The New Cue #340 December 1: Peter Gabriel, Michael Head, Nadine Shah, MGMT, Bill Ryder-Jones, Smoke Fairies, Riovaz

"A lot of musicians with a folk spirit go through the same journey..."

Good morning,

It’s December, can you tell? Yes, you can. It’s freezing, hope you didn’t leave your advent calendar outside. Maybe we should’ve done a New Cue advent calendar, an idea that I went off halfway through writing that sentence but I’m nothing if not committed to publicly airing bad ideas so I just kept going.

In today’s Recommender edition, we’ve got mind-blower picks from the Smoke Fairies and Riovaz plus your regular barrowful of new music picks from Niall and Chris. Ted will be back soon, don’t worry. We miss him too.

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Enjoy the edition

Ted, Niall and Chris