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This week's show is brought to you by the letters 'A', 'C' and 'E', the number 36 - and a damn fine packet of Liquorice Allsorts containing a pleasantly surprising, high quotient of pink Spoggs.

I mean blue Spoggs.

Ahem.

Musically-speaking, I've co-opted some brilliant new studio recordings from Y Niwl into a pseudo session. The pseudo bit means that we don't pay for the privilege. But I couldn't choose between the six new recordings that are likely to constitute a vinyl EP release in the not too distant future, so I played three of them, at random. They're music making straight out of the toppest drawer, tunes that are more memorable than the alphabet, borne aloft by sounds that have endured the history of rock 'n' roll, for good reason.

I love them. More, even, than pink - I mean blue - Spoggs.

I also love Georgia Ruth's music. Her début EP's release today - all 10 inches of it on beautiful vinyl - is a major event for me. I'm having a harp-themed street party. By myself, but still - there will be cupcake.

You can listen to all of the EP's tracks via the page.

The fact that only 17 people (at the time of writing) have done this has me shaking my head and muttering the kind of sentiments about society you'd normally read on the Daily Mail's letters page. It's ochre and russet and it could mend the most broken of hearts. Go. Get. It.

Elsewhere Alan Holmes reminds us of the New Order-ish excellence of Eirin Peryglus. Lara Catrin translates something that makes my brain's heart's knees quiver from Cate Le Bon. Ben Hayes takes us through a listening glass, to whimsical and excellent effect.

There are début plays for Perfume Genius, Ddarque, Quicksails and Shifty Chicken Shed... I'd like there to be more début plays, please.

Send good stuff (because chaff will get thrown to the wind) to: themysterytour@gmail.com as a high quality mp3 or download link.

Album of the Week: Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N T It
Single of the Week: Georgia Ruth - In Luna

Gig(s) of the Week: Tuesday 21 Feb - Laura J Martin / Trwbador / Sophie Ballamy @ Telfords Warehouse, Chester
Thursday 23 Feb - Saturday's Kids EP launch @ Barnabas House, Newport

Sweet of the Week: the pink - I mean BLUE - Spogg.

More sounds and gender stereotyping fun at the same time next week...Many thanks/diolch o galon, Adam Walton.

- 'Awol Marine'
Seattle / Welsh Management

- 'Normal Song'
Seattle / Welsh Management

- 'The Suns Of Alms'
Bethesda

- 'Dauddegpedwar'
Gwynedd

- 'Parker ( Album Version )'
Dwygfylchi / Llanfairfechan / Conwy

- 'Sunday'
Wrexham

- 'Com . Man . Do ( Radio Edit )'
Cardiff

- 'Grey On White ( E P Version )'
Cardiff

- 'Spoken Contribution'
Bangor

EIRIN PERYGLUS - 'Merthyr'
Bangor

- 'Bones ( Mastered Ep Version )'
Aberystwyth / Cardiff

- 'Embossed'
Cardiff

- 'Violaceae ( Afternaut Remix )'
London

- 'Gone'
Unknown.

- 'We Won't Be Broke Forever ( Featuring Gruff Rhys )'
Anglesey

- 'The Hangman Tree'
Liverpool

ASTRUD GILBERTO & ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM - 'Agua De Beber'
Brazil

- 'Gwlana'
Camarthen / Cardiff

SHIRLEY BATES - 'Crimpton Krompton Canary Bridge'
?

- 'The Story Of Charlie And The Two Fat Ladies'
Llangollen

TONY CLARKE - 'Landslide'
New York / Detroit

- 'Schrodinger's Cat'
Cardiff

- 'Dauddegtri'
Gwynedd

- 'Johnny Bach Pentips'
Merthyr Tydfil

SUE DENIM - 'The Plan'
Bangor

LARA CATRIN - 'Spoken Contribution'
Bangor / Cardiff

- 'Hwylio Mewn Cyfog'
Penboyr

- 'Flump'
Rhyl

- 'Morning Chorus ( Featuring Karen Sawyer )'
Pembrokeshire

- 'Our Powers Are Matched ( Zwolf Remix )'
Cardiff

- 'Ups And Downs'
Cardiff

- 'Beaux Esprits'
Cardiff

- 'Silver Balloons In Clusters [side A]'
Chicago, Welsh Label

- 'Summer Sun'
Cardiff

- 'Dauddegpump'
Gwynedd

- 'Spoken Contribution'
Ruthin

PETER HOWELL AND JOHN FERDINANDO - 'A - Sitting On A Gate'
England

- 'Pommegranate Beliefs'
Welsh Marches

- 'Sister Song'
Seattle / Welsh Management