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Albums Of The YearScottish Albums of the Decade #1: Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
When placing Idlewild’s sophomore album 100 Broken Windows into the context of Scottish albums of the decade, it becomes all too clear how much the mus... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Albums Of The YearScottish Albums of the Decade #2: The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
The world is set up wrong. We know this now. While Glasvegas gallivant around the globe, filling stadiums with their sing-along dogshite nonsense, another gr... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Albums Of The YearScottish Albums of the Decade #3: Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
It's easy to cast the mind back to the dawning of the millennium and perhaps fondly recall a pre-9/11 sense of optimism and renewal – I mean, the bug d... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #5: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
If 1998's Music has the Right to Children was the record that opened up modern electronic music to whole new vistas of possibility – both in terms of i... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Albums Of The YearScottish Albums of the Decade #4: Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
On the face of it, their product is hardly revolutionary. Yet, for the past year and a half, The Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit has been the album... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade - A Muso's Pick
One particular record from this decade that made an impact on me was The Campfire Headphase by Boards of Canada. When it was released in 2005 I was still at ... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #6: King Creosote - KC Rules OK
Not even King Creosote's mother owns everything in his discography, as it's filled with dozens of rare Fence Collective releases and CD-Rs. But if this isn't... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #7: Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug and Pint
“Enjoy it while you can, because it won’t last long…” So sings Malcolm Middleton over the characteristically resolute backdrop of Th... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #9: Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Alright, I admit it, when The Campfire Headphase dropped in 2005 I was one of the fans who was up in arms about BoC's new sound. Where were the beats? What w... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #8: The Delgados - The Great Eastern
When I was thinking of a few good reasons why this was my pick for the Scottish album of the decade, I realised it had nothing to to do with it being 'The Be... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #10: Mogwai - Mr Beast
With the tag “post-rock” serving as a convenient journalistic denouement for fifteen years of innovative, rousing, often sinister, occasionally w... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #11: Aereogramme – Sleep and Release
Another forward-thinking head-scratcher from the vaults of Chemikal Underground, Sleep and Release elicited genre-bending sloganeering like ‘dream meta... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #12: Arab Strap - The Red Thread
Arab Strap’s previous effort, 1999’s Elephant Shoe, did not receive the critical success the band had enjoyed since its inception. Two years late... Read more »| 27 Nov 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #13: Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
Initially hampered by constant comparisons to Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura have picked up that baton and accelerated away. Established now as one of... Read more »| 27 Nov 2009 -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #14: Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
The short but sweet Rock Action may have set a new course for Blur-botherers Mogwai, but Happy Songs For Happy People was where the journey really began. Ope... Read more »| 27 Nov 2009