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Andrea is taking the summer off the podcast and listening parties, so this month's special guest is Eoin Murray, the music writer behind the Irish Substack monthly newsletter Anois Os Ard which digs up Irish music of the underground and experimental variety.

Eoin brings a variety of mostly-Irish releases to discuss with music from Throwing Shapes, Amanda Feery, the Efa O'Neill curated Place: Ireland compilation, Days Of Heaven the new album from Belfast band Junk Drawer and the new album from London band Caroline.

I pick my favourite albums from the month of June and discuss including Turnstile's Never Enough, Little Simz' Lotus, Loyle Carner's hopefully ! along with underground cloud rap from deathtoricky and the psych-folk style of Poor Creature.

We chat about recent gigs attended, Glasto, books we're reading and films and TV shows we are watching.

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Albums and tracks mentioned

• Throwing Shapes - Chosen Talk

• Loyle Carner - hopefully ! (album) - in my mind / about time

• Junk Drawer - Days Of Heaven (album) - Nids Niteca

• Little Simz - Lotus (album) - Flood / Enough

• deathtoricky - motives

• deathtoricky - praying for u

• Ó-Pax - Bell Dent

• Turnstile - NEVER ENOUGH (album) - Never Enough / Sole

• caroline; Caroline Polachek - Tell me I never knew that

• Poor Creature - All Smiles Tonight

• Cocteau Twins - Watchlar