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Professor Sophie Daniels joins Huw to talk 'Unusual Song Shapes' in songs, and Weezer's Rivers Cuomo takes part in this week's 'Song I Wish I'd Written'.

Professor Sophie Daniels joins Huw to talk 'Unusual Song Shapes' in songs in this week's 6 Musicology, and Weezer's Rivers Cuomo takes part in this week's ''Song I Wish I'd Written'.

Huw has another brand new quiz created by the Music Quiz Generator, giving one of you the opportunity to win a Music Sounds Better With Huw pinbadge. And we declare that your evening has begun with the Home Run playlist at 5 o'clock.

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Music Played

  • Leftfield

    Phat Planet

    • Afrika Shox.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 2.

  • Young Fathers

    Get Up

    • Dead.
    • Big Dada.
    • 001.

  • Westside Cowboy

    Pin Up Boys

    • Island.

  • The Last Dinner Party

    Sinner

    • Island.

  • Vampire Weekend

    Campus

    • Vampire Weekend.
    • XL Recordings.
    • 6.

  • Denzel Curry & Kenneth Blume

    DIFFERENCE (feat. Yebba)

    • Loma Vista.

  • ESG

    You're No Good

    • Mute Records.

  • Dahi

    Running (feat. Childish Gambino)

    • Alter Music.

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Family Affair

    • Telstar.

  • Alabama Shakes

    I Feel Hope Coming

    • Island.

  • The Belair Lip Bombs

    Back Of My Hand

  • Antony Szmierek

    Seminal

    • Mushroom Music.

  • Metronomy

    16 Beat

    • Because Music.

  • The Breeders

    Saints

    • Last Splash.
    • 4AD.

  • YAANG

    Horsepower Is God

  • The Undertones

    Teenage Kicks

    • EMI.

  • Tame Impala

    Apocalypse Dreams

    • MODULAR.

  • Groove Armada

    Superstylin'

    • Pepper.

  • Kariya

    Let Me Love You For Tonight

    • Sleeping Bag Records.

  • Amyl and the Sniffers

    Hertz

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • Jack White

    Neighbors Blues

    • Third Man Records.

  • Gang Starr

    Moment of Truth

    • Moment of Truth.
    • Noo Trybe Records.

  • Moses Boyd

    Say Yeah

    • Exodus Records.

  • Steve Monite

    Only You

    • Only You.
    • Soundway Records.
    • 1.

  • Hercules & Love Affair

    My Journey

    • Stratasonic.

  • Fontaines D.C.

    Marriane (6 Music Session, 31 Jul 2026)

  • mary in the junkyard

    Blood

    • AMF.

  • Mk.gee

    ROCKMAN

    • R&R.

  • Elliott Smith

    Somebody That I Used To Know

    • Dreamworks.

  • Claud

    She Doesn't Love Me

    • Me and the Music.
    • Dead Oceans.

  • Friendly Fires

    Paris

    • CD SINGLE.
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • The Strokes

    Lonely in the Future

    • Cult Records/RCA Records.

  • Ezra Collective

    Well Organised (feat. Lila Iké)

    • Partisan.

  • The Anchoress

    Damsels

  • Fleet Foxes

    The Shrine / An Argument

    • Helplessness Blues.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Radiohead

    2 + 2 = 5

    • PARLOPHONE.

  • Kate Bush

    Mrs. Bartolozzi

    • Aerial.
    • EMI.

  • Kiefer

    NewLevels NewDevils (feat. Tony Stone, Erick the Architect & CARRTOONS)

    • Blue Note.

  • Queens of the Stone Age

    Easy Street

    • Matador.

  • The Temper Trap

    Sweet Disposition

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Infectious.
    • 1.

  • GANS

    DO YOU GLOW?

    • Strap Originals.

  • Starcleaner Reunion

    Lay On Plastic Moment

    • Take Care Records.

  • The La’s

    There She Goes

    • Go! Discs.

  • Mitski

    Washing Machine Heart

    • Be the Cowboy.
    • Dead Oceans.
    • 12.

Broadcast

  • Tue 18 Aug 2026 16:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music