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Swimmer One – ‘Dead Orchestras’ Reviewed
If you really want to become knowledgeable about music, the only way seems to be to read liner notes. I glanced at the ones which came with Swimmer One’s latest album and who should I see but Pete Harvey. Who I’ve seen onstage with The Leg, Meursault, Animal Magic Tricks, Willard Grant Conspiracy and Christ […]
Matthew Young
August 14, 2010
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Adelaide’s Cape – ‘Last Sleep in Albion’ Reviewed
I think it’s fair to say that the Scottishness of this band isn’t entirely spurious – just listen to that accent – but I think Sam Taylor may just reside down South these days. Signed to the everso tiny-looking Dustbowl Records (their whole site appears to be no more than a blog with three posts) […]
Matthew Young
June 5, 2010
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The Douglas Firs – ‘Haunting Through’ EP Reviewed
The Douglas Firs played their first ever set a month or so ago, in support of eagleowl at the latter’s EP launch. And just in case you didn’t think that the Edinburgh alt-folk scene was so incestuous that it is probably fucking itself, never mind a close relative, what is nominally a solo project was […]
Matthew Young
May 29, 2010
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Super Adventure Club – ‘Avoid Zombies’ Reviewed
I must be the last person in bloody Scotland to review this album, but I have never really clicked with Super Adventure Club particularly, so I suppose it was inevitable that I showed very little urgency when it came to really giving Avoid Zombies* a proper, attentive listen.
Matthew Young
May 22, 2010
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Eagleowl – ‘Into the Fold’ EP Reviewed
My descent into rabid eagleowl fanboydom has been as slow a build as the climax of any of their songs. The first time I heard them play I really liked it. By the time of the release show for their ‘For the Thoughts You Never Had’ EP I thought they were bloody excellent. Late last […]
Matthew Young
May 15, 2010
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The Scottish Enlightenment – ‘Pascal’ EP Reviewed
This is not only a bloody good EP, it is also the resurrection of an extremely promising band I feared might be slowly drifting into obscurity, as well as my introduction to a really exciting-looking new Glaswegian record label: Armellodie Records.
Matthew Young
May 8, 2010
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Sparrow and the Workshop – ‘Crystals Fall’ Reviewed
Crystals Fall? How about Bear Wolf Crystal Fucks Fall, just to make it properly Pitchforky? Crystals bloody Fall my arse. Anyhow, I am not all that keen on the name, but that’s about all I can find wrong with this album, despite the fact that it does a lot of things I don’t like.
Matthew Young
May 1, 2010
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Burnt Island – ‘Music and Maths’ Reviewed
There’s something wonderfully uncomplicated about this gorgeous EP by Burnt Island. It’s not simplistic or basic or anything like that, it just has a confidently slow pace and an effortless manner – they just make it all seem so easy.
Matthew Young
April 24, 2010
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Deathpodal – ‘Exu_Wow’ EP Reviewed
What an enjoyably confusing EP this is. Exu_Wow by Deathpodal starts out as a nice, slightly meandering record, in no rush to get itself moving and generally giving the impression of a nice, pleasant twenty minutes of laid back, just slightly experimental indie with guitar which reminds me, if anything, of some of the less […]
Matthew Young
April 17, 2010
