Most years, the humid, cloudy skies of summer signal a downturn in musical productivity from our finest aurally-atuned minds.
Perhaps that slight rise in temperature turns musical brains into 99s with jungle juice on. Maybe it's the dawning of the festival season that signals a different kind of distraction for musicians. P'raps it's the fact that our universities and colleges empty young folk out onto the streets until late September - leaving them to fend for themselves in dens of iniquity and/or summer jobs that soak up all of their spare, musically-creative time as effectively as the squegee they're having to wipe across that car body, to clear the student loan.
Most summers signal a dip in the amount of interesting music that I have to play and a peak in the amount of balderdash that flows out of my gob.
But not this summer. Not yet, anyway.
We have debut plays for Altered States of America, The Boy Least Likely To, Summer of Blood, Squidthief, Coetmor, Endaf, Luther, Castro and Gil Gillespie.
If you have excellent music created by Welsh musical minds, or minds based in Wales, or featured on labels based in Wales, then please send them to me as a download link at themysterytour@gmail.com or via the BBC Introducing Uploader.
Elsewhere in the show, Alan Holmes blesses us with a rarely heard gem from Ffa Coffi Pawb. and Ben Hayes glories in Soul Survivors.
Enjoy the mugginess.
Mine's a Long Island Iced Tea, if anyone's asking.
ALTERED STATES OF AMERICA - 'Vincent Van Sloth'
Cardiff
BOY LEAST LIKELY TO, THE - 'It Could've Been Me (Feat. Gwenno)'
Wendover
EARTH, THE - 'Operator'
Cardiff
ST PIERRE SNAKE INVASION, THE - 'Encore! Encore!'
Rhyl/Bristol
FUTURE OF THE LEFT - 'The Male Gaze'
Cardiff
PROBLEMS, THE - 'Baby Tonight (Radio Edit)'
Swansea
DRAW ME STORIES - 'Human Machine'
Cardiff
EVA WATTS - 'Spaced'
Wales/Rotterdam
SUMMER OF BLOOD - 'Let's Get Lost'
Aberystwyth/Sheffield
TRWBADOR - 'Lluniau [Fersiwn Albwm]'
Camarthen/Cardiff
SQUIDTHIEF - 'Lava Pools'
Holywell
NOT SINCE THE ACCIDENT - 'Mhz'
Cardiff
FLYSCREEN - 'Carl Zeiss Jena'
Newport
JOY FORMIDABLE, THE - 'Silent Treatment'
Mold
SPANISH DANCE TROUPE - 'La Muerte Del Amor En Andalucia'
Welsh Label
BLATNOVA - 'Satellite'
Pembrokeshire
WOBBLY HEARTS, THE - 'Truck Stop 9'
Rhyl/Abergele/Liverpool
HEHFU - 'Junk Heart'
Caerphilly
IRMA VEP - 'Executioner Blues'
Llanfairfechan
NAMELESS - 'Salt Flats'
Cardiff
SCIENCE BASTARD - 'Horse Meat Disco'
Newport
DATBLYGU - 'Yn Y Lle Yma'
Cardigan
ALAN HOLMES - 'Spoken Contribution'
Bangor
FFA COFFI PAWB - 'Hunlle Yn Nunlle'
Bethesda
NURSE WITH WOUND/GRAHAM BOWERS - 'Off To Hell In A Handcart'
London/Anglesey
COETMOR - 'Burn So Bright'
Blackwood
ENDAF - 'Falling'
Cardiff/Bangor
SAMOANS - 'Antlers'
Cardiff/Aberdare
LUTHER - 'Cincinnati Harry'
Pontypridd
ORIENT MACHINE - 'The Shame'
Wrexham
TOTEM TERRORS - 'Art Of Falling (fall Song Rev. 6)'
Cardiff
RIGHT HAND LEFT HAND - 'Stanislav Petrov'
Unknown.
FRANCESCA'S WORD SALAD - 'Rubber Band'
Cardiff
CASTRO - 'Gwahaniaeth'
Llandeilo
MR HUW - 'Glyfeirio'
Caernarfon
GIL GILLESPIE - 'May We Never Get Parted'
West Wales
MEMORY CLINIC - 'When I Seek Shelter'
Anglesey
BEN HAYES - 'Spoken Contribution'
Ruthin
SOUL SURVIVORS - 'Hey Gyp'
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Y PENCADLYS - 'Symyd Yn Ol Rhyw Ddydd'
Cardiff
