New Directions Home

New Directions Home is a compilation for listeners who enjoy discovering new music and connecting different songwriting worlds. Sixteen tracks bring together indie rock, folk, soul, psychedelia and American roots music, offering a selection from the musical landscape of 2012. Familiar names meet artists worth getting to know, with their differences giving the programme its momentum.

Cold Specks opens with Winter Solstice, followed by Oberhofer’s Landline and Ty Segall and White Fence’s I Am Not a Game. Dexys contributes You, while Slow Down, Molasses and Weird Dreams add their own shades with Late Night Radio and Vague Hotel. Pond’s Elegant Design and The Walkmen’s Heaven continue the exploration of different approaches to contemporary guitar music.

Giant Giant Sand’s Forever and a Day introduces another mood, while Alasdair Roberts and Mairi Morrison present Ailein Duinn. Cornershop, featuring Katie, contributes Solid Gold, and Paul Buchanan’s My True Country makes room for a more intimate expression. These contrasting moods make the collection engaging from beginning to end.

The closing stretch features Spacin’s Sunshine No Shoes, I See Hawks in L.A.’s I Fell in Love with the Grateful Dead, Husky’s History’s Door and Chris Robinson Brotherhood’s Rosalee. Its breadth of styles offers opportunities to discover a new favourite or explore an album by one of the featured artists. This is a selection for curious listeners, songwriting enthusiasts and collectors who appreciate a snapshot of a particular year’s music scene.