Well I don’t know about you but I am sick to the back teeth of January, no money, all these sales where they’re getting rid of stuff at a discount price and not a shekel to my name as I spent the lot leading up to Christmas, one year I’ll learn!

Welcome to the penultimate playlist for January 2022, you’ll be glad to know that February is just around the corner, before you know it, Spring will have sprung, the days will get a little longer and hopefully, things will warm up a bit!

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SOM begins their newest album, ‘The Shape of Everything’, with a bleeding-heart memoire titled ‘Moment’ –the earnest lyrics speak with a supernal sadness over heavy guitar riffs, where singer Will Benoit introduces us to the atmospheric doom that pervades the senses throughout the album.

Following the epic sell out ‘Boys Are Back’ Arena tour last year, halted midway through due to the pandemic, 3 of the original members of the 90’s bad boy, boy band Ritchie Neville, Sean Conlon and Scott Robinson who sold over 20 million records worldwide, amassed 3 UK number 1 singles and 3 Top 5 albums, with their debut album going in at number 1, got together remotely during lockdown and have written their first album in 20 years!

‘Time’ is set for release on January 28th, we caught up with Scott Conlon from the band to talk about recording, early memories, the lack of social media in the 90’s, comparisons with other boy bands and those killer dance moves.

I don’t know what it is about January, it seems to drag on forever, nobody has any money, bands and artists aren’t touring (for one reason or the other) and things just feel a little…..flat!

Well let me open the door and kick those feelings out onto the street with a wonderful mix of nine incredible new tracks from some of the world’s finest bands and artists.

Below the embedded playlist, you’ll find a bit more information about some of the highlighted acts, take a look as their track plays to make it more of a 3D listening experience!

When you’re ready, just hit the button below, sit back and let the tuneful loveliness wash over you, I’ll see you on the other side….

With Bev Knowlden on saxes and Peter Shearn on guitars, Jazzient are two thirds of the Totnes band "Shadow Factory" with a stronger focus on jazz infused ambient music. The duo make full use of looping and synthesised sounds enabling live performances that don't skimp on the more complex angles of the compositions.

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In celebration of its 15th anniversary, The Kooks reveal dates for the long-awaited UK TOUR, celebrating their seminal debut album ‘Inside in/Inside Out’.

The latest release from Ceramic Animal is due for release on March 4th and see’s an added punch to their already strong songwriting and musical talents. Produced by Dan Auerback, guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys, the 5 piece from Doylestown, Pennsylvania are made up of brothers Chris Regan (vocals, guitar), Erik Regan (drums), and Elliott Regan (vocals, keys), along with childhood friend Anthony Marchione (guitar) and Dallas Hosey (vocals, bass). This fourth album comes on the back of self-funded, self-produced and self-released albums High End (2020), The Horse (2018) and The Cart (2016).

We at musomuso love helping unsigned artists and bands get their music out to people that may not have heard of them before, we do this in a variety of ways, playlists, news alerts and introducing features which allow the band or artist the chance to tell their side of the story.

We were contacted by an up and coming artist called Elliott Kean who released his sophomore album in December, we took a listen, loved what we heard and agreed to complete an introducing feature for him.

Read on to find out about Elliott’s hometown, how he got into writing music, his influences, his process for creating music, what everyone can do to aid climate & ecological issues and who he would choose for his dream festival lineup….

We love talking to bands, especially young bands who have every chance to ‘make it’ on the scene, you may laugh but think about it, every young band has a chance, all they need is the right team behind them, someone to spot their talent (think Alan McGee and OASIS) and WHOOSH, they’re off.

We were approached by a group of musicians from York who call themselves The Rosemaries, we listened to a few of their tracks and loved what we heard, we wanted to get involved and with the release of their latest single ‘Hullabaloo’ (19th January 2022), we caught up with Billy and Arthur from a York based band called The Rosemaries to chat about influences, early musical memories, first gigs, songwriting and even get invited round for tea, just wait until you see what they’re planning on cooking/warming up in the microwave for us…..

As January slowly rolls on so does the amount of quality music that appears in my inbox…..

Shows continue to be postponed, wreaking havoc on the live music and general entertainment industry, what can we do to keep in touch with music? How about pouring yourself a drink, sitting back and letting us entertain you with 30 minutes of the finest new music around?

With the recent release of their debut single ‘Make It Last’, I was keen to learn more about a Belfast based indie-rock band called The Continentals.

We caught up with lead guitarist and songwriter Palko to chat about how and when the band formed, influences, the Belfast music scene and how they got on in the studio where they recorded their single.

Read on for all of this and more.

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I have lost count the amount of times that I have chatted to Clara Bond on the website, I think we must be knocking on double figures but I don’t mind, she’s a joy to speak to and a real breath of fresh air who’s music is a pleasure to listen to.

The last time we caught up was midway through the very first lockdown, I forget what she was up to at the time, maybe she wasn’t releasing anything at all and just fancied a chat…. I’m sure if you type in ‘musomuso’ and ‘Clara Bond’ into Google, you’ll find the feature.

Anyway, this time she DID have something to talk about and boy were we excited. Not only had she recently released a track called ‘Misbehaving’, she had also dropped her brand new ‘Backtalker’ EP which consists of 5 tracks, 2 of which are completely. and utterly brand spanking new.

We caught up with Clara on a train back home, what better place to bombard her with questions when all she really wanted to do was sip her overpriced watery coffee and chew on a stale biscuit bar……

Colour TV are a South West based band that have been on my radar for a few weeks now. They got in touch with me via Instagram and sent me a link to their EP which will soon be available to buy on shiny vinyl! As with 90% of messages I receive, they get lost in the ether and it wasn’t until I saw that they were playing in Plymouth that I remembered. I dug out the message, hit the link and enjoyed their EP a few times on repeat before heading out to catch them live.

I caught up with Sam Durneen from the band to talk about the early days, how they got on in the studio, dream festival lineups and a very interesting story about The Cure, read on for all this and more…..

It’s only been a few days since #7 of our ‘on the radar’ playlist went live but looking at my inbox, I’ll be pumping these out on a regular basis until I catch up with myself!

I have received new music from bands and artists all over the world and it is a joy to see that despite where people are based, they are as passionate and enthusiastic about creating music as I am about pushing it out as far and wide as I possibly can.

Come on in, press play and enjoy 30 minutes of the finest new music.

As the year starts to unfold, we once again find ourselves in that situation where bands and artists are postponing shows owing to that pesky Covid-19 thing, shame as I had a ton of live shows lined up!

So, rather than risk catching the dreaded ‘Rona’, why not sit back and enjoy 30 minutes of brand new music from some of the world’s finest unsigned bands and artists?

I have delved deep and unearthed some proper treasure here that needs to be heard by as many people as possible.

It’s not every day that you are approached by someone and asked if you’d be prepared to premiere their new track on your website, I’ll be honest, it’s only happened a few times in the 13 years that musomuso has been in existence but when it happens, it makes you think that you’re doing something right!

The artist in question here is Ollie Dixon and the track is ‘Islands’ which is released today, 14th January 2022.

To save me having to bang on about how good the track is, you’ll find a detailed Q&A below that I did with Ollie a couple of weeks back which you can read through at your leisure, I’d get a beer or a nice cup of tea and get comfy as we cover a lot of ground!

Metronomy today share ‘Things will be fine’, the second single from their forthcoming seventh studio album Small World, out on 18th February 2022 via Because Music. ‘Things will be fine’, grapples with harnessing hopeful, sunny optimism in the face of difficult situations, speaking positivity into existence whether for our own reassurance or for that of our children or loved ones - even when we have no idea ourselves if things really will be fine.