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Records - Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird

9 Apr 2007

ROCK The arch rock snobs on American music website Pitchfork decry this, the fourth Andrew Bird solo album, as brilliant, but not as good as his first three which were all pretty much perfect. Sadly, the colossal man hours required to be quite as…

*Hitlist

Hitlist

9 Apr 2007

Glenn Wool According to this moustachioed Canadian geezer, you don’t go to hell for eating elephants. It’s certainly a reassuring theory, but what can it mean? This may be your chance to find out. Jongleurs, Glasgow, Thu 12-Sat 14 Apr.

Injuns

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye, Sat 31 Mar

9 Apr 2007

POP It’s tough when even the music critics can’t categorise your band. Having been called everything from country, jazz, folk, rock, punk, funk, disco, bluegrass to reggae the Injuns myspace coyly asserts pop/indie/ other, where the ‘other’ can only…

The Law

Buchanan Galleries, Glasgow, Thu 22 Mar

9 Apr 2007

INDIE Now on tour with The View, the fact that The Law share management with their Dundonian compadres suggests that they might make waves on the ever-expanding Ladrock market before long. While this acoustic Levi’s Ones To Watch in-store show might…

The Keep

Jennifer Egan

9 Apr 2007

GOTHIC PASTICHE The slip-sliding new book from award-winning American novelist Jennifer Egan opens with a scene familiar from the 1930s Universal horror classics as Danny, a 36-year-old drifter, arrives at a castle in Eastern Europe. Summoned…

When We Were Bad

Charlotte Mendelson

9 Apr 2007

FAMILY DRAMA Charlotte Mendelson returns with a sweeping familial drama charting the decline and fall of a well-to-do, very Jewish London family funnelled through the revolving narrative ciphers of three characters in crisis. Rabbi Claudia, son Leo…

Apples

Richard Milward

9 Apr 2007

TEENAGE DRAMA The confused and lusty youthdom of Britain are everywhere at the moment from the seemingly daily scare stories on the tabloid front pages and broadsheet opinion columns to the hedonistic revelry of Skins. On literature’s side, January’s…

Lucky Luke

Emma Pollock, Eugene Kelly and Lucky Luke

9 Apr 2007

ACOUSTIC (Lucky Luke) ‘Acoustic’, more often than not, equals folk music. Even though this is actually billed as ‘Versacoustic’ there’s still no one better to open a showcase than the band spearheading the genre’s resurgence - Lucky Luke…

Willie Campbell

Willie Campbell and The Just Joans

9 Apr 2007

INDIE A misspent youth in Lanarkshire could lead to anything, but for The Just Joans it’s heartfelt, thickly-accented stories of departed friends and lost loves - that and a trip to East Kilbride being the high point of the summer. Evidence of…

The Male Gaze

Joe Treasure

9 Apr 2007

BLACK COMEDY At first glance, The Male Gaze is cheerful dick-lit. English bloke, stuck in LA, feeling detached from his wife, meets vivacious American woman for out-of-character adventures. Things soon take a darker turn, as a young girl’s suicide…

Records - Billy Cobham

Billy Cobham, Colin Towns HR Big Band

9 Apr 2007

JAZZ Sub-titled ‘A Celebration of the Mahavishnu Orchestra’, this project takes on the improbable challenge of recasting the music of John McLaughlin’s seminal electric fusion outfit for a big band, and succeeds triumphantly. The process involves…

Also Published

5 Historical Fictions

9 Apr 2007

Isabel Allende Inés of My Soul Based on true events, this is the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive in Chile with the Conquistadors of the 1500s. Fourth Estate.

Records - Patti Smith

Patti Smith

9 Apr 2007

COVERS It’s not much of a leap of imagination, Patti Smith singing Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’, like she does on this odd album of cover versions. It’s practically her territory. More complicated are tracks like Tears For Fears’ late 80s…

Records - Lauren MacColl

Lauren MacColl

9 Apr 2007

FOLK Fiddler Lauren MacColl first came to wider notice when she won the BBC2 Young Folk Award in 2004. She is highly accomplished technically, but also has a genuine feel for the expressive nuances of the music, a quality entirely evident in this…

Profile - Heresy

Profile

9 Apr 2007

What’s that then? Every Thursday the Jekyll & Hyde basement on Edinburgh’s Hanover Street is host to a censor-free night of comedic devilment. Ooh, that sounds cheeky It is indeed. Resident MC Rick Molland (pictured) touts the proceedings as a ‘dark and…

Records - Kings Of Leon

Kings Of Leon

9 Apr 2007

ROCK The chances were slim but lightning did strike twice for Kings of Leon. They followed up a colossal debut with a considerable second effort. To presume they could manage a third would be churlish, no? Seemingly not. Their innate ability to…

Records - Nafees

Nafees

9 Apr 2007

HIP HOP Scottish hip hop is becoming an ever more tangible currency of late, and 21 year-old rapper Nafees is the latest addition to the pantheon. Part of the credit for this release, however - which rather confusingly bills itself as both a solo…

Records - Sister Vanilla

Sister Vanilla

9 Apr 2007

POP ROCK As soon as the hallucino-vocals kick in, your ears will transport you a pair of decades back in time. The almost bored tones of little Linda Reid signal this first leg of The Jesus and Mary Chain reunion-of-sorts to be cemented when the…

Records - Le Reno Amps

Le Reno Amps

9 Apr 2007

FOLK-COUNTRY A strange wee record this one. While Le Reno Amps plough a distinctly Scottish folk field, this Glasgow lot can nevertheless step into American alt.country when the mood sees fit. The excellent ‘How You Did Me Wrong’ and ‘Radio’ would…

Records - Also Released

Also Released

9 Apr 2007

Blonde Redhead 23 (4AD) Disarming, gossamer melodies get fuzzed out in this slightly more geeky (if that’s possible) take on My Bloody Valentine bliss.

Records - Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs

Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs

9 Apr 2007

ALT.COUNTRY Following her departure from Thee Headcoatees, this is Holly Golightly’s 14th studio effort, and after successful collaborations with Jack White, Mudhoney and Rocket From The Crypt she now teams up with long-time bandmate Lawyer Dave to…

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