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Money Can’t Buy Music – ‘The Universe for Beginners’ Reviewed
I was fascinated to hear this record, an electronic spoken-word collaboration between Ballboy’s Gordon MacIntyre and Maja Mångård, (who is Swedish, and might just be his wife, but I’m not certain) but I would say that it is really only partially successful. Some of it really is good, and some just doesn’t quite click for […]
October 3, 2009
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Withered Hand – ‘Good News’ Reviewed
A huge number of people I know in Edinburgh engaged in making what I guess you’d loosely call alt-folk seem to be refugees from a metal past. I don’t get it. How in the hell do you go from listening to death metal to wanting to make music that sounds like this?
September 26, 2009
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Toad Session – Found
Earlier this summer Matthew recorded a stunning session with Ziggy and Tommy from Edinburgh band Found. The inventors of the magnificent Cybraphon were on top form and Matthew captured something really special on a beautiful day in Edinburgh.
September 12, 2009
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Jesus H. Foxx – “Matter” Reviewed
When I first heard about Jesus H. Foxx, they were the haircut band support act of choice in Edinburgh, and pretty much the only purveyors of spiky indie punk pop in the city. That particular niche seems to be quite well inhabited these days, even as the Foxx themselves are leaving it behind.
September 5, 2009
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Withered Hand – ‘You Are Not Alone’ Reviewed
I think it’s fair to say that 2009 has been Dan Willson’s year, in a musical sense. He’s gone from being one of Edinburgh’s most respected songwriters to the leader of a band on the verge of genuinely widespread and richly deserved recognition.
August 29, 2009
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Ambulances – ‘The Future That Was’ Reviewed
I’ve been waiting for fucking ages to review this album, having first been contacted by the band back in April, but it’s finally available to buy, so here we go. At the time they contacted me Ambulances were a band I had never seen on a bill anywhere in Scotland (although they are playing at […]
August 22, 2009
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Malcolm Middleton Interview and European Tour
Falkirk’s Malcolm Middleton, formerly one half of Arab Strap, has as a solo musician become a voice of sparkling unpredictability, unafraid of touching on his own dark side. He will be touring extensively in Europe this autumn with The Pictish Trail (more later this week) and recently spoke with Matthew Young at the Homegame Festival […]
August 11, 2009
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Cybraphon – Found are F*cking Geniuses
I’d hate to turn into the sort of parent who thinks their brain-dead, irritating, charmless little f*ckwits of children are cleverer, lovelier and more delightful than the very Baby Jeebus himself, despite their evident lack of any sort of talent or even bare sliver of tolerability to the entire rest of the human race. In […]
July 29, 2009
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Lord Cut Glass – ‘Lord Cut Glass’ Reviewed
It’s funny, you really can hear so much of the Delgados in this. Given that, after Emma Pollock’s solo album last year, this is the product of the other half of that split, that’s no surprise of course, but as a fan of the Delgados it is quite strange to hear so much of their […]
July 23, 2009
