New Podcast: xxyyzz transmission episode 1 (january 2017)

January 2017 sees the launch of xxyyzz transmission, a new music podcast hosted by Glen Byford with the sole aim of sharing and enjoying good music.

Below you will find an embedded stream and full track listing for Desperately Seeking Susan Boyle's brand new podcast

It felt like a natural progression from writing about music to actually filling your ears with music and talking about it too, so to mark the start of a new year we look at the one just passed, in the form of new music from new artists, new music from older, more recognisable artists, and older music from older artists still, those that are sadly no longer with us to witness whatever 2017 may bring...

Some of these artists have already been featured or reviewed on Desperately Seeking Susan Boyle, and others are sure to feature prominently as 2017 continues to unfold...

To help keep up with all the artists featured in xxyyzz transmission episode 1, a full track listing features below, including relevant links to music streaming sites or social media accounts where possible.

And thanks also go to Ian Byford Art for specially creating the artwork for our new podcast.

1. Warpaint - New Song
2. Annie Keller - Sandwishes
3. Catholic Action - Rita Ora
4. Idles - Well Done
5. Sit Down - Candy Bar
6. Beyoncé - 6 Inch (feat. The Weeknd)
7. Childish Gambino - Redbone
8. Centau - Over You (feat. Hanna Marie) reviewed on Desperately Seeking Susan Boyle
9. The Invisible - Dreamscape reviewed on Desperately Seeking Susan Boyle
10. Poet Palms - Opaque Motive reviewed on Desperately Seeking Susan Boyle
11. David Bowie - Little Wonder
12. Prince - Black Sweat
13. George Michael - Freek!
14. Mac McCaughan - Happy New Year (Prince Can't Die Again) reviewed on Desperately Seeking Susan Boyle
15. Sagar - You're Free To Try Again
16. Rag'n'Bone Man - Human

Poet Palms - .the inzz and outzz of thoughts in my pocket, album review

With leaden arms and a woozy head I paused to survey the abundant musical landscape, I had come here I search of something 'experimental' and now I was taking stock of the surrounding area as my motor functions continued to float somewhere beyond the realm of normal practicality.

Skinny withered fingers flash across the touchscreen and dip in and out of new releases like some kind of malnourished Winnie The Pooh feverishly tasting from the honey pot using the sense of sight alone, discarding those that don't look right, those that don't appeal, with no real sense of why, but when I've found it, then I've found it.

And I've found it.

I've found the voice that speaks to me.

Speaks to me through poetry.  Speaks to me through brevity, and beauty.

Speaks to me through complexity and pretentiousness, because I love finding something that it can be a challenge to love, I love holding my head up and declaring that perhaps my taste is the emperor's new taste.

But above all that I love passion.

And I love the dizzying power of creation.

This dainty and lithe creation that was spawned of minds and now beams directly into mine. Words and sounds, definitely poetic, occasionally musical, purely avant garde and now a part of my life.  Fleeting glimpses into other lives exist here without boundaries or formulas, these are snapshots of genius fused to maverick productions, both feeding and solidifying each other in the symbiotic process.

I found this.

Or did it find me?