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ALBUM REVIEW: Kris Drever – ‘Where The World Is Thin’: a fine, open and wise set from Orcadian folk star

IF YOU’RE a gig veteran, whichever your chosen poison in terms of bands or genres, I bet you can in one sphere break down your gig experiences thus. Some bands…

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TRACK: Fair Mothers’ ‘Monochrome’ is unflinching, stark and so beautiful

YOU’LL never be able to accuse Kevin Allan, the creative force behind Scottish folk outfit Fair Mothers, of dashing off a quick, vapid pop hit for the lulz. That isn’t…

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Album Review: Pilotcan – No More Shan Goodbyes

Edinburgh’s Pilotcan has just released their fifth album ‘No More Shan Goodbyes’ and it is an absolute delight. Bringing together elements of nineties low-fi simplicity with a touch of eighties…

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Album Review: Modern Studies – Welcome Strangers

Modern Studies’ first album was a lovely pastoral piece of folk-pop, built up around the sound of an old harmonium. Since then seemingly every hipster-Adam-Boyle-type has got themsleves a harmonium,…

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Album Review: mastersystem – Dance Music

‘Dance Songs’ is the fantastic debut album from mastersystem, an indie supergroup of brothers. The band consists of Scott Hutchinson and Grant Hutchinson from Frightened Rabbit, Justin Lockey from Editors…

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Album Review: Adam Stafford – Fire Behind The Curtain

Oh bollocks. I lack the vocabulary to do justice to this record. Any knowledge of minimalism I have is, well, minimal. That BBC4 documentary a few weeks back was enough…

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News: Frightened Rabbit announce The First Incident Festival plus tour news

Brilliant Scottish band, Frightened Rabbit, has announced the launch of their very own curated festival, The First Incident on June 1 at SWG3 Galvanizers Yard in Glasgow. This is intended…

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News: Travis announces tour and performances of The Man Who live

It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly twenty years since the release of the album ‘The Man Who’ by Travis. Released in the midst of the Brit Pop phenomena and…

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New Music: Mogwai, Every Country’s Sun

Scotland’s Mogwai are one of those bands that have been on the periphery of my vision (or hearing?) for many years, receiving strong critical acclaim and amassing a huge and…

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Album Review: Vukovi – (self-titled)

Neon-rock band Vukovi have exploded onto the scene with a brand new debut album, self-titled, released on 10th March 2017 (LAB Records). The album will be supported with a 7-date…

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