Sonic Bliss 24-52 (Dec 29)

Sonic Bliss #24-52

December 29, 2024

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Portisehad - Roads

Nerdstar & Chet Baker - Snowbound

Massive Attack - Saturday Come Slow

Claude Fontaine - Vaquiero

Rae & Christian - The Hush (feat. Texas)

Glass Animals - Hazey

Santa Cruz Musique - Cala Bejor

Bjork - Possibly Maybe

Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime

Club 8 - I Wish You'd Stay

Them & I - worship or love

Sasha Dobson - Without You

The Verve - Sonnet

William Orbit - Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte

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Frou Frou - Breathe In

Alt-J - 3 ww

Hush Valley - Bring Me To The Beach

Anoushka Shankar - Burn

Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film)

Cinematic Orchestra - Channel 1 Suite

Ivy - I Think Of You

Mojave 3 - Bluebird Of Happiness

Karmacoda - Love Will Turn Your Head Around

Don West - Friends

Sia - Breathe Me

Idealism - Snowfall

Doves - Last Broadcast

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Esthero - That Girl

Groove Armada - Langsame Marmalade

Pond - Elephant Gun

Kostars - Red Umbrella

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Jon Hopkins - Form By Firelight

Tricky - Only If I Knew

Damien Jurado - Allocate

Saint Etienne - Alone Together

Flunk - Petrified

Ride - Repetition (Petr Aleksander remix)

Wye Oak - Fear Of Heights

Robin Guthrie - Mission Dolores

Leon Bridges - Sho Nuff

UTR 24-52 (Top 5 Picks Of The Year)

Under The Radar Radio #24-52 
December 29, 2024

Picks Of The Year #5 - #1 

(plus past Picks Of The  Year)

#5 LIAM GALLAGER & JOHN SQUIRE -  (Self Titled)      

I'm So Bored

Mars To Liverpool

Raise Your Hands

One Day At A Time

Make It Up As You Go Along

1984 Pick Of The Year

Prince & The Revolution - Computer Blue  (from the album Purple Rain)

#4 WAXAHATCHEE - Tigers Blood         

Bored

Crowbar

Ice Cold

Crimes Of The Heart

Right Back To it

1994 Pick Of The Year

Portishead - Sour Times (from the album Dummy)

#3   FONTAINES DC - Romance            

Starburster

Favourite

Bug

Here's The Thing

Sundwoner

2004 Pick Of The Year

Air - Cherry Blossom Girl  (from the album Talkie Walkie)

#2  X - Smoke & Fiction                   

Big Black X

Ruby Church

Smoke & Fiction

Face In The Moon

Flipside

Sweet Til The Bitter End

2014 Pick Of The Year

Sloan - You've Got A Lot On Your Mind  (from the album Commonwealth)

          UTR 2024 PICK OF THE YEAR                     

  THE LEMON TWIGS - A  Dream Is All We Know         

My Golden Years

If You And I Are Not Wise

Peppermint Roses

Church Bells

A Dream Is All I Know

In The Eyes Of The Girl 

Sonic Bliss 24-51 (Dec 22)

Sonic Blissmas

December 22, 2024

Photo courtesy of NASA

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Mandalay - Like Her

Air - Mike Mills

Nightmares On Wax - Back To Nature

Mono - Slimcea Girl

Royksopp - Remind Me

Thievery Corporation - La Force de Melodie

Fila Brazillia - Leggy

Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You

Beth Orton - Sweetest Decline

Trifonic - Broken

South - Every Light Has Blown

Boards Of Canada - Nothing Is Real

Feist - Gatekeeper

Chapterhouse - Mesmerize

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Cocteau Twins - Frosty The Snowman

Vince Guaraldi Trio - Skating

She & Him - I'll Be Home For Christmas

Loreena McKennitt - The Holly & The Ivy

Aimee Mann - The Christmas Song

Scott Leonard - We Three Kings

Joni Mitchell - River

The Bird & The Bee - Carol Of The Bells

Chilly Gonzales - Snow Is Falling In Manhattan

Trombone Shorty - O Holy Night

Over The Rhine - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

Yo La Tengo - Eight Candles

Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time Is Here

Enya - Oiche Chiuin (Silent Night)

Kate Bush & Albert McIntosh - Snwoflake

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Brendan Perry - Wintersun

Tori Amos - Snow Angel

Domingues & Ives - What Child Is This

Phoebe Bridgers - If We Make It Through December

Aim - The Girl Who Fell Through The Ice

Craig Armstrong - Snow

Moby - When It's Cold, I'd Like To Die

Kate Bush - Under Ice

Viia - Frozen

Natalie Walker - Urban Angel

Belle & Sebastian - Fox in The Snow

Norah Jones & Laufey - Better Than Snow

Sarah McLachlan - Song For A Winter's Night

Sufjan Stevens - Sister Winter

Sia - Underneath The Christmas Lights

UTR 24-51 (Picks Of The Year 10-6)

Under The Radar Radio #24-51 

December 22, 2024

Picks Of The Year #10- - #16 

(plus Honorable Mentions)

#10 BLUSHING - Sugarcoat                     

Pull You In Two 

Sugarcoat

Charms

Seafoam

Tamagotchi

HONORABLE MENTION 

Travis - Gaslight  (from the album L.A. Times)

#9 VALLEY - Water The Flowers, Pray For A Garden      

When You Know Someone

A Little More

Bass Player's Brother

*Water The Flower, Pray For A Garden

Bop Ba

HONORABLE MENTION

Ride - Midnight Rider (from the album Interplay)

#8 M.J. LENDERMAN - Manning Fireworks            

She's Leaving You

Wristwatch

On My Knees

*Rudolph

Joker Lips

HONORABLE MENTION

Lewis OfMan - Flowers In The Car  (from the album Cristal Medium Blue)

#7 NADA SURF - Moon Mirror                   

In Front Of Me Now

Second Skin

Give Me The Sun

*Losing

Moon Mirror

HONOABLE MENTION 

Ducks Ltd - Hollowed Out (from the album Harm's Way)

#6 THE CURE - Songs Of A Lost World         

A Fragile Thing 

All I Ever Am

Drone:Nodrone

And Nothing Is Forever

Sonic Bliss 24-50 (December 15)

Sonic Bliss #24-50

December 15, 2024

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Beauty's Confusion - Windmills

Twentyeight - The Beginning

Koop - Tonight

Eloise - Left Side

Marconi Union - Weightless

Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien

Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine

Sade - Soldier Of Love

Craig Armstrong - Finding Beauty

Sufjan Stevens - Run Away With Me

Violet Indiana - You

Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day

Talos - Evening

Foxes In Fiction - Antibody

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Everything But The Girl - Hatfield 1980

Bonobo & Nick Murphy - No Reason

Skylab - Seashell

Lianne LaHavas - Paper Thin

Pale Saints - A Thousand Stars Burst Open

MoShang - Gentle Beauty

Zero 7 - In The Waiting Line

Ulrich Schnauss - Shine

Thievery Corporation - Samba Tranquille

Nouvelle Vague - Let Me Go

Depeche Mode - Clean (Bare version)

Royksopp - Coming Home

Turtle - Blood Type

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Glass Animals - Dreamland

Portishead - It Could Be Sweet

Lushlife Project - Spirit Waltz

The Cure - Lullaby

Engine Ear Z Experiment - Blue Moon (feat Kate Havnevik)

The Album Leaf - Blank Pages

Lord Huron - When The Night Is Over

Goldfrapp - Drew

Fauxliage - Vibing

Bjork & Thom Yorke - I've Seen It All

Elliott Smith - Between The Bars

Blank & Jones - Face A La Mer

Afterlife - Speck Of Gold

UTR 24-50 (Top Tracks of 2024)

Under The Radar Radio #24-50

December 15, 2024

Top Individual Tracks

(songs not on our Top 10 albums)

Wallows - Calling After Me

A Certain Ratio - All Comes Down To This

Frank Turner - Girl From The Record Shop

English Teacher - The World's Biggest Paving Slab

Brainstory - Nobody But You

Home Counties - You Break It, You Bought It

Kate Clover - I Don't Care

Kula Shaker - Natural Magick

The Rockyts - Everywhere

Lime Garden - Love Song

Beachwood Sparks - Torn In Two

Redd Kross - I'll Take Your Word For It

Chest - Keep (moving bodies)

Leviathan Room - Scene For An Exit

Major Murphy - Time Out

Cunningham Bird - Crying In The Night

Lozenge - Radio Song

Pernice Brothers - December In Your Eyes

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Pop Seeds

Cooper T - Why You Running? 

Chime School - Give Your Heart Away

Primal Scream - Love INsurrection

Thus Love - Birthday Song

The Umbrellas - Echoes

Jerry Paper - Scenic Route

Los Bitchos - La Bomba

Jake Bugg - Keep On Moving

fanclubwallet - Band Like That

Ghost Funk Orchestra - Eyes Of Love

FEET - Why Would I Lie

Peel Dream Magazine - Wish You Well

Wisp - See You Soon

Sonic Bliss 24-49 (December 8)

Sonic Bliss #24-49

December 8, 2024

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Tosca - What If

Astrovoid - Ocean Jewel

Radiohead - True Love Waits

Arooj Aftab - Raat Ki Rani

Taken By Trees - Anna

Keane - Atlantic

Lisa Hannigan - Little Bird

Scott Hirsch - No No (Flying Mojito Brothers mix)

G Club - Guitarra G

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Long Dark Night

Massive Attack - Angel

Natural Calamity - And That's Saying A Lot

Smiths & Dream Academy - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

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One Dove - White Love

Air - Another Day

Phaeleh - Secrets

The Cure - Alone

Kate Havnevik - Tears In Rain

One Eskimo - UFO

Moby - Wait For Me

Arlo Parks - Green Eyes

Koda - Shattered

The Innocence Mission - Sisters And Brothers

Red House Painters - Song For A Blue Guitar

Esthero - Thank Heaven 4 You

Medaka - Cat Groove

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Thievery Corporation - Richest Man In Babylon

St. Germain - Mary L

Hooverphonic - Club Montepulciano

DIIV - Everyone Out

Skye & Ross - Light Of Gold

Smithereens - In A Lonely Place

DePhazz - Destiny

Laufey - From The Start

Yes, Plis - Segway On The Moon

Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove

London Grammar - Into Gold

Gary Jules - Mad World

Mojave 3 - Love Songs On the Radio 

Saru - Lifted Up

UTR 24-49 (Peel Dream Magazine)

Under The Radar Radio #24-49

December 8, 2024

Pick Of The Week

Peel Dream Magazine - Rose Main Reading Room

Peel Dream Magazine - I Wasn't Made For War

Luna - Chinatown

Blushing - Say When

Sea Lemon - Sweet Anecdote

Beach House - Lemon Glow

The Cure - All I Ever Am

Van Houten - Panoramic View

Parquet Courts - Berlin Got Blurry

Peel Dream Magazine - Wish You Well

Wisp - I Remember How Your Hands Felt On Mine

Stereolab - The Flower Called Nowhere

Bnny - Good Stuff

Grant Lee Buffalo - The Shallow End

Wishy - Planet Popstar

Doves - Renegade

Air Miami - Dolphin Expressway

TOPS - Sunday Morning

Peel Dream Magazine - Lie In The Gutter

Faye Webster - After The First Kiss

Ride - Catch You Dreaming

The Clientele - Trains In The Night

The Innocence Mission - This Thread Is A Green Street

Big Thief - Simulation Swarm

Why Bonnie - Rainbows And Ridges

Peel Dream Magazine - Counting Sheep

Half Waif - Big Dipper

Sonic Bliss 24-48 (December 1)

Sonic Bliss #24-48
December 1, 2024

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Sade - Is It A Crime

Neverending White Lights - I Hope Your Heart Runs Empty

Ella Thompson - There's a Fire Yet To Burn

Cigarettes After Sex - Crush

Friends Of Dean Martinez - The Shadow Of Your Smile

Carmen Rizzo - Travel In Time

The Verve - History

Dead Can Dance - Sanvean

James Vincent McMorrow - Never Gone

Groove Armada - We're Free

Emancipator - Winter Dub

Depeche Mode - Dangerous

Flunk - Golden Brown

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Delerium - Daylight (f/Matthew Sweet)

Orleya - Under The Sun

Nightmares On Wax - You Wish

The Smile - Instant Psalm

Emiliana Torrini - Beggar's Prayer

Natalie Walker - Urban Angel

R.E.M. - Find The River

Cocteau Twins - A Kissed Out Red Floatboat

Glass Animals - Black Mambo

Sounds From The Ground - Treasure

Blushing - Sugarcoat

Moby & Mark Lanegan - The Lonely Night

Celso Mendes - Lately (f/Julie Benson)

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Melorman - Inside Your Dream

Space Raiders - Beautiful Crazy

Massive Attack - Safe From Harm

Georgia Gets By - Madeline

Mac Miller - Once A Day

UNKLE - Bloodstain (f/ Alice Temple)

All India Radio - Four Three

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism

Air - Alone In Kyoto

The xx - Shelter

Eddie Chacon - End Of The World

Ibeyi - Oya

Four Tet - Teenage Birdsong

Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance 

UTR 24-48 (Horns-A-Plenty)

Under The Radar Radio 24-48 

December 1, 2024

HORNS-A-PLENTY!

This year's special is dedicated to David Sanborn (1945-2024)

Blues Brothers - Peter Gunn Theme

Supergrass - Tonight

Apples In Stereo - Go

Har Mar Superstar - Lady You Shot Me

James Morrison - Nothing Ever Hurt Like You

University Of Michigan Marching Band - The Victors

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - People Don't Get What They Deserve

Dick Dale - Miserlou

Adam & The Ants - Desperate, But Not Serious

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let's Face It

Style Council - Have You Ever Had It Blue?

Kirsty MacColl - In These Shoes

Fishbone - Party At Ground Zero

Stevie Wonder - I Wish

Ben Folds Five - Army

Was (Not Was) - I Can't Turn You Loose

Madness - House Of Fun

Earth, Wind & Fire - September

The Cure - Why Can't I Be You

UB40 - Rat In The Kitchen

Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

Morphine - Radar

Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell

The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping

Swing Out Sister - Twilight World

A Girl Called Eddy - Been Around

Ween (w/David Sanborn) - Your Party

Sonic Bliss 24-47 (November 24)

Sonic Bliss #24-47

November 24, 2024

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Portishead - The Rip

Moby - Porcelain

Thievery Corporation - A Gentle Dissolve

The Cure - And Nothing Is Forever

Bjork - All Is Full Of Love

Lo Moon - Camouflage

Frente - Bizarre Love Triangle

Control Freq (Love Song Surprise) - Sweetest Day

Lily Haydn - Is This Love, Is This Life? 

Saint Etienne - Daydream

Craig Armstrong - Let's Go Out Tonight

Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted

Pepe Deluxe - Lying Peacefully

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Sigur Ros - (Sigur 4)

MoShang - Inscribed In Jade

Tycho - Outer Sunset

Jon Hopkins & Olafur Arnalds - Forever Held

Massive Attack - The Spoils

Rosalia de Souza - Bossa 31

UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights (feat. Thom Yorke)

Royksopp - So Easy

The Marias - No One Noticed

West Indian Girl - Dream

Greenhornes - There Is An End

Love - Over The Ocean

Bent - Now I Must Remember

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Delerium & Sarah McLachlan - Silence

Aqualung - Falling Out Of Love

William Orbit - Swan Lake

Sade Adu - Young Lion

James Vincent McMorrow - And If My Heart Should Somehow Stop

Tricky - Somebody's Sins

396 Hz Sound Therapy - 741 Hz Inner Peace Harmony

Hooverphonic - Inhaler

Karen O & Danger Mouse - Drown

Jacob Cummings - Incarnations

Anoushka Shankar - Beloved

Mylo - Sunworshipper

Carlo Comando - Everyday

Baths - Voyeur

UTR 24-47 (Primal Scream)

Under The Radar Radio #24-47

November 24, 2024

Pick Of The Week

Primal Scream - Come Ahead

Primal Scream - Love Insurrection

Kasabian - Treat

Jesus & Mary Chain - Pop Seeds

elbow - Adriana Again

Sea Power - Living Is So Easy

Doves - Renegade

Libertines - Merry Old England

Charlatans - Tremelo Song

Home Counties - You Break It, You Bought It

Primal Scream - Innocent Money

Happy Mondays - Step On

Getdown Sevices - I'm Not Feeling It

Chest - Keep Moving (Bodies)

The The - Slow Emotion Replay

Manic Street Preachers - Hiding In Plain Sight

Franz Ferdinand - Night Or Day

Supergrass - Kick In The The Teeth

Jake Bugg - Keep On Moving

Primal Scream - Deep Dark Waters

Haircut 100 - The Unloving Plum

Gene - Fill Her Up

Siracuse - Simple Pleasures

Deadletter - Binge

Temples - Day Of Conquest

Thus Love - Bread For Blood

Tess Parks - California's Dreaming

James - Born Of Frustration

Primal Scream - Heal Yourself

Sea Lemon - Sweet Anecdote

Paul Weller - Wild Wood

Sonic Bliss #24-46 (November 17)

Sonic Bliss 24-46

November 17, 2024

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Bjork - Isobel

Traumer - Louve

Jamie xx - Stranger In A Room

Remi Wolf - Motorcycle

Mocean Worker - I'll Take the Woods (w/Ambrosia Parsley)

Slowdive - Sugar For The Pill

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Thinking Like That

Leonard Cohen - Lullaby

Softy - Wake Me

Everything But The Girl - Rollercoaster

Haux - Waves

Silent Violet - Babylon Crashing

Peter Murphy - Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem

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Vanessa Daou - Near The Black Forest

The Bionaut - Strawberry

MRCY - California

Amy Winehouse - Wake Up Alone

American Music Club - Why Would You Stay

Zimpala - Sugar

Tricky - Makes Me Wanna Die

De-Phazz - April Shower

Digitonal - Wide-Eyed, Wrapped In Love

Torres & Fruit Bats - Married For Love

The Smile - Free In The Knowledge

Cocteau Twins - Frou Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires

Nick Murphy - Novocaine & Coca Cola

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Feist - One Evening

Thylacine - Satie 1

Air - Left Bank

Loma - Affinity

Tindersticks - Take Care In Your Dreams

Andrea Lindsay - La Belle Etoile

Alpha - Nyquil

Bent - Beautiful Otherness

Kinobe - Slip Into Something More Comfortable

Sphere - Sunbather

The The - I Hope You Remember The Things I Can't Forget

9 Lazy 9 - Tumbleweed

The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work

Tori Amos - Leather

UTR 24-46 (Pom Pom Squad)

Under The Radar Radio #24-46

November 17, 2024

Pick Of The Week

Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me

Pom Pom Squad - Street Fighter

Kate Clover - I Don't Care

Tunde Adebimpe - Magnetic

Throwing Muses - Drugstore Drastic

Oceanator - Be Here

Gloom Girl MFG - Crimes

Courettes - Keep Dancing

Los Bitchos - La Bomba

Pixies - Ernest Evans

Pom Pom Squad - Messages

Beach Bunny - Vertigo

Momma - Ohio All The Time

Radio Free Alice - Johnny

Bel Air Lip Bombs - Stay Or Go

Jack White - You Got Me Searching

Primal Scream - Love Insurrection

Sun Mahshene - New Shores

elbow - Adriana Again

Pom Pom Squad - Downhill

Soccer Mommy - Anchor

Thurs Love - Birthday Song

Doves - Renegade

Mama Zu - Lip

Nada Surf - Second Skin

Sasami - Just Be Friends

Sea Lemon - Sweet Anecdote

Imogen Heap - What Have You Done To Me

Wisp - I Remember How Your Hands Felt On Mine

Pom Pom Squad - Montauk