"It was something that I felt angry about, so I wrote a song about it from my angry point of view and then had to show it to my wife and say, 'I’m embarrassed by this and the song is about me being embarrassed by this. If I put the song on a record, are you still going to be my friend?'"

This week
Emily and Nigel discuss new albums by Air's Nicolas Godin, Alice Boman, Chromatics and more (all available at roughtrade.com). Plus find out their personal 'ones to watch' for 2020.

Special guests are Field Music, who discuss new album Making a New World, an exploration of the aftermath of World War One, including stories of gender reassignment surgery and the first female sanitary products.


Music played
Nicolas Godin - The Border
Alice Boman - Everybody Hurts
Ulrich Schnauss - It's Raining
Chromatics - On The Wall
Pinegrove - Dotted Line
Field Music - Best Kept Garden

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