Never ones to rush something when they can take their time, eagleowl (they prefer all lower case) have taken close to eight years to put together their debut album this silent year. That said, they could never be tarred as work-shy, with all six members either having solo careers of their own and/ or collaborating [...]
View Post eagleowl, Edinburgh, Fence Records, Nirvana, Pictish Trail, Withered Hand
Released today, the second album from Wolf People is another riff-laden monster. Instantly accessible, and even more rewarding with every additional listen. Another fine slab of psych-prog-rock, further drenched with traditional English/ Scottish folk melodies this time around. The album hasn’t taken the band too far from their 2010 album Steeple, but that’s not to [...]
View Post Fain, Jagjagwar, Wolf people
Bringing together a fairly traditional folk sound with some electric guitar and a heavier, rockier tone is nothing new, but Washington Irving have taken this mould and managed to forge something else from it. The Scottish quintet has just released the first part of their two-part album Palomides. The five tracks run through various themes [...]
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Three guys in their early twenties who’ve been sporting luminous earphones throughout the evening take to the stage, which isn’t a stage at all to be fair, just one end of the tiny Bar Bloc+ in Glasgow’s Bath Street. This is The Physics House Band from Brighton. The small mezzanine space quickly fills up and people [...]
View Post Air, Fugazi, Glasgow, The Doors, The Mars Volta, The Physics House Band, Three Trapped Tigers, yes
An independant Scottish label is beginning to make waves with the upcoming release of a new twelve track compilation entitled The Barne Society, Volume 1. The label itself has been around since 2010, started by Marco Rea & Stu Kidd (aka The Wellgreen) on the outskirts of Glasgow. The new compilation is only their third release having previously [...]
View Post Belle and Sebastian, Glasgow, Kontiki Suite, Roy Moller, Stevie Jackson, The Barne Society, The Junipers, The Red Sands, The Springtime Anchorage, The Wellgreen
This is the second album by singer/ songwriter Jonas Bonnetta under the name Evening Hymns, with previous releases under his own name. Evening Hymns is essentially a one-man band making use of a rotating collective of musicians, including members of Ohbijou, The Wooden Sky, The Burning Hell, The D’Urbervilles and Forest City Lovers. Coming to this album, knowing [...]
View Post Evening Hymns, Forest City Lovers, Jonas Bonnetta, Leonard Cohen, Ohbijou, The Burning Hell, The D'Urbervilles, The Wooden Sky
My first introduction to any of the music from this new Bonobo album was without knowing it. His Boiler Room DJ set opener from last year turned out to be first single Cirrus, but without a set list at the time I had no idea it was from his forthcoming album. February 2013 saw the [...]
View Post Boiler Room, Bonobo, Cyriak, Erykah Badu, Grey Reverend, Michel Gondry, Ninja Tune, Simon Green, Szjerdene
Given the adulation and fawning over PEACE in the run up to the release of this, their debut album, it’s hard not to be over critical and maybe even a touch cynical. Touted around the UK on the recent NME Tour, hyped following SXSW, glowing near perfect reviews abound, album production by Jim Abiss (Arctic [...]
View Post Blur, Follow Baby, Nirvana, Oasis, Peace, The Beatles
“Baroque-Pop-Folktronic-Neo-Classical-Something-Or-Other” is how Haiku Salut describe themselves, but I’m not even sure whether this actually covers the number of bases that their debut album effortlessly flits through over it’s twelve tracks. The all female trio of Gemma, Louise and Sophie, from the Derbyshire Dales, already have one EP under their belt: 2012′s How We [...]
View Post Haiku Salut, How Does It Feel To Be Loved?, How We Got Along After the Yarn Bomb, Three Creatures, Tricolore
Wolf People will return with their new album ‘Fain‘ due for release on 29th April 2013. It will be released on the Jagjaguwar label and be preceded by a brand new single ‘All Returns‘ on the 15th April. The album was recorded in an isolated house in the Yorkshire Dales. This time around it’s reported [...]
View Post All Returns, Fain, Fairport Convention, Fleeteood Mac, folk, fuzz-rock, Jace Lasek, Peter Green, Scandinavia, traditional, Wolf people
March 11th will see the Glasgow-based trio Sparrow & The Workshop release their latest single ‘Shock Shock’ through independent label Song By Toad Records. They also have their third album, Murderopolis, scheduled for release in May this year. The new single marks a slight change in sound for the trio with a heavier edge than previous releases [...]
View Post Glasgow, Song By Toad, sparrow & the workshop
Doune The Rabbit Hole, the small scale family-friendly music and arts festival today announced the first performers on the bill of their fourth annual event. The event which takes place in Central Scotland on the weekend of 22nd-25th August 2013 will take place at another still to be announced exciting new location. “Among the bands joining us for [...]
View Post Doune The Rabbit Hole, Galoshins, haight ashbury, Meursault, Rachel Sermanni, Randolph's Leap, ROZI PLAIN, scotland
With the house lights dimmed, Tim Hancock steps on stage and begins looping guitar parts over an already present drone. “Come closer, let’s get cosy. That’s it” he appeals to the crowd. Joined by the rest of Brontide, William Bowerman on drums and Nathan Fairweather on bass, they tear through new material from their forthcoming [...]
View Post Brontide, Glasgow, Nice and Sleazy
What’s in a name? Rather a lot it would seem when it comes to Hidden Masters. Here’s a band I’ve heard more than once described as “the best band in Glasgow”. A band who I might even agree are the best band in Glasgow, but take a little trip around Google and [...]
View Post Broadcast, Glasgow, hidden masters