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Sailboats Are White - Turbo!
Don't be fooled by the drawing of a cute kitten on the cover of this album. Instead, notice how it's towering above some kind of poorly drawn industrial city... Read more »| Updated over 17 years ago -
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Thee Moths - Glytchvölk Musique Concr'te
Featuring ten tracks that have previously been released on a variety of low-key compilations, as well as an EP's worth of new material, it's thanks to the vi... Read more »| Updated over 17 years ago -
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Jim Noir - 'Tower of Love'
Taking his cue from the Beta Band, Noir's first album is a collection of his first three critically acclaimed EPs with a couple of new tracks thrown in for g... Read more »| Updated about 18 years ago -
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Fire Engines
Perhaps Edinburgh's most original and uncompromising band, the Fire Engines are Davey Henderson (guitar/vocals), Murray Slade (guitar) Graham Main (bass) and... Read more »| Updated about 18 years ago -
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Dawn of the Replicants
As their dazzling new album 'Fangs' suggests, you'd be hard pressed to find a more entertaining interviewee than Dawn of the Replicant's front man and lyrici... Read more »| Updated about 18 years ago -
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I Hear a New World (July, 2008)
The Kazoo Funk Orchestra – Robots in Your Eyes All songs about robots are brilliant – FACT. This 1:12 minutes of mechanical mayhem is even bette... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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Rozi Plain - Inside Over Here
There is a problem when trying to review an album like this, which woos you with its easy charms, which stills your spirit with its banjos rippling like a bu... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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The Pictish Trail - Secret Soundz Vol. 1
In his behind the scenes role at Fife's Fence record label, Johnny Lynch has obviously been well-placed to soak up all the best aspects of the label's varied... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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King Creosote - Flick The Vs
Flick The Vs sees a snarl added to Kenny Anderson's dulcet tones, and frequent bad language spells out the fact that he's got a few things to be pissed off a... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
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Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard @ Cabaret Voltaire, 31 Aug
Following support from his brother Jack (sounding not a million miles away from Jonathan Richman) and Edinburgh's own Withered Hand, Jeffrey Lewis and band t... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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Grandaddy: Passing Away
Despite a sequence of groundbreaking albums which began with 2000's 'Under the Western Freeway', Grandaddy never seemed to breakthrough on the scale they des... Read more »| Updated almost 18 years ago -
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King Biscuit Time
Steve Mason aka King Biscuit Time has spoken openly of how he struggled with depression during the eight years the Beta Band were together. However, chatting... Read more »| Updated almost 18 years ago -
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A Man Without A Country - Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut has been through no end of shit in his 83 years: the suicide of his mother when he was just 22, his sister's death from cancer the same day tha... Read more »| Updated almost 18 years ago -
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Viva Voce - Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
Husband and wife duo Viva Voce's last album 'The Heat Can Melt Your Brain' was a lo-fi gem, and they have released this more ambitious follow up only a year ... Read more »| Updated over 17 years ago -
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Flying Matchstick Men - All Your Secrets
I Know All Your Secrets is three and a half minutes of cruel, delightful lies about people you hope you never have to meet, whispered in your ears in a Glasg... Read more »| Updated about 18 years ago -
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Battle - Back To Earth EP (Transgressive) (Web Version)
Not to be confused with avant-garde noisemeisters Battles (who are vastly more original and interesting), that the band Battle were once called The Killing M... Read more »| Updated over 17 years ago -
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Aluminium - Aluminium
The brainchild of Richard Russell, founder of XL Records, Aluminium is a passionate project which has birthed ten avant garde orchestral recordings of classi... Read more »| Updated over 17 years ago -
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To My Boy - The Grid(Abeano Music)
With fledgling new rave bands taking over the country like a swarm of electro-locusts (according to the NME anyway), it was only a matter of time before an e... Read more »| Updated over 17 years ago -
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I Hear a New World (May, 2008)
Errors – Salut! France Errors’ seemingly effortless, organic blend of live instruments and laptops makes for a stupendously good live show. An u... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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I Hear a New World (June, 2008)
Employee of the Month – Brainwave Corrupted Call it jazz or post-rock if you like, and it’s true that Edinburgh band Employee of the Month bear ... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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Fence Records: Keeping it Surreal Since 1996
Given the shared ethos and sound of the artists involved, Fence could almost be classed as a sub-genre in itself. For example, there's no doubt that Fence's ... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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I Hear a New World - Fence Records Special (Part Two)
Last month's issue featured an interview with Kenny Anderson aka King Creosote but the first podcast in this two part special on the Fence Collective cruelly... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Fence Club @ The Caves, 17 Sep
Even though hipster’s fave Bon Iver is appearing up the road at the Queen's Hall, there are lengthy queues outside The Caves for tonight's Fence Club a... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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The Aliens - Luna
The Aliens clearly believe in the art form of the album - not as a collection of separate, well-defined singles but as an epic, sprawling magnum opus of Pink... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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HMS Ginafore & King Creosote - Love + Hate = Hate
Amazing how someone with a voice as stunning as HMS Ginafore could lack faith in their abilities. However, Ginafore - real name Jenny Gordon - is infamously ... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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I Hear a New World - April, 2009
Pretty girls and cute animals really are the nicest things in the world – FACT. And when you combine them both, plus an utterly mad bloke, you get this... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
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The Skinny's 50th Issue: I Hear a New Gramophone
The Easy Gramophone was a monthly column written by Sean Michaels which ran in The Skinny from 2006 to early 2008. As the title suggests it was intended as a... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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El Dog plus support at the Swamp Bar @ Edinburgh
O.B.E. walked away with first prize by default at December's farcical East Meets West battle of the bands (see last issue) and tonight a brilliant performanc... Read more »| Updated about 18 years ago -
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The Fire Engines Edinburgh Liquid Room, April 28
The perfect opener for the awe-inspiring Sun Ra Arkestra, the Fire Engines live up to their legend by hammering out six or so of their fiercely intertwining ... Read more »| Updated almost 18 years ago -
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Kelman - The Heart Is a Useless Ally
Refreshingly for a new London band, Kelman aren't trying to be achingly contemporary, nor they do they spend more time on getting their haircuts right than t... Read more »| Updated almost 18 years ago