Popup - Love Triangle / Pull the Fuse

Opting to side with the emerging crop of exponents of realist Scottish rancour, rather than run with the long-standing trend for whippy university quirk, Popup’s thick regionalism and jabbing beats set them up as an interesting prospect when they arrived on the scene a few years ago, and this double A-side continues that trend. Admittedly, they don’t quite match the weightiness of the Twilight Sad, or the barbed pop of Glasvegas, but there’s more than enough headroom for them to stand above the crowd, if not quite as toweringly so as Scottish music’s current forerunners. [Paul Neeson]