Troika

A Hicks.design podcast presenting three pieces of thematically linked music.

Troika #58: Hickensian Christmas III
Troika #57: Stars of the Lid Forever
Troika #56: Ambient Country An American desert scene at sunset
Troika #55: 10th Anniversary
Troika #54: Best of 2024
Troika #53: Shoegazin' Part 5 - Black Artists
Troika #52: Shoegazin' Part 4 - 2020s
Troika #51: Shoegazin' Part 3 - 2000s
Troika #50: Shoegazin' Part 2 - 1990s
Troika #49: Shoegazin' Part 1 - Origins
Troika 48: Ambient Americana A photo of Cholla Cactus Garden, Desert Hot Springs, United States. Lens flare in the foreground and a mountain in the distance.
Troika 47: Tim Smith
Troika #46: Best of 2023 Troika #46, best of 2023. Featuring the covers of Versions of Us by Lanterns on the Lake, Albion by Harp and Everything is Alive by Slowdive.
Troika #45 - Brian McBride
Troika #44: Moderate, becoming good
Troika #43: Bryan
Troika #42: Don't Panic! A photo of starry lights against a black background (Yayoi Kurasma's Infinity Room in fact) with the original TV series text of 'Don't Panic!' written in yellow on top.
Troika #41: New Music
Troika #40: Olive A portrait of Olive
Troika #39: For Dan Dan when he was just two years old, with the photographer reflected in his twinkly eyes
Troika #38: The Besnard Lakes are…
Troika #37: Electronicky
Troika #36: Dark Mode Abstract image of a sliver of light illuminating a golden sphere. It's actually the inside of my kitchen ceiling light
Troika #35: Happy Birthtape! My daughter Samantha at 6 months, showing a cute toothless smile
Troika #34: Voice
Troika #33: Endings A homage to the last part of film credits, where the music is often listed
Troika #32: Tearjerker A simple illustration of a blue person crying, with a single white tear on their cheek
Troika #31: Dusk A French field at dusk, with the last rays of sunlight beaming out from the centre of the horizon
Troika #30: 85–87 A Japanese Mech style robot, from the cover of Sigue Sigue Sputnik's first album
Troika #29: 10 Months Later A rendering of a spaceship on a dusty alien planet, taken from the game No Mans Sky
Troika #28: DJ Derek An elderly Dj Derek at the decks, not long before he died
Troika #27: Cuppa Tino A hot cup of tea. An early iPad illustration, which was a bit wonky and rubbish to be frank
Troika #26: Windermere The shores of Lake Windermere in the Lake District. The water is perfectly still and giving a crisp reflection of the trees on the shoreline.
Troika #25: Valentines Edition
Troika #24: Dearly Departed
Troika #23: Best of 2015
Troika #22: A Hickensian Christmas II
Troika #21: A Hickensian Christmas
Troika #20: Take it Slow
Troika #19: Bleeps
Troika #18: Randoms
Troika #17: The Scotch Egg
Troika #16: Diddly-dum! Diddly-dum!…
Troika #15: Sub Dove Rivers
Troika #14: Reading Festival
Troika #13: Oooph!
Troika #12: Le Tour!
Troika #11: All about the Bassists
Troika #10: For Leigh
Troika #9: For Mum
Troika #8: Misson Control
Troika #7: Donuts
Troika #6: My Turn to be Poorly
Troika #5: New Gaze
Troika #4: Light Music
Troika #3: Music for Cycling
Troika #2: (not so) Guilty Pleasures
Troika #1: Music for Stars