Humans is a perfect pop record, full of wit and great hooks, where the poetry and the music are equal partners – what’s not to like, eh?
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WIS 30 May 2025
Smalltown Boy is a haunting synth-pop classic that became part of the gay cultural avalanche sweeping through mainstream UK music in 1984.
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WIS 23 May 2025
The Manic’s first recording after the disappearance of Richey Edwards was a lush, stirring anthem that came as a ray of light from a dark place.
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WIS 16 May 2025
This week’s WIS is inspired by this niche Wilco reference posted on Instagram by Jason Isbell after white smoke appeared.
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WIS 9 May 2025
As David Thomas’ otherworldly voice is now yelping in the next world, the ‘avant-garage’ sound of Pere Ubu’s The Modern Dance gets an outing on WIS.
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WIS 2 May 2025
New Lace Sleeves is a precisely constructed, opaque tale of class, control and lost innocence hidden away on Trust, arguably Costello’s most underrated collection of songs.
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WIS 25 Apr 2025
An irresitible, self-aware manifesto for a career which came wonderfully true, Changes features probably the best known stutter in pop music.
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WIS 18 Apr 2025
The last weekly witterings on six tunes by Brandi Carlile, Gang of Four, Kris Drever, Fun Boy Three, The Scaffold and Dawes.
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WIS 11 Apr 2025
More mutterings on tunes by The Mekons, Brian Protheroe, Blondie, Kathleen Edwards, X-Press 2 and Melba Moore
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WIS 4 Apr 2025
Mercurial musings on tunes by English Teacher, Mose Allison, The Human League, Redd Kross, Bob Dylan and MFSB.
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