Unsung Podcast

We’re three bloody years old today. THREE. Can you believe it?!

As is tradition, we do something a bit silly around our birthday. In year one, Chris decided to take things very seriously do the album…

Well, this is annoying. We find ourselves without an episode this week due a hideous technical issues which saw an entire two hours of content on Heaven or Las Vegas by the Cocteau Twins sent complet…

This week we take a critical look at the discography of LA noise/electronic/pop/metal/dance/whatever band Health from good ol’ Los Angeles. Perhaps best known to some as noise rock band, their sound …

One of the things that we find quite gratifying about these double episodes is the amount of time we can spend talking about a storied band’s large back catalogue. Of course, in many ways that’s the …

We hope you like Wire. Or, at the very least we hope you’re interested to hear about Wire because we have a lot to get through with this.

David couldn’t join us this week, but we were able to get a p…

This week we welcome back our good friend Vicki as we finally get with the programme and talk about the impact covid-19 and the ongoing global pandemic are having on music and the arts right now. It …

Welcome back friends to our first ever podcast crossover as we welcome back Mitch Bain from the excellent Strong Language & Violent Scenes podcast. If you missed it, part one is here.

Just a wee rem…

Welcome friends, one and all, to our first every podcast crossover as we welcome Mitch Bain from the excellent Strong Language & Violent Scenes podcast.

Put simply, his show is about giving genre fil…

Released to critical acclaim, Marissa Nadler’s third album, Songs III: Bird on the Water, is a record which sees the her begin to expand her sonic palette. Joined by folk-cum-psychedelic rock outfit …

Deep Politics is Grails’ 8th album, and is it turns out it’s one that proves to be particularly divisive on this episode!

Chris and David both found this band at different points, with Chris being a …

Rumour has it that Thom Yorke plays in another band called Radiohead, but we found it increasingly difficult to find out about this band. Has anyone ever heard their music? Apparently they’ve release…

It’s kinda crazy to think it’s taken us this long to touch a Saddle Creek band, but we got there in the end. This week Mark has picked Cursive’s seminal fourth album The Ugly Organ for inclusion in o…

Part one can be found here.

Whatcha gonna do when Double Glazing run wild on you?

Polish up those pythons and take your vitamins pod fans, cause we’re dropping part 2 in the same week as part 1 beca…

David ended up in jail last week, so Mark and Chris had to concoct an entirely different episode at short notice. The result? An episode on wrestling entrance themes.

Long time fans of the show have …

Surprise! Here’s another interview for ya’ll.

We’re delighted to bring you this interview with the wonderful KateJane Garside. Well known for her staggering voice and stunning stage presence, KatieJa…

We seem to say this every time we do an electronic record, but…it’s been a while since we did an electronic record! Lord of Dance (not of the dance, although having seen him cut shapes, we can attest…

Chris was ill this week so we decided that we would release of the bonus episodes we recorded for subscribers back at the end of last year. This one was a lot of fun. We talk about some of our favour…

Why donate to our Patreon? Well, if you’re made enough to donate a Crag ($50) then we’ll make an episode on an album of your choosing. Then we’ll let folk hear it. That’s exactly what happened here.

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Chris picked a hip hop album. Chris. Chris Cusack. The whitest man in Scotland.

He did a good job too. This is Saul Williams’ second album, but it’s the first one where he true voice begins to emerge…

We really did go down the rabbit hole last week, eh? Well, grab your cave diving gear cause we’re going deep on The Gray Race and The Process of Belief. Much to the complete indifference of Anna and …