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Our favourite music of June

It's monthly music recommender time. Andrea and Niall are here with the songs and albums that have made their month a bit brighter.This month we're recommending and discussing new albums from Confidence Man, Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler, Automatic and Robocobra Quartet and songs from Julia Jacklin, Anna Mieke, Ailbhe Reddy, Madison Cunningham, Dry Cleaning, Sworn Virgins and Courtney Barnett.Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2Andrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Primavera Sound, Body & Soul Festival & the resurgence of Kate Bush’s ’Running Up That Hill’

It's been a few weeks since Andrea and Niall were able to pod because of holidays, festivals and the summer season.So it's a more casual episode this time around with Niall sharing his experiences from week 2 at Primavera Sound in Barcelona and Andrea making a rare festival visit to Body & Soul Festival. There's also Forbidden Fruit chat and our Nialler9 Discord community weigh in our their experiences at Prima.And there's always time to talk about one of the greatest songs of all-time - 'Running Up That Hill' by Kate Bush, which as you no doubt know by now, has seen a resurgence thanks to its sync placement in season four of Netflix show Stranger Things, and promptly picked up 616 million Tik Tok plays and has gone to number 1 in the UK and Australia.Who knew a song from 1985 might become the song of the summer? You don't need to ask us twice to discuss the enduring appeal of the classic song, and why it's resonating once more.Plus, Andrea tells us her opinion on the new Beyoncé song.Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistVox - How a recording-studio mishap shaped '80s musicLinndrum famous songsNialler9 Mix Series: Mix & Fairbanks – Linndrum mix 2016Remixes mentioned:Patrice Baumel EditAshley Beedle EditSupport us on Patreon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our favourite albums & songs of May

It's monthly roundup time. Andrea and Niall are here with the new music recommender episode.This month we're recommending and discussing new albums from Kevin Morby, OliveyOlive, Just Mustard, Porridge Radio, Angel Olsen and songs from Kieran Hebden, Mallrat, Beverly-Glenn Copeland, Wet Leg, Cormac Begley and Beth Orton.Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is backAndrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kendrick Lamar - Mr Morale & The Big Steppers in review

It's a big episode. As it always is when it comes to an artist like Kendrick Lamar.Mr Morale & The Big Steppers, Lamar's fifth album, the Compton rapper's first album in five years, is out almost a week now and Niall and Andrea spend an hour and 40 minutes discussing this cerebral, personal, conceptual album in depth.The album is a therapy session and a morality play, seeking breakthroughs, with Kendrick sharing confessions while also speaking on the culture wars, his saviour complex and his addiction. It's the same album that explores racial, generational, and centrally, family trauma, while giving space to Kodak Black, who has pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a minor, the same topic that Kendrick unpacks here trying to break the "generational curse" while also exploring his acceptance of trans members of his family.His wife, Whitney Alford is central to the album, as is the work of German self-help author Eckhart Toll, while guests are limited but include Beth Gibbons of Portishead, Sampha Ghostface Killah, Amanda Reifer, Taylor Paige, Sam Dew and Tanna Leone.It's Kendrick with the N95 mask off.Let's dive in:Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is backAndrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Simon - Andrea’s fav weird little guy

This week's podcast is all about Andrea's favourite weird little guy and second favourite Paul - Paul Simon!Andrea takes us through her love of the songwriter's music, voice and guitar-playing, from Simon & Garfunkel to his big hit album Graceland, and the criticism, cultural boycott and art as politics argument. We focus on a handful of songs including 'The Sound Of Silence', 'Graceland', 'The Obvious Child', 'America' and 'Diamonds On The Soul Of Her Shoes'.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is backAndrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our favourite music of April

It's the monthly roundup of albums and songs we love with Andrea and Niall on with the new music recommender episode.This month we're discussing albums from Billy Woods, Let's Eat Grandma, Martian Subculture, Girlpool and Faye Webster and songs from Pusha T, Ailbhe Reddy, Two Shell, Soccer Mommy, SOAK, New Jackson and Robocobra Quartet's toxic wellness anthem.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is back next week.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia review

Fontaines D.C. have released their new album Skinty Fia, what they have suggested is the final part of an album trilogy, following on 2019's Dogrel and 2020's A Hero's Death, both of which we reviewed on the podcast.Since then the band have been anointed NME's Best Band In The World, have been nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Album, a Brit for Best International Group and an Ivor Novello for Best Album.Skinty Fia truly marks a band apart from the jangly garage rock of Liberty Belle, they have full extracted themselves from their musical origins and in the process have become one of the biggest rock bands around, garnering praise and rave reviews. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Chatten said Skinty Fia was “largely informed and influenced by Irishness existing in England and mutating and becoming a new kind of culture in general.”Niall and Andrea give their thoughts the album, and talk about the Irishness and culture reflected in Skinty Fia, how Grian Chatten sees Dublin now, the album's sound which largely casts a dour dirgey atmosphere and what we want from a band like Fontaines D.C.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Indie Sleaze with Louise McSharry

You may have heard of the term Indie Sleaze lately. A term newly coined to describe a nostalgic trend of post-Y2K era of culture and aesthetics of indie music and parties that crossed cities and continents.Niall and Andrea are talking indie-rock, blog house, nu-rave, electro-clash and the alternative scene of the years of 2004 to 2012 that gave us the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Crystal Castles, CSS, Uffie, MGMT, New Young Pony Club, MIA, Hipster Runoff, Mashups, The Cobrasnake's hedonistic flash photography, Dublin clubs like Antics and spawned an Indie Sleaze instagram account.So how are Gen Z co-opting the vibe of the era and is the Indie Sleaze trend just a Tik-Tok-enabled churn in nostalgia economy? Plus, Louise McSharry, host of the new topical news podcast Catch Up, drops in to talk about her experiences of indie, electro and alternative of that time, the fashion and the tunes she still loves, and why she wants to start a club night in the era's honour.Listen to the episode here or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joni Mitchell - a deep dive

This week, we're looking at an icon.Andrea  takes the lead with Niall on support to delve into the life and distinguished music career of Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell.Mitchell has been in the news recently, and recently showed solidarity with Neil Young by taking all her music off Spotify, having appeared on the Grammys this past Sunday, one of her first appearances in public since suffering a brain aneurysm in 2015.Andrea looks at her beginnings and formative experience with adoption, her seminal album 1971 Blue, her forays into jazz and her '80s period, along with a song in the early '90s in which she directly addressed Ireland's shameful Magdalene Laundries.Mitchell proved herself to be a continuous counterculture artist, a musician who walked her own way and used her writing as a way to interrogate the world for herself, and others to understand. And of course, there's discussion of songs like 'A Case Of You', 'Both Sides Now' and 'Big Yellow Taxi' among many others.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our favourite music of March

It's Andrea and Niall with our monthly new music recommender episode.We are talking new albums from from Rosalia, The Weather Station, CMAT, Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Popul; and songs from Aldous Harding, Angel Olsen, Tomberlin, Amy Michelle, Spider, EFÉ, Maria Kelly with Paul Noonan and Skinner.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.