- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- King Creosote – ‘Flick the Vs’ Reviewed Well it’s taken me a while to come to this conclusion, but this really is a bloody gorgeous album. It seems that the King’s brief excursion back to Fence Records last year has informed a lot of this. Last year he released the excellent They Flock Like Vulcans… which was shot through with fuzzy, lost […]
