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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 […]
Matthew Young
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?
Matthew Young
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.
Matthew Young
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.
Matthew Young
September 5, 2009
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Broken Records European Tour Dates
Vic has described Edinburgh’s Broken Records as having “a sound that mixes up the emotive, propulsive energy of Arcade Fire, adds the worldy swing of Beirut and combines it with the epic, sincere songwriting of The Waterboys“. European fans will be able to sample this sound for themselves soon. Dates and ticket details below.
Shiner
September 3, 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.
Matthew Young
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 […]
Matthew Young
August 22, 2009
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Trembling Bells in Denmark
Glasgow’s Trembling Bells are Alex Neilson’s song-based group that Matthew has described as a “madly over the top version of the kind of psych-folk that was around in the sixties and seventies, like Liege & Lief by Fairport Convention meets Frank Zappa”. Trembling Bells will be in Aarhus next week at the Jazz Juice Festival.
Shiner
August 15, 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 […]
Matthew Young
July 29, 2009
