No Magic

About No Magic

An evening session with Ben Ward playing eclectic blends of pop, rock, electronic, dance and whatever else seems tangentially appropriate. A featured guest brings along their musical inspirations and stories, and we'll pour over the record of the week. “This isn't about looking good. This isn't about making people like you. No magic, just music.”

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    • Martin Austwick (Pale Bird)
    • Lily Sloane

    Goodness, three months into the pandemic we have guests back on No Magic. What a strange relief! It's a special one too, since former BFF.fm Radical…

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  • This week's show features the incredible new Hether Blether from Orkadian musician Erland Cooper , completing a triology of records written about his home islands. Athmospheric,…

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  • This week we're featuring Maxïmo Park 's 2012 record The National Health , which seemed somewhat fitting given its gesture at social ills and our current…

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  • No guest or featured album this week. Just a packed playlist of things that matched my mood on a warm evening summers day in locked-down San…

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  • Today, in the midst of a nationwide civil rights crisis, democratic collapse, and (still) the ongoing pandemic that has disproportionately killed people in racial minorities, many…

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