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El Susio Dozenza - December 2009
As the rain batters down on the streets of Glasgow, Ryan Drever seeks refuge in Mariachi El Bronx's tour bus as they trawl through December's singles to find the good, the bad and the next Kenny G. Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Eddi Reader - Dragonflies
Maybe it’s the uplifting waltz-like jig, the jangling sleigh-bell percussion or the slow-melting vocals, but Eddi Reader’s new single is like a l... Read more »| 23 Nov 2009 -
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Eagleowl - Sleep the Winter
A song’s beauty can reside in the slightest of touches, the line separating a graceful composition from a shiver-inducing one sometimes as ephemeral as... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
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Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind
Animal Collective are outstandingly prolific. So reason suggests that after ten years of activity, they have to put out the inevitable clunker, right? Wrong.... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
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Bad for Lazarus - Old Rats on a New Ship
If anyone among the Brighton psychobilly scene would ever be as purposeful as to assign themselves a modus operandi, you get the sense Rich Fownes' would be ... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
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Night Noise Team - Menolick
Pulsing harmonic arpeggios and a propulsive beat launch Night Noise Team’s debut single; a persuasively vibrant introduction to a song that nev... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009
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French Wives - Halloween/Dogfight
Creeping into earshot like next door's violin practice, Halloween is a bit of a slow-burner. Taking it's time to simmer from brittle, twinkling folk into chu... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
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Ben TD - Leaves
Let's give Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Ben TD the benefit of the doubt and say that his confused lyrics in Leaves are actually purposefully garbled. "I s... Read more »| 04 Nov 2009 -
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The Dirty Dozen - November 2009
Lyricists take note: "ghost" and "toast" can never be sensibly rhymed, 'cos Ally Brown says so. Read more »| 30 Oct 2009 -
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Jamie Cullum - I'm All Over It
Clint Eastwood is cool: he was cool as a young buck chewing cigar butts and he’s still cool as a wiry pensioner. It would take something monumentally u... Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
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Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
Frightened Rabbit's success is based on nothing resembling modernity: ever since the first lovesick caveman grunted a tune, his descendants have been... Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
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I Was a King – Norman Bleik
Let’s cut to the chase, I Was a King want to be Teenage Fanclub. In fact, so much do the Norwegian ensemble yearn to slip inside the Glaswegian lumina... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Pumajaw - Featherdown Quilt
The latest offering from the now Fife-based enigmas is a far cry from the neo-folk scene they have been so uncomfortably shoehorned into by baffled listeners... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Copy Haho - Wrong Direction
Stonehaven four-piece Copy Haho appear to have had an epiphany about why they remain unsigned. "We've been running in the wrong direction" they offer in the ... Read more »| 19 Oct 2009 -
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Miike Snow - Black and Blue
This Swedish three piece (ok, singer Andrew Wyatt is American) have previous in that two of them (as Bloodshy and Avant) wrote and produced Britney Spear's 2... Read more »| 06 Oct 2009