The Sentric Music Podcast

Brexit, Donald Trump, terrorism, Bake Off moving to Channel 4... Guys, if Billy Joel doesn’t do a 2016 remake of We Didn’t Start The Fire he’s missing a right trick. In these troubling times what could possibly bring a smile to that weary face of yours? Well a podcast featuring some bloody wonderful new music that’s what! This month featuring… Nick Waterhouse (Feat. Leon Bridges) // Tall Ships // Sticky Blood, Coco & Snowy // Get Inuit // Snøffeltøffs // XY&O // Bryde // Mullally // Kyle Forester // Jaws // Janet Devin // Truckfighters //

It’s August and you need an hour of amazing new music to soundtrack yourself walking into traffic whilst playing Pokemon, right? Well this month’s podcast has music much more pleasing on the ear than a Jigglypuff lullaby. Including… Ethan & The Reformation // Trudy & The Romance // Aaron // Crocodiles // Tom Speight // October Drift // Allman Brown // Bat & Ball // Bloodlines // False Advertising // Skies // Greywind // D R O H N E //

Who ordered one hour, three minutes and twenty three seconds of bloody wonderful new music? You didn't? Oh. Do you want it anyway? On the house? It'll go cold if not. Don't tell the boss though, I'm already on thin ice after giving away the previous seventy three of these as well. What can I say? I'M JUST A GIVER... This month including... Saint PHNX // Coco // High Tyde // Franko Fraize // Ark Patrol // Ashdown // Dooqu // Youth Killed It // Ando // Mullally // Virgin Suicide // Froogle // John //

Here is an hour of music to listen if a) you hate football and want to escape the Euros for 60 minute or b) you love football, but you team gets knocked out after a terrible 0-0 draw with Slovakia and you need to distract yourself from the nonsense that is a manager picking a player in midfield who hasn't played a full 90 minutes of football for his club in over a bloody season. Seriously, what's the craic with that? This month including... Sondr // Low Volts // Elle Exxe // Black Foxxess // Benedict Benjamin // Litany // The Pretty Littles // KAASI // Old Sea Brigade // XY&O // Shrinking Minds // Stephen Steinbrink // Tim Green //

If music be the food of love, stuff your ear holes with these audible nuggets... Ragga Twins // The Hosts // Stereopol // Gonzalla // The Cheap Thrills // She Drew The Gun // Man & The Echo // Skinshape // Cavalry // Lecaudé // Lists // Black Peaches

April. The clocks have gone forward. Spring has sprung. Your commute home is now during a glorious sunset instead of the abject misery of darkness. So what better way to improve the aesthetic of mother nature than soundtracking it with a handful of wonderful songs performed by rather bloody exciting musicians from around the world? This month including… Saint Phoenix // Hannah Lou Clark // I Set The Sea On Fire // Luke Cusato // Slowlights // Shannon Wardrop // Coral Bones // Swimming Tapes // Sarah P // Veyu // Dansor // The People The Poet //

After seventy of these things you’d think by now we’d struggle to come up with a whimsical description wouldn’t you? Ahem. This month including… Stealth // Saint Phoenix // Lucy Spraggan // ExMagician // Great Pagans // Hayden Calnin // Boy Jumps Ships // John Joseph Brill // Married To The Sea // Yumi & The Weather // Howard Rose // Hannah Boleyn //

Dry January is OVER! So you're going to need music to drink to, yes? Well voila! Here are fifty or so minutes of audible delight to perfectly pair with a well bodied Argentinian Malbec, or a peaty 12 year old Scotch whisky, or, how could I forget, just a massive bottle of Buckfast. This month featuring... Enter Shikari // Blossoms // David C Clements // The Spook School // Fold // Oh!Gunquit // WDSTCK // Milk Teeth // HAARM // BLUEYES // DEADBEAR // ROAM // (lot of capital letters this month, eh?)

​New year, new music. Lovely.​ Featuring... ​Saint Motel // Good Graeff // Eliza Shaddad // Tom Speight // We Are Z // Shelter Point // Squid Blood // Adam French // Elijah Hook // Working For A Nuclear Free City // XamVolo // Skies // ​

November. Fireworks. Debt. Frost. Dark when you wake up and dark when you leave the office. What a month, eh? Luckily for you here is an hour of new tunes to listen to whilst wistfully staring out into the middle distance as the rain pours down on the window of the 85 bus while beside you a stranger coughs, sniffles and sneezes into the sleeve of his jacket which casually rests against your coat, essentially guaranteeing the fact you’re going to come down with something just before Christmas part season kicks off. Ah, winter. This month featuring… Fickle Friends // Blossoms // Pixel Fix // The Hunna // Jaws // TVAM // Charlotte Carpenter // Shrinking Minds // Pari San // The Orielles // Deville // Nordic Giants // Lauren Mayhew //

I had to put the heater on for the first time last night. Nonsense. If you're one of those people who claim to "prefer winter over summer" then I inherently don't trust you, but regardless, here is an hour of new music to listen to whilst snuggled up by the fire wearing six layers of clothes and already dreading the thought of 'Dry January'. This month featuring... Ajimal // Bailiff // Youth Man // Cambio Sun // The People The Poet // Wookie // Get Inuit // The Drink // The Pretty Littles // Larry Gus // Courts //

It's September. Kids are back at school, no more Out Of Office replies ​and, just like the past two years, I've forgotten that my house insurance is up for renewal so that's £200 I've not budgeted for again FFS. Anyhow, at least I've got this wonderful playlist to listen to whilst I put various trinkets on eBay, eh? This month including... WDSTCK // Houdini Dax // Blossoms // Sabella // Smash Williams // Memory Tapes // Hayden Calnin // New Desert Blues // Kassassin Street // Viola Beach // Then Thickens // Fans // Afternaut //

August. If you've got kids you've got to figure out six weeks' worth of activities to keep them occupied. Here's an hour sorted for you. YOU'RE WELCOME. Seriously though, they'll be the coolest kids in the playground talking about how "Pitchfork & Stereogum are really backing this new producer from the West Coast" whilst the other kids are still learning the dance moves to Little Mix. This month including... Skylar Spence // K-X-P // Holy 57' // John Joesph Brill // Natalie McCool // Cattle & Cane // Jamie Lewis // Stephen Steinbrink // Stumbeline // Ellenberg // Old Man Diode & Rick Holland ft Beth Rowley // Silvertrik ft Jade // Tidelines //

The Sentric Music Podcast - it's like Beats1 Radio except Taylor Swift is never gong to write us an open letter. Which is a shame as I think she'd make a great pen pal. This month includes... Oslo Parks // Babe // Steve // Only Girl // Fizzy Blood // The Incredible Disappearing Boy // Trudy // Rameses B // Alistair Griffin // Siobhan Wilson // We Hunt Buffalo // Record Start // Deuce & Charger //

We're half way through 2015 and what have you achieved so far? Worrying isn't it. At least you can take solace in the fact you're about to listen to June's Sentric podcast and potentially discover your new favourite band. That counts as an achievement, right? This month featuring... Nick Waterhouse // Mic Lowry // Get Inuit // Stergin // Scholars // Slowlights // Jaws // Dead Ceremony // Skifonix // James Canty // The LaFontaines // Mitch Murder // The Manor //

I've read through all the manifestos, yet no party at *any* point raises the issue of the dire time & monetary investment that is needed into the UK's Eurovision programme. CAN THIS GO IGNORED FOR ANOTHER FIVE YEARS?! Pfft. If you like new music, then vote for us. This month's playlist includes... Tall Ships // Childcare // Fickle Friends // Hannah Cohen // Table Scraps // Allman Brown // Clubs & Spades // Marin // The Hot Soles // MDNGHT // Serpent Power // Alex Metric & Mark Yardley //

Sixty. Sixty! That's two ponies plus an Ayrton Senna if you're a cockney, LX if you're a Roman, or "about fifty too many, Simon" if you're anyone else in the Sentric office. I tell you what though, it's a bloody doozie this month with tracks from... Collectors Club // Crocodiles // Ian Britt // Pariis Opera House // Acre Tarn // The People The Poet // Girl Friend // She Drew The Gun // The Coopers // New Desert Blues // King No One // More Than Conquerors //

I've given up 'giving up things for lent' for lent. So join me, with a big glass of gin & a substantial sized bar of dark chocolate, put your gym kit back in the wardrobe where it belongs and let's have a listen to some rather marvellous new music, eh? This month featuring... Hidden Charms // Stealing Sheep // Brawlers // Hayden Calnin // Assassin Street // Salute // Antonio Lulic // The Baltic States // Angus MacRae // New Motion // Abacus Explosion // Black Foxxes // James Njie //

Do you wanna build a snowman? You do? Knock yourself out. I'm staying in, keeping warm and listening to new music. I'm not a child anymore. This month's podcast includes... Jungle Doctors // Elle Exxe // Cattle & Cane // Tijuana Bibles // secLuse // Crushed Beaks // Matt Emery // Last Heir // Hugo Rancho // Alphabetic // Oh!Gunquit // Two Ragged Soliders // Service Bells //

You into all this #NewYearNewMe nonsense? Is one of your resolutions to listen to more new music and discover bands months/years before they make it to radio? Well give me an hour of your time and I'll give you one of your new favourite bands. Twelve new tracks by some of the the best new artists knocking about in the UK (but also the world every so often). This month including... Hurricane Love // Bloodnstuff // Let's Buy Happiness // Highfields // Witchrider // James Canty // Ryan Vail // Valley of The Sun // Natalie McCool // Honeymilk // Alex Highton // Truckfighters //

It's the penultimate podcast of 2014 and, unsurprisingly, we have yet more rather brilliant new music for you. It's a tried & tested format by now so why change it, eh? If you don't discover your new favourite song in this episode we'll refund what you paid for it. YOU CANNOT LOSE. Including: To Kill A King // Childcare // Fickle Friends // Ajimal // TVAM // LSA // Franko Fraize // Alexander Teller // Polar States // Klaus Johann Grobe // Blossoms // Capac //

My cockles are chilly. I said cockles. How about fifty odd minutes of the best new music you might not have heard before to help warm you up? That'd be nice, eh? You could even listen to it in the dark when you sit in your front room with all your lights off on Halloween to convince those trick or treating 'kids' (who are clearly in their late teens and shouldn't be doing it anymore) that no one is home. This month including... Glass Caves // Allman Brown // Saint Motel // Oslo Parks // OneGirlOneBoy // Wooden Arms // Def Manic // Holly Drummond // Spring King // Azedia // Houdini Dax // Oscuro //

Wake up Maggie I think I've got something to say to you, it's late September and there's a new Sentric Music podcast out for you to listen too... Featuring: ATTU Rum Thief The Hot Soles Weekend Money Adam French Gnarwolves Mirror Signal Blank Spaces AXES Allusondrugs Fraser James Paris XY

The kids are off school. They need entertaining *constantly* (seriously; what's that about? Why can't they just have a nice sit down for a while?) so here's an hour of music to keep them occupied as you get some alone time with a cup of tea which has a healthy nip of brandy in it. This month featuring: Canterbury // Eliza Shaddad // SG Lewis // Jane Weaver // The Pretty Littles // Luke Cusato // Huskies // Samoans // Miracles // Great Pagans // Rameses B // Algernon Doll // Wonderlush //