The Beat Eclectic

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Covering post rock, punk & pop, ambient and acoustic sounds, The Beat Eclectic is a show for the sonically adventurous. Bringing you music's most exciting tastemakers and innovators of now and yesterday, it's a kaleidoscope of sounds and musical styles, where a great song is a great song. 

Program Episode Index

Ought’s Tim Darcy goes solo & A Certain Ratio remix NO ZU
Burial’s haunting new tune + Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever talk great pop
Dungen's fairytale beats + Luke Temple's stunning solo release
Young Magic weave musical spells + PVT return with ominous beats
Camp Cope’s juggernaut year & hypnotic acapella blues from Eola
Stargazing & Sun bathing: The Beat Eclectic celebrates the wonder of landscape
The Peep Tempel find joy in chaos & C Duncan’s melancholic euphoria
Julianna Barwick’s avalanche of emotion + Japan’s Mono amp it up
Black Mountain's psychedelia & Swiss electro duo Yello's new toy
King Creosote on recapturing the naivety of youth + Grumbling Fur’s pop collage
Factory Floor just want to make you dance & Pavo Pavo’s shimmery pop
M.I.A’s intoxicating soundclash & blissful melodies as Grandaddy return
New Silver Apples, Zomby, Wilco, Allah-Las & more
Soft Hair's first track & Serge Gainsbourg covers by Mick Harvey
Quasi’s Sam Coomes goes solo & sugar coated fuzz from The Raveonettes
Wild Beasts live up to their name & soulful rocksteady from The Frightnrs
J Mascis gives a glimpse of Dinosaur Jr. & Kishi Bashi bring huge pop thrills
Iceland’s Ólafur Arnalds sings Destiny’s Child & garage rock jams from The Mystery Lights
Fresh 60s pop sounds from The Lemon Twigs + Factory Floor’s crisp beats
Chris Cohen’s warm melancholia & Lost Animal is back
Marissa Nadler’s lush spectral folk & the musical restlessness of Blood Orange
Sophie Hutchings premiere + Eric Copeland, Cass McCombs
Berko brings new Brian Jonestown Massacre, Jarvis Cocker and more
Swervedriver’s swirling guitars & Alexis Taylor tugs on the heartstrings
White Lung’s fascination with serial killers + the reflective songs of William Tyler
Growing up & the love of laughter: meet Barcelona’s Mourn
Punk heroes Radio Birdman & Yung’s thrilling punk of right now
Wild Beasts are back with a bang & winter melodies from Cass McCombs
Blaenavon’s glorious guitars & The Beach Boys masterpiece ‘Pet Sounds’ is 50
Higher Authorities’ musical toybox + Nothing’s densely layered fuzz
Teenage kicks: meet Brisbane’s The Goon Sax
Why Mogwai made Atomic and Xiu Xiu’s love of Twin Peaks
Julianna Barwick’s spooky ambient folk & rock writ large with Minor Victories
Yeasayer want to start their own religion + brand new Radiohead
Panda Bear on how medieval ‘hocketing’ shaped Animal Collective’s Painting With + ghostly new Brian
The wide open space of Texas & beyond: Explosions In The Sky return
How fresh blood reinvigorated White Denim’s Stiff
Black Mountain & King Gizzard return with wizard capes & big rock riffage
Steve Mason: “My songs are a diary of my life”
Grant Hart reflects on legendary punk band Hüsker Dü and his solo career
The Necks: improvisation & the influence of Jamaican dub
Love & Loss: School Of Seven Bells make a glistening final album
Mogwai, Moderat + Methyl Ethel chat
Charlie Hilton chat + Tokyo Black Star
Viet Cong chat + new Tricky
Chicago’s Ryley Walker & new Underworld
Bowie reflections from Ed Kuepper & Mudhoney’s Mark Arm plus new Tortoise
The Beat Eclectic's 2015 highlights
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard chat + new Kurt Vile
Leah Senior chat + new DJ Krush
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